Can I visit the grave earlier during the Qingming Festival?

People have their own rules and ghosts have their own rules. There are only these few festivals for visiting the grave every year. How can it be randomly advanced?

There are four festivals in the Ghost Festival every year, namely Qingming Festival, July 11th, October 1st and New Year's Eve. Generally, new graves are visited on the first day of the festival. You cannot visit the grave at other times. Otherwise, even if you visit the grave , I guess they won’t be able to receive it there, it’s a waste of money.

Many times, people have something to do or have some things at hand that they haven’t finished yet or last night, and they need to advance or postpone other things. At this time, I believe many people have no choice but to do so. In fact, everything must be tolerated by him, so is there room for discussion about burning paper money to visit graves during the Spring Festival? Can we start worshiping ancestors and burning paper graves in advance? Is there anything special here?

1. Chinese New Year Is it appropriate to burn paper in advance?

During the Spring Festival, you can visit tombs in advance, usually on New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day. Usually before the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month. But most places visit tombs on the afternoon of New Year's Eve. Visiting graves to worship ancestors is a grand folk activity during the Spring Festival. It expresses gratitude and memory for the ancestors and hopes that the ancestors will bless future generations with prosperity, happiness and health. If possible, worship ancestors first and then have New Year's Eve dinner. Sending the ancestors home on the fifth day means sending them back to the cemetery. On the third morning, light it with three pieces of yellow paper and take it out the door with fire. This is to send the gods and ancestors back to their hometown in the cemetery. Therefore, it is usually about a week in advance, before the 23rd lunar month of the twelfth lunar month. It is usually held in advance on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, which is before the Little New Year.

Relatively backward and with limited conditions, the best time to go to the cemetery to worship ancestors is on the morning of New Year’s Eve.

2. Things to note when sweeping tombs and burning paper during the Spring Festival.

With the improvement of printing technology, many people now like to buy colorful printed banknotes when worshiping their ancestors. The denomination is tens of billions. But in fact the money is not real, and it is not as valuable as Zimbabwe and Vietnamese dong. This is too much money. Of course, it doesn’t mean it can’t be burned. While burning traditional banknotes, you can also burn some of these ghost coins appropriately. There are many lonely ghosts begging for money, and they are particularly optimistic about this moment. The ancestors of this province were disturbed by them. It's very convenient to burn this small amount of money and send them away.

3. What’s the point of burning New Year’s paper?

When we were young, a good banknote was printed one by one with imitation foreign currency, but with the times, After we bought good yellow straw paper, we could press it out with a hundred dollar bill. When it is a stamp, neatly covered from right to left, top to bottom, and covered with yellow paper underneath, it is hard currency. This kind of coin is very dignified when used below.

It doesn’t matter if it’s a few days in advance or a few days later, as long as you’re sincere and sincere. Where did the ghost come from? Going there is nothing more than to show the living people and to commemorate the deceased.

In our case, no.

There are only 24 solar terms in a year: Qingming Festival (April 5th in the Gregorian calendar), Hungry Ghost Festival or Bon Festival on July 15th in the lunar calendar, and Winter Clothes Festival on the first day of October in the lunar calendar. It is one of the three important festivals in the underworld in my country, and people can visit the graves to worship their ancestors. Visiting the cemetery during the New Year is just to invite the ancestors to go home to celebrate the New Year. The specific method is as follows: early in the morning, hang up the family tree in the main hall or ancestral hall. Zhi went all the way to the ancestral grave, burned incense and kowtowed, then shouted "Go home for the New Year", turned around and went home, entered the house, put down the door bar, came to the family tree, lit incense, and respectfully inserted it into the incense burner. The family gathered around the table and started eating. The New Year has officially begun.

From then on, the incense continued every day. On the third day of the first lunar month (there are also New Year celebrations on the second day of the first lunar month), we ate the New Year dumplings in the evening, removed the door barriers, and the new year passed.

So, in our place, visiting the graves during the New Year is just to invite the dead back home to celebrate the New Year. There is nothing special about it.

It is usually the New Year’s Eve to visit the graves to offer sacrifices to relatives. If time is tight, it’s not a bad idea to go in advance. Burning paper money in front of the grave is a formality, while honoring relatives is the purpose. Visiting graves at the age of 30 is a millennium custom and it also inherits Chinese filial piety!

The Chinese New Year is the most grand Spring Festival of the Chinese nation! Visiting graves during the Chinese New Year is a grand ritual activity during the Spring Festival! It is also a rule passed down from our ancestors.

The specific time for visiting graves may vary across the country, but the meaning of visiting graves to offer sacrifices is the same.

Can the day of visiting the grave be brought forward?

Under normal circumstances, it is more appropriate to visit the grave according to customs! To avoid making people laugh and causing bad feelings between relatives! (Special circumstances are another matter.)

Let’s take our family’s visit to the grave during the New Year as an example!

Get up early on the first day of the Lunar New Year and pay New Year greetings first. After eating dumplings! Whether they are working outside or working in the local area, they gather first and then walk together to visit the grave.

Because there are no graves in the field, find the marks left first! Measure the location of the old friend. Draw a circle under the grave. Inside the circle are placed tributes, wine, and ghost papers! Kneel down and light the paper on fire! He couldn't stop mumbling, "XX is celebrating the New Year!" Happy New Year to you, there are dumplings for the first grade of junior high school and your favorite xx!

Then he said: I’ll give you some money, take it! You can’t spend it in the bank! Now we live a prosperous life! Everything is fine at home, you don’t need to settle the bill. You don’t have to worry about details in your life! If you have time, take your bank card to travel and go out for a walk! After the paper is burned, kowtow four times! Then, according to their seniority, they go to each grave to kowtow to pay New Year greetings. After kowtowing, the cannons began to fire. The sound of cannons shook the heaven and the earth! The earth is filled with smoke.

Be particular about it! The winds are different in five miles, and the customs are different in ten miles! The country has a vast territory, and the customs must be different, and each has its own way.

We are here in the land of Yanzhao, which is quite traditional! There are many specialties in visiting graves during the New Year;

Women do not have to go to the graves during the New Year.

People who are sick and over seventy years old do not need to go.

Before burning paper , draw a circle on the grave, put the tributes into the circle, and burn the ghost paper in the circle! And it must be burned cleanly,

Go to the grave during the Chinese New Year! Be sure to bring the first-year dumplings and white wine! People say: Dumplings are better than wine as the days go by,

Burn the paper! There must be a big cannon. If there is no big cannon, you have to use the small goula whip! It means Happy New Year!

Nowadays, more people go out to work, but older people still don’t forget to visit graves during the New Year. They will find a secluded intersection on New Year's Eve! Facing my distant hometown, I gently call out the good name of my old friend! Draw a circle and burn it for the old friend inside the circle. Finally, take a few pieces of paper and burn them outside the circle! It was said to be wages for the ‘postman boy’!

Visit the grave during the Chinese New Year! Although it is a bit feudal and superstitious! But on that occasion, the exchange between humans and ghosts was so heartwarming! So solemn! So worrying!

When I saw my old friend’s grave, I felt that this was the place where I could express my heartfelt feelings to my old friend!

Visit the grave during the Chinese New Year! It warns people not to forget their ancestors to respect the old and love the young, and not to forget the original intention to build a harmonious society!

The Spring Festival is coming soon. Do you still visit graves during the Chinese New Year? What’s the difference? Welcome to communicate!

Visiting graves during the Chinese New Year is a way to express condolences to deceased relatives. Different regions have different customs and habits and cannot be unified. If you have something to do before New Year's Eve and you can't go to the cemetery, you can still go to the cemetery in advance, which is equivalent to being paid in advance. As long as your heart is respectful, it’s best to just take things as they come!

Of course there are particularities. For example, what are you going to do when visiting graves on New Year’s Eve? I am asking my ancestors to report that today is the New Year’s Eve, and I would like to ask my ancestors to celebrate the New Year! Firecrackers are fired at around 3 o'clock in the morning on the first day of the Lunar New Year to welcome the gods. The main door of the house is opened. All reflective objects in the house, such as mirrors, should be turned upside down. When the firecrackers go off, all the major gods (including ancestors) come to visit. On the morning of the third Lunar New Year, the gods are sent off. When visiting the grave, all the gods take their places as soon as the firecrackers go off. Therefore, when I was young, the old people often said that the gods celebrated the New Year three days before the Spring Festival. It was only the third day of the Lunar New Year that it was people's turn to celebrate the New Year, and they started to wear new clothes and pay New Year greetings!

In response to the questioner’s question, express your own opinion. I believe celebrating the New Year, improving life, and worshiping ancestors have been customs in our country since ancient times. This is a manifestation of the next generation of tribesmen commemorating their ancestors and allowing them to share the fruits of their labor. So we burn some paper money and offer some fresh fruits and food to our deceased ancestors to show our filial piety. Everyone knows: without ancestors, how can we have ourselves? Without respect, there is no etiquette. Without morality, it is difficult to achieve success. It is natural to celebrate festivals for the elderly (such as visiting graves during the Spring Festival, sweeping the twilight during the Qingming Festival, burning paper to keep track of dates, etc.).

Regarding whether the proposal can be made in advance, I think there is no special matter, and it is better to abide by the routine, because routine things are in line with public opinion and approved by the public. People criticize us for not doing things according to routine. Of course, it is only kind to handle special matters in advance.

In short, national etiquette must not be forgotten, and patriotism and love for family must be kept in mind. Never forget your original intention and keep your mission in mind. Always be a qualified citizen and contribute more to the people. This is the most important thing!

Written on: 22nd, 1st, 18th.

Customs and habits vary in different regions. For example, in our country, it is stipulated that women should not visit graves unless they have relatives. There are not so many taboos.