Taboos and precautions of ancestor worship in Tomb-Sweeping Day

What Tomb-Sweeping Day needs to know about ancestor worship and grave sweeping. First, when Tomb-Sweeping Day visits the grave, family members and relatives often go hand in hand, so they must live in harmony. This has two advantages. First, because of the distance between relatives, due to work reasons, it is rare to meet several times a year, just to get together to enhance feelings and narrow the distance. Second, our deceased relatives buried underground will be very pleased to see their descendants come to visit the grave safely and harmoniously. This is more conducive to the prosperity of the family and the luck of our family.

2. Wear quiet clothes and accessories when sweeping the grave, preferably dark. People in a family should try their best to help the old and take care of the young, show more respect to the old and explain to the children how to respect the old. Adults should try their best to set an example. In fact, sweeping graves in Qingming is the best time to remember our ancestors and educate future generations. As a descendant of the Chinese dragon, don't miss this great opportunity.

Third, it is not suitable for grave sweepers.

Generally speaking, the elderly, seriously ill, pregnant women and children under the age of three are not suitable for going to the cemetery to pay homage, mainly because the cemetery is often on the mountain, and people with poor health are not conducive to action. In addition, during the Qingming period, pregnant women and children are often vulnerable to the invasion of evil spirits in the cemetery, so for these reasons, it is generally not recommended that the above people go to worship.

Fourth, the general procedure of sweeping graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day

1. When you get to the cemetery, you must clean the grave first. Remove the weeds in front of the grave first, and then add soil to repair the grave. If there is a tombstone, you can clean it with clear water, clean up the weeds around it and clean up the cemetery. The cemetery is the house of our late ancestors. In fact, it is our descendants who come to repair houses and clean up for our ancestors, so that our ancestors can rest in peace here cleanly and carefree.

2. The following are sacrifices. This program is very important. First, it's mourning, and second, it's feeling with the hearts of ancestors, because mountains have spirits without owners, and ancestors have masters without spirits. Feel with ancestors, in order to better get the aura of mountains and rivers. This is the concept of the integration of geomantic omen, man and nature. Mourning procedure: trimming the cemetery? Incense? Sacrifice? Toast? Worship? Set off firecrackers, and finally break some new green branches and insert them in the grave. You can also offer some flowers and put some paper money for others to see and know that the descendants of this grave are prosperous.

After that, you can start family gatherings, sit around, eat and drink, fly kites and even compete with each other for related activities. Women and children should also fold some Yang Liuzhi nearby, weave reeds out of wicker and wear them on their heads. In a word, we should create a harmonious and happy scene so that our ancestors can see the joy and prosperity of future generations.

5. It's early to visit the grave in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Was there a folk saying in the past? Qingming early, eleven nights? The sooner Tomb-Sweeping Day worships his ancestors, the better. You can do it a week or two before Tomb-Sweeping Day. Don't all come in Tomb-Sweeping Day this day. In addition, you'd better choose to sweep the grave before 7 am to 3 pm, which is the best time for us to pay homage to our ancestors. Because after three o'clock in the afternoon, the yang has gradually subsided and the yin has gradually increased. If unlucky or weak people are in this period, it is easy to provoke yin qi to bring you harm.

6. In reality, many people are far away from home. It can be said that there is still a long way to go home to sweep the grave. It costs money. The key is time. It will take a few days to walk. Obviously, it's a little unrealistic, but Teacher Yang told you that you can pay homage to your ancestors without going to the cemetery. First, in the balcony or living room at home, facing the hometown, place sacrifices, order three incense, bow three times, and recite related words. Then burn paper money for sacrifice. You can also burn incense and paper at the intersection outside. Remember that although relatives are separated by yin and yang, they are also connected. When you miss praying for him in your heart, he is actually by your side. Here, I want to say that some people now choose to worship online and even hire people to sweep graves. I advise you not to do such a thing. Not only can you not pay homage to your ancestors, but you will spend money in vain because of your insincerity.

Seven, Tomb-Sweeping Day worship, don't take evil spirit home. Before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, paranormal activities were frequent and intense. The negative energy of these yin evils is most likely to erode those who are weak, Yin Qi is heavy and depressed. Because these people's magnetic fields are also negative at this time, people who come back from sweeping graves often have evil spirits. I have handled many such cases in recent years. As long as you pay attention to this problem in advance, you will generally be fine. You can wear some Buddha statues, amulets, mahogany and other things to ward off evil spirits and keep your mood optimistic. If you are weak, try not to leave your family's big army and don't act alone when sweeping the grave. In addition, be kind, respect your ancestors, respect the dead around you, and don't talk nonsense. Before going home, you can go to restaurants, shopping malls and other crowded places, take a shower, wash your hands, eat, visit shopping malls and then go home. It is also a good way to avoid entering the body and entering the house.

Eight, learn more about local customs and habits. The Chinese nation has been passed down for a long time, and all localities have formed their own folk customs. Therefore, it is necessary to consult the older generation and learn more about local customs. Although some things seem strange, you know, since one side has cultivated the other for a long time, it certainly makes sense. We can remember and pass on these customs and habits, and at the same time learn from them or follow them.

Things you can't do when sweeping graves 1. You can't sweep graves at dusk. It is best to do it in the morning and in the morning.

You can't take photos of the grave. It is not good for family fortune, and it is also easy to have ghost dreams.

You can't take photos under the big tree around the grave. There is a folk saying that it is easy to bring ghosts home.

4, can't pee on the grave, no matter whether the grave is broken or not. This behavior often leads to illness or even worse.

You can't take the flowers, plants, branches and saplings away from the grave.

6. The remaining incense sticks can't be taken home.

7. Sacrificial food, except meat, is usually placed in front of the last grave or given to children. Anyway, just don't take it home.

8. When sweeping the grave, be serious, don't fool around, and don't have insulting words.

9. Don't make irresponsible remarks about other people's graves.

10, don't reverse the order of sweeping graves. The order should be pruning? Grave pressure paper Light incense sticks? Sacrifice? Toast or tea? Burning paper money? Worship? Set off firecrackers-withdraw the offerings.

1 1, don't make out too much in the cemetery.

12, don't take photos and videos of yourself or others sweeping graves, which is disrespectful.

13. You can't go home wearing mud shoes after sweeping the grave. Wash the soles of your shoes before entering the house.

Not suitable for grave sweepers 1, not suitable for pregnant women. Not to mention the fatigue of the boat, the rugged mountain roads, the influence of all kinds of smoke and dust in sacrificial places, and the habit of setting off firecrackers in many places, all of which will affect the health of pregnant women or children. From the folklore point of view, unborn children are not suitable to meet these dead people, because it will easily lead to the death of children. If pregnant women have to go, they have to wrap their bellies in red cloth. But it is strongly recommended not to go.

2. People who have just had surgery are not suitable. Weakness is the main factor. According to folklore, if a person who has just had surgery goes to a cemetery, it is easy to be taken away. When the operation is painful and the vitality is weak, evil spirits are particularly easy to invade. People who have just had surgery, for their own health, for their families and for their beauty, still don't go to the grave. .

3. Children under three years old are not suitable. There is a saying that children under 7 years old are not suitable, but in fact, from the numerology point of view, children under 3 years old are even less suitable, because no matter from Chinese religion or foreign past life theory, it is mentioned that children under 3 years old are the easiest to see another world. From a scientific point of view, children under 3 years old are easy to carry because of various conditions in the grave-sweeping place, and it is easy for children to get sick when they go out to places with relatively heavy pollution. It is not recommended to bring them, and breastfeeding mothers should not bring their own babies.

4. It is not suitable for people with dark or blue-black eyes in Tang Yin. People with black Tang Yin and black eye sockets are in a very unlucky period. To sweep the grave is to worship the ancestors. Most grave rules will not be a very independent place, but will pass through the graves of many other families. It is even more inappropriate to cross the place where yin and qi accumulate.

5, seriously ill patients are not suitable. This grave sweeping is not an exercise. Most graves are far from where they live, and most graves have to walk some distance. Seriously ill patients need to recuperate, not overwork, low immunity, body yin deficiency, wandering mind, vulnerable to various pathogens, so it is not recommended.