Tomb-Sweeping Day, are you worshipping your ancestors or traveling?

Tomb-Sweeping Day, I finally chose to go home to worship my ancestors.

Tomb-Sweeping Day just happened to have a weekend, which formed a three-day holiday. Although I thought about going out to relax, I finally decided to go home. Still want to visit the old people at home, and then go to the mountains to worship their ancestors with relatives and friends.

Every year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, except New Year's Day, it is almost the neatest time for the whole family. Children and grandchildren will come back from all over Tomb-Sweeping Day to visit their graves.

Before sweeping the grave, the elders at home will prepare all kinds of things, such as fruits, scented paper candles and other sacrifices. When I was a child, I thought it was too complicated. Now I understand. It is a yearning and belief.

There is no specific cemetery in our hometown, and many cemeteries are scattered on our own hills. From a distance, they are like small white dots dotted in green mountains and green waters, scattered in disorder and loneliness on various hills.

Every time Tomb-Sweeping Day visits the grave, the men in the family are generally responsible for walking in front with tools such as hoes and sickles, and escorting the way when encountering mountains. If there are many weeds growing in front of the cemetery, it is necessary to clean them up while in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and then turn over the grave with a hoe and compact them to prevent the weeds from growing rapidly.

We learn from adults, help lay sacrifices, light candles, light incense, and finally burn incense to our ancestors in turn. After all this, everyone seems relaxed and will stand together and talk about their families and chat with each other. Time passed quickly, and everyone tacitly collected the sacrifices and helped each other down the mountain in the afterglow of the sunset.

For the deceased ancestors, we can't talk about them on weekdays, and we can't pin our grief on them. With the help of Tomb-Sweeping Day, let's put aside the hustle and bustle of life for a while and go home to burn incense for our ancestors!