What does it mean for Tomb-Sweeping Day to receive flowers?

Tomb-Sweeping Day received flowers, meaning unlucky and cursed.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a day when we miss our old friends. It is unlucky for Tomb-Sweeping Day to send or receive flowers, but if it belongs to Tomb-Sweeping Day, it is full of curses. During her stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day in 2023, a woman in Zhengzhou, Henan received a "gift" from her ex-boyfriend. Chrysanthemums and eight white roses are totally malicious gifts.

This kind of chrysanthemum is not suitable for giving away, and white chrysanthemum represents mourning, which is suitable for funerals or Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave worship. Eight white roses represent "farewell to dead love" and white chrysanthemums represent "this is to commemorate dead love before it reaches the grave of love." It's really a malicious gift. How much you love, how much you hate.

Tomb-Sweeping Day's taboo

1. Try to buy white chrysanthemums for ancestor worship.

In ancient China, people usually regarded chrysanthemum as a flower of sustenance, which meant missing and remembering. White chrysanthemum is the most suitable, so when sweeping graves to worship ancestors, it is more appropriate to choose white chrysanthemum as a flower, and it can also be paired with some "green lilies".

2. Large-scale washing is not recommended

According to the ancient custom of China, only when everything in Tomb-Sweeping Day is revived can the deceased come out to wash clothes and bedding, so in fact, on this day, there are dead people washing and drying by rivers, streams, wells and springs, so the living should give the deceased a chance and place to clean, and don't grab water with them, so as not to violate taboos and annoy the deceased.