What are the customs of visiting graves during Qingming Festival? Who should not visit graves during Qingming Festival?

What are the customs of visiting graves during Qingming Festival? Who should not visit graves during Qingming Festival?
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What are the customs of visiting graves during Qingming Festival?

1. Prepare offerings
When visiting graves on Qingming Festival, you cannot go empty-handed. You must bring some offerings, such as incense, candles, paper money, fruits, snacks, vegetarian wine, etc.
Of course, when sweeping the graves as a family or clan unit, it is not necessary for everyone to prepare offerings, but it is best to distribute the offerings purchased in advance to everyone, and let everyone take a little before going.
2. Repair the cemetery
Before worshipping the ancestors, the graves must be renovated, such as repainting words and weeding, to show respect and sincerity.
It is very important to tidy up the grave before worshipping, just like we usually clean the house. The ancestors also need a clean and tidy environment so that they can better listen to the prayers of the descendants.
3. Perform the ceremony with piety and inform the ancestors
After placing the offerings, one should kneel down, burn incense, burn paper money, and perform a grand worship ceremony to tell the ancestors that it is not because they are unfilial descendants and are disturbing the bodies, but because of certain reasons, they had to disturb the ancestors. They sincerely ask for their understanding and blessings for future generations.
In other words, tell the ancestors what you are going to do at the grave and why you are doing it, and hope that the ancestors will bless you and that everything will go smoothly and peacefully.

Who should not visit graves during Qingming Festival?

1. Pregnant women
Pregnant women are advised not to participate in tomb sweeping during the Qingming Festival.
The Qingming Festival is full of yin energy, which may affect both pregnant women and children. In addition, tomb sweeping during the Qingming Festival is relatively crowded, and one may have to walk a lot or climb mountains, which makes accidents more likely to happen. Moreover, the weather and surrounding environment for tomb sweeping are not conducive to the health of pregnant women.
2. The weak
People who are weak or in poor health should not participate in tomb sweeping on Qingming Festival.
People are at their weakest when they are sick, and are more easily affected by negative energy and easily entangled by it, which is detrimental to their health. If you must go to sweep the graves, it is best to bring one or two amulets with you, which have a certain effect in warding off evil spirits.
3. Unrelated persons
It is best not to bring outsiders to visit the graves during the Qingming Festival. Because tomb sweeping on Qingming Festival is different from tomb sweeping on other days and is more formal and serious, it is not advisable to bring people other than relatives to participate, as this may easily cause unnecessary trouble.
The people who visit graves during Qingming Festival are mostly family members or ancestors, and it is an activity to pray for the blessings of the ancestors. It is inappropriate for outsiders to participate. Secondly, it may cause a disturbance of the aura, leading to disharmony and bad luck.

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