Can I go back to my mother’s home during Qingming Festival? What are the taboos for women during Qingming Festival?

Can I go back to my mother’s home during Qingming Festival? What are the taboos for women during Qingming Festival?
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Can I go back to my mother’s home during Qingming Festival?

Whether you can go back to your parents' home during the Qingming Festival depends on local customs and habits, which may vary from region to region.
In northern Shanxi, women are forbidden to visit graves. Only men have the right to do so. After visiting the graves, men return home and use leftover paper money to cut the shape of a door and stick it on the door.
In Linyi area, it is taboo for women to return to their parents' home during the Qingming Festival, otherwise their father-in-law will die.
In some places, it is just the opposite. The newly married daughter-in-law must return to her parents' home during the Qingming Festival. According to legend, if she does not return, her mother-in-law will die.
In Jimo, Shandong, there is a custom among young women to avoid Qingming Festival. It is said that on this day, an evil spirit will come down from heaven to capture pretty girls.
Therefore, whether you can go back to your parents' home during the Qingming Festival depends on local customs and habits.

What are the taboos for women during Qingming Festival?

1. In Linqing, Shandong. It is taboo to go back to your parents' home on this day.
2. In northern Shanxi, women are forbidden to visit graves.
3. In Wangkui, Heilongjiang and Qingyun, Shandong, women are not allowed to do needlework during the Qingming Festival.
4. Women who are menstruating or weak in health are not allowed to visit the graves.
5. Pregnant women are not allowed to visit graves.

What are the customs of Qingming Festival?

During Qingming Festival, people visit their ancestors’ graves and go outing. In the past, Qingming Festival was also called Cold Food Festival, which lasted for a hundred days. Cao Cao changed it to one day, and the Tang Dynasty changed it to three days before Qingming Festival. All fires had to be extinguished, and new fires would be lit from the palace after the Cold Food Festival. It is usually on the 108th day after the winter solstice (around the first day of March). During the Qingming Festival, people also plant willow branches, wear wicker hats, fly kites, swing on swings, ban fire, sweep tombs, go outings, play Cuju, play polo, shoot willows, and hold silkworm flower fairs (a unique folk culture in silkworm villages, mainly in the south).

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