Is it a good idea to visit graves in advance during Qingming Festival? How to choose an auspicious day for Qingming Festival?

Is it a good idea to visit graves in advance during Qingming Festival? How to choose an auspicious day for Qingming Festival?
Tomb sweeping on Qingming Festival is one of my country's traditional cultures. People attach great importance to and pay attention to it. However, some people are often unable to sweep tombs in time due to various reasons. Therefore, there is the saying of sweeping tombs a few days earlier or a few days later. If you want to know more about the second month of the lunar calendar in 2018, please pay attention to our fortune teller website!

Is it a good idea to visit graves in advance during Qingming Festival?

You can visit graves earlier during Qingming Festival <br /> There are several reasons for this:
1. Try to do tomb sweeping on Qingming Festival in advance. There was a folk saying in the past that "early Qingming Festival, late 11th Day". The earlier you pay homage to your ancestors on Qingming Festival, the better. It can be done one or two weeks before Qingming Festival. Don't rush to the Qingming Festival.
2. In addition, it is best to choose to sweep the tombs between 7:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. This is the time when the Yang energy is high in the day, and it is the best time for us to pay tribute to our ancestors.
3. Because after 3 o'clock in the afternoon the Yang energy has gradually subsided and the Yin energy has gradually increased. If you are unlucky or weak during this time period, it is easy to attract evil spirits to haunt you and cause harm to you.

How to choose an auspicious day for Qingming Festival?

The dates for tomb sweeping vary from place to place. Some are ten days before or ten days after Qingming Festival; some are called "three before and three after"; some are held on "odd" days around Qingming Festival; in some places, tomb sweeping activities can last as long as a month.
Please note the following when visiting graves a few days before Qingming Festival:
1. Legend has it that there will be a meeting in the underworld during the Qingming Festival, and people without descendants cannot attend. Those who attend the conference must hold the flags given by their descendants to enter.
2. Therefore, when people visit their ancestors’ graves during the Qingming Festival, they place paper flags on the graves of their deceased ancestors. Therefore, the time to visit graves during the Qingming Festival should be before the Qingming Festival, not after the Qingming Festival.

The best time to visit graves

The answer is not necessarily. It depends on your own situation. The best time is 5-7 o'clock, which is the hour of Mao. In the ancient calendar, it was one. Tomb sweeping does not necessarily have to be done in the morning. It can generally be done between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m., as long as it is not before dawn or before the sun sets. More people choose to sweep tombs in the morning because they want to go for an outing after the sweeping. According to their own schedule, many people choose the morning. But in fact, sweeping tombs in the afternoon does not congest the roads and achieves the purpose of sacrifice, so there is nothing wrong with it.
During the Qingming Festival, the traffic is most crowded from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. every day. Citizens who drive can avoid peak traffic hours and travel during off-peak hours. The Qingming Festival memorial ceremony should be held in person at the cemetery, but for various reasons, many people cannot return to their hometowns to participate in the Qingming Festival worship activities, so they can also worship their ancestors at home. The method is to place food for worship on the balcony or in the living room towards the direction of your hometown, burn three incense sticks, bow three times, and silently recite relevant words. Then, paper money is burned as a sacrifice.

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