In 2023, the Qingming Festival coincides with a leap month, what are the "taboos" to go to the grave and sweep the tomb, these 5 points are very important!
In a few days, Qingming Festival is coming, and for our Chinese, Qingming Festival is a day for us to worship our ancestors, and it is also a way to remember the deceased and remember the deceased.
Therefore, people attach no less importance to the Qingming Festival than traditional festivals such as the Spring Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, and the Mid-Autumn Festival. Therefore, during the Qingming Festival, there is also a special day of holiday for people to pay homage to their ancestors.
However, due to the "double spring year" this year, this year's "Qingming Festival" is precisely in leap February, so there is also the saying that "Qingming Festival coincides with leap February" that the old people often say.
According to the Qingming Festival in previous years, in fact, we don't have anything special to pay attention to when worshipping ancestors, but because this year's "Qingming Festival is in leap February", this year's Qingming ancestor worship is so different.
There is even a saying among the people that "the leap month Qingming does not go to the grave", although it makes no sense, but it brings a lot of confusion.
It is also that this year's Qingming Festival is very special, so the old man believes that when visiting the tomb on this year's Qingming Festival, some "taboos" also need to be observed, in order to achieve the purpose of "seeking luck and avoiding evil". So what are the "taboos" of going to the grave and sweeping the grave? Qingming energy saving can not go to the grave? In fact, these 5 points are very important:
Can the "Qingming Festival" go to the grave?
In the countryside, there are some areas where there is a saying that "the leap month is clear and the tomb is not to go to the grave", and the reason why there is such a legend is that some rural elderly people have their own reasons.
Of course, the most important reason is that "there is no moon in a leap month" and the saying that "a leap month is heavy". Because there are two February this year, the old man thinks that it is unlucky to do things in leap February.
They superstitively believe that leap February means a heavy moon, which means to start again, so it is impossible to "start again" in some things such as "going to the grave, moving the grave, and erecting a monument". Therefore, it is naturally out of place for the elderly to say auspicious words and do auspicious things.
However, as for "Qingming energy saving cannot go to the grave", we must first understand what leap February and Qingming Festival are all about.
We all know that the continent is one of the countries that use the double calendar year, and the solar calendar is called the Common Era year, which has 365 days in a year divided into 12 months.
However, the lunar year has 354 days, which is a month that is generated according to the moon circling the earth, such as when the 15th lunar month is full and the next lunar 15th lunar month, so the lunar month is 29.5 days, which is also divided into 12 months.
But the time difference between the lunar calendar and the solar calendar is about 11 days a year, if the "leap month" continues to develop in this way, then the four seasons will be unknown, the twenty-four solar terms will not be accurate, and the lunar calendar will not be practical.
Therefore, in order to make the four seasons clear, the ancients used the "leap month system" to solve this problem, so there was a new lunar calendar of "3 years and one leap, 19 years and seven leaps", of course, leap February is also derived from this.
Therefore, the leap month is an artificial adaptation to the laws of nature, which has nothing to do with superstition.
Because in ancient times, the ancestors took the day of "Lichun" as the New Year, and then with the 24 solar terms, the next Lichun is a new year, so there is no "double spring year" and "leap February" at all.
As for the double spring year, the leap month is only after Yuan Shikai became the great president, he began to take the first day of the first lunar month as the new year, so there was a "leap month" in the modern period.
Therefore, some people bundle leap February and Qingming Festival together, which is naturally incorrect behavior and has no scientific reason, and this year is also very coincidental, but Qingming Festival just coincides with leap February.
However, for the ancestor worship of the Qingming Festival, according to tradition, there are still some taboos when the later people go to the grave, and there are at least "5 points" to pay attention to.
5 "taboos" on tombs on Qingming Festival:
First, Qingming does not burn paper twice.
The ancestors believed that when going to the grave, it is necessary to unify the ancestors and not burn paper separately, that is to say, when burning paper, people in a family cannot burn paper twice. Why do you say that?
Because in the traditional customs, a family of people need harmony, only family and can prosper, so unified burning paper is conducive to the unity of the family, if seen by outsiders, not only gossip, but also not eager for family harmony, only in this way can people prosper.
Second, you can't wear red.
The ancestors believed that when worshipping the ancestors, we must be respectful, do not have two minds, and must concentrate, especially dress, not too bright, let alone "wear red clothes", because:
The ancestors believed that in the five elements, red is fire, yang is black, and yin is yin, and water and fire are incompatible. Therefore, when going to the grave, be sure to wear gray or black clothes, not some green, red and other conspicuous clothes.
Of course, we throw away the superstitious saying of the ancestors, if you wear red clothes to go to the grave, this is naturally very ugly, after all, this grave worship ancestor means to remember, not to festive.
Third, it is forbidden to take pictures of cemeteries.
Many people use their mobile phones to take pictures when they go to the grave to indicate that they have come to worship their ancestors, but this is a very uncivilized behavior. Because the ancestors subjectively believed that mirrors, cameras and other reflective things were not good if they were brought to the grave.
Let's throw away the subjective statement of the ancestors, from the perspective of etiquette alone, if someone takes pictures of your house at will, then will you be happy, in the case of invasion of privacy, it is naturally inappropriate and unhappy.
Fourth, the weak should hide gold.
The ancestors believed that some weak people, for various reasons, could not bring some metal jewelry when they went to the grave, such as earrings, bracelets, mirrors and other objects.
The ancestors superstitiously believed that in the five elements "gold gives birth to water", and water is yin, then it is "yin plus yin" This is not good, so for the balance of the five elements, do not bring some gold jewelry. Of course, this is a superstitious statement, and naturally there is no scientific reason.
Fifth, Qingming will not add soil this year.
For the arrival of the Qingming Festival, soil is added every year, but the ancestors believed that this year's Qingming Festival should not add soil when going to the grave. And the reason why the ancestors believed it was "leap February":
This year Qingming, wood into the soil, wood for less yang, and leap month has no gas, due to insufficient qi, wood does not grow, wood represents prosperity, so it is not advisable not to move the ancestor "house", not to add soil.
However, this is just the subjective statement of the old man, and naturally it is unreasonable, so let's just listen to it and don't be too superstitious about these things.
Written at the end:
So through the above, in fact, these taboos are also traditional customs left by the elderly, of course, in science, we naturally do not believe. But for some sayings, if it makes sense, we still have to pass them on, after all, some sayings also contain some philosophy.