Reading guide: Recently, a 6-year-old grandson in Sichuan swept the grave on the Qingming Festival, eating the tribute placed in front of the grandfather's grave, and the father's response was normal.
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On April 4th, the Qingming Festival is an important festival to worship ancestors on the mainland, and it can be said that every family will go home to visit the grave.
To sweep the grave, you need to bring fruits, meals and other related offerings, as well as fire paper, firecrackers, incense and candles, wine, cigarettes, sugar, etc., in the grave to be placed in front of the grave, and then each of them must be memorialized, which is a cultural inheritance and a symbol of national unity, and more importantly, to find the roots and ask the ancestors.
Remembering the ancestors and mourning relatives is not superstition, this is the inheritance of the ancestors, and this is a kind of longing and mourning for the deceased. Paying tribute to the grave, which is also a ritual of going to the grave to sweep the grave, is mainly prevalent in the countryside, and the city only brings some flowers to express mourning.
On April 4, a father and son in Sichuan went to their grandfather's grave to sweep the grave on the Qingming Festival. After the funeral ceremony, a lot of offerings were put on display, and the 6-year-old began to eat them, and jokingly told his grandfather that he would eat them if he didn't eat them, so he ate them all.
This video was posted on the Internet, which immediately aroused heated discussions among netizens, and their opinions were also different, but the vast majority of netizens were very supportive. After all, tomb sweeping on the Qingming Festival, ancestor worship is the owner of the tomb that shows this trend, and the incense is continuous. Therefore, I am very happy about the imagination of the deceased.
Let's take a look at the comments of netizens first, it can be said that it is a fryer!
- The ancestors ate first, lit incense and burned ingots, and after the fire was extinguished, they collected tribute, and then they could be eaten by future generations.
- This is really speechless, the things that pay tribute to the ancestors must be put in the place where the family cooks. That is, put it in the kitchen and heat it up, otherwise you can't eat it.
- I remember eating like this when I was a child, kowtowing a few times before paying tribute, and then eating tribute again for the younger generations.
- Isn't it normal to go from snack to big?
——To go to the grave is to go to the heart to God, and to go up for people to eat.
- How nice it was for grandpa to see his grandson eating so happily.
——It is a custom in Sichuan for children to eat tribute, and it is a custom for the ancestors to cast a spell on behalf of the ancestors.
- At noon, just after worshipping the ancestors, I was tired and hungry, and everyone was very happy to eat a bite of pork.
- It's normal to go to the grave and not eat, and the roof collapses.
- Go to the grave to eat tribute, which has been the case since ancient times.
- After the tribute is finished, the paper is burned, and there is no problem with eating. Take those who are near to eat at home, and eat those who are far away.
- Going to the grave and sweeping the grave is a serious matter.
——Chongqing netizens also said that there are also people who eat tribute like this, and it will be very good for future generations to eat it.
——A netizen in Sichuan said that the tribute we went to the grave here was eaten by the whole family, and the old man said that it was good to eat.
- What Grandpa wants is for his grandson to go to the grave, what is it to eat some tribute, and it is a trivial matter to pee in front of the grave.
——A netizen is also more opposed to this phenomenon, thinking that this is a serious matter, and the tribute should be taken home to eat, and it is a bit unruly to eat at the grave.
- His grandfather agreed, his grandmother agreed, his father agreed, and netizens disagreed.
Those who support it all think that the meaning of the Qingming ancestor worship seems to be a solemn thing, in fact, as long as the three-year period has passed, there is no need to be particularly solemn on the grave, and some of the 10-year tomb is called the happy grave.
The meaning of going to the tomb on the Qingming Festival is to show the unity of the family, show the prosperity of the family incense, and it can be said that one of the ancestors is the ceremony of worshipping the ancestors. What's more, some have to erect monuments, and some even set off firecrackers!
As long as you are not too happy and too excited to sweep the tomb on the Qingming Festival, do not run around on the tomb, I believe that the ancestors who are sacrificed are very happy. Because the tomb on the Qingming Festival should be hung up, or hung with colors, or a new earth round tomb is added, which means that the ancestors have someone after themselves.
For tribute, special meat is generally not particularly cooked, and most of them are medium-rare. Therefore, in some places, the tribute has to be taken home and remade again, so that it can be steamed and cooked before it can be enjoyed. Because the ancients believed that only seven minutes of ripeness could be used by the deceased, which was different from what the living used.
But nowadays many young people are reluctant to make tributes, so they buy some ready-made cooked food instead, so they can eat it directly at the grave. This seems more festive, or more respectful of the ancestors. What's more, times have changed, and it is already good that young people can take their children to the grave to sweep the grave.
Of course, after the release of this video, it immediately aroused a high degree of heated discussion among netizens, with supporters and opponents expressing their opinions. For the father of the publisher's child, the explanation is that it is their custom there, which is a normal phenomenon, and he has been eating tribute like his father since he was a child.
"Ten miles of different winds, a hundred miles of different customs", the customs of each place are different, so the use of tribute is also different. We need to respect other people's customs, but not to ridicule them or morally kidnap them.
What is the significance of the tribute?
In fact, there are two meanings of tribute, on the one hand, to express a sense of mourning for the past people, but also to express one's own filial piety. On the other hand, some tributes can be left in the cemetery for animals in the wild to eat. Especially in the spring and winter, there is no food in the wild, so there is also a custom of going to the grave with tribute.
Especially in ancient times, when people were poor, many people were hungry and cold, so there were many tributes in front of temples or tombs, which these people could use and be able to save their lives.
What do you think about this child eating tribute at the grave at night?