Personally, I don't think it's important for Tomb-Sweeping Day to pay attention to the grave. What matters is whether we have a serious and sad mood to respect our ancestors.
Every holiday season, we not only miss our living relatives when the holiday season comes, but also go to the cemetery in Tomb-Sweeping Day to remember and pay homage to our deceased ancestors.
Remove the weeds from the grave first, and then cover the grave completely with new soil. Dig two sharp taxis from the roadside or hard soil. If it is a person's grave, put two on it. If it is a couple's tomb, two people's tombs, and four.
First: recite two pieces of yellow paper, hang firecrackers, a shovel and a broom.
Second: First pull out the weeds on the grave, shovel some new soil around the grave with a shovel and add it to the grave, and then clean the grave with a broom. It's called sweeping the grave.
Third: find a willow branch and draw a U-shaped frame on the south side of the grave, with the opening facing north, that is, facing the grave.
In a small hometown, no matter whether the whole people are sweeping graves or families are sweeping graves, they all go in the morning. Pay attention to catching up early and not catching up late. Usually go up the mountain to sweep the grave after breakfast and come back before lunch. If there are still ancestral graves not swept, they will continue the next morning, and no one will go to sweep the graves in the afternoon.
And don't point your finger at other people's graves. The old man in our village said that pointing at someone else's grave would break his finger, but I think this is definitely false. The old people just hope that we don't point to other people's graves and say something disrespectful to our ancestors. This is immoral behavior.
Modern people should explore their own heritage, inherit the legacy of the martyrs, complete the unfinished business of their ancestors, carry forward their excellent qualities, and make themselves more civilized and happier. This is the real meaning of Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave-sweeping.