Note: the offerings prepared in front of the grave are generally odd, three or five; The number of each sample is also odd, three or five. Offerings should respect religious, ethnic and regional customs, and there are no fixed rules.
There are many places in China that pay attention to grave-sweeping, usually on the anniversary of death, the fifteenth day of the first month, Tomb-Sweeping Day, the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, the first day of the tenth lunar month and the third day of the first lunar month. The younger generation should prepare daily necessities (including cigarettes, wine, steamed buns, incense, paper money, firecrackers, wreaths, etc.). ) used to sacrifice in front of the tomb of the deceased to show the feelings of future generations to the older generation.
A ceremony to go to the grave
It is very important to visit the grave during Tomb-Sweeping Day. Because ancestor worship and filial piety are tied together. If you don't participate in ancestor worship, you are unfilial and forget your ancestors.
When going to the grave, people bring food, wine, fruit, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer food to the graves of their loved ones, then burn the paper money, cultivate new soil for the grave, repair the grave, fold some fresh green branches and insert them in the grave, put some paper money on it, put bricks on it, let others know that there are descendants in the grave, and then kowtow to worship. ?
Women and children will also fold some Yang Liuzhi nearby and put on steamed food with wicker. Others put wicker into reeds and put them on their heads, saying, "If you don't wear willow in Qingming Festival, you will become a yellow dog in the afterlife."