March in the lunar calendar is March in the lunar calendar.
Many friends think that the March of the lunar calendar can't be moved, mainly because Tomb-Sweeping Day has the custom of worshipping ancestors in this month and Tomb-Sweeping Day, so many friends also call Tomb-Sweeping Day Ghost Festival, so they think that the March of the lunar calendar is unlucky, but they can actually move on an auspicious day. Qingming will not affect the fortune of the whole month.
Therefore, you can move in March of the lunar calendar.
Is Tomb-Sweeping Day this month?
Yes, Tomb-Sweeping Day is in March of the lunar calendar.
The festival time in Tomb-Sweeping Day is around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar, which is the third month of the lunar calendar every year.
Introduction of Tomb-Sweeping Day's Cultural Connotation
Tomb-Sweeping Day is the most solemn festival for ancestor worship of the Chinese nation, and it belongs to a traditional cultural festival for ancestor worship. Tomb-Sweeping Day embodies the national spirit, inherits the sacrificial culture of Chinese civilization, and expresses people's moral feelings of respecting and honoring their ancestors. Grave-sweeping, that is, grave-sweeping sacrifice, is called respect for ancestors' thinking about time. Spring and Autumn Festival has existed since ancient times. Tomb-Sweeping Day has a long history, which originated from ancient ancestral beliefs and spring sacrifices. According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings are the belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors. According to archaeological excavations, a 10,000-year-old tomb was found at the Qingtang site in Yingde, Guangdong Province, which is the earliest tomb in China, indicating that ancient ancestors had a clear sense of burial behavior and customs thousands of years ago. The custom of grave-sweeping sacrifice has a long history. Tomb-sweeping sacrifice in Qingming Festival is the synthesis and sublimation of traditional spring customs. The establishment of the ancient branch calendar provided decisive conditions for the formation of festivals. Ancestor belief and sacrificial culture were important factors in the formation of ancestral worship custom in Qingming Festival. Tomb-Sweeping Day is rich in customs, which can be summarized as two festivals and traditions: one is to respect the ancestors and be cautious to the end; The second is outing and getting close to nature. Tomb-Sweeping Day not only has the theme of sweeping, remembering and remembering, but also has the theme of taking an outing and enjoying the body and mind. The traditional concept of harmonious coexistence between man and nature has been vividly reflected in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Through historical development, Tomb-Sweeping Day has integrated the customs of the Cold Food Festival and Shangsi Festival in Tang and Song Dynasties, and integrated various folk customs, which has extremely rich cultural connotations.