Generally speaking, it is ok to buy flowers one or two days in advance. Traditionally, it is ok to buy flowers three days in advance. When the ancients sacrificed their ancestors, they often folded willows or peaches. Modern people worship their ancestors with vegetarian flowers or chrysanthemums. Sacrificing ancestors and sending flowers to express my thoughts and nostalgia for the Qing Dynasty. Popular flowers are mostly white, such as Bai Baihe, calla lily or yellow and white roses.
Tomb-Sweeping Day can buy flowers, usually white flowers, to mourn the dead. White represents deep mourning, represents the memory of ancestors, and can be used to mourn. It also means that the dead people are clean and flawless, aboveboard and just all their lives. White represents people's pride, awe-inspiring justice and lofty ideals. People are respected for their cleanliness, while lotus root is expensive because of its whiteness.
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. Tomb-Sweeping Day has a long history, which originated from the ancestors' beliefs and spring sacrificial customs of early human beings.
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.