Going to visit the grave in Shenyang Longquan Ancient Garden on the Double Ninth Festival? Is there anything to pay attention to?

The Double Ninth Festival is one of the four traditional festivals of ancestor worship in China, and there is a tradition of ancestor worship and blessing in ancient times. In ancient times, the traditional custom of ancestor worship on Double Ninth Festival was still popular in Lingnan area, and people held ancestor worship activities on Double Ninth Festival every year. Whether worshipping ancestors or looking far away, its most fundamental function is to enhance people's cultural identity and strengthen the cohesion of family and society.

What is the emphasis on ancestor worship on the Double Ninth Festival?

1, the order of sacrifice and sweeping is to sweep the grave first, that is, to sweep the cemetery. Secondly, sacrifice, this procedure is very important, one is to mourn, and the other is to feel the same way with the ancestors, because the mountain has a spirit without a master, and the ancestors have a master without a spirit. Only by feeling the same way with the ancestors can we better obtain the aura of mountains and rivers. This is feng shui. When sweeping the grave, people come to the cemetery with flowers and other things, offer them, cultivate new soil for the grave, trim the grave, fold some fresh green branches and put them in front of the grave for others to see, and then kowtow.

2. ancestor worship should be held in the cemetery in person, but for various reasons, many people can't go back to their hometown to participate in mountain worship activities, so they can also worship their ancestors at home.

When you start sweeping graves, you'd better not eat vegetables, be vegetarian and dress neatly to show your courtesy and respect to your ancestors.