1, cannot go to the grave every other generation.
In some areas, going to the grave needs to be strictly in accordance with generations and needs to be arranged from generation to generation. Not allowed to go beyond the level of worship. For example, when parents are still there, parents go to worship grandpa. Only when both parents are dead can the grandson go to the grave, and the relationship cannot be chaotic. However, this is only a custom in some areas. Just follow your own local traditions.
2. It is easy for grandchildren to get sick when they go to the grave.
There is also a saying in the countryside that old people rarely see their grandchildren coming to the grave, and they will also haunt their grandchildren, making them easily contaminated with unclean things and sick. After hearing these statements, adults will hardly take too young children to the grave. However, this is just a superstition. The child's illness has nothing to do with going to the grave.
Children are too young to go to the grave.
If young children are timid, they will be even more afraid to go to the grave to see the tombstone, and the environment is gloomy. Some places will set off firecrackers on graves, which will easily scare children. In addition, children of this age are the most playful. If they get lost when adults are not looking, it is difficult to find them at night, which is more dangerous.
4. Don't laugh at and curse the grave.
Going to the grave is a very serious matter. Laughing and cursing loudly will disturb the mood of our ancestors and show disrespect to them. Even the desecration of the dead, so going to the grave must be serious, quiet and full of sadness.
5. Don't trample on other cemeteries.
The place where most people go to sweep graves will be connected with other people's graves. At this time, don't step on other people's graves, otherwise it will make the souls of other people's ancestors uneasy and even haunt you. The last grave sweeping also caused a lot of trouble to go home.
6. See something unclean
In some folklore, children have simple hearts and clear eyes. It is said that they can see things that ordinary people can't. If you take them to grandpa's grave, they are likely to see unclean things around the grave, causing certain psychological harm to the children.
7. Bring bad luck
If the child goes to the grave, it may bring bad luck to the family and reduce the overall fortune of the family. For him, everything will be unhappy, because the child's resistance is weak and the yin is heavy beside the grave. Once he is stared at by the ghost, he will follow closely, so bad luck will often accompany them.
8. Pick up firecrackers
Putting aside the various customs of folk traditions, from a scientific point of view, children are not suitable for going to the grave, because firecrackers or fireworks are usually set off when going to the grave, and some naughty children like to pick up the firecrackers that have not been released and hide them, which poses a threat to their personal safety.
9. It is forbidden to sweep graves after Qingming Festival.
Rural customs, from the vernal equinox to Tomb-Sweeping Day, the order is the time to go to the grave, but it is forbidden to go to the grave after Tomb-Sweeping Day's order, because after Tomb-Sweeping Day, the ancestral grave was closed in Tomb-Sweeping Day that day, and it is useless for future generations to send more things.
10, it is forbidden to have weeds in the grave.
There is a saying in the countryside that a new grave is added during the Qingming period, paper money floats in the back grave, and grass grows without a back grave. Tomb-Sweeping Day should obtain new soil for ancestral graves, and remove weeds from branches and leaves, especially graves with branches, otherwise there will be diseases left to future generations when the roots are wrapped around coffins.