Nowadays, land is scarce, and tombstones in rural areas are no longer standing in the fields. A cemetery was built in the brigade. To sweep the grave every year is to go to the cemetery, so now there is no smell of fields and no need to pull weeds.
The teacher said that their eldest brother wanted to rebuild his father's tombstone to make it more magnificent. But the teacher has different opinions, thinking that it is useless to do these things when people are dead. It is better to plant a tree next to it, so brothers and sisters have reason to go back to their graves every year to reunite and remember their old friends. Planting a tree can sweep the weeds around in Tomb-Sweeping Day every year.
The so-called ancestor worship is to remember our ancestors, not to kowtow and ask them to bless their children and grandchildren. Some places attach great importance to the geomantic omen of ancestral graves. For example, in Guangzhou, the tomb is built on the edge of the reservoir, with its back against the mountains, and its vision is very broad, which means to bless future generations.
Weibo has the number of the deceased, just like a tombstone. Beneath each deceased, there are many people lighting candles, and there are daughters who can't let go of their mothers. They greet their mother on the Weibo every day, as if her mother had never left; A sister who lost her brother in a car accident talks to her brother every day on the Weibo as if she were still alive. They keep the dead alive in their minds, which is another existence and a memory of their loved ones.
In the future, with the development of the times, the form of ancestor worship may change, but what remains unchanged is the memory in the hearts of old friends.
At this time, I will think of my grandfather and miss his strictness, family education and cooking. Mom said that she had been crying for two hours the other night and couldn't sleep.
Grandpa has been away from us for six years, which seems like a long time, but it seems like yesterday, missing and sad, still missing and reluctant.