On the Lantern Festival, when giving lanterns to the deceased old people, acquaintances can only nod, but can't speak, to show the seriousness and heavy mood of paying homage to the ancestors and the deceased. You can't borrow fire to light a grave, because people think that lighting a grave with fire means that your life is not good and your life is not rich. Candles used to send lights to ancestral graves must be red or yellow-green candles, and white candles are prohibited.
Because white candles are called "big white sticks", in order to avoid the disaster of "bachelor" in the next life (that is, boys can't get a wife), avoid lighting white candles. Gold and silver lanterns are usually sent to the underworld, so that ancestors can always have gold and silver in the underworld, rich and glorious.
Put the gold and silver lamp in front of the grave, mix the chaff with the oil you brought in advance, enclose the ancestral grave in a square, leave a gap in the southwest corner as a door, and put an iron lamp at the door. At this time, the chaff of fuel particles is lit in the windward, which immediately forms a fire dragon, commonly known as the fire dragon lamp, which means that the ancestral grave is guarded by dragons and the feng shui is auspicious. Finally, the iron lamp at the door was lit to light the way for the ancestors' souls to go to Xitian Avenue.
The origin of sending lanterns on Lantern Festival
On the fifteenth day of the first month, it is said that the custom of giving lanterns to deceased relatives began in the Ming Dynasty. It is said that after Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he went to visit his mother's grave on the Lantern Festival, but he didn't know which grave was her, so he lit a lamp in front of each grave and kowtowed. Which grave is not buried is his mother's grave.
In order to commemorate Zhu Yuanzhang and promote filial piety, people send lanterns to their dead relatives on the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month of each year. After the fifteenth reunion dinner, I will send lights to my deceased relatives. People prepare sawdust, candles, firecrackers, paper money and other commemorative items in advance. After the reunion dinner, I went to the cemetery to send lights as soon as it was dark to pay homage to my loved ones.