Can we visit graves after Qingming Festival in 2017? There is a saying about visiting graves after Qingming Festival.

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Can we visit graves after Qingming Festival?

Traditional customs

According to traditional customs, tomb sweeping on Qingming Festival must be done early. It can be done a few days in advance, but it must never be postponed. As the folk saying goes: "Early Qingming Festival, late eleventh month", which means that ancestor worship should be done before Qingming Festival or after the eleventh month of the lunar calendar. Legend has it that the underworld collects ghosts on Qingming Festival, and gives ghosts a holiday on October 1st of the lunar calendar. Therefore, if you visit the tomb after Qingming Festival or before October 1st, your ancestors will not receive any message.

Folklore

According to folk culture scholars, the saying "early Qingming Festival, late Eleventh Day" is actually determined from the perspective of the living. It is also possible to choose a good day after Qingming Festival to visit the graves. Because the temperature rises after Qingming Festival, spring ploughing, planting, tree planting, etc. begin in most parts of my country, and farm work increases. After October of the lunar calendar, the weather turns cold and farm work is basically finished. Therefore, the time for visiting graves is usually arranged before Qingming Festival and after National Day when farming is relatively slack.

Comprehensive Recommendations

Due to people's respect and worship for their ancestors' experience, they often stick to conventions. However, the time and manner of tomb sweeping on Qingming Festival vary according to different regions, places and customs. For example, in Lishui, Zhejiang, tomb sweeping is done three days before and four days after the Qingming Festival, which is called "the first three and the last four." In some places, it is even wider, called "seven in front and eight in the back". Therefore, as long as it is beneficial to physical and mental health, social harmony, and family harmony, the time for tomb sweeping can be determined according to personal circumstances, or one can commemorate ancestors by using online sacrifices instead of visiting the graves, or planting trees instead of burning paper.