When is the best time to visit graves during Qingming Festival?

The Qingming Festival of 2019 is coming. This festival is mainly for tomb sweeping and sacrifice. So when is the best time to visit the graves during Qingming Festival? Let’s take a look at it together below.

When is the best time to visit graves during Qingming Festival?

From the perspective of cemetery feng shui, the best time to sweep the tomb is when the Yang energy is relatively strong. It is recommended to visit the graves during noon, i.e. between 11:00 and 13:00, as this is the time when the Yang energy is at its peak in the day. It is best to complete tomb sweeping and worshipping before 3 pm, and it is most taboo to sweep the tomb after 17:00.

The best time to visit graves during Qingming Festival in 2019

Before 12:00 am on the same day. The best date is April 5th, or the following two days, April 6th and April 7th. Qingming Festival is a traditional Chinese festival for memorializing ancestors. People will return to their hometowns during the festival to pay tribute to their deceased ancestors. The Qingming Festival in 2019 is on April 5 and will last until April 7. The time for memorializing ancestors can be chosen on the day of the Qingming Festival or in the following two days. If you have plenty of time, you can adjust it yourself.

Tomb Sweeping Process

1. When visiting graves on Qingming Festival, you should first buy paper boxes of offerings, flowers, fruits, etc. for worship. When you arrive at the destination, you should first clean the cemetery, then burn incense, generally 3 incense sticks and a pair of candles; then offer sacrifices, burn paper money, and finally set off firecrackers to say goodbye; it is best to keep some paper money to worship the local land and mountain gods, that is, kneel and burn paper money in all directions.

2. You must not worship your ancestors at home on Qingming Festival. It is best to go to the worship site. However, considering that many friends are away from home and it is inconvenient for them to go home due to the long distance, you can pray three times by the river or at the crossroads facing the burial place of your ancestors, then say some blessings and burn some paper money and incense.