Can children in Tomb-Sweeping Day go out at night?
Folk believe that children before the age of three can often see two worlds with their eyes, which is commonly known as "yin and yang eyes" Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the three major Halloween festivals in China. Children in Tomb-Sweeping Day tend to see "unclean" things when they go out, so children in Tomb-Sweeping Day are not suitable for going out.
Tomb-Sweeping Day is also an important day for people to worship their ancestors. If children go out to play in Tomb-Sweeping Day, they may show disrespect for their ancestors. It is worth noting that when children go out, don't go to other people to sweep the mountains, and don't say something disrespectful. And be careful in your activities at night and go home early after dark.
Why can't children go out in Tomb-Sweeping Day?
Because Tomb-Sweeping Day is the Ghost Festival in China Lunar New Year, in order to prevent people and ghosts from colliding and interfering with each other, so try to avoid going out at night!
According to folklore, Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the three major Halloween festivals. On the day when the gates of hell closed in Tomb-Sweeping Day, ghosts in the underworld were free to go in and out. Most of them are ghosts who did not enter the underworld normally, and they entered the underworld on the same day.
If people go out at the peak night of ghosts, on the one hand, because of people's yang, it is not conducive to nearby ghosts entering the underworld. On the other hand, ghosts interfere with people's yang and cause various physical and mental problems.
From a health point of view, Tomb-Sweeping Day has just passed the winter, especially in the north. There is a great temperature difference between morning and evening, and it has long been said among the people that spring covers autumn and freezing, so the cold and yin at night are too heavy, which is not conducive to physical adjustment from winter to spring. At this time, it is better to go to bed early and get up early, which is more conducive to the balance of yin and yang in the human body.
What are the taboos in Tomb-Sweeping Day?
1. Avoid eating hot food.
Because it is a cold food festival, in the old society, people generally did not move the stove and did not eat hot food. There is a folk proverb called "There is no cold food in Qingming Festival, and water hails everywhere", which means that if Tomb-Sweeping Day doesn't eat cold food on this day, it will hail in the water this year, thus affecting the harvest of the banker.
Don't look at the photos of your ancestors and talk nonsense.
Maybe you just said out of pity, "What a pity to die so young!" But don't say these words, because the dead don't want to die so early. Of course, it is taboo for you to say so.
Step 3 avoid offering sacrifices at night
Avoid offering sacrifices at dusk or at night, because the yang has gradually subsided and the yin has gradually increased during this period. If people are unlucky, they are easily entangled or harassed by ghosts.
4. Avoid women worshipping sacrifices
Generally speaking, pregnant women should avoid Tomb-Sweeping Day. Not only that, strictly speaking, it is best for women not to take part in such activities when they have their period, especially after 3 pm.
5. Avoid visiting friends and relatives
Tomb-Sweeping Day had better not visit relatives and friends that day, because Tomb-Sweeping Day is a special memorial time, and it is very unreasonable or unlucky to visit relatives and friends at this time.
Step 6 avoid buying shoes
Some people just celebrate Tomb-Sweeping Day's birthday, so sometimes it is inevitable to buy a pair of shoes as their birthday present. I don't know that "shoes" and "evil" are homophonic, so I generally don't buy shoes at this time. I really need to stagger the time to buy it. For this, you only need to pay attention to why shoe stores are not doing well in Tomb-Sweeping Day.