What do you mean by the first three and the last four in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

Old people in Tomb-Sweeping Day often say "the first three days and the last four days", which means that the first three days to the last four days in Tomb-Sweeping Day are the right days to go to the grave. Some places think that the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day is the "Cold Food Festival", and it is forbidden to go to the grave on this day, while the first three days to the last four days in Tomb-Sweeping Day are the best time to go to the grave.

The Cold Food Festival is a festival to commemorate the Jiexiu of the famous minister of Jin State. According to legend, during Jin Wengong's exile, Jie tui cut his thigh to satisfy Jin Wengong's hunger.

Later, Jin Wengong returned to China and became a vassal. Jiexiu was unwilling to accept the vassal of Jin Wengong and took his old mother to live in seclusion in Mianshan. Although Jin Wengong personally went to Mianshan to respectfully ask Jiexiu, Jiexiu did not want to show up. Jin Wengong's men released Yamakaji in order to force Xietui to appear, but without thinking, they burned Xietui and his mother to death under a willow tree.

In memory of this loyal minister, Jin Wengong ordered meson not to make a fire to cook on the day of his death, but to eat cold food, so it became a cold food festival. Because Tomb-Sweeping Day used to be the day after the Cold Food Festival, he burned paper to worship in Tomb-Sweeping Day for the first three days. If you forget to go to the grave before Tomb-Sweeping Day, you can burn paper for worship four days after Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Tomb-Sweeping Day pays attention to the first three and then four:

1, avoid buying shoes without covering your forehead,

In fact, Tomb-Sweeping Day is a Halloween, of course, we should pay attention to the hairstyle, especially the hair can't cover the forehead. This is the magic lamp of the human body, and it can't be covered. At the same time, don't buy shoes on the same day, because shoes are the same evil, and most friends with common sense won't buy shoes on this day, so as not to be unlucky.

2, avoid ridicule and criticize ancestors.

After the grave-sweeping, someone took the children. It may have been solemn at first, but it started fighting as soon as it was over, hehehehehe. We should pay attention to this. A graveyard is a place where ghosts sleep. Laughing and cursing will disturb Yin qi, which is disrespectful.

3, grave grass must be trimmed.

Plants that grow on graves must be pulled out and never grow into climate. This is the most important point, but you should know that sweeping the grave means sweeping things that are not conducive to the cemetery. The vegetation on the grave will do harm to the family, including luck and health, which is greatly unfavorable.