Taboo things not to do during Qingming Festival 2022

During the Thanh Minh New Year, everyone needs to remember the following taboos so that everything will always be happy and have a lot of luck.

According to researcher Nguyen Hung Vi, Thanh Minh is the 5th period out of 24 qi periods of the year. The Qingming Festival came 45 days after the Spring Festival, and 105 days after the Winter Solstice.

The ancients chose the first day of Qingming period to do Thanh Minh New Year. On this occasion, people often carry out grave cleaning and repair the tombs of ancestors and clans to keep them clean.

Although it is not a big Tet holiday, the Thanh Minh New Year has a particularly important meaning, associated with the traditional customs of the Vietnamese people.

Therefore, in addition to the offerings and things that need to be prepared, everyone should also pay attention to taboos on the occasion of the Qingming New Year so that everything is always happy and lucky.

First, on this day, people should not celebrate. Tet Thanh Minh is an occasion for children and grandchildren to look back to their roots, remember their ancestors, show respect and love for the deceased.

Therefore, people should not hold special events such as weddings, birthdays, housewarmings… on this day.

People go to graves and remember their ancestors on the occasion of the Qingming New Year. (Photo: Lao Dong Newspaper).

During the Qingming Festival, people should not let their hair cover their foreheads or buy new shoes. According to folk beliefs, the Qingming period is also known as the “Ghost period”.

The ancients said that the forehead is the door to human destiny, the place where the magic lamp shines, so the hair should not be covered. This even needs to be paid attention to “Devil’s period”.

Therefore, on the occasion of the Qingming New Year, everyone should keep their hair neat, and the forehead should not be covered by hair to neutralize bad luck and receive good luck.

On this day, buying new shoes is also considered bad luck by the ancients. Because, in Chinese, the word “comedy” (shoes) and the word “ta” have the same sound. Therefore, there is a notion that buying shoes on this day will be unlucky, easy to be pursued by evil spirits.

One of the most meaningful and important activities on the Qingming New Year is to visit the graves of the family and ancestors. However, when conducting this activity, people also need to pay attention to many taboos.

According to feng shui expert Nguyen Song Ha, when going to graves on the occasion of the Qingming New Year, we should not go to sacrifice in a remote place, it is best to go the roads that people often go to avoid danger. the weak, the low blood pressure.

Moreover, according to the concept of feng shui, going to such places will easily catch evil spirits, if you really need to go, you should go with many people.

In addition, the grave is the time when relatives gather together, at this time it is necessary to pay attention not to take collective photos around the grave.

This feng shui expert also noted that, when digging a grave, it is necessary to pay attention to repair the four sides of the tomb. The first is to pay respects to the deceased, the second is to examine the condition of the grave.

If there is water around the grave (water can get inside or the puddle is very close to the grave), it will have a bad influence on the fortunes of the next generation.

Ha Nguyen (synthetic)