grave sweeping
Cemetery plot maintenance
Grave sweeping is the practice of visiting and tending to ancestors' graves, particularly in East Asian traditions.
The ritual involves cleaning the gravesite, pulling weeds, and leaving offerings of food, incense, or flowers.
In Chinese culture, grave sweeping is central to Qingming Festival, a spring holiday dedicated to honoring the dead: We visit the cemetery for grave sweeping every April.
- tombUnderground chamber for remains
- ancestorsThose from whom one descends
- offeringsThings presented or given
- incenseAnger greatly, or aromatic resin
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
memorial · filial · joss paper · paper money · spirit money · weeds · headstone · rituals · departed · respect · family · family reunion · April · spring festival · kowtow · flowers · burning · spirits
- Chinese Religionancestor veneration, Confucianism, Daoism, Taoism, Buddhism
- Ritesrites, ancestral rites, burial rites, mourning rites, wedding rites