tomb sweeping
Ancestral burial tending
Tomb sweeping is the practice of visiting and tending family graves, especially during designated festivals.
Most associated with the Chinese Qingming Festival, it involves cleaning the gravesite, leaving offerings, and paying respects to ancestors: We travel to the countryside every spring for tomb sweeping.
The ritual reinforces family bonds across generations.
- ancestorPredecessor in lineage
- graveSerious and worrying
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
- grave cleaningTending cemetery monuments
- incenseAnger greatly, or aromatic resin
burning incense · offerings · joss paper · paper offerings · memorial · filial piety · ancestors · chrysanthemum · ritual · respect · April · spring festival · mourning · willow · family · family reunion · headstone · burning
- mourning customsfuneral, funeral service, wake, visitation, burial
- Chinese Religionancestor veneration, Confucianism, Daoism, Taoism, Buddhism
- Qingminggrave cleaning, cemetery visits, joss paper, incense burning, paper money
- memorialsmemorial, memorial service, memorial statue, memorials, war memorial
- mourningfuneral, burial, grief, bereavement, wake
- ritualsritual, rite, ceremony, sacrament, blessing
tomb sweepingfuneral
Service honoring the dead
burial · wake · funeral rites · interment · last rites
tomb sweepingbaby shower
Pre-birth gift gathering
birth celebration · christening · naming ceremony · bris · baptism
tomb, tombs, entomb, entombed, entombing, entombment, sweep, sweeps, swept