The classic phrases for sweeping tombs during the Qingming Festival are as follows:
1. The Qingming Festival is coming soon, I hope everything is well for my mother in heaven. I look up to the sky and sigh at the Qingming Festival, with tears in my eyes thinking about my old friends. The emperor and the emperor used thick earth to offer sacrifices to their mother, praying for her pity and filial piety.
2. To my father in heaven! You sleep forever and I miss you forever!
3. This is the first Qingming Festival after my mother left us. Mom, I miss you! Although I had no regrets during my lifetime, I had no choice but to fulfill my filial piety. Sacrifices and sweeps are placed in front of graves to convey condolences, and there are chairs in heaven for good people.
4. It is the Qingming Festival again, and the wanderer returns from thousands of miles away. Just sweeping the graves of your parents will be remembered by future generations.
5. Thirteen years have passed. Everything you see is memories, everything you think is the past, and everything you see is regret. You sleep long and we will miss you forever!
6. It’s another year of Qingming to remember the relatives who have passed away forever. We sweep the tombs, flutter paper and lay flowers to express our respect and love for the deceased. We only wish that the kingdom of heaven will be good and the world will be happy.
7. Heaven must be beautiful because no one who goes there comes back. The breeze turns into rain. Missing you for a long time.
8. As the Tomb Sweeping Day approaches, we sisters go home to lay earth-covered graves for our parents. The most helpless thing in the world is that we are separated from our loved ones by yin and yang, separated by the sky, which makes people helpless and sad.
9. Only you can understand the pain in your heart every time you go home and visit the grave! Dad, when I miss you, I can only look up to the sky so that the tears will not flow down, but they will still flow down.
10. Mom, it’s another year. I go home to visit your grave. In the years to come, no one will protect me. I will miss you forever when you sleep.
11. Tomb-Sweeping Day is coming soon. Today I come to visit the graves of my parents. I hope that my parents will be pain-free and happy in heaven.