Many areas have the custom of sweeping graves on New Year's Eve, so that ancestors can also spend a clean New Year and report everything in the year to their ancestors, hoping that everything will go well and their families will prosper in the coming year. Usually sweep graves on New Year's Eve afternoon. People will send the prepared New Year's Eve dinner to the graves of their dead relatives, so that the dead relatives can enjoy food with the living on New Year's Eve.
Express people's grief over their dead relatives. This custom is also called "giving annual grain". In addition, people usually go to worship ancestors and sweep graves during the Lantern Festival, because it is also called Shangyuan Festival, and Zhongyuan Festival and Xiayuan Festival are Taoist sacrificial festivals "Sanyuan Festival".
The origin of New Year's Eve:
The earliest mention of the name "New Year's Eve" in the existing literature is the Local Customs Records written in the Western Jin Dynasty and the early Zhou Dynasty. Later, it was also called the day before New Year's Eve as a small farewell, that is, a small year; New Year's Eve is New Year's Eve, that is, New Year's Eve. According to Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals and Historical Records, the ancients used drums to drive away the "ghost of plague" on the day before the New Year, and held a "mourning" ceremony at the end of each year.
New Year's Eve is usually called New Year's Eve, but in fact, due to the lunar calendar, the date of New Year's Eve may be1February 30 or1February 29, but in any case, it is the end of the lunar year.