Three taboos for Qingming. The first taboo: borrowing money; In the eyes of the ancients, Tomb-Sweeping Day could not borrow money, because it was essential to burn paper money when offering sacrifices. The ancients thought that after death, people also had their own lives in the underworld and needed money. Burning paper is equivalent to burning money for him, but if you borrow money in Tomb-Sweeping Day, you will be remembered by ghosts, thinking that you have taken his money, which has a bad meaning.
Secondly, in many places, going to the grave is not only to comfort the ancestors, but also to pray for their blessing. Burning paper is to gather wealth and make our future life better and better. Borrowing money is not only money, but also wealth. So it is not advisable to borrow money, but now, the progress of the times makes us realize that there is no need to believe these illusory things at all.
The second taboo: don't buy new shoes; It is a great pleasure to have new shoes. Although Qingming is an ancestor worship, why can't you buy new shoes? Most people in ancient times didn't know a few big characters, so there was an illusion that all the words in one sound were the same, so there were many homophonic words. Here, "shoes" means "evil", and there is no problem at ordinary times, but Qingming itself is dealing with ghosts. It is not afraid of 10 thousand, but it is afraid of one thousand, so it is very taboo to new shoes.
The third point: home visit; During the Qingming small holiday, many friends want to get together and get in touch with their feelings. However, the ancients believed that it was not appropriate to go out after going to the grave and it was forbidden to visit. They think that coming back from the grave will inevitably bring a lot of bad luck, and it is very bad to go to other people's homes without cleaning up these bad luck. However, if you really want to be together, it is not impossible. It is best to get together in a crowded place. The human body is full of yang, the more the better. Ghosts dare not go near.