This year, Tomb-Sweeping Day falls on the same day as the third day of the third lunar month. What's the argument? What red cloth and canned peaches? What's going on here? Thank you for your questions. Tomb-Sweeping Day and the third day of the third lunar month are the same day. The mother sells canned peaches and red cloth to her son, and the peach is homophonic to escape, and hangs red cloth to buy canned peaches to avoid disaster. Because the third day of the third lunar month coincides with Tomb-Sweeping Day this year, some people think there is a "disaster" and use the above methods to "avoid it". Folklore experts say that such a "two festivals meeting" is just a coincidence, which has nothing to do with the disaster, and there is no superstitious saying of "avoiding disasters and seeking happiness". Recently, Miss Wang, 27, who lives in Qidashan Town, Anshan City, said, "My mother said that there is a saying now that a collision with Tomb-Sweeping Day on the third day of the third lunar month will bring disaster to people. Hang three feet three red cloth at home and buy two cans to avoid disaster. " "I don't believe this, but my mother insisted that I hang red cloth in the rented house." Miss Wang said that she had quarreled with her mother because of this incident. The reporter found that this statement also began to spread in Anshan City. In the stalls selling cloth in emerging markets, red cloth sells quickly, while in some big supermarkets near the station, only canned peaches sell fastest on the canned shelves. Folklore expert: It doesn't make sense. Wang Zhiqing, a lecturer in Chinese Department of Anshan Normal University and a doctor of folklore, said: "It is a coincidence that Tomb-Sweeping Day is on the third day of the third lunar month. This is a normal phenomenon and has nothing to do with disasters! " Wang Zhiqing said that in the south of China, the third day of March is spring, which is the season when everything recovers, and it is also the time when various infectious diseases and plagues are prevalent. Therefore, southerners think this day is unlucky, and people will hold activities such as flying kites on this day to take the meaning of "preventing bad luck", while northerners often don't care much about March 3. "Because Tomb-Sweeping Day is a festival to worship ancestors and sweep graves, meeting March 3 will make some people feel unlucky." Wang Zhiqing said that in order to exorcise evil spirits, people in China often think of red cloth, and red is an auspicious color. As for canned peaches, the homonym of "peach" and "escape" is adopted, thinking that eating peaches can "escape" the disaster. "In fact, whether it is hanging red cloth to ward off evil spirits or eating canned peaches to avoid evil, it has no practical significance." Wang Zhiqing said: "As long as you regard it as an ordinary solar term, you have to pass it!" Our reporter Zhi Xichun photo (Reporter Zhi Xichun) Source: Huashang Morning News