Don't sacrifice incense to your ancestors on any festival.

As a traditional festival in China, every family will start to get busy around the Spring Festival to welcome the New Year and the indispensable customs in the New Year. Speaking of old customs, everyone may be familiar with them and know a lot. But do you know the custom of ancestor worship? Perhaps young people nowadays will ignore this custom, but ancestor worship is very important to our Chinese nation.

What festival is ancestor worship?

The days when ancestor worship is needed are: New Year's Day, Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Ghost Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival and Death Day. Sacrificial ceremonies include burning incense, chanting blessings, offering rice soup, offering tea, offering silks, offering wine, offering boxes, offering meat, offering prayers, burning blessings, and worshipping God. These tedious and solemn ceremonies also show respect and nostalgia for the sages.

How to sacrifice ancestors

Before the New Year's Eve, you can put the ancestral tablets on a clean case. The ancestral tablet is written vertically on yellow paper: "the ancestral tablet of XXX", and the material of the tablet can be marble, wood or cardboard. Before the memorial tablet, vegetarian dumplings, vegetarian rice, vegetarian chopsticks, vegetarian fruits, butter lamps and incense burners should be offered. Don't forget to offer three bowls of water, and then pray that the ancestors can bless the family happiness and everything goes well. After the fifth day 14 o'clock, you can return the card and the supplies. You should kowtow respectfully for three times before taking back your medals and offerings. During the period of offering, it is necessary to change the offering every day and keep it fresh, especially clean water.

What should we pay attention to when offering sacrifices to ancestors?

First of all, don't choose meat-like food as the food in the tribute, try to choose vegetarian food; Incense cannot be broken; Don't choose pomegranate, pear or persimmon as fruit; Every time you meet an ancestor's memorial day, you must give a confession; Burn paper money after incense burns, and set off firecrackers around the tomb after burning paper money, not at the place where offerings are made or at the top of the tomb; Some people like to worship together, burn paper together and shoot together, which is not acceptable.