How effective is ancestor worship? Worshiping ancestors can change your luck
The Ancestor Worship Festival refers to the festival for worshiping ancestors, and is also another name for Qingming Festival. Qingming Festival, July Half, Double Ninth Festival and New Year's Eve are the four traditional ancestor worship festivals in China. Since ancient times, China has had the custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors during festivals to show filial piety and not forgetting one's roots. To worship ancestors, there are family sacrifices and tomb sacrifices. Ancestral hall sacrifice, also known as temple sacrifice, is when people of a clan gather in the ancestral hall to worship their ancestors.
Can the traditions of our ancestors still be passed on to you? Since ancient times, China has had the custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors and extending incense to show filial piety and not forgetting one's roots. Qingming Festival, Ghost Festival and Hanyi Festival are the three major ancestor worship festivals in traditional Chinese festivals. In ancient times, this kind of custom was very popular. Due to different etiquette and customs in different places, the forms of ancestor worship also vary.
1. Qingming Festival, on the 15th day after the Spring Equinox, is also called the Outing Festival;
2. Half of July, also called the Ghost Festival and Ghost Festival;
March, October 1st, also known as October New Year, Hanyi Festival, and Hades Festival.
Ancestor worship is of great significance:
1. Fulfill filial piety
Ancestor worship is mainly to express respect and memory for ancestors, and to protect future generations. To show filial piety to deceased elders, the expression of filial piety includes not only providing support during life, but also including offering sacrifices after death.
2. Strengthen connections and maintain family identity
Ancestor worship can keep the family and clan intact and permanent. Ancestor worship will indirectly encourage future generations to have a sense of belonging to the family. A deeper sense of identity and centripetal force. To protect the clan, make the clansmen more united and help each other, and settle down the country.
Ancestor worship during the Qingming Festival
The way to worship ancestors during the Qingming Festival is tomb worship, which is a manifestation of people's friendship and family ties and their filial piety. On this day, people lead their families to the cemetery to sweep the tombs. , to show that we do not forget our ancestors, and to solemnly send our thoughts and respects to our deceased relatives and ancestors.
In addition to sweeping the tombs, people also check to see if the tombs of their ancestors have collapsed due to the rainy season, or have been burrowed by foxes and rabbits. During the ritual sweeping, they will remove weeds and add new soil to the tombs. , offer sacrifices and burn pigs, burn incense and drink, burn paper money, and hold simple sacrificial ceremonies.
Ancestor Worshiping on the Double Ninth Festival
The Double Ninth Festival is a day to respect the elderly and is also a major event for some people in China to worship their ancestors. Nine is the ultimate number. Ancestor worship on the Double Ninth Festival has existed since the pre-Qin period, and this custom is still retained today. In front of the graves of their relatives, people weed, fill the soil, and build drainage ditches around the graves to prevent rainwater from washing into the graves. The offerings are placed in front of the tomb for worship, and incense and candles are lit during worship. After the worship, paper money is burned or pressed on the grave.
Ancestor Worshiping on the Hungry Ghost Festival
Legend has it that on the day of the Hungry Ghost Festival, ghosts from the underworld will be released to allow them to go home and reunite with their families. Therefore, the Hungry Ghost Festival is a folk way of worshiping ancestors. days. On this day, people take out the tablets of their ancestors one by one, place them respectfully on the altar dedicated to worship, burn incense and worship, and some even offer this year's new crops for their ancestors to taste. Pray for the blessings of ancestors.
Ancestor worship on New Year’s Eve
Ancestor worship on New Year’s Eve is a traditional custom of the Han people that has been passed down to this day. It is a way to show filial piety and express nostalgia for ancestors on the occasion of bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new. People always hold sacrificial ceremonies every New Year's Eve to thank their ancestors and pray for blessings.
Before New Year's Eve, every household must place family trees, portraits of ancestors, memorial tablets, etc. in the upper hall of the home, place an offering table, set up incense burners, and provide offerings. Family members offer incense and salute to their ancestors in batches according to their seniority. On New Year's Eve, some families first go to their own tombs to offer sacrifices. Some just kowtow, and some even use a kang table to carry a table of wine and food for the ancestors to enjoy.
The significance of ancestor worship is to teach people to return to their origins and repay their kindness. The Analects of Confucius says: "Be cautious in pursuing the past, and the people's morality will be strong!" Filial piety has always been an outstanding traditional virtue of the Chinese nation. We It needs to be passed down.
Ancestor worship is the fastest way to change your luck
In terms of time, the fortune of the person who worships the ancestors in the spring festival will be in the first half of the year, and the fortune of the person in the autumn festival will be in the second half of the year.
While you burn paper money to visit the graves of your loved ones and express your grief as a filial act, your own luck will also change!
Filial piety and ancestor worship are the source of Feng Shui
Where do people’s blessings come from? It comes from being filial to your parents, this is the first one.
Now when we go to worship our ancestors, can we really remember the benefits of our ancestors? It is very important to remember the kindness of our ancestors.