Why should we burn incense during the Spring Festival?

Burning incense is very important in many people's minds. Respect for the gods in the sky above and the ancestors on the earth below can only be respected with incense if they have an important position in people's minds. Burning incense in the New Year is also necessary. After putting up Spring Festival couplets on New Year's Eve morning, we will burn incense and go to the grave in the afternoon. When I get home, I will be invited back to the deceased, and my family will burn incense to pay homage.

On the morning of New Year's Day, many people will choose to detonate the "rich cannon". When setting off rich guns, they need the oldest man in the family to have some incense. This is an old practice, and many people still insist on doing it.

In the first grade, lighting incense means lighting three incense sticks. In fact, both Taoism and Buddhism have three incense sticks, but their meanings are different. Buddhism represents Buddhism, Dharma and Monks, and Taoism represents Sanqing. There is also a folk saying in our country that these three incense sticks represent heaven and earth. Because in the traditional culture of our country, three is a very important number. When offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, three sacrifices are used to worship, "one life is two, three lives are three, three lives are three lives". According to this sentence, three is the largest in the world, so people will use three incense sticks to worship their ancestors and gods.

Incense is basically burned in multiples of three. Three incense is their own, six incense is two generations, nine incense is three generations, thirteen incense is the most, not much more than thirteen incense. You need to wash your hands in advance when burning incense. The incense needs to be lit once. The more fragrant the head, the better. When burning incense, don't be in a particularly noisy environment, you need to be relatively quiet. This is basically what we need to avoid when burning incense. In fact, burning incense is to express our admiration for our ancestors. Basic manners should still be talked about, not too casual.