Can the traditions of our ancestors be passed on to you? China has had the custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors and renewing incense since ancient times to show filial piety and not forgetting one's roots. Tomb-Sweeping Day, Mid-Autumn Festival and Cold Clothes Festival are the three major festivals in traditional festivals in China. In ancient times, this custom was very popular. Due to different local customs and habits, the forms of ancestor worship are also different.
First, Tomb-Sweeping Day, on the fifteenth day after the vernal equinox, is also called the outing festival;
Second, July and a half, also known as Mid-Autumn Festival and Ghost Festival;
Third, October 1st, also known as October New Moon, Cold Clothes Festival and Ghost Festival.
Ancestor worship is of great significance:
1, so filial
Sacrificing ancestors is mainly to express respect and nostalgia for ancestors, and to ask future generations to be filial to their deceased elders. The expression of filial piety includes not only support before death, but also sacrifice after death.
2. Strengthen contact and maintain family identity.
Sacrificing ancestors means that families and clans can remain intact and permanent. Ancestor worship will indirectly promote future generations to have a deeper sense of identity and centripetal force towards their families. It is necessary to safeguard the clan, let the people unite and help each other, settle down and consolidate the country.
Tomb-Sweeping Day worships his ancestors.
Tomb-Sweeping Day's way of ancestor worship is to sweep the grave, which is a manifestation of people's mutual respect and filial piety. On this day, people lead their families to the cemetery to pay homage to their ancestors, and solemnly send their thoughts and respects to their deceased relatives and ancestors.
Not only do people sweep graves, but they also check whether their ancestors' graves collapsed during the rainy season or were pierced by foxes and rabbits. When sweeping the grave, weeds will be uprooted, new soil will be added, pigs will be sacrificed, incense and libation will be burned, and paper money will be burned, and a simple sacrificial ceremony will be held.
Worship ancestors on Double Ninth Festival
The Double Ninth Festival is a day to respect the elderly and an important activity for some people in China to worship their ancestors. There are many nine poles, and ancestor worship on the Double Ninth Festival existed in the pre-Qin period, and this custom has been preserved to this day. In front of relatives' graves, people weed, fill the soil and build drainage ditches along the graves to prevent rainwater from rushing into the graves. Sacrifice offerings at the grave, burn incense at the time of worship, burn paper money after worship, or put paper money at the grave.
Mid-Autumn Festival ancestor worship
Legend has it that on the Mid-Autumn Festival, the underworld will let them go home to reunite with their families, so the Mid-Autumn Festival is a day for folk sacrifices to their ancestors. On this day, the villagers invited the memorial tablets of their ancestors one by one, respectfully put them on the altar dedicated to worship, burned incense and worshipped them, and some even took out the newly harvested crops this year for their ancestors to taste. Pray for ancestors' blessing.
Sacrificing ancestors on New Year's Eve
Sacrificing ancestors on New Year's Eve is a traditional custom of Han nationality. When we bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, we expressed our filial piety and nostalgia for our ancestors. People always hold sacrificial ceremonies on New Year's Eve to thank their ancestors and pray for blessing.
Before the arrival of New Year's Eve, every household should provide genealogy, ancestral portraits, memorial tablets, etc. At home, put an altar and a censer to offer sacrifices. Family members pay homage to their ancestors in batches according to their generations. On New Year's Eve, some families go to their graves to offer sacrifices, some just kowtow, and some even use kang tables to carry a table of dining tables for their ancestors to enjoy.
The significance of ancestor worship is to teach people to return to the beginning of this newspaper and repay their kindness. In the Analects of Confucius: "Be cautious and pursue the future, and the people's morality is thick!" Filial piety has always been an excellent traditional moral character of the Chinese nation, which we need to inherit.
Sacrificing ancestors is the fastest way to change luck.
In terms of time, the fortune of ancestors in the first half of the Spring Festival and the fortune of ancestors in the second half of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Burn paper money in front of relatives' graves and mourn with filial piety. At the same time, your luck will change!
Filial piety and ancestor worship are the sources of Feng Shui.
Where do people's blessings come from? From filial piety to parents, this is the first rule.
Now that we are going to worship our ancestors, can we really think of the benefits of our ancestors? It is very important to think about the grace of our ancestors.