What should be offered to the ancestors during the midyear festival?

We have zongzi, ducks, paper there...

It is almost the midyear festival of July and a half, as a traditional festival in our country, it is based on the theme of Fengqin and Pudu, it is a festival where people place their ancestors on lovesickness, and it is also known as the "ghost festival" in the folk.

If you sacrifice tribute, this is casual, that is, to do your best and express your longing. Of course, if you are afraid of making mistakes, you can consider offering sacrifices online, such as the sacrificial culture network, which has a variety of tributes to choose from, and you can buy them according to the tributes there, if it is a sacrifice in reality.

Generally, there are just four kinds of dim sum.

Without paying tribute, are you going to see the emperor?

1. It is necessary to prepare incense candles, incense candles are necessary items for worshiping ancestors, incense candles can pray to the land of the mountain god to protect the cemetery and bless the souls of the ancestors; Secondly, you need to prepare paper money, which is used to burn for the deceased, so that they can have enough pocket money in the underworld.

2. You need to prepare some fruit snacks, which can be purchased with what your ancestors liked to eat before their deaths, and there are no other special requirements; Finally, you can also prepare some chrysanthemums, chrysanthemums have the meaning of longing and nostalgia, used to express the feelings of missing deceased relatives.

1. Put incense on the case, the statue of the god and Buddha and Bodhisattva is in the center (there is a statue of the deceased in front, and the statue of the god and Buddha and Bodhisattva is a little higher, with at least one head higher as the standard), and five offerings are placed in front (1 incense burner is in the center, and three incense sticks are inserted; 2 vases on the left and right, three or five flowers arranged, odd number is appropriate; A pair of candlesticks on the left and right, with red candles. collectively known as the "Five Offerings").

2. Put five grains (five colors of grains, such as rice, black beans, mung beans, soybeans, peanuts, etc.), five fruits (five colored fruits such as apples, oranges, bananas, grapes, pears, etc.), three cups of tea, etc., remember not to put meat, otherwise it will damage the gods and Buddhas (because becoming a god will "not eat the things of the world"), and also damage their own blessings.

The Zhongyuan Festival is actually the only festival of the three religions in the whole year, Confucianism is called "Guijie", the common people of the past dynasties have no culture, and it is falsely rumored to be the "Ghost Festival" (so it also derives many stories of "Ghost Gate Open, Ghost Gate Pass"), Taoism is called Zhongyuan Festival (the Lantern Festival is called "Shangyuan Festival" on the fifteenth day of the first month, and the "Xia Yuan Festival" is called "Xia Yuan Festival" on October 15, which corresponds to "Shangyuan Festival Heavenly Official Blessing", "Xia Yuan Festival Local Official Forgiveness", "Zhongyuan Water Saving Official Relief Misfortune"), Buddhism is called "Bon Festival", also called "Buddha Joy Day". Therefore, it is considered that the half of July is Halloween, and those who dare not make offerings, worship Buddha, offer incense, or do anything else, such as going out, visiting friends, going to the grave, etc., are ignorant of the festival.

<>1, hail with the code in the Yuan Festival on the tribute are, snacks, sugar cubes, melon seeds, peanuts, red dates, etc., and can be firecrackers on the ancestral tomb, the remaining three ghost festivals are taboo on the ancestral tomb such as firecrackers.

2. The Qingming Festival only adds soil, and the fifteen agriculture-related information services in the seventh lunar month are only sent to the source of money, and one is sent to clothes in the tenth month of the lunar calendar. Specifically, it is necessary to combine local customs.