What is the importance of the sacrifice of the midyear festival, and the sacrificial matters of the

It is necessary to go to the grave to make sacrifices.

In many places, it is the custom of going to the grave to worship the ancestors and relatives on the 15th day of July. Under normal circumstances, it is necessary to complete a series of ceremonies before noon. In some places, the time to go to the grave will continue until 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and this kind of attention is actually no longer the attention of the past, but is integrated into the actual needs of contemporary people.

The other type does not need to go to the grave to worship. In many places, there is no need to go to the grave to worship during the midyear festival, and only need to worship the ancestors at home. There is a folk saying that "Qingming people are looking for ghosts, and Zhongyuan ghosts are looking for people".

Najin about the sacrificial matters of the midyear festival.

1. I don't care about the amount of paper money burned, mainly the amount of money on the paper money. The number of money, there is a lot of exquisiteness, with a single "money" word, is composed of three words of Jin Gego, so the number of money on the paper money, should also be calculated with "gold, silver, copper, iron and tin", one for gold, two for silver, three for copper, four for iron, five for tin, six for gold, seven for silver, eight for copper, nine for iron, ten for tin, eleven for gold.

Seven Ghosts and Eight Gods". Generally, praying to God, repaying vows, relieving disasters, celebrating festivals, and burning old blessing paper for the dead, it is best to use a row of money paper with six eyes (six money) and eleven eyes (eleven money). It is best to worship the gods, open the spirit, and fast, and use the seven eyes (seven coins in a row).

Send the ghost to send the flower plate, half burned in July, and it should be the most appropriate to use eight eyes (eight money) in a row. When burning paper, if you encounter a situation that does not burn, do not mess up the money paper, so that it is difficult for the ghosts and gods to be tidy, and the ghosts and gods will come to ask for it, so that the owner of the paper money is unsettled.

2. The color of incense is generally only red, yellow, and green in society, and these three kinds of incense are not extraordinary and can be used to burn incense, which is clearly distinguished.

Red - on behalf of the festivities, generally used in the joy of the scene, outdated festivals, the most reasonable to celebrate.

Yellow - represents respect, generally used for longevity, asking gods, worshiping Buddha, and relieving disasters, which is the most reasonable.

Cyan - represents the meaning of darkness, and is generally used to collect ghosts, send flower plates, open spirits, fast, and other things.

Therefore, before burning incense every time, it is advisable to consider what color of incense to burn, so as to get the best blessing shade, so as not to burn the wrong incense. No matter what it is, it is not the more the better, there is a limit to burning incense, generally burning incense is a pillar for good (three), a pillar for Kaitai incense, the main family is complete, the father and son are filial piety, and the blessings come together, healthy and long-lived.

The three pillars (nine branches) are enterprising incense, the main six relatives are harmonious, the neighbors are stable, fame and fortune are reaped, and health and longevity are maintained. Nine pillars (also known as nine products, the incense is inserted horizontally into a row of three columns, a square body) is to return the incense, which can be extended in all directions, transferred and promoted, all things do not exist, and the four are empty. This incense is generally not burned, and is used to go to the old and welcome the new on the first day of the first month of each year.

What to prepare for the midyear festival worship is as follows:

1. Incense candles: Incense candles are the most important items necessary for tomb sweeping. It is not only necessary to light incense and candles at the present time of the ancestors, but also to offer incense to the land of the mountain god who cares about the cemetery, and pray that the land of the mountain god will protect the cemetery and bless the souls of the deceased.

2. Paper money: Paper money is to be burned for the deceased, so that they can have money to spend in the underworld, and they must be burned.

3. Vegetarian wine: The process of sweeping the tomb is equivalent to bringing food to celebrate the festival for the ancestors, so it is necessary to drink wine to the ancestors, and wine is necessary for tomb sweeping.

4. Fruit snacks: fruits are suitable for seasonal fruits from all over the world, and there are no special requirements; Snacks are subject to availability.

6. Flowers: Chrysanthemums have the meaning of missing and missing, and the tomb of Qingming Dynasty is generally suitable for chrysanthemums, and white chrysanthemums are especially for the scene.

7. "Burden": "Burden", that is, the tomb sweeper (the family of the deceased) brings food and clothing to the deceased, because it is named after a large pocket of white paper, which contains banknotes, gold and silver, and various "ingots", "clothes", "furniture" and so on. "Burning baggage" is an important form of commemorating the deceased, and burning the "baggage" means giving these items to the ancestors.

Generally, it is enough to use ordinary memorial items.

Zhongyuan Festival is the name of Taoism, and the folk secular name is July and a half, and the seventh month.

Ten. Fourth, the ancestor worship festival, Buddhism is called the Bon Festival. The festival customs mainly include worshipping ancestors, releasing river lanterns, worshipping the souls of the dead, burning paper ingots, sacrificing land, etc. Its production can be traced back to the worship of ancestral spirits in ancient times and related time sacrifices.

July source bright shirt is auspicious month, filial piety month, July and a half is the folk early autumn celebration of the harvest, reward the earth of the festival, there are a number of crops mature, the folk hail cavity according to the routine to worship the ancestors, with new rice and other sacrifices, to the ancestors to report the autumn success. The festival is a kind of cultural traditional festival to remember the ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect the ancestors and fulfill filial piety.

In the Book of Changes, "seven" is a changing number, the number of resurrection. "I Ching": "Repeat its way, seven days back and forth, and the sky is also."

Seven is the number of yang, the number of days, after the yang energy between heaven and earth is extinguished, after seven days can be resurrected, this is the way of heaven and earth, the principle of the cycle of yin and yang, the folk choose to worship their ancestors on July 14 (27) and the number of "seven" is related. The Taoist festival of Zhongyuan and the Buddhist festival of Obon are celebrated on July 15.

"July and a half" was originally a folk ancestor worship festival in ancient times, and it was called "Zhongyuan Festival", which originated from Taoism after the Eastern Han Dynasty. Buddhism calls the seventh half of the month "Obon". In a certain sense, the July Half Ancestor Festival belongs to the folk secular, the Zhongyuan Festival belongs to Taoism, and the Obon Festival belongs to Buddhism.

July 14 15 Ancestor worship is a traditional cultural festival popular in countries in the Chinese cultural circle and overseas Chinese areas, and Chinese New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival and Chongyang Festival are all traditional ancestor worship festivals of the Chinese nation. In May 2010, the Ministry of Culture selected the "Midyear Festival (Chaoren Key-Friends Yulan Victory Meeting)" declared by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) and included it in the national list of intangible cultural heritage.