Customs, practices of various places and families?

The custom of worshipping ancestors: burn three burns to raise eggplant incense, after bowing, pray for a good harvest, and finally burn paper, commonly known as"Send money and food"。

Chinese New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival, Chongyang Festival, Zhongyuan Festival, Qing, Jiu, and Yu are the four major festivals of ancestor worship in traditional Chinese festivals. Due to the different rituals and customs in different places, the forms of ancestor worship are also different. While worshipping ancestors, some places also worship the gods of heaven and earth.

The offerings mainly include three animal meals, three teas and five wines. The parents officiate, burn three incense sticks, bow down, pray for a good harvest, and finally burn paper, commonly known as sending money and grain.

How to worship ancestors

1. Date of ancestor worship: Chinese New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhongyuan Festival, Chongyang Festival rental section. Collectively known as the five major festivals. It is customary to worship ancestors at noon, and only on Chinese New Year's Eve is around 4 p.m.

2. Offerings should be prepared: a pot of rice, a pot of soup, ten dishes of meat, vegetarian dishes, and a bottle of rice wine.

3. Other items: 7 bowls, 7 pairs of chopsticks, 7 small wine glasses, a rice spoon, a soup ladle, and a small wine jug, pour rice wine into the small wine jug to pour the wine.

4. Gold paper should be prepared: 6 or 6 pieces of gold. Double the use of 12 or 12 on Chinese New Year's Eve. A small stack of environmentally friendly gold paper is trapped with red paper, please buy it, paste the gold made of real tin foil, it is considered real money, and the ancestors can use it.

5. On the day of the other shrine, when entering the ancestral tablet of the house, it is also necessary to worship the ancestors with rice balls. A total of two catties of rice balls must be bought.

6. On the morning of the winter solstice, you can only worship a pot of clear rice balls for a pound of rice balls, and there is no need to prepare meals or burn gold paper. Because of the general custom of the winter solstice, the rice balls will be rubbed, so they are worshiped together. On the day of the winter solstice, the gods also have to worship three bowls of rice balls, about one pound of rice balls. Therefore, a total of two catties of rice balls must be bought.

7. The lower table of the god table is dedicated to worshipping the gods. To worship ancestors, you must prepare a separate table to worship ancestors.

Four times: Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, July.

Ten. 5. The first day of October;

Tomb sweeping, that is, "tomb sacrifice", is also the "respect for the time" of the ancestors, and its custom has a long history. In the north, it is called the upper tomb, and in some places the tomb sweeping is called "sweeping the mountain" or "worshipping the mountain", etc., and some areas in the south call it "hanging mountain" or "hanging paper".

There are two kinds of "mountains" to worship: one is the ancestors who trace back from their parents to their ancestors within three generations, called "family mountain", and worshipping family mountain is called "family sacrifice"; The other is to worship the ancestors of the clan, called "Ancestral Mountain", "Dazhong Mountain", and worship the ancestral mountain is called "Sweeping Dazhong Mountain".

Other forms: 2. Flower sacrifice: use the deceased's favorite flowers to sacrifice, or participate in various cemeteries"Flowers for burnt paper"Activity.

3. Tree planting sacrifice: Commemorate the deceased through tree planting.

4. Tomb washing sacrifice: cleaning the tombstone to express thoughts.

5. Family memorial service: make the deceased's ** and video materials into CDs, organize family members**, and make memories of the deceased.

6. Online sacrifice: express the sorrow of deceased relatives through the Internet.

7. Community public memorial: The full-time ceremonial master is stationed in the community, and the residents of the community organization area will let go of the portraits of the deceased relatives, fruits, fruits, balloons, etc., and the family members of the deceased will read out the memorial text, and the public will offer flowers.

8. Flying thoughts: The community can organize residents to carry out activities such as flying white balloons and flying thoughts.

9. Signature sacrifice: The community can organize the masses to collectively sign to commemorate and worship their ancestors.

There are many customs in the Qingming Festival, including tomb sweeping, sacrifices, gathering for food and wine, flying kites, folding willow branches and wearing them on the head, and worshipping ancestors at home. Generally, similar activities are carried out during the Qingming Festival, but there are also some ethnic groups that do it on other days. In addition, it is also possible to worship ancestors at home by placing food for worship in the direction of the hometown, and then burning three sticks of incense and bowing three times.

Taking into account the generational relationship, it should start with the parents and work your way up and down. Also, when you come back, be sure to clean your shoes with the toes facing inward. If you are going to walk at night during this time, you should bring something auspicious with you and do not cover your forehead with your hair.

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We know that the patriarchal mentality in ancient China was very serious, and some things could only be done by boys, and girls were not eligible to participate. There are many particularities about the customs of the Qingming Festival, among which it is very important to pay attention to not allowing pregnant women and young daughters to go to the grave.

In the countryside, there are still some more feudal customs that have been preserved to the present day, and many caves are very convincing. The daughter of the folk who marries goes back to her mother's house to go to the grave, which is not good for the mother's family and will bring disadvantages to the mother's family. If a married daughter returns to her parents' house to go to the grave, it will have a bad impact on the fortune and reputation of her mother's family.

A daughter will go back to her parents' house to go to the grave and will hold hands with the good feng shui of her mother's ancestral grave; Second, the daughter goes back to her parents' house to go to the grave, which will make outsiders feel that her mother's family has "no successor", so in general, the daughter's grave has the greatest impact on her mother's family.

Pregnant women should not go to the grave.

During the Qingming Festival, pregnant women are not allowed to go to the grave to worship their ancestors, which is disrespectful to their ancestors, and it is also easy to move the fetus. Many people think that pregnant women should not go to the grave because they have difficulty moving, but in fact, even if you are just pregnant and strong, you cannot go to the grave. Pregnant women need to be blessed by the fetal god when they are pregnant, and it is precisely because of the favor of the fetal god that we can successfully conceive a baby, and the fetal god is the most taboo to go to some places where the yin is very heavy, and the cemetery is not suitable for pregnant women as a place where the yin is very heavy.

It is not advisable to go to the grave at a young age.

Generally speaking, if the child is less than six years old, it is not appropriate for him or her to attend the grave worship activities. Because the child is too young and has low yang energy, and the cemetery is a place with very heavy yin energy, it is extremely easy for children to see some unclean things, and it is extremely easy to cause some negative substances to entangle around the child (children with low yang energy are easy to provoke evil things), so that the child is often sick and so on, so the daughter is too young to go to the grave, which needs to be noted.

1. Don't play around; The most taboo when worshipping is to play and play, if the frolicking is disrespectful to the ancestors, and secondly, according to the old man, the noise will disturb the ancestors, and it is not good for yourself. When worshipping, you must pay attention to your words and deeds, and it is better to be respectful and respectful. 2. Avoid wearing bright clothes; Worship is a serious matter, if the core is too bright, red and purple will inevitably be not dignified, it is disrespectful to the deceased, so the clothes and speech, we must pay special attention.

3. Matters to be paid attention to when adding soil; One of the important things to sweep the tomb is to add new soil to the grave, when adding soil, pay attention not to dig from the front or back of the grave, only from the left or right, and add soil can not be directly patted or buckled, but added three times and sprinkled directly on the grave. Otherwise, the ancestors will be unhappy and will no longer bless the family. 4. Don't eat tribute; The offerings prepared for the deceased are not edible, and the village elders said that the offerings before the worship must be prevented from being eaten by children, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble.

5. Don't be half-hearted; Many people will take their children to worship their ancestors during the Qingming Festival, and some children feel bored and boring, so they will play with their mobile phones on the side, half-heartedly, and do not take worship seriously. If this is the case, the family must stop it in time and don't let the child break the rules. 6. Do not take photos in the cemetery of the ancestors; Ancestor worship is not just a memorial to the ancestors, but clearly carries the meaning of worshipping and praying to the deceased.