Spring Festival ancestor worship customs, Spring Festival ancestor worship time and taboos?

Ancestor worship during the Spring Festival, the customs are different in various places, and we are like this in Anhui.

The Spring Festival is the best period for people and gods to communicate, if you can communicate with each other and harmonize with each other, you will naturally be healthy and have a smooth career. There are a few things to keep in mind:

1. If you have the conditions to go to the cemetery to pay respects to your ancestors, the best time is the morning of Chinese New Year's Eve. Some people have the habit of worshipping their ancestors a few days in advance, and the idea is to send money and offerings to their ancestors as early as possible. This is not true, the spirit world only gives the spirits a holiday on Chinese New Year's Eve to collect money and enjoy offerings.

Worship early is equivalent to preparing the banquet in advance, and the guests have already cooled when they arrive, and things must be done to order it to work.

If you can't go back to your hometown to worship your ancestors, you can go to the intersection on Chinese New Year's Eve to burn some money paper, pay attention to write the address of the ancestor burial on the money paper, and write the address of burning paper. Before burning the paper, draw a circle on the ground with a wooden stick, and burn the money paper in the circle to prevent it from being robbed by other ghosts. When burning paper, throw a few sheets out of the circle to dispel ghosts.

2. Worship procedures. Offerings, wine, and incense should be placed first; Burn paper money after the incense has fallen.

Set off firecrackers around the grave after the paper money is burned, and do not set off on the place where the offerings are placed or on the top of the tomb; Some people like to make offerings, burn paper and set off guns together, but this is not okay, and the offerings are in vain. The ancestors did not have time to collect money when they enjoyed the sacrifices, and they were robbed of the money and food, and some of them were blown away by firecrackers as soon as they reached out to take the money, and the result was that they did not eat well and did not take the money. Personally, I don't approve of setting off firecrackers, as if we are resting and don't like to be disturbed by the sound of firecrackers all of a sudden.

The same is true of the Ancestral Spirits.

3. If conditions permit, the ancestors should be enshrined before the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and the ancestors should be sent home on the fifth day of the first month, that is, the ancestors should be sent back to the cemetery. There are also places where the ancestors are sent after the Lantern Festival, or the third day of the new year, and the ancestors are forbidden to scold the children during the New Year at home, because scolding the children will bring the ancestors with them.

After the Chinese New Year's Eve dumplings are cooked, the first plate is offered to the ancestral tablet.

In front, pour wine, light incense, and set off firecrackers outside the house, which is called receiving God. Rural bungalows are generally lit with a bonfire in the yard.

Set up an offering table to receive God.

Fourth, on the morning of the third day of the new year, three pieces of yellow paper were lit and sent out of the house with fire, which was to send the gods and send the ancestors back to their hometown in the cemetery.

The time and taboo of worshipping ancestors during the Spring Festival, this should depend on local customs and habits, and generally they board in the morning of 29.

Ancestor worship is an important part of the Spring Festival custom, on the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, use food or flowers to express thoughts and sorrows to the ancestors, and go to the ancestors to sweep the graves and worship, which also shows that the Chinese attach importance to blood and family affection, which is not only a tribute to the ancestors, but also a vision for the future life, hoping that the ancestors can bless the family with a safe and smooth coming year. The custom of ancestor worship originated in the Shang Dynasty, and the ancestor worship activities held by people during the Yin Shang period were called "wax sacrifices".

Chinese always have a family feeling, and they are full of respect for their ancestors, some people will put the portraits of their deceased relatives at home and worship every day, while most people will go to the cemetery of their relatives to burn paper and light candles, I used to go to worship my ancestors with my father, and after lunch on the Chinese New Year's Eve, I would go to the neighborhood to worship the ancestors, although I have not seen those deceased relatives, but I always feel an inexplicable sadness during the sacrifice, feeling that this is my dearest family.

Ancestor worship is a kind of filial piety culture, and people have been in the same line for thousands of years, and the act of ancestor worship has been passed down. Filial piety is the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation, as the old saying goes, "The body is skinned, and the parents are received." There are also stories such as lambs kneeling in milk, crows feeding, lying on ice and begging for carp, etc., which tell us that we must be filial to our parents, people are in things, things are in heaven and earth, and only by remembering the most fundamental things can we not forget our roots and do not forget our original intentions.

The ancients believed in the soul theory, they believed that after the death of a person, they would become a god to bless future generations, so future generations should often worship their ancestors, not forget their ancestors, and hope to be blessed by their ancestors, hoping that their ancestors can give blessings and avoid disasters, in order to achieve good health, family harmony, academic success, work success and other good wishes.

The Spring Festival is a grand traditional festival in our country, and this important festival worships the ancestors, which not only expresses the importance and nostalgia of the ancestors, but also expresses the belief of the descendants in the inheritance of the bloodline, and is the yearning for a better life, hoping to have better development under the blessing of the ancestors.

Chinese have a strong family concept, so since ancient times, Chinese have formed the custom of worshipping ancestors, which can be traced back to the Xia Shang Zhou period, and ancestor worship expresses the thoughts and respect for ancestors.

The custom of ancestor worship originated in the Shang Dynasty, and the ancestor worship activities held by people during the Yin Shang period were called "wax sacrifices". The main sacrifice is carried out at home, mostly around the time of Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, which is called "taking the ancestors home for the New Year". Because legend has it that the spirits of the deceased cannot move during the day, they have to wait until after dark.

This custom began in the Yin Shang period and has a history of more than 3,000 years.

This custom has been around since the Qing Dynasty, and the purpose of worshipping ancestors during the New Year is to let the deceased feel the atmosphere of the New Year.

The rituals and customs are different in various places, and the customs of worshipping ancestors during the Spring Festival are also different, some places worship before and after the Chinese New Year's Eve meal, some places worship before and after the Chinese New Year's Eve night, some places worship the ancestors in front of the house in the morning of the Spring Festival, and some places go to the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors after the Spring Festival at home, and some places go to the grave to worship the ancestors, and in modern times, it is generally to the cemetery to worship the ancestors.

The offerings of the Spring Festival ancestor worship mainly include three animal meals, three teas and five wines, etc., which are presided over by the parents, bowing, burning paper, lighting cannons, and praying for the protection of the ancestors.

Ancestor worship is to sacrifice ancestors, Chinese have a tradition of cautious pursuit of the future, the Spring Festival will worship ancestors, remember their ancestors, inspire future generations.

Chinese New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival, Chongyang Festival, and Zhongyuan Festival are the four major festivals of ancestor worship in the traditional Han festivals.

1. First of all, draw a circle around the ancestral tomb with wooden sticks or stones, put various sacrifices in the circle, and burn paper money.

2. Then sprinkle the wine on the ground to pay tribute to the ancestors and offer flowers or paper flowers to the ancestors. In some places, firecrackers are set off in front of the ancestral grave to create a lively and festive atmosphere, telling the ancestors that the New Year is going to be celebrated, and the descendants of the family are all good.

3. The last is kowtow, which is to express the piety and respect for the ancestors or noble people. There is a certain posture for each kowtow, first put both hands together, bow down, and then bend the knees on the ground or paved objects to fight, both hands on the ground, head down. The forehead does not have to touch the ground, but it should be as low as possible to show reverence.

The detailed process of the Spring Festival sacrifice customs:

1. Sacrifice to ancestors. Generally, a shrine or incense burner is set up in the hall, and the festival (eight festivals of the new year) continues to be worshipped. The distant ancestors have been for a long time, and there are many festivals, so they have saved the "worship taboo" and the festival, and changed to the "spring equinox" and "autumn equinox" sacrifice during the year, commonly known as the "spring and autumn two sacrifices".

There are also tomb sacrifices to ancestors, and folk ancestors are swept away, mostly held in Xinzheng, Qingming, and the winter solstice. The Ghost Festival is the Ghost Festival in the middle of July, also known as the "Obon Festival", and most of the "Thirty-six Incense" and "Dendrobium" are burned in the wild, and the lonely souls and wild ghosts are sacrificed.

2. Sacrifice to the parents of heaven and earth. Set up an incense burner at the top of the gate, every year, at the beginning of the first month of each year.

9. At the beginning of each month.

1. 15 sacrifices. The folk have the saying of "the ninth day of the first month of heaven and earth (heaven and earth)", the old folk custom, on this day people prepare sacrifices to worship heaven and earth (heaven and earth parents).

He also warned the children not to pour their teeth and face wash water on the ground or in the ditch, but to pour it into a bucket and not to pour it out until the next day, otherwise it will be regarded as disrespectful to the "Heavenly Father" and the "Parents of Heaven and Earth", and they will be punished by God. On this day, the people do not slaughter livestock, and they sincerely feel the virtue of heaven and earth.

3. Sacrifice to the Buddha, also known as the god of holding the spike Zheng Beibei Xuantian Zhenwu. Folk customs mostly with its "incense" and its order flag on the top of the gate, together with the "heaven and earth parents" furnace, every year, at the beginning of each month.

1. 15 sacrifices. Buddha is a type of religion, monks and nuns do not worship gods, but the common people have not divided gods and Buddhas since ancient times, and they continue to extend each other.

4. Sacrifice to the sun. At noon on the day, women put their offerings on the patio or under the sun outside the door, and burn incense to worship the sun.

5. Sacrifice the land section to sing the praises. The land is also known as the uncle, the uncle, the folk have the "March twenty-nine uncle" said. In the old customs, the furnace was set up at the heel of the wall behind the door, and it was the twenty-ninth day of March and the beginning of each month.

2. 16. Regular worship, no restrictions on sacrifices, meals, livestock, fruit cakes, etc.