What do you want to burn on the grave during the Midyear Festival?

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 is the 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 ripe, the folk 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 Yulan Festival)" declared by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) and included it in the national list of intangible cultural heritage.

Paper money: Dead money, clothing, etc.

Local customs vary depending on local customs. Generally speaking, it is possible to burn paper in advance, and some say that paper must be burned in advance. There are some local customs in various places, and if you can go to the grave in advance, you must respect the local customs and carry out the grave sacrifice activities in advance.

The time, specific steps, etc., of the folk Zhongyuan Festival, etc., are still different because of regional cultural differences.

If you want to go to the grave on the cemetery to worship your ancestors, it is best to choose the time in the morning, and you must complete the ancestor worship ceremony before 12:00 noon.

If you can't go to the grave, you have to find a big intersection after 9 p.m. to burn paper money. There are also places that start after dark at half past five in the evening and continue until late at night.

Strictly speaking, no. Compared with the Qingming Festival, everyone goes to the grave, the Qingming Festival is called the "wild sacrifice", and the Zhongyuan Festival is sacrificed at home, called the "family sacrifice", and the merit tablet of the god can be worshipped, and there is no need to go to the grave, of course, if you want to go, it doesn't matter.

During the Midyear Festival, you can't go to the grave in advance to burn incense and paper money.

Reason: Midyear is on July 15th, and in some places it is on July 14th. On this day, all the ghosts will be released from the underworld and they will return to the dead to meet their loved ones. Therefore, people generally worship ghosts, go to graves, burn incense, and burn paper on this day.

If you burn paper, incense, and grave in advance, then the ghosts of your loved ones will not receive your heart until they return to the deceased. Therefore, generally speaking, the midyear festival cannot go to the grave, incense, and burn paper in advance.

Details:1The midyear festival, commonly known as the ghost festival, stone drum, and the seventh and a half months, is called the Lampon Festival in Buddhism. Chinese New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival, and Chongyang Festival are traditional Chinese ancestor worship festivals, and they are also popular traditional cultural festivals in countries with Chinese character cultural circles. There is a custom of setting off river lanterns and burning paper ingots during the Midyear Festival.

2.The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is called the Shangyuan Festival, which is a celebration of the Lantern Festival, which has existed since ancient times; July 15 is known as the Midyear Festival to worship ancestors; October 15, known as the Xia Yuan Festival, is to eat cold food to commemorate the ancestors. The 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the mid-year festival, and in some areas it is the 14th day of the seventh month.

3.Legend has it that all the ghosts are released from the underworld on the day of the Lantern Festival, and people generally worship ghosts. Every family with a new funeral goes to the new grave, but in general, it is one of the largest sacrificial festivals in China.

1. Prepare incense candles for the grave during the Midyear Festival: 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 sail ant god who cares about the cemetery, and pray that the land of the mountain god will protect the cemetery and bless the deceased of the ancestors.

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 chrysanthemums are generally appropriate for tombs during the Qingming Festival, and white chrysanthemums are especially for the scene.

7. "Baggage": "Burden", that is, the things that the grave sweeper (the family of the deceased) brings to the deceased for food and clothing, because of the use of a large pocket of white paper paste, which contains banknotes, gold and silver, and various paper "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.

1. Burn paper money. Legend has it that on the day of the Yuan Festival, the ghost door is wide open, so the deceased relatives will return to the world to visit their descendants, and the descendants need to burn paper money for the ancestors and send money to the ancestors, so that the ancestors can live a good life when they return to the underworld, and the ancestors can better protect the descendants.

2. Burn clothes. In Hong Kong, there has always been a custom of burning street clothes during the Midyear Festival. Every year in the seventh lunar month, Hong Kong people will bring incense candles, gold and silver clothes and some offerings such as tofu and rice to the roadside to grind ants and worship after dark, so that those lonely souls who are helpless have clothes to keep out the cold and food to wrap their stomachs.

3. Burn the baggage. Every 14th or 15th of July, he burns incense outside the door and burns cannons for suspicion, and at the same time "burns baggage" (also called "recommended bag"). "Burning baggage" is to stack paper money and seal it into small envelopes, on which are written the name and name of the recipient, the number of seals received, the name and time of the person who turned the silk, and then burn it to deceased relatives and ancestors.

1. Bring incense and candles to the grave during the Midyear Festival: Incense and candles are naturally indispensable to worship ancestors in the grave, since you choose to worship your ancestors, you must buy incense candles, and then incense your ancestors. And when you buy incense candles, you must buy the kind of ***, because at least you must ensure that the incense candles can continue to burn out.

2. Dim sum and fruit offerings: In most places in China, the offerings to the grave are inseparable from dim sum and fruits, and the dim sum and fruits are put in bowls and placed in front of the cemetery, and the quantity of these snacks and fruits still has to be scavenged. Generally, it is three times the speed, and the number of plating is also paid attention to by the shouter.

It must not be an even number, if it is a double number, it proves that there is still a dead one, so the number of plating will generally have. After the offerings such as water and fruit are set up, the relatives of the deceased can start to burn paper to commemorate their loved ones.

3. Meal offerings: In addition to snacks and fruits, some places will also choose to make good meals and bring them to the ancestors for sacrifice, and these meals are called Qingming soup rice. The moral is also to let the ancestors eat and drink well in the heavens, and then bless their descendants.

4. Wine and meat offerings: Of course, another major offering to the grave is also very common, that is, wine and meat, eating meat and drinking wine is something that many people like in life. It is very good to prove that you can make a lot of money quietly, and it is naturally very good to worship your ancestors, in fact, in many film and television dramas, wine and meat offerings are also standard.

5. Favorite things during life: If the deceased had any hobbies during his lifetime, he can also use them as offerings, such as smoking during his lifetime, you can choose to take the cigarettes that the tomb owner likes to smoke as offerings. If you like to play mahjong before you die, you can also buy a pair of mahjong made of paper as an offering.

OK. There are many folk taboos in the Midyear Festival, the most common are not to stick chopsticks in the rice bowl, not to play in the water, to go home early that day, and so on.

The mid-year festival is commonly known as the seventh half of the month, and is also known as the ghost festival by the folk, it is a traditional festival in China, and on the same day in Buddhism is the annual Bon festival, which is a very important festival in Buddhism.

Of course. The reason why incense is made on the fifteenth day of the first month is because incense can not only be offered to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, but also to the six realms at the same time, among which there is a category of ghost beings who specialize in incense as food, but the speed of time and space on their side is slower than ours, and a day of the ghost path is equivalent to a month in the world, so we are in the beginning.

1. Offering incense on the fifteenth day is to offer them lunch and dinner, so the merit of incense on these two days is particularly great, which forms the custom of incense on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. In fact, only those who have a Buddha in their hearts can offer incense anytime and anywhere.

Zhongyuan Festival is the only festival of the three religions in one in the whole year, Confucianism is called "Guijie", the common people of the past dynasties have not been Wenmin trembling, and it is falsely rumored to be "Ghost Festival" (and therefore also derived many stories of "Ghost Gate Open, Ghost Gate Closed"), Taoism is called Zhongyuan Festival (January 15th is called "Shangyuan Festival", October 15 is called "Xia Yuan Festival", corresponding 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.

Yes: Midyear Festival is also a Halloween Festival, and you can burn paper.