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What's so particular about ancestor worship on New Year's Eve?

Precautions for ancestor worship on New Year's Eve are as follows:

1. If you are not solemn enough when offering sacrifices to your ancestors, you will often make some taboos. Therefore, we should fully realize that offering sacrifices to our ancestors means that we have the same feelings as our ancestors, and we should be sincere and grateful, not with the mentality of dealing with things, let alone utilitarian and harmful. When offering sacrifices, don't make noise, and don't laugh and curse.

2. Different places have different customs and habits, and the time of ancestor worship is also different. Some places worship before New Year's Eve, some places worship at midnight on New Year's Eve, and some places worship before opening the door in the early morning of the first day.

3. The place of ancestor worship is also different. Some families will go directly to the grave to worship their ancestors, which is commonly known as "tomb sacrifice", while others will worship in the ancestral hall. Some people who are far away from home during the New Year draw a circle near the local intersection and burn paper money for their ancestors in the circle, which is also a sacrificial ceremony.

4, pay attention to the fruit of ancestor worship, some fruits should be valued, it is best not to use it as a sacrifice. First, pears. "Pear" and "Li" are homonyms, meaning separation and parting. Pear used for ancestor worship means separation and isolation from ancestors, which has a bad meaning.

Fruits with many kinds of seeds, such as pomegranate and passion fruit, represent too much interference and have little respect for their ancestors. There are also hollow fruits such as cantaloupe and cantaloupe, because ancestor worship pays attention to sincerity, which can be spiritual, while hollow fruits mean "unintentional" worship, which is obviously inappropriate and lacks the necessary sincerity.