How about ancestor worship on the eighth day of April 2020? What should we pay attention to when offering sacrifices to ancestors?

How about ancestor worship on the eighth day of April 2020?

Lunar calendar: the eighth day of April 2020.

Gregorian calendar: Saturday, May 30th, 2020, Gemini.

Today's almanac is appropriate.

Break ground, dig wells, repair graves, bury, get married, pray and receive gifts.

Open the market, build houses, set up columns, collect money, and ask for admission.

Sacrifice, cut clothes, and seek heirs.

As can be seen from the above, there are sacrifices on that day, so it is possible to sacrifice ancestors.

What should we pay attention to when offering sacrifices to ancestors?

Before the sacrifice, you should fast, including taking a bath and changing clothes, not getting drunk, not eating meat, not attending funerals, not inviting patients to get sick, not having fun, and in short not participating in all unlucky and unclean things.

There are also 12 taboos on the day of sacrifice: 1. Dishonest, 1. Improper behavior, 1. Unclean utensils, 1. Angry quarrel, 1. Take off your clothes. 1. Talk about foreign affairs. Laugh too much. 1. Diseases of the young and the old, 1. Destruction of knives and spoons, 1. Leave the house unclean before the internal sacrifice. 1. Enter the room unclean before the sacrifice.

Shenyang Manchu also offered sacrifices to Shenma when offering sacrifices, and Manchu called it a horse. What carriage? Women are not allowed to sit in it. What is death? Don't eat meat when buried. Shenma, also known as Zuma, enjoys high courtesy.

In Shandong, sacrificial articles such as burning paper and paper ingots should be kept away from neighbors' homes. Children in mourning are not allowed to enter the homes of neighbors, relatives and friends.

Religious taboos: Buddhism and Taoism prohibit meat sacrifice and sacrifice.