How to sacrifice in Mid-Autumn Festival?

The festival of ancestor worship is on the fifteenth day of July in the lunar calendar, so it is called "July and a half" for short. At this time, the midsummer has passed and the autumn cool has just begun. Folk believe that ancestors will return home to visit their children and grandchildren at this time, so they need to worship their ancestors. Worship ceremonies are usually held in the evening before the end of July, and are not limited to a specific day. You should worship your ancestors on normal days, and generally don't move their tablets. At the time of ancestor worship in July and a half, the ancestral tablets should be invited out one by one, respectfully put on the sacrificial table dedicated to worship, and then burn incense, drink tea and eat rice in front of each ancestor's tablet three times a day in the morning, middle and faint until July 30. If there is a portrait of your ancestors, please come out and hang it. When worshipping, kowtow to each ancestor in the order of seniority and seniority, pray silently, report to the ancestors and ask others to check their words and deeds this year first, so as to protect their peace and happiness. When returning, burn paper money and clothes, which is called burning coating, or Buddhist or Taoist ritual crossing. In some areas of Jiangxi and Hunan, Mid-Autumn Festival is more important than Tomb-Sweeping Day or Double Ninth Festival.

Mid-autumn festival lantern

That's where ghosts sink, so Shangyuan lanterns are on land and Zhongyuan lanterns are in water. [9] Today's river lanterns have become a joyful activity. According to the etiquette of Buddhist bonsai, the river lantern is just one of the small programs, which doesn't seem so important. In the folk activities of Mid-Autumn Festival, it is more important to put on lights.

River lanterns are also called "lotus lanterns". Generally, lights or candles are placed on the base, and they are placed in rivers, lakes and seas during the Mid-Autumn Festival, allowing them to float. The function of river lanterns is to drown ghosts and other ghosts in Purdue water. A passage in the biography of Hulan River by Hong Xiao, a modern woman writer, is the best footnote of this custom: "July 15th is Ghost Festival; You damn fool can't keep alive, and it's hard to wander in hell. They want to support themselves, but they can't find the direction. On this day, if a fool holds a river lantern, he must support his life. " Probably this road from the underworld to death is so dark that you can't see the road without a lamp. So turning on the light is a good thing. It can be seen that the living gentlemen have not forgotten the dead ghosts.