How to sacrifice relatives in Mid-Autumn Festival

The method of offering sacrifices to relatives in Mid-Autumn Festival;

1, time: to pay homage to the dead, after 14 in the afternoon, the best time is 15 to 17 (the 15th day of the seventh lunar month). If there is an ancestral tablet at home, the time of worship is 1 1 to 13.

2. Location: ancestor worship before the memorial tablet.

3. Sacrifice: for the chopsticks on the dining table; Burn incense and pray, the number of incense is the number of offerings plus three; After burning incense, insert offerings for each wick. The extra incense from the staple food, rice noodles or cakes, can be inserted in two rows. Burn all the incense, put away the incense feet, bow with both hands and pray together to announce the end of the ceremony.

The origin of the Mid-Autumn festival

Mid-Autumn Festival evolved from the ancient "July and a half", harvesting crops in autumn and offering sacrifices to ancestors. July and a half is a festival to celebrate the harvest and repay the earth in early autumn, and some crops have matured. According to the law, people should worship their ancestors and report Qiu Cheng to them with new rice. It is a traditional cultural festival to commemorate ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect ancestors and filial parents.

July 30th was originally an ancient folk festival to worship ancestors, but it was called "Central Plains Festival", which originated from Taoism after the Eastern Han Dynasty. Taoism believes that July and a half is the birthday of local officials. On this day, they pray for forgiveness, all ghosts will be released from the underworld, and the dead ancestors can go home for reunion, so it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival. Buddhism is called "Kasahara Festival".