What festival is October 5th?

The fifth day of October is Father Dharma's Christmas. Bodhidharma, Tianzhu, the twenty-eighth generation of Zen Buddhas, the first person to bring Zen to Middle-earth, is the ancestor of Zen in Middle-earth. In order to promote Buddhism and Buddhism, he traveled to China and went through hardships. Finally, he stayed in the back of Shaolin Temple for nine years, gaining enlightenment and profound martial arts. He practiced medicine to help the world, loved the whole world, and made friends with the lower classes. His experience is full of legend and drama.

Every Christmas, monks and secular believers burn incense and candles and worship devoutly. There are ancestral temples in temples in China, especially in Zen temples after the Tang Dynasty. There are three ancestors in the ancestral hall. One is Buddhism, in the middle; Second, Baizhang Huaihai, left; The third is the founder of this temple. He is on the right. The sacrificial ceremony was held in the ancestral hall. Dharma's birthday is on the fifth day of October, so on the fourth day of October, Zhike put up a sign: "Tomorrow is the Christmas of the founder of Dharma, and the class will be over in the evening and tomorrow morning. When you hear the bell, you will give incense to the founder in Qiyi Temple and give it before noon."

This is the busiest day of the year for the owner of the ancestral temple. He will lead his monks to set up a sacrificial banquet in the middle of the ancestral hall as soon as possible, with incense burners, water bottles and incense tablets. In the upper room, Zen chairs, strokes, rafters and vestments are placed, and in the lower room, chairs, scriptures, incense sticks and candle shafts are placed.

The ritual of ancestor worship is relatively simple, which is nothing more than burning incense, bowing down, offering tea, chanting and so on. , but it must be repeated. At the end of the evening class that day, the bell rang three times in an hour, and all the monks gathered in the ancestral hall. First, the abbot offered incense, saluted and offered tea, and then the monks made three obeisances to their ancestors, and followed Na Wei to recite the scriptures in return. The first ancestor worship is over. After the bell rang at dusk, the monks gathered in the ancestral temple to recite the scriptures, and the monks and servants of the whole temple worshipped the Dharma statue in succession. This is the second ancestor worship. The third ancestor worship was after the morning class on the fifth day of October. The bell rang three times, and the monks went to the ancestral temple again. The abbot still served incense, soup, porridge and tea first, while Na Wei sang "Manet Xiangyun Covers Bodhisattva Mahasa" three times, and the monks were harmonious three times; I read the Shurangama Sutra again, and then read 14 times, namely, the Food Changing Mantra, the Manna Mantra and the General Prayer Mantra three times each. Finally, Na Wei described the great achievements of the founder of Dharma. The monks in the whole temple made three obeisances to the founder, and the ancestor worship ceremony ended.