How to worship Mazu at home!

The ceremony of worshipping Mazu at home

1. The statue of Mazu was invited to the Meizhou Ancestral Temple to open the light and hold a spirit separation ceremony. After that, you can throw out the Holy Grail on auspicious days and take the Mazu statue home.

2. Choose a quiet place at home, throw out Mazu's imperial edict, and then put a shrine here. Put a stack of gold paper in the middle of the shrine and put the idol on the gold paper. The bottom of the statue seat is slightly lower than the incense burner.

3. vases or lotus lanterns can be placed on both sides of the statue. In front of Mazu, it is best to use a round copper incense burner with two candlesticks and a long-lasting electronic red candle. Three plates of fruit can be served in front of the virgin Mary.

4. After the appeal is made properly, add three cups of incense ashes, such as green vegetables, five fruits, three sacrifices and nine gifts, to the sandalwood stove curled up with cigarettes in the incense burner, and worship the incense in the air first.

The last three pillars were inserted in Mazu incense burner. All family members, old and young, knelt in front of the incense table. Ask the local religious people if you have read this article.

"The feeling of the virgin matsu, kindness, protect the country, protect the people. Here, I offer a golden body to worship here ... and pray ... "Half of the incense is thrown out to confirm that the Virgin has been stationed with the three holy grails.

5. There are three incense sticks in the morning and evening on weekdays. If possible, serve tea in front of Mazu every morning. Because Mazu comes from the folk, there is no taboo. We can think of Mazu as a close sister and family.

6. On March 23rd every year, the offerings for Mazu's birthday can be meat, three sacrifices and nine gifts. At the beginning of September, the offerings for Mazu's ascension to heaven should be mainly vegetarian and fruit.

7. Every year, every other year or every few years before Mazu's birthday, you can go to Mazu Tempel, Meizhou to worship your ancestors according to your own preferences. After confirming the pilgrimage schedule, you can ask for the incense flag next to the statue that day.

After reporting Mazu, you can turn the flag clockwise three times on the incense burner and set off. After worshipping Mazu gold in the ancestral temple, you can put some incense ashes in Mazu furnace and add them to the Mazu furnace at home for ignition.

Roll up the incense flag and put it away on the return trip. It's inappropriate to open it. When you get home, you can put it next to the idol by Mazu's incense burner.