Can I make a wish next Lantern Festival?

You can make a wish on the next Lantern Festival.

Because the next Yuan Festival is a festival of sacrifice, the blessing of the next Yuan Festival is also related to sacrificial activities, especially water has a deep significance in Taoist culture. Therefore, the river lantern can be put on the wishing activities of the next Lantern Festival. Next Yuan Festival is also one of the fasting dates stipulated in the Taoist fasting law.

Taoism believes that everything depends on divine power, such as praying for blessings, overcoming disasters, pulling out hardships, atoning for sins, seeking longevity and prolonging life. , should be borrowed. There are two ways to practice fasting: one is just three, and the other is to provide fasting. That is, set up an altar to fast and immerse in God to avoid disaster. We can enjoy what our ancestors brought us in the next Yuan Festival, and there will be a traditional festival of sacrifice to pray for a bumper harvest and good weather in the coming year. Enjoying ancestor worship is first of all a manifestation of ancestor belief, and human belief in ancestors is human worship of themselves.

Matters needing attention

Whether prayer is spiritual or not depends mainly on our own public morality and sincerity. We should do more good deeds to accumulate virtue, make our prayers more spiritual, have strict norms for ourselves and not do bad things. Do more good deeds to regulate yourself and have a sincere heart, then the wish to make a wish will be easier to realize. In the process of wishing, we must be dignified and clean. When you enter the Tiantan Academy, you must have basic respect for the gods, don't make noise, and properly place sacrifices, sesame oil and paper money.