[How to place the God and Ancestor tablets?

Dr. Zheng Weijian / article tablets, also known as "God Lord", "God Lord card", "God's seat" and so on. The name of a deity or ancestor is written or carved on a wooden board, metal plate, cardboard, silk, wall or other objects to symbolize the deity or ancestor and to be worshipped. In Chinese families, the traditional culture that has lasted for thousands of years, there are rules and regulations for placing god and ancestor tablets. The method of placing a shrine in a house is a materialization of the traditional concepts of honoring the gods and tracing the past to the present. The placement of God and ancestor tablets is of great importance, not only as a spiritual support for the whole family, but also to ensure the peace of the whole family, according to folklore, a bad placement of God and ancestor tablets may bring disaster. Today, Dr. Cheng from the perspective of geomancy to discuss this issue in a simple and clear, only for friends to refer to. First, the general principles of the God and ancestor tablets An God and ancestor tablets, we must pay attention to the perfect coordination of the three aspects of the timing, location, and human harmony. The so-called timing is to carefully choose auspicious days and times to Ancestral tablet and God. The advantage of the location is to choose the auspicious location of the house or the auspicious side of the person in charge of the house to install the deity and ancestor tablets. People and is to choose with their own destiny, have a sense of God, and please have the power of the master to do a complete ceremony to install the God. Second, the specific method of God (a), the method of God: 1, first according to the lunar calendar to select "incense" or "blessing" auspicious day. Selected that year's big advantage sitting direction, such as 2012, big advantage east and west, therefore, it is best to choose to do sit east to west or sit west to east seat. If the environmental reasons, have to choose other sitting direction, then we have to AnFuFeng, that is, in the incense burner under the first pad on a porcelain plate, and so on the coming year and then choose the auspicious day to take away the porcelain plate. 2, to choose the main perpetrator of the auspicious day, the day of incense, pray for blessings. Do not choose the main person and his or her insiders year life collision, three deaths, three criminal, arrow edge, the Big Dipper four kill, or back to the Tribute to kill the day. 3. It is best to place the shrine in the center of the house, not too far in front of the house or too far behind the house. There should be a wall behind the shrine, and it should be strong. In addition, the front of the shrine should be clear, not facing the corners of the house, sharp corners, poles or other unclean objects. The height of the incense should be measured with a Lu Ban ruler, and take its auspicious characters for positioning: take the head and tail of the wealth with a Lu Ban ruler, and measure from the ground to the height of the auspicious characters. The distance between the God Ark and the opposite door should be more than twice the total height of the God Ark. The length of the left and right walls of the Ark of God in addition to take the auspicious word, pay attention to the "left blue dragon, right white tiger", the right wall (tiger edge) should not be too narrow, so as to avoid "forcing the tiger to hurt people". Before installing the God's ark, first use kari gold to clear the wall.4. Before installing the God's seat, the furnace must be installed to wait for the arrival of the gods and goddesses. (2) Taboos of placing a shrine: 1. It is best to place a shrine cabinet or a shrine platform to worship the gods. The God's cabinet must be placed in the direction of the sun, but not behind the window or balcony. 2, the God cabinet can not be placed in a narrow space or placed God facing the wall. The backrest of the Ark of God must be stable and solid, not shaking or often subject to collision, preferably against the wall. 3. The Ark of God cannot face the door of the room, the door of the toilet, the door of the stove, or have its back against the bed or against the toilet or the stove, and the Ark of God cannot be placed in the sleeping room. 4、The God Ark cannot be placed with its back to the kitchen or inside the kitchen. Zaojun, on the other hand, is set in the place closest to the stove. 5. The Ark of God should not be placed with its back to the toilet or in the toilet or bath room. 6, the God cabinet taboo for rootless and hanging from the ground, can not be placed in the door above. 7, the God cabinet should be solemn, simple, practical principle, not just put miscellaneous. God cabinet must be kept clean, must be diligent daily for tea, vegetarian fruit, flowers. Every day, it is appropriate to use water to clean the God's seat, the God in front of the ark can be wiped clean. Dr. Cheng's special reminder: There should not be a beam at the top of the incense burner. If the incense burner is too low, it can be wrapped in red paper and placed under the incense burner. The ancestors' tablets should not be reversed until after the deity has been installed. Ancestors' tablets should not be higher than the statue of the deity; and the ancestral stove should not be higher than the stove of the deity and Buddha. If there are two ancestor tablets in a family, the main name should be on the left and the secondary name on the right, separated by a seven-inch red line. Ancestors can not be placed in the furnace gold, copper and other speculative objects. There should be incense for God, Buddha and ancestors, but not only for ancestors. And in front of the God may not place drugs, knives, filth and other disrespectful things. (3) How to set up the incense burner Before setting up the shrine, you have to set up the burner to wait for the coming of the gods and goddesses. The way to set up the burner is as follows: (1) The incense burner should be overflamed with gold first. (2) Burn the talisman and then place it in the furnace. (3) Place three coins at the bottom of the furnace, placed in a positive or negative way (or twelve coins, one positive and one negative in a circle) (4) Spread the incense ash. (5) Draw the empty symbols on the stove. (6) Light fifteen incense sticks. (7) according to the furnace hour, aligned with the incense burner in the orientation, according to the clockwise direction, such as ZiJiaoYinMaoChen ......, respectively, erected a column of incense. If the furnace is in the hour of dao, then from dao to start one by one erected twelve columns of incense. (8) the remaining three columns of incense, the first column erected in the center of the incense burner, the second column erected on the right side of the first column of incense, the third column of incense erected on the left side of the first column of incense. (9) hands together for worship, sincerely recite: "An oven auspicious, God's light, the family peace". (D), the specific procedures of the God's seat (1) with seven sheets of kari gold will be stucco walls over the fire to get rid of the evil and chanting incantations to make it clean. (2) set up a proper lamp, candlestick. (3) offerings (three animals, three bowls of dumplings, three cakes, five kinds of seasonal fruits, tea, wine, etc., three small cups) (4) holding the statue of God around the incense burner three times, muttering in the mouth "into the into the into the auspicious day of the peace of the gods, God's light, Zhenzhai bright" and then the statue of God seat positioning. (5) Ancestor tablets, incense burners and lamps are set in place. (6) Light three joss sticks of incense to the open space outside the door, recite the incantation to invite the God and Buddha, and guide the God and Buddha into the seat. (7) Light another three joss sticks of incense to worship and receive the gods, and then insert the incense on the incense burner. (8) The accompanying worshipers join the incense and offer prayers. (9) When one third of the incense inserted on the incense burner is burned, the toasting begins one, two or three times. (10) Throw the water bamboo to ask the gods, and when they agree, start to burn the four colors of gold (Daishoujin Shoujin, Karijin, and Fukkai are burned in turn). (11) The officiating priest and his companions worship the gods and goddesses again. (12) Worship the God of the Earth in the kitchen in the evening (if you are not entering a new house, you are not required to worship the God of the Earth). (13) After the installation, remember that the incense should not be interrupted for three days (incense rings can be used for continuation). Third, the specific method of Ancestral Tablet (a), write the ancestral tablets Write the ancestral tablets of different places, that is, the number of words is to pay attention to, not any number of words can be. Need to be combined with the ecliptic. There is a big yellow road and small yellow road points. 1, the Da Huang Dao: Road far when the road is far when the road is far when to return home (Road, far, through, up to, far, still) 2, the small yellow road: old age, sickness and death sufferings (life, old) (2), together with the Da Huang Dao Dr. Zheng example: For example, our local is together with the Da Huang Dao, the number of words in accordance with the two lines of Da Huang Dao of the poem cycle, and then the last word should be able to correspond to those two lines of the poem "road far when the road is far when to pass far when the road is far when the day of the return of home "The last character should be able to correspond to the characters of the two verses of the poem "When will the road be far away, when will the road be accessible, when will the road be far away, when will the home return", for example, the characters of "road, far away, accessible, reachable, far away, and return" are all the characters of the "walk". Then the last character should correspond to one of these characters. The number of words that can be matched to "Walking" can be "one word, two words, five words, six words, eight words, eleven words". If the number of words is longer than these two 12-word stanzas, then cycle through the stanzas and then the corresponding words. "Go next to" the word, such as thirteen words of "x's hall of generations of ancestors on the test (mother) relatives of the position", the cycle corresponds to the word "Road", fourteen words of the cycle corresponds to the word "far". "far", seventeen words of the cycle corresponds to the word "through", eighteen words of the cycle corresponds to the word "up", and so on. (c) Hap Siu Wong Tao The format of Hap Siu Wong Tao is that the cycle of characters corresponds to the character "生", e.g. "six characters", the sixth character in the cycle of "birth, old age, sickness, death and suffering" is the character "生". The sixth word in the cycle of "birth, old age, sickness, death and suffering" is the word "birth", then the eleventh word in the cycle of "birth" is also the word "birth", such as "birth, old age, sickness, death and suffering", then the eleventh word is also the word "birth", such as "birth, old age, sickness, death and suffering". If the eleventh character is also the word "birth", such as "birth, old age, sickness, death, bitter birth, old age, sickness, death, bitter birth", then the eleventh character in the Little Ecliptic is consistent with the format. Dr. Zheng reminded that: according to their own customs, each place to choose the "big zodiac" or "small zodiac", according to the rules of the number of characters corresponding to the size of the zodiac can be. On both sides: left Zhao right Mu year and month of fortune children eclipse into the treasure Langjun live in the land with the family's natal star Xingjun prosperity Dragon God can also be written on. (D), the God Couplet: Baodin Xiang Xiang Jiecai Yintai Joy Candle Flower Thousands of years of incense and fire Qiankun long generations of bright smoke the sun and the moon long days, the heavens and the earth and the heavy national grace ZuDeZongKong teacher long ZuZongDe LiuFangYuanZiXiaXianShiZeLong and so on. Horizontal forehead write family name hall number. General banner: ZuDeLiuFang ten thousand generations RongChang SiEnTang SiYuanTang and so on. （Which direction should the ancestor tablets be placed? Ancestor tablets should be placed in the same direction as the house, preferably in the hall. (6) Is it better to make offerings to the ancestors at home or in the temple? Monasteries are usually considered good because they have morning and evening classes every day, and ancestors can listen to the sutras and gain wisdom, so that they can be freed from the sea of suffering and be reborn in Amitabha's Western Bliss as soon as possible. It is important to observe whether the monastery is a true monastery and whether it is a monastery of correct knowledge and insight. If it is possible to write the ancestral tablets together, please consult the master. (7) Is it necessary to put the portrait of the ancestor next to the ancestor tablets at home? Dr. Cheng believes that this depends on the local feng shui, with the local customs. (H), ancestor portraits and photos of living people can be hung together? 1, hanging together absolutely not, too much yin gas omen disaster and death, the living with too much yin gas will lose their lives. 2, the family ancestors can be understood as the general home hall (living room) if there is a god, can be placed in the ancestral portrait of the god under the god, not higher than the god, the living person's photo can not be placed together with the ancestral portrait, because it can not be equal! 3, in special circumstances, in some places, ancestor photos can be if they do not offend the year of the tiger, and is not taboo and living people placed together 4, ancestor portrait photos are best hung in the main hall and seat north to the south, heralding the meaning of the emperor, and adjacent to the Buddha. If conditions permit, it is best to build a shrine in a gentle area on the south slope of a high hill, there should not be any obstruction in front of the shrine, and the land in front of the shrine should be leveled frequently, and it is important not to plant trees. Dr. Zheng special instructions: 1, the above Dr. Zheng said is only a general precepts, friends must be combined with local customs to determine. 2, An God, ancestor tablets are very important, in addition to being the family's spiritual support, but also to protect the family's peace. 3, in addition to Anjin, ancestors, friends also need to be adjusted according to their own situation and the situation of the house, dissolve the year's bad luck, so as to build on their strengths and avoid shortcomings, the wind and water good luck.