What is the importance and significance of ancestor worship?

Sacrificing ancestors is a fine tradition handed down from generation to generation by the Chinese nation for thousands of years. The Analects of Confucius said: "Be cautious in pursuing the future, and people's morality will be thick." . Advocating ancestor worship can play a positive role in purifying people's hearts, changing customs, revitalizing morality and harmonious society, and has a far-reaching positive role in the stability and unity of the whole society and nation.

Sacrificing ancestors expresses our filial piety, gratitude and nostalgia for our ancestors; It is a concrete embodiment of the noble virtues of not forgetting the roots, thinking about the source of drinking water, and knowing how to repay kindness. The social custom of ancestor worship carries a very rich spiritual connotation, which links many categories of China cultural tradition. After thousands of years of intergenerational inheritance, it acts as the genetic gene of spirit and emotion, and affects the spiritual development process of this nation.

Ancestor worship mode

1, Tomb-Sweeping Day worships his ancestors.

Tomb-Sweeping Day's way of ancestor worship is to sweep the grave, which is a manifestation of people's mutual respect and filial piety. On this day, people lead their families to the cemetery to pay homage to their ancestors, and solemnly send their thoughts and respects to their deceased relatives and ancestors.

2. Worship ancestors on the Double Ninth Festival

The Double Ninth Festival is a day to respect the elderly and an important activity for some people in China to worship their ancestors. There are many nine poles, and ancestor worship on the Double Ninth Festival existed in the pre-Qin period, and this custom has been preserved to this day. In front of relatives' graves, people weed, fill the soil and build drainage ditches along the graves to prevent rainwater from rushing into the graves. Sacrifice offerings at the grave, burn incense at the time of worship, and burn paper money after worship.

3, Mid-Autumn Festival ancestor worship

Legend has it that on the Mid-Autumn Festival, the underworld will let them go home to reunite with their families, so the Mid-Autumn Festival is a day for folk sacrifices to their ancestors. On this day, the people invited the memorial tablets of their ancestors one by one, respectfully placed them on the altar of worship, and burned incense to worship.