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Should I pour white wine on the grave?

Do you pour white wine at the grave.

Wine as a tribute, some loved ones were favorite drinkers when they were alive, and when remembering them, bring a jar of the good wine they used to drink. Sprinkle it over the grave to show that you miss your loved one, and at the same time become closer to them spiritually.

The way of pouring wine on the grave: first, pour the wine over several small wine cups in front of the sacrificial case, then offer incense and a series of worship procedures, and finally pour all the wine in the small wine cups on the ground (toasting).

Tomb-sitting is a kind of activity to worship the dead, and there are many places in China where tomb-sitting has its own rules and regulations. Usually on the anniversary of the death, the 15th day of the first month of the lunar year, the Ching Ming Festival, the 15th day of the 7th month of the lunar year, the 1st day of the 10th month of the lunar year, as well as the 30th day of the Chinese New Year or the 3rd day of the first month of the Chinese New Year, the younger generation has to prepare the daily necessities for sacrificing to the deceased (including cigarettes and liquor, buns, incense, paper money, firecrackers, and wreaths, etc.), and then go to the tomb of the dead for the sacrifice, in order to show that the descendants of the deceased are thinking about the previous generation. The memorial service is held in front of the grave of the deceased to show the descendants' love for their predecessors.

Note on the grave

1, the regular order of the grave worship can not be chaotic, more listen to the views of the elderly family. The correct order of worship is: repairing the cemetery, incense, meat, toast, worship, send off.

2, mourning the deceased should buy white chrysanthemums, white chrysanthemums have sent to the memory of the deceased.

3, dry, pay attention to the fire candle, whether it is a cemetery garden, or rural general graveyard are located in the woods, Qingming season, when the alternation of spring and summer, this weather is dry, to do a good job of fire prevention. To this end, it is recommended that the burning of paper money, such as in the cemetery to a fixed incineration point burning, or to the wind, surrounded by no flammable places, there is a unified treatment of burned paper ash, flying everywhere is not good.