What are the benefits of offering sacrifices to ancestors?

Sacrificing ancestors is to express filial piety, gratitude and nostalgia for 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. We will never forget and appreciate our ancestors for thousands of years.

Sacrifice originates from the belief that heaven and earth live in harmony. According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings are the belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors.

The belief in heaven and earth and ancestors originated from the worship of nature and ancestors in the early days of mankind, which led to various worship and sacrifice activities. Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Chung Yeung Festival are festivals formed by primitive beliefs to worship the gods and ancestors of heaven and earth.

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Sacrifice is always held in some places. There is no fixed place for early sacrifice, and it can be offered anytime and anywhere. With the standardization of sacrifice, fixed places gradually appeared. The original places of worship were relatively simple.

For example, worship to heaven, or on a mountain, or under a big tree, or by the water, or under a telephone pole. Later, temples or altars were built to show piety to the gods.

Flat land is the most primitive and simple place of worship. The ancients thought that the most important place of sacrifice was the simplest place, and it was often unnecessary to seal the soil to make an altar, just sweeping a flat land to sacrifice.