What do you mean by putting five sticks of incense?

Five sticks of incense are the five elements of heaven and earth, also known as yin-yang and five elements of incense, and are a burning method to predict good or bad luck or invite God. This is a folk custom. When worshippers burn incense, they burn odd incense, that is, one, three, five, seven or nine sticks of incense. Just for the number of yang, yang is greatly respected, which represents the reason why God is respected.

The usual placement direction

1, arranged in five directions. In the middle is the incense of the leader, on the left is the incense of Qinglong, and on the right is the incense of Baihu. The former is suzaku incense, and the latter is Xuanwu incense.

2, five sticks of incense in a row. The first fragrance on the left is Qinglong, the second fragrance is White Tiger, the third fragrance is Guankouxiang, the fourth fragrance is Faxiang, and the fifth fragrance is Ma Baoxiang.

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The meaning of other numbers

1, seven sticks of incense

Seven-star incense is for immortals, heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals. Don't use it unless you have to. Seven pillars incense is the fragrance of the Big Dipper. These seven stars are called Shu Tian, Tian Xuan, Celestial Pole, Tianquan, Kaiyang, Yuheng and Yaoguang.

2. Nine sticks of incense

Jiuxiang is a serial fragrance of 1999. Thirty-three places were allocated in thirty-three days, but the Jade Emperor was invited up, and Yamaraja, the Tenth Hall, was invited down. This is a message asking for help. If it is not necessary, there is no way to ask for help, and human resources can no longer be recovered. I hope that Yamaraja, the tenth hall of the Jade Emperor, can help the poor and help the poor. Nine fragrances are usually three times and three rows.