How to pay homage to relatives in Mid-Autumn Festival?

The ways to pay homage to relatives in Mid-Autumn Festival are: offering sacrifices to experts, participating in public sacrifice activities and donating public welfare.

1, expert sacrifice: Family members can set up an altar at home or in the cemetery to place sacrifices such as fruit, wine and cigarettes. Then light paper money, light incense sticks, and express your thoughts and blessings to your deceased relatives through silence and eulogy. In the process of offering sacrifices, we can have family reunions, celebrate the birthdays or special anniversaries of our loved ones, sing songs and recite poems to express our thoughts and blessings for the deceased.

2. Participate in public sacrifice activities: Some communities or temples organize public sacrifice activities in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and residents can participate. These activities usually include prayer ceremonies, worship of ancestors and saints, etc. And express the memory and nostalgia for the deceased by offering sacrifices with others.

3. Donate charity: Mid-Autumn Festival is also a traditional festival of filial piety. Many people will choose to help people or institutions in need by donating money, clothes or things, so as to give back to the society and express their filial piety to their deceased relatives. You can choose some charitable organizations or foundations that care about the elderly, orphans and the poor to donate to express your respect and mourning for the deceased.

Mid-Autumn Festival features:

1, the gate of hell closes: Mid-Autumn Festival believes that on this day, ghosts in the underworld can return to the world. According to legend, ghosts in the underworld will enter the world through the gate of hell, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called the gate of hell, so people will prepare sacrifices, incense sticks and paper money to supply and appease the ghosts.

2. Ghost Festival performances: During the Mid-Autumn Festival, some places will hold ghost festival performances, such as lion dance, dragon dance and ghost step dance, to entertain and inspire ghosts. These performances are colorful and attract many audiences and tourists.

3. Light up the filial piety lamp: Mid-Autumn Festival is also an important opportunity to express filial piety. People will light the filial piety lamp at this time to express their thoughts and respect for their deceased relatives. Most of these lanterns are red, yellow and white, which means auspiciousness and peace.

4. Offering fruits: On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, people will prepare offerings for ghosts, such as fruits, meals, wine and cigarettes. I believe that through offerings, the needs of ghosts can be met, and they can be comforted and appeased.

Wandering gods: In some places, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, people will hold parades of gods, fairies and legends, dance colorful flags, gongs and lanterns, and parade in the streets of villages or cities to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhongyuan Festival