What are the rules and rituals of ancestor worship in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

First, Tomb-Sweeping Day ancestor worship rules:

When Tomb-Sweeping Day worships ancestors and sweeps graves, people come to the cemetery with food, wine, fruit, paper money and other items, offer food to the graves of their loved ones, then burn paper money, cultivate the soil for the graves, trim the graves, fold some green branches and insert them in front of the graves, and then kowtow.

According to the custom, the order of sweeping is to sweep the grave first, that is, to clean the cemetery. Secondly, sacrifice, this procedure is very important, one is to mourn and the other is to feel the same with the ancestors. Besides sweeping graves, there are many activities in Qingming, such as cuju, flying kites, swinging, stepping on e-green, planting trees, fighting cocks and so on.

Second, Tomb-Sweeping Day's ancestor worship ceremony:

1. Sacrifice site layout: according to the sacrifice plan, the sacrifice site will be arranged in combination with the number of participants and the site space;

2. Ceremony preparation: check whether the etiquette and ritual vessels are complete and ensure that the clothes of the participants conform to the etiquette;

3. Personnel in place: master of ceremonies and Xiang Yi in place, etiquette personnel in place, memorial personnel in place;

4. Commencement of the ceremony: The ceremony will be held at a definite time;

5, incense, three gifts: incense by the priest, offering sacrifices;

5, eulogy: the priest reads eulogy;

6, talk about ritual singing: ring class, ode class singing elegy, filial piety;

7. Worship ceremony: all employees perform worship ceremony;

8. Prayer ceremony: the priest prays;

9. Ceremony: The ceremony was successfully concluded.

The significance of Tomb-Sweeping Day's ancestor worship

China people's sacrifice to their ancestors is a kind of moral belief, a poetic act of expressing emotions, and gratitude and memory from individual emotions.

Feng Youlan once said, "It is not because ghosts and gods really exist, but because people who worship their ancestors are filial to their ancestors, so the significance of the ceremony is poetic, not religious."

Everyone knows that "a drop of wine has never touched Jiuquan", but we believe that our relatives and ancestors can receive our affection and sacrifice. This solemn ceremony is a perceptual, poetic and moral truth.

Human beings live poetically on the earth. Facing the photos or tombstones of our ancestors, expressing our deep thoughts and sincere respect is the happiness and motivation for us to live in this ancient land.