During the Spring Festival, there is a custom of climbing mountains and praying in temples in traditional activities in China. When you go to the temple to burn incense and ring bells in the Spring Festival, you need to go to the temple to light lamps and burn incense. Suzhou Mingqing Temple arranged a blessing ceremony for two days in the Spring Festival, and burned a incense in the Spring Festival to pray for good luck in the coming year.
opening hours of Mingqing Temple during the Spring Festival
1. Opening hours
Date: New Year's Eve to the first day of the first month [Gregorian calendar] February 14 to February 15
Time: 18:11 on New Year's Eve to 16: 31 on the first day of the first month
Date: the second day of the first month to the seventh day of the first month [lunar calendar]
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3. In order to ensure the safety of pilgrims' belongings, it is recommended not to bring bags into the temple, and please take good care of your money and mobile phones.
4. Please pay attention to lighting incense sticks in your hands to avoid scalding others and clothes.
5. The spiritual home of everyone in the temple, please take good care of every grass and tree in the temple. Please do not insert the lighted incense sticks in bonsai and green land, and do not bring the lit incense sticks into the temple to avoid fire.
6. In order to maintain a good procedure for worshipping Buddha, please follow the entrance and exit passages and the indicated route, obey the instructions of the staff, and do not enter the non-worshipping Buddha area.
VII. During the incense ceremony, there are a large number of believers coming to the temple, so it is inevitable that they will bump into each other. I hope everyone will carry forward the traditional virtues of respecting the old and caring for the young, respecting each other and giving in to each other, and be peaceful and happy.
arrangement of spring festival blessing activities in qiumingqing temple of Wujiang altar
the "auspicious blessing ceremony for the new year" will be held on the lunar new year's eve (February 4, 2118
Pray for world peace, national prosperity and good weather, and pray for ten good men and women to have prosperous business, abundant financial resources, avoid disasters and live a long life in the new year. We sincerely invite ten good letters to participate, and * * * will be delighted by the law!
at the beginning of the new year, everything is renewed;
on Monday, February 4th, New Year's Eve, I wish you a happy New Year and good luck, peace and good fortune.
Blessing and protection will always be tied in the Hall of the Great Hero, and you will be blessed and protected by the three treasures. All buddhas and bodhisattvas will be merciful and protect you from all difficulties and all wishes.
offering lanterns in front of the Buddha, offering fruits and offering them to monks as you like.
On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year on Saturday, February 19
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On the fifth day of the first month, it is a traditional culture in China for thousands of years. In order to meet the requirements of the majority of believers, the Dharma Council prayed for the believers on the same day, wishing that the Buddha's light would shine, the fortune star would come, and the nectar would be scattered all over the world to bless all the people. Pray that all donors will be prosperous, prosperous, prosperous and well-off in the new year with the help of Buddha's power!
The significance and merits of welcoming the God of Wealth are ingenious and convenient, and there are many kinds of God of Wealth.
The God of Wealth is a god in charge of wealth generally worshipped by the people in China, and together with the land, the city god and the kitchen king, it is one of the good gods we generally worship. In Buddhism, the God of Wealth is the Heavenly King who has heard more about the north and the boy who is good at money.
What is "Receiving the God of Wealth"?
The so-called "Receiving the God of Wealth" means that a good man and a faithful woman greet the God of Wealth on the fifth day of the first month of each year and take the initiative to accept the inspection of the God of Wealth.