New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Chung Yeung Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are the four traditional festivals in China. Due to different local customs and habits, the forms of ancestor worship are also different. In some places, while offering sacrifices to ancestors, they also offer sacrifices to the gods of heaven and earth. The offerings mainly include three sacrifices, three teas and five wines. Parents are the main sacrifices, burn three incense, worship God, pray for a bumper harvest, and finally burn paper, commonly known as giving money to food.
How to worship ancestors
1. Date of ancestor worship: New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Double Ninth Festival. Collectively known as the five major festivals. Traditionally, ancestor worship is at noon, and only New Year's Eve is around 4 pm.
2, should prepare offerings: a pot of rice, a pot of soup, ten dishes, vegetarian dishes, a bottle of rice wine.
3. Other items: 7 bowls, 7 pairs of chopsticks, 7 small wine glasses, 1 rice spoon, 1 soup spoon, or you can prepare a small hip flask. Why don't you pour rice wine into a small flagon?
4. Prepare gold paper: 6 pieces or 6 pieces of gold. Double use on New Year's Eve 12 or 12. A small stack of green gold paper was trapped by red paper. Please buy a piece of gold paper, paste it with real tin foil paper and make it into gold. This is real money, which can be used by ancestors.
5. On the day of calming the nerves into the ancestral tablet, it is also necessary to worship the ancestors with glutinous rice balls. You have to buy two Jin of glutinous rice balls.
6. On the morning of winter solstice, you can get a pound of glutinous rice balls just by offering a bowl of clear glutinous rice balls. There is no need to prepare meals or burn gold paper. Because people used to rub jiaozi on the winter solstice, they were sacrificed to their ancestors together. On the day of winter solstice, the gods will also offer three bowls of glutinous rice balls of about a catty. So I want to buy two Jin of glutinous rice balls altogether.
7. The lower table of the Divine Table is dedicated to the gods. Ancestor worship, you must prepare another table for ancestor worship.