What do the five vegetarian dishes provided by God represent?
In southern China, there is a custom of worshipping God on the ninth day of the first month, which is a festival that local people attach great importance to. It is said that this day is the birthday of the supreme god. Near the festival, every household will clean and make turtle shells and hair shells. As a sacrifice. There are still many things to pay attention to in worshipping God. Then, what kind of public dishes and bowls worship God, and are there any special regulations on the time and place of worship? Let's briefly introduce them below. What kind of dishes do you want in the public bowl? Sacrifice to heaven with five vegetarian dishes, saying that there will be a good life tomorrow. Vegetarian dishes are the main dishes, supplemented by five animals. The staple food of vegetarian dishes is a plate with three bundles of noodles tied with red paper. You can also cook the noodles and divide them into three bowls, each with a brown sugar. There are also three cups of green tea, five fruits and six vegetarian dishes. In addition to six vegetarian dishes, dry ingredients such as Chinese cabbage, peas, mung beans, bean wheels, gluten and sesame seeds are added to form twelve bowls, twenty-four bowls or thirty-six bowls. Sugar tower and sugar lamp are all chickens, ducks, fish, pigs and whole sheep. Fish eggs and whole sheep are also useful. And extra candy and red turtle shells. According to different regions, there are different arrangements and customs for the worship of God. In Xiamen and Zhangzhou, the time to worship God is about the ninth day of the first lunar month, and it can start at midnight (1 1) at the earliest until 7: 00 the next morning. However, according to the degree of belief in different regions, some people think that the earlier the sacrifice, the more sincere it is. They will carefully choose to worship at home in the middle of the night, and then go to the nearby temple to worship incense. On the eve of the festival, Minnan people will "keep watch" for the whole family until midnight, and set off firecrackers in the early hours of that day for health and safety. Places of worship can be divided into two categories: one is that there are people hanging god stoves in the main hall at home, and the other is that there are no god stoves at home. If you have a silk stove at home, you can set up an altar under the Dagong stove outside the door to show disrespect for the sky. If there is no sky furnace at home, you can set the god table at the main entrance or in the atrium facing the sky.