The Zhongyuan Festival is also known as the Ghost Festival. There are customs and habits of offering sacrifices on the Zhongyuan Festival. So, let’s take a look at how to offer sacrifices to relatives on the Zhongyuan Festival? How to write on the package for the Ghost Festival? The seventh month of the lunar calendar is the seventh month of the lunar calendar. Do you want to know the lunar calendar dates for the seventh month of the lunar calendar? Click on Mr. Shui Mo's website for inquiries.How to worship relatives during the Ghost Festival?If we want to correctly commemorate our deceased relatives, we mainly need to analyze the three aspects of time, place and sacrifice.1. Introduction to the correct time to worship relatives The correct time to worship deceased relatives is after 2 p.m., and the best time is actually between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. (on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month). If there are ancestral tablets at home, the time for worship is from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on the same day. If you need to burn paper money or something like that, you need to do it after dark, because ghosts are afraid of sunlight. 2. Introduction to the correct place to worship relatives The place to worship deceased relatives should be chosen in front of the tablet. 3. Introduction to the correct way to worship The correct way to worship is as follows: place chopsticks on the altar; burn incense and pray, the number of incense sticks is the number of offerings plus three; after burning incense, insert one offering into each incense stick, and for the extra incense sticks, two sticks each for staple foods such as rice, noodles or cakes. After the incense sticks are burned out, put away the incense sticks, bow with both hands and pray, declaring the ceremony over. How to write on the package for the Ghost Festival?Most of the covers of the packages for the Zhongyuan Festival are also arranged vertically, so the contents should be as follows from right to left:The first column of the cover of the package for the Ghost Festival: Prepare paper money for the underworld and pack it into X envelopes during the Zhongyuan Festival. The second column of the cover of the package for the Ghost Festival: Respectfully presented to XX The third column of the cover of the package for the Ghost Festival: So XX took it (ie: the deceased old man XXXX took it) The fourth column of the cover of the package for the Ghost Festival: Filial piety XX (i.e., filial piety XXXX in the world) The fifth column of the cover of the package for the Ghost Festival: Kneel down and burn on XX day of XX month of XX year of Tianyun (e.g. kneel down and burn on July 15 of the lunar calendar in 2021) |
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