Is the lunar calendar date suitable for burning incense and worshipping during the Cold Food Festival in 2020? Is there a ban on fire during the Cold Food Festival?

Is the lunar calendar date suitable for burning incense and worshipping during the Cold Food Festival in 2020? Is there a ban on fire during the Cold Food Festival?
Introduction: You need to choose an auspicious day to burn incense and pray for blessings. So is the lunar calendar date of Cold Food Festival in 2020 suitable for burning incense and praying? Is there a ban on fire during the Cold Food Festival? It is the third month of the lunar calendar and spring is about to end. What are the good days in the third month of the lunar calendar? If you want to know more about the third month of the lunar calendar in 2020, please visit Mr. Shui Mo’s website.

Is the lunar calendar date for Cold Food Festival in 2020 suitable for burning incense and worshipping?

Lunar calendar: March 11, 2020 Gregorian calendar: April 3, 2020, Friday, Aries [Today's old almanac is suitable] Accepting marriage proposals, marrying a son-in-law, removing mourning clothes, offering sacrifices, moving, building, building a house, breaking ground, erecting pillars, accepting wealth, seeking offspring, resigning from office, planting, catching, and going to school [Today's old almanac is unsuitable] Setting up beds, felling trees, raising beams, accepting livestock, marrying, returning home, traveling, fasting and offering sacrifices to pray for blessings, entering the house, drilling, repairing graves, burying, breaking ground, opening the market
Based on the above contents of the lunar calendar, we can know that today's praying [i.e. burning incense and worshipping] is taboo in the lunar calendar, so the lunar calendar days of Cold Food Festival in 2020 are not suitable for burning incense and worshipping!

Is it forbidden to use fire during the Cold Food Festival?

Banning fire during the Cold Food Festival is one of the traditional customs.
The Cold Food Festival was also called the "No Smoking Festival" in ancient times. Every family was forbidden to light fire and everyone ate cold food.
However, due to the Chinese people's persistent feeling of commemorating the ancient sages, it was banned and revived repeatedly from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the royal family of the Tang Dynasty recognized and participated in it. The line "Let's try the new tea with the new fire" in Su Shi's "Wang Jiangnan from Chaoran Terrace" refers to the poet's act of making tea after the Cold Food Festival.
In Shanxi, the custom of banning fire during the Cold Food Festival is mostly one day, and only a few places still have the custom of banning fire for three days.

There are four aspects to the meaning of burning incense

1. To show sincere and respectful offerings to the Three Jewels, and to demonstrate and guide sentient beings.
2. It means transmitting information to the void Dharma Realm and gaining blessings from the Three Treasures in all directions.
3. It means burning oneself to spread fragrance to all directions, reminding Buddhist disciples to make selfless contributions.
4. It means that the Buddhists' precepts, concentration and true incense have been lit, which contains the silent vow to "diligently cultivate precepts, concentration and wisdom, and extinguish greed, noise and ignorance". The Buddha does not like the big and expensive incense in the world, but he likes the precepts, concentration, truth and incense of his disciples.
It is best to burn three incense sticks. This represents the three non-leakage studies of precepts, concentration and wisdom; it also represents the offerings to the permanent Three Jewels of Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. This is the most complete and civilized way of burning incense and offering. It is not the number of incense sticks you burn that matters, but the sincerity of your heart. As the saying goes, "Burn three civilized incense sticks and offer a sincere heart." Generally, it is enough to light three incense sticks in front of the main hall.
After lighting the incense, it should be inserted in the middle of the incense burner. The first incense stick should be inserted in the middle, and one should silently recite in one's heart to offer to the Buddha, to be awakened and not confused; the second incense stick should be inserted on the right, and one should silently recite in one's heart to offer to the Dharma, to be righteous and not evil; the third incense stick should be inserted on the left, and one should silently recite in one's heart to offer to the monks, to be pure and not tainted.

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