How to visit graves and worship ancestors on Ghost Festival in July, and what are the taboos for burning paper on Zhongyuan Festival?
Introduction: The Ghost Festival has many traditional customs, and visiting graves to worship ancestors is one of them. So how do we visit graves and worship our ancestors on Ghost Festival on July 15th, and what are the taboos in burning paper on the Zhongyuan Festival? In the seventh month of the lunar calendar, summer has not yet reached its peak, but autumn has already arrived. The heat has gone and the coolness has arrived. One leaf can herald the coming of autumn. The Fortune Teller website will pay attention to the contents of the lunar calendar for the seventh month of 2018 with you.How to visit graves and worship ancestors on Ghost Festival?It is a traditional custom to visit tombs during the Ghost Festival. Except for the second day of the first lunar month when people visit tombs to pay New Year's greetings, they can offer New Year's snacks, candies, melon seeds, peanuts, red dates, etc., and they can set off firecrackers on ancestral tombs, it is forbidden to set off firecrackers on ancestral tombs during the other three ghost festivals.Only soil is added on Qingming Festival, only money is given on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, and only clothes are given on the tenth day of the tenth lunar month. The specific procedure is generally carried out in the following steps. 1. First, place food, bowls, chopsticks, wine glasses, tea and other offerings on the graves of ancestors, and then light three incense sticks in front of the graves. 2. After placing offerings to the land god who looks after graves, burn a piece of yellow paper. This custom is called "worshiping the land god" or "offering offerings to the "grave god". It is used to thank him for guarding the tomb all year round and protecting the ancestors from harm. 3. When the incense stick is half burned, burn the paper money and clothes prepared in advance on the graves of ancestors. A small amount of money and belongings are left and burned on other graves, for fear that other ghosts will go to the graves of ancestors and steal money and clothes after the people who visit the graves leave. 4. When the three incense sticks are burned out, the offerings are removed and scattered around the grave. This custom is called "worshiping the four directions." It means to throw food to the distant relatives and neighbors who go to visit the graves, so that they will not grab food from the graves of their ancestors after the visitors leave. What are the taboos for burning paper during the Ghost Festival?1. When buying paper for burning, don't buy the kind of printed materials that come in stacks. One sheet costs hundreds of millions. That money is not real and is not as valuable as old rubles or Vietnamese dong. There was so much stuff piled up that I couldn’t even buy a popsicle. Too gross. However, while spending big money, it may not be a bad idea to spend a little bit of this. There are many debt collectors out there who will shamelessly ask you for money and harass you if you don't give it. In that case, you have to respond to them with small amounts of money like this.2. Buy yellow straw paper, spread it out, then take a real hundred-yuan bill and press it on the paper. You should feel that the hundred-yuan bill is a stamp. Press it from right to left and from top to bottom, row by row, until the whole paper is covered. Burning paper like this is hard currency down there. Money is real, and having it in your pocket gives you face. 3. Fold the paper for burning, cut it into seven or eight pieces with one cut, and fold it diagonally twice each time. Otherwise, it will be very difficult to burn a pile of paper. It is very convenient to stack them up and burn them. 4. Before you prepare to burn paper, you'd better prepare a lighter (preferably windproof, as the 15th of July is a very yin day with strong winds) and a small stick. This will make it convenient for you to pull up the pressed paper when burning it, allowing air to circulate and facilitating burning. Using a discarded mop rod at home is a good choice, but be careful not to take it back after use, just throw it away. 5. You have to wait until it’s completely dark before you burn the money. No one will dare to come out to collect the money in the daytime. When you go to burn paper, try to avoid it if you see burning paper and don't step on it. Sometimes an intersection will be filled with piles of paper ashes and you can't avoid them. In that case, you have to carefully weave through them. Sometimes you may need to take a big step. Before you go through, you have to say, "Excuse me, please let me pass." 6. Before burning paper, draw a circle on the ground. Be careful not to circle yourself inside. Leave a gap in the northwest corner to facilitate relatives below to come in and take the money. 7. When burning paper, you should have a serious expression and don't laugh or play around. Since you are here, you should be respectful. 8. Before burning paper for your relatives, light two pieces and throw them outside the circle to answer the lonely ghosts who have no relatives to send money. 9. When burning paper, you should chant something, such as: XXX, I am sending you money and flowers. XXX came to see you today. 10. You must insist on watching the paper burn out before you leave. This can prevent fire and also prevent the wind from blowing the paper out and being picked up by passers-by, which would upset the elderly person. |
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