Tomb-sweeping day tomb offering guide

Qingming Festival is China's traditional festival, is also the most important sacrificial festival, is the day of ancestor worship and tomb sweeping.

Offering sacrifices to ancestors is a grand folk activity during the Spring Festival. Whenever the New Year's Eve comes, every family has to put the family tree rules, portraits, gods, etc. for the upper room of the home, placed the offering table, set up the incense burner, offerings. At the same time of ancestor worship, some places also worship the gods of heaven and earth, and some places also worship the Jade Emperor (the highest god in Chinese folk belief). The offerings include sheep, five bowls of vegetables, five-color dim sum, five bowls of rice, a pair of jujube cakes, and a large momo, commonly known as "heaven and Earth offering." The main sacrifice is made by the parents, burning three incense sticks, worshiping, praying for a good harvest, and finally burning paper, commonly known as "sending money and grain". During the Spring Festival, people worship ancestors and worship gods, which is actually to pay New Year greetings to ancestors and gods.

What do you need to bring to the Tomb Sweeping Day?

1 Joss sticks - incense and candles used for sacrifices

Joss sticks are the most important items necessary for tomb sweeping.

It is not only necessary to light incense candles at the present of the ancestors, but also to offer incense to the mountain god land who is in charge of the cemetery, praying that the mountain God land will protect the cemetery and bless the spirits of the ancestors.

What do you want to bring to the tomb Sweeping Day?

2. Paper money - Pieces of paper burned to the dead or ghosts and gods as money during sacrifices. It is also expected to scatter or hang the cemetery. The shape has a round square hole such as copper money, and there are some money-shaped paper.

The paper money is to be burned for the dead, so that they can have money to spend in the underworld, and must be burned clean.

 The paper is then whipped into a spiral shape (referring to local customs) to make it easier to burn. Refer to local customs.

What do you want to bring to the tomb Sweeping Day?

3 Vegetarian wine - the wine used by gods and Buddhas in temples is called vegetarian wine.

The process of tomb sweeping is equivalent to eating for the ancestors to celebrate the festival, so we should offer wine to our ancestors, and wine is necessary for tomb sweeping.

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4 tributes

It is recommended to buy "apples, oranges, bananas, cakes, biscuits" five kinds of tribute. When offering, each tomb can be placed five copies (some apples and other tributes can be used). The total number is determined by the number of graves.

Fruits are suitable for seasonal fruits around the country, there is no special requirement; Snacks are subject to specific circumstances.