Matters needing attention when entering the ancestral temple. The ancestral hall is a place where every family worships their ancestors in order to obtain their protection. When there is a big event at home, the whole family will go to the ancestral temple, but now many young people don't understand the tradition of the ancestral temple. Let's take a look at the precautions for entering the ancestral temple.
Precautions for entering the ancestral temple 1 You can worship but not kneel in someone else's ancestral temple.
The ancestral temple of other people's family is a place to worship their ancestors. If you don't belong to this family, try not to worship their ancestors, because you have no fate with them, and you won't get their blessing if you worship. However, if you can't avoid attending, you should be careful not to kneel. You can only kneel down to your ancestors, not to the ancestors of others, otherwise your ancestors will be angry and have a bad influence.
Matters needing attention in ancestor worship
On holidays, you should follow the adults at home to attend the ancestral temple sacrifice. No matter adults, children, men and women, we should be very taboo. Be sure to maintain a solemn state, keep a pious heart, ensure elegant clothes, simple and generous makeup, and speak softly. Only in this way can we win the sympathy of our ancestors, make them full of love for you, and bless your family to be prosperous forever.
Taboo to enter ancestral temple
Our young people's knowledge of ancestral temples has always remained in the old feudal stage, but offering sacrifices to ancestors is not only to help them get a blessing, but also to help them get a psychological comfort. The ancestral temple is a clean and quiet place, with elements of clothes, light makeup and low voice to show respect for ancestors. When you worship, your heart should be pious and your incense should be neat. This kind of worship process is reasonable and relaxed, which can give us a deep sense of belonging and gain the respect of our families.
Precautions for entering the ancestral temple II. First, the ancestral temple taboo to women.
The ancestral temple is a place where the patriarchal society shows its authority. Only men can enter the ancestral temple and carry out various family activities. Women go in and out of the ancestral temple unless they violate clan taboos and enter the ancestral temple to be punished by family members. For example, some women who have husbands have bad relations with other men. When they are arrested, they have to go to the ancestral hall to accept the punishment of the family elders. Seriously, they are tied up in cages and drowned with men, which is what the saying goes.
Second, the feng shui of the ancestral temple
65438+ is complementary to the left and right, with four potential pairs. Sit facing south.
2. Try to avoid residential buildings, schools, factories and other crowded places. After that, there are mountains to lean on, paying attention to beautiful mountains and rivers, outstanding people, and demanding prosperous people.
3. In Long Mai, ancestral temple is the home of ancestors and a place to protect future generations. If you want to have talents, you should choose Long Mai.
The pond is the key to the ancestral temple. As the saying goes, "You get rich when you meet water." If you want to have a full house of children and grandchildren, you must lean against the truth and hold the door of water.
5. The terrain should be low before and high after. The book says, "Low before and high after, the hero in the world." The ideal place is where the mountain faces the water. Ancestral Temple and Fengshui
6. The internal structure, layout and size of the ancestral hall should be very particular. The construction of ancestral halls is different from the construction of ordinary houses, and there are strict regulations.
7, Geding sitting direction. Heaven and earth are divided into three yuan and nine transports, and there are twenty-four mountain directions. The sitting position of the ancestral temple can not be established casually, which is related to the rise and fall of the whole village or a family.
8. Build the ancestral temple, choose auspicious and auspicious time to start work and offer sacrifices. There is a sentence in the Japanese textbook: "You can't really get the sun and the moon, but you must be rich and glorious." This is about the importance of making full use of the weather.
9. If there is no ideal floor, it must be built manually. Including piling mountains, digging ponds, filling gaps, releasing water, planting trees and grass, etc.
10, the modern ancestral hall should also talk about sitting posture and case-solving from the overall layout. The most important place is large space, high buildings, good materials and sufficient lighting.
Precautions for entering the ancestral hall 3 1. When entering the door, women take the right foot first, and men take the left foot first. They must not step on the threshold, and the bigger the step, the better.
2. If you burn incense, three wicks pray for yourself, six wicks pray for two generations and nine wicks pray for three generations. Thirteen is an extreme, and thirteen wick incense is a high fragrance of complete merit.
3, burn incense and kowtow. If you burn incense, you should hold the incense in your left hand and the candle in your right hand, because most people kill chickens and cut fish with their right hands, but the left hand is the opposite.
4, when burning incense, first point the incense, the more the better, people often say that the incense is strong. Left hand on the top, right hand holding incense on the bottom, bow your head.
5. After bowing, put the incense in incense ashes and you can kowtow in the door. If you kowtow, you should find Buddha, Bodhisattva or Lohan. For example, you can't kowtow to Tibetan Bodhisattva.
6. the posture of bowing your head is like this. Kneel on the futon and put your hands together. Note that the palm of your hand is hollow, hold it high above your head, pause to your mouth, make a wish, then go down to your heart, meditate, then spread out your hands, palm up, upper body prone. There is also a blessing ceremony called opening the light. Of course, it is best to be presided over by a Taoist priest. Things that are usually opened at home must be burned with clean hands on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, otherwise it is disrespectful. But if it is special light, it is different, and the object that opens the light can be carried with you. Lighting items can only be ivory, gold or jade.
7. Wrap the items to be lit with red paper or red kit and paper with the name of the blessed person and the Chinese character of Geng (not necessarily sketching the Chinese character of Geng), hand in a happy character (preferably related to the number 369) and ask the master to help light the lamp. Speak respectfully, or you will offend your master and not give you a light.
8. The process of opening the light is to put all the opened objects on a tray and put them in front of the Buddha. The master recited several sutras as the Buddha's light shining. Your object is endowed with aura and mana, and you can take it with you to bless you.
Precautions for entering the ancestral temple 4 What are the taboos for going to the ancestral temple?
1, first of all, we should respect the original form, such as shape, pattern, system, style, etc.
2. For the roof, respect the original number of pits, and the color is the same. The ancient yellow tile surface was used by the royal family. It is best to decorate the spine of the book with the original style of dragon-shouldered dragon and kidnapper dragon. It would be vulgar to simply install the dragon's back fish. Gables should respect the original, don't blindly exaggerate the grade, and carefully draw the grass tail.
3. To rebuild ancient buildings, we should pay more attention to the ancient requirements for form in Zhou Li, Xiaoya and other places, read more ancient books such as Building French, study ancient auspicious patterns, and enhance cultural connotation.
4. The pedestal and pier of the ancestral hall shall use raw materials as far as possible, and the imitation shall be unified. It is best to keep the patina of the raw material. Most ancestral temples in Ming and Qing dynasties are clear water exterior walls, so don't destroy the original style and stick glazed tiles to make them nondescript.
Ancestral temples are places where people worship their ancestors or sages. Ancestral temples have many uses. In addition to the purpose of "ancestor worship", grandsons of various families generally use these wide ancestral halls as venues for activities when organizing weddings, funerals, and birthdays.
In addition, the clansmen sometimes use the ancestral hall as a meeting place to discuss important affairs within the clan. The name "ancestral hall" first appeared in the Han Dynasty, when ancestral halls were built in tombs.