What are the best items to prepare for the third anniversary?
The third anniversary is a sacrificial ceremony in funeral rites, also known as the removal of clothing, which occupies an important position in the entire funeral culture, so people in most regions will attach great importance to it.The tributes prepared for the third anniversary mainly include fruits, flowers, steamed buns, sacrificial meat dishes, and paper money.
What does the third anniversary mean
The third anniversary is the last special memorial ceremony for the deceased, also known as the release ceremony, which is very grand.To prepare some tributes, you can also offer things you liked during your lifetime, and make a toast with incense.You can invite relatives and friends to participate, you can set off firecrackers, and you need to burn more paper money, which can be houses, cars, household appliances, etc.For the third anniversary of the burning, it should be noted that the burning is from 6:00 to 9:00 in the evening.The family members who participated in the burning of the flames that day fasted, and they were not allowed to eat meat and fish, and they had to use iron tools such as iron bars to turn the yellow paper.In the whole funeral etiquette, the importance of the third anniversary is still very high.Basically, there is a custom of burning the third anniversary all over the country.
Folk Customs of the Third Anniversary
1.The third anniversary is the "Tan Festival", which is called the "removal of clothes".The sacrificial ceremony is extremely solemn, relatives and friends all come, and the sacrifices are roughly the same as those at the burial.The wealthy people want to invite drummers, and ask Taoist priests to do fasting, erect tombstones, and some even hold "three offerings".On the door of the filial son’s house, white paper couplets are posted in the morning, and red paper couplets are posted before lunch.
2.The dutiful son wears white filial piety all over his body, burns paper to pay homage to the grave, takes off his filial piety clothes on the spot and puts on his regular clothes when the sacrifice is over, and sets the changed filial piety clothes on fire before returning to the door.Throw it from the wall into the courtyard, and use the omen to "go to Fulai".
Tribute to the third anniversary is particular about
1.A bowl of six or twelve dishes, a bowl of white rice, and a pair of chopsticks.
When worshipping the deceased, according to traditional customs, there are dried tofu (to be a high official), green vegetables, chives (for a long time), cabbage head (good color head), fish balls, meat balls (the middle champion, when the official ), golden needle fungus, hair cake, rice cake, sliced meat, small fish, potatoes and peanuts, celery (hardworking), taro, rice noodles, pig intestines (birth boy), chicken head, chicken wings (easy to make a living), black beans, etc.Six dishes (more in the south) or twelve dishes (more in the north) (both need to be cooked).
Description:The vegetable bowl is used to worship the deceased, so it is possible to prepare additional food that they liked to eat during their lifetime for worship.If you don’t stick to traditional dishes, you can also cook your own dishes or buy dishes from the buffet, which can be meat or vegetarian; some people simply worship with fruits.
2.Two servings of four fruits:prepare four kinds of fruits to worship Buddha and Bodhisattva, please prepare an odd number for each, and one big one such as cantaloupe is enough.
3.Three sacrifices and one payment (pork belly, fish, whole chicken).Vegetarians can be changed to vegetarian three animals for worshipping the king.
4, red circle and hair cake three (symbolizing the reunion and prosperity of descendants).
5.Miantou Mountain (also known as Descendants Mountain or Daughter Mountain)
6.A pair of flowers.
7.A bottle of rice wine or clear tea:rice wine is used for worshiping royal officials or the deceased, and tea is suitable for worshipping Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.
8.Paper money:one piece of incense, two pairs of Buddha cups and candles (red for worshipping gods, and one for worshipping the dead with red, yellow, and white) one piece of longevity gold, one piece of mow gold, and a number of silver papers branch.
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