Detailed Explanation of Ancestral Tablets: The Significance and Placement of Five Ancestral Tablets
Release Date:
Jul 01,2025
Summary
Items Needed and Precautions for Worshipping Ancestral Tablets
1. At home, you can choose a shrine or an offering table. Shrines come with either cabinet doors or open designs. A single cabinet can hold ancestral tablets from both the husband's and wife's families with different surnames. The tablets should be placed slightly higher than ourselves.
2. Place an incense burner in front of the tablets. You can use lying incense sticks or standing incense sticks. Light three incense sticks each morning and evening. Use your left hand to place the incense sticks from right to left. Kneeling while offering incense shows more respect. When offering, you can say a prayer inviting the ancestors to receive the incense smoke.
3. On the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, offer fruits and pastries. Offering for one day counts as completed, and then the offerings can be removed. The offered fruits and pastries should not be wasted; giving them to descendants can help calm their spirits.
4. The ancestral tablets should not face directly towards the main door, and the placement of Buddha or Bodhisattva statues should also avoid facing the main door.
5. Do not offer pears, chestnuts, persimmons, or pomegranates as fruits. Bananas are offered to attract wealth, and apples are offered for peace.
6. When offering food to ancestors, it is best to use vegetarian food; meat is not appropriate.
7. On the anniversary of the ancestor's death, offerings should be made. If you have religious beliefs, you can recite the Rebirth Mantra 49 times or the Amitabha Sutra for the ancestors.
8. If burning paper offerings at home for ancestors, it is best to burn them one sheet at a time. For believers, reciting "Amitabha Buddha" once for each sheet burned is ideal.
9. The ancestral tablets should be placed in the center of the entire offering table. If there is a Buddha hall, place the tablets on the right side of the hall (which is your left side when facing the Buddha statue).
10. Worshipping ancestral tablets is not only for deceased parents but includes all ancestors of the family lineage.
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