First, the purpose of ancestor worship is to educate future generations. Teach future generations not to forget this by offering sacrifices to their ancestors. It is not easy to start a business when you think about your grandparents. Your children and grandchildren should be diligent and eager to learn, strive to carry forward the cause of their ancestors, win glory for their ancestors and set an example for future generations. Through sacrifice, let future generations know that we are what we are today because our ancestors chose kindness, hard work and family management. The purpose of establishing the ancestral temple is to educate the living people and let them know how many years we have moved here, how many ancestors we have, who have made great contributions to our family and who are clan members. The purpose of holding a reception at the ancestral temple is to get together the living clansmen, let everyone know each other and increase the clan friendship. I hope everyone can help each other, get rich together, and work together for Guangzong Yaozu. Just like in today's government education, primary and secondary school students miss the revolutionary martyrs and visit the revolutionary martyrs memorial hall. All roads lead to the same goal! Sacrificing ancestors is actually what parents do for their children. By offering sacrifices to ancestors, we can educate future generations not to forget family ties, and to respect the old and love the young. For the older generation, living in the world requires respect, filial piety and life support. For the elders who have passed away, we should always sacrifice and remember them forever. There are four festivals in a year, which can't be forgotten: Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave-sweeping, Dragon Boat Festival sacrifice, Ghost Festival sacrifice in July and a half, and a banquet to worship ancestors, burning some "superstitious things" such as ghosts, coins and Buddhist scriptures to comfort their souls in the underworld. It's like going to the martyrs' cemetery to lay a wreath at the revolutionary martyrs. Through sacrifice, children are taught to be friendly to the same generation and the next generation. Remember that family members and clansmen are compatriots of the same flesh and blood, remember family ties, avoid disputes and live in harmony. Blood relationship is the same as that of ancestors. People in trouble should help each other as long as they have the ability. In real life, everyone's ability and destiny are different, but the same thing is that everyone is in the same strain. You know, one pair of chopsticks is easy to break, and ten pairs of chopsticks are constantly twisted. As long as we unite and work together, there will be no insurmountable difficulties, and we will certainly achieve the cause of our family and create brilliance. At the same time, I also told my children that when they grow up, they should not forget to honor their parents, and their brothers and sisters should be friendly, live in harmony with others and be respected people. Also let them know that only by actively doing good deeds and doing more good deeds will there be good results. Second, many people don't know how to hold banquets to worship their ancestors: during the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" of ten years, all traditions were described as feudal superstitious activities and feudal dross. Therefore, I'm afraid many young people don't know how to hold a banquet in memory of their ancestors. In fact, as long as it is beneficial and harmless to society, it should be regarded as a good thing, not killed with a stick. As far as I know, the way to set up a banquet for ancestor worship is as follows: first, turn the horizontal and vertical table in different directions. That is, when we eat in our daily life, the dining table faces the door vertically. To hold a festival in memory of ancestors, you should rotate the dining table 90 degrees horizontally, then put dishes, old wine or beer, wine glasses, chopsticks, candlesticks, incense pots or ancestral incense burners (which should not take up too much space) on the table, then spread out chopsticks, pour a little old wine or beer into the wine glasses, light a pair of red candles, insert candlesticks and light incense candles. It's meditation: when we arrive at a festival today, we sincerely invite ancestors such as XXX to come to the festival, invite XXX to sit in the chief, invite XXX to sit in which position, or invite everyone to sit at will. After that, put the incense in with your left hand. The banquet will begin. After a quarter of an hour (about five to ten minutes), say to the table: Have you finished eating? I will burn ghosts, mingbi, Buddhist scriptures and so on for you. Then it starts to burn. When burning ghosts, coins and Buddhist scriptures, it is best to burn them separately. When they want to burn, we should explain which pile to give to XXX, and then say that we should share a pile with those ancestors who are still in the underworld who we don't know. To show that we have not forgotten them. The rest of the piles have been explained. Burn the scriptures, you can't disperse them. In that case, it would be incomplete for the Yin people to take it. It's like we received a broken coin. It's almost over. Pull up the incense and put it in and burn it together. Candles can be lit, but not burned. It's burned out. You'd better throw it into the river and run away. In cities, it is best to bury ashes under trees or turf. It's best not to throw it in the trash can. According to Lao Wang of Sanming Pharmaceutical Factory, the daughter of a person in the same factory saw her dead ancestor eating naked during the festival. There are very few children who can see Yin people. You don't usually see Yin people. It turned out that her ancestors died naked. After she told her parents, they were frightened and quickly burned some ghost clothes. Later, during the festival, I let the children watch it again. The children said they were dressed this time. The child was about five years old at that time. 3. Is there a ghost after death? It is said that after death, people will be audited by the gods of the underworld to find out how many good and bad things they have done before their death, whether it is harming others and benefiting others (including all animals). Be a diligent and honest person, be a good person, or take advantage of it and let the traitors do whatever they want. Is it to build a great merit for the country and the people, or is it for self-interest, taking bribes and perverting the law, and harming the country and the people? After examining a person's merits and demerits, we will decide whether he will be born again. Still want to be an animal? This is the so-called karma. People are rich, expensive, poor and cheap, and animals are birds, beasts, reptiles and fish. As the saying goes, those who plant good causes get good results, and those who plant evil causes get bad results. All the results depend on what you did when you were alive. Everyone brought this on themselves. If a person achieved great things when he was born, he can be reincarnated and even become a god soon after his death. If a person commits many evils when he is alive and plants great sins, he can be reincarnated soon after death. The difference is to be an animal. Being a pig is to repay the money of the previous generation, and being a cow is to repay the wages of the previous generation. Even immediately sent to hell to suffer. It is said that hell has eighteen floors. Every floor is suffering. Some people who sincerely do good deeds and worship God and Buddha have been blessed with worldly blessings at birth: family security, smooth career, smart children and grandchildren, and so on. Suppose there are some small mistakes that can be forgiven after death. Some people who are arrogant, don't believe in cause and effect, don't respect the god of heaven and earth, and are full of evil deeds are born with evil deeds: they lose their wives in middle age, their children in their later years, their eyes and ears are numb, their families are ruined, their children are stolen from prostitutes, and they are worse off than dead. I have seen with my own eyes that some people are still alive, suffering from the loss of their loved ones, white-haired people giving gifts to black-haired people and so on. The so-called: the sky is clear and the eyes are like electricity. There are gods above, land below, and people. How can we deceive people's good and evil? Life, death, wealth, nobility, poverty and meanness of people are partly determined by heaven and fate, and partly by people. But whether a person is a gentleman has nothing to do with heaven and fate, but it is all what people do. Therefore, whether we are good people or bad people is the result of our own making. In fact, good suggestions abound, but many people just don't pay attention to them. Do more good deeds, help people in need, help all beings (including animals), and be equal (all beings cherish their lives). Do to others what you don't want them to do to you!