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The 15th day of the 7th lunar month is an important holiday of the year. On this day, families need to prepare a full offering tray for the 15th day of the 7th lunar month.
1. Offering tray for Buddha on the 15th day of the 7th lunar month
The 15th day of the 7th lunar month is also the Vu Lan festival, for children to pay respect to their ancestors, grandparents, and parents. Therefore, Buddhist families cannot ignore the Buddha worship ceremony.
The offering tray on the 15th day of the 7th lunar month for the Buddhas includes vegetarian dishes, ensuring purity and showing respect, following the law of cause and effect, and avoiding killing. The offerings that often appear on the Buddha offering tray include:
Fresh fragrant flowers: lotus, peony, lily, star apple flower, do not use wild flowers or mixed flowers.
Incense, lamp
Tea
Ripe fruit has flavor
Sticky rice, sweet soup, vegetarian rice, braised mushrooms, stir-fried vegetables, vegetarian fruit and vegetable soup...
Offerings to gods and ancestors on the 15th day of the 7th lunar month can include vegetarian or non-vegetarian food. The offering tray needs to be carefully prepared to show respect to gods and deceased ancestors. The offerings for this offering tray usually include:
Tea, wine, fruit, fresh flowers
Boiled chicken
Green bean sticky rice
Chung cake
Vermicelli soup with meatballs
spring rolls, sausages
Stir-fried meat
Paper money
The full moon of the seventh lunar month cannot be without a tray of offerings to the living beings, also known as offerings to the wandering souls, offerings to the food. This tray of offerings is for the wandering souls who have no place to burn incense with offerings such as:
Thin white porridge
Water
Cakes, candy, popcorn, sugar
Incense, candles
Fruit
Loose
Rice, salt
Boiled potatoes and corn
Feng shui expert Linh Quang said that according to Vietnamese culture from ancient times to the present, worshiping sentient beings or worshiping wandering souls is considered a traditional ritual, passed down from generation to generation. The worshiping ceremony includes offerings, prayers for wandering souls and a burning of votive paper to worship ghosts, ward off bad luck and pray for peace.
Offerings to wandering souls should be given to homeless people, not brought into the house for use. Unusable items such as salt and rice can be sprinkled on the street or burned with votive paper for wandering souls to enjoy.
When making offerings to wandering souls, according to habit, many people often ask for many things like when going to temples, pagodas... However, this should not be done when making offerings to wandering souls. Because making offerings to wandering souls on the street is a good deed that families do for the souls, praying for the souls to soon awaken and reincarnate.
Feng shui expert Linh Quang said that, basically, worshiping wandering souls is a sincere act, but if you do not understand it clearly, you should not worship outdoors. You just need to worship your gods and ancestors indoors.
