Xuan Chu said: "No matter how you cultivate immortals, I think you still have to learn from the master, so that you can practice well and systematically, otherwise you won't even be led into the door by the master, how can you practice in an individual?" ”

The young man in white smiled and said: "No, I think in my opinion it is better to practice personally, so why bother to ask the teacher, sometimes it is even inferior to yourself......

Hui Chu said: "We will serve the god with all our hearts, treat him as a family member, treat him as a teacher, and serve him as our ancestors." If we don't believe in us, we can live a good life and operate legally. There is no need to say whether it is true or not, whether it is true or not. ”

The red-clothed fairy said: "Don't say it, what Zi Chen said is also reasonable, maybe if a master leads him into the door, at least he won't go the wrong way, and it's not easy to go crazy!" ”

The young man in white smiled: "Hehe, I don't know that the master is too greedy, how can I worship it?" ”

Chu said, "Why are you greedy? You can bring a little fruit fragrance, and if you can't, you can bring a sincere heart......"

The young man in white shook his head and said, "Believers go to the Taoist temple to burn incense, and if they don't know what to bring, they bring some fruit." What kind of fruit should I bring? Which ones can be bringed? What can't I bring? How many to bring? How to bring? I feel like my head is too big for these alone......"

Hui Chu said: "We worship the gods every day, we pray to the gods, and call them offerings, and the most basic offerings are called five offerings, and there are ten offerings, and so on. The devotees only need to understand the five offerings. The five offerings are: incense, flowers, lamps, water, and fruits. Have you ever made these mistakes that are common in Taoist offerings? ”

The young man in white smiled: "Hehe, I never worship it, I cultivate immortals by myself......"

The fairy in red said, "Zi Chen, what are the mistakes in the offerings of incense, flowers, lamps, and water you mentioned?" ”

Xuan Chu: "Well, you two are great immortals, you have both lived for so long, and you are all going to be worshiped by people, why don't you even understand the simplest common sense?" ”

The fairy in red said: "Would you like to hear it in detail, and ask the princess to teach you?" ”

Chu said: "Separately, the first one is incense. Incense offerings, in short, are what we call burning incense in our daily life, communicating with heaven and man through incense clouds and Daxin Tianzun. Offering to the gods through our sincere prayers, through our inner tranquility, is the incense offering. ”

The fairy in red said, "What about the flowers? ”

Hui Chu said: "Flowers, the second is flower offerings, the place where the temple is located and even the temple is not planted around the moon season, and one of the most important taboos in the place where the gods are located is cleanliness. The gods love nothing more than anything clean, whether it's tangible, qualitative, tasteful, or our thoughts, and anything that is filthy is something that the gods don't like. ”

The young man in white smiled: "Which flowers are suitable?" ”

"Nightshade and some subtropical plants that exude a strong fragrance are not allowed to be offered to the gods. Nameless wildflowers, I was walking on the side of the road, there was a morning glory, I picked it to offer to the gods, no. What are the requirements? It is a flower that exudes a light fragrance and can delight the public. That is, tasteless flowers and nameless flowers are not offered, and flowers that are too fragrant and too pungent are not offered. Plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum, lily, carnation, tiger orchid, lotus can be. ”

The young man in white smiled: "Uh, look, how ...... is this"

Xuan Chu said: "Some people also offer Ganoderma lucidum and other flowers that belong to the top grade, which is the best, especially plum, orchid, bamboo, and chrysanthemum are gentlemen among flowers, which delight the public." Secondly, we can learn its character, use flowers to nourish people, to cultivate people, to correct us. Accompanied by plum, orchid, bamboo, and chrysanthemum, it is like accompanying a gentleman, which is the best flower offering. ”

The young man in white smiled: "You still talk about the lamp, right?" ”

Chu said: "The lamp is the "ever-bright lamp". Theoretically speaking, after a temple is built, it is stored, consecrated, and invited to the Holy Truth, and then the offering is made to the Master Zhen. This everlasting lamp represents the wisdom of the patriarch and represents the Three Jewels Dharma, which will grow in the world from now on, never extinguished, and must be maintained day and night. In this way, a light oil lamp represents the Dharma that resides and does not invade the demons. In fact, what is the most expensive in the temple?

The fairy in red said: "It's a lamp offering, an oil lamp." ”

Xuan Chu said: "Those who know will bring a little oil when they go to the temple, and of course there is a special oil for the gods, which is a little worse than our edible oil." This is a lamp offering. Now there are some people who ask the God of Wealth or the Emperor Wenchang to get a plugged, three red plastic things, with a lamp, three incense sticks, and two large things on both sides of the incense burner to represent candles. Do you believe in God or not? Isn't it self-contradiction? Is Ye Gong a good dragon? ”

I The young man in white smiled: "Hehe, I believe it, but I don't bother to believe it......"

Xuan Chu said: "Hehe, we want to serve the god sincerely, treat him as a family member, treat him as a teacher, and serve him as our ancestors." If we don't believe in us, we can live a good life and operate legally. There is no need to say whether it is true or not, whether it is false or not, upside down, I think of it for incense, I can't remember to plug it in. There is no need, no indoctrination is telling you that you can do this. This is something that everyone should pay attention to. ”

The fairy in red said, "What do you need to make offerings to the gods?" ”

"The next thing is to make water offerings. Spring water, well water, and weak tea water can all be offered to the gods. Drinks, especially carbonated drinks, including alcohol, are not allowed to be offered to the gods. The tea just mentioned that it is weak tea, do not use strong tea, ideological, light, exuding fragrance. Give the best to the gods to convey our true feelings, just like a filial son and filial daughter, treat their parents like they love, all the time. This is something to be aware of.

Don't offer drinks, just like I said, spring water, well water, then we can't find spring water in the city now, mineral water, pour it out in a bottle, pour it into a cup. There is really no such thing, or maybe it is counterfeit, we can boil some weak tea, and put a little tea leaves. These are things that can be offered to the gods. ”

The fairy in red said, "What should I pay attention to when making fruit offerings?" ”

Xuan Chu said: "The last one, which everyone usually knows more, but also has more problems, is the fruit offering. One of the basic requirements of fruit offering is to offer "new fruits", follow the season, and do not offer something out of season. We now have watermelons all year round and strawberries all year round. There are some things that we can't see, once I ate an apple in July, and the old Taoist didn't let me eat it, saying it was not ripe. I said it was red, it was ripe for a long time, not green. ”