How to arrange a Chinese New Year altar 2025 to enhance good fortune for the Chinese New Year

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How to arrange a Chinese New Year altar 2025 to enhance good fortune for the Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year is on Wednesday, January 29, 2025. Many people may think of red envelopes and other blessings. But another important part of Chinese New Year is worshiping the gods. But setting up a Chinese New Year altar is an important tradition that Chinese people and Thais of Chinese descent attach importance to. To show respect to ancestors and gods. It is believed that it will bring good fortune and luck throughout the year. If you want to set up an altar correctly according to tradition and with meaning. Let’s take a look at how to set up a Chinese New Year altar.

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Preparing the venue and offerings for Chinese New Year

  • Clean the place : Before setting up the altar. You should clean the area. Where the table is set up to welcome good things into the เล่นเกมคาสิโน UFABET ทันสมัย ฝากถอนง่าย house.
  • Choose a location : The altar is usually set up in front of the Buddha room or in the central area of ​​the house.
  • Prepare offerings :
    • Savory food : It is popular to worship 3 items (Sa Sae) or 5 items (Ngo Sae), consisting of pork, duck, chicken, liver, fish, choose according to convenience and belief.
    • Side dishes : Usually 8 or 10 dishes.
    • Rice : Steamed rice in a bowl with chopsticks, the number of sets according to the number of ancestors.
    • Offerings : Hokkien noodles, kaktokku, janap cakes, steamed buns, pink or with red dots
    • Special offerings : Chinese steamed cakes and Chinese steamed dumplings
    • Fruits : oranges, bananas, grapes, apples
    • Drinks : 5 teas and 5 liquors (if there are savory offerings)
    • Silver paper, gold paper : Wong Sai Jiu, finished gold bars, joss paper, coke, etc.
    • Incense and candles : For Chinese New Year worship, each person uses 3 incense sticks.

How to set up a Chinese New Year altar

  1. Set up an altar in front of the idol or altar.
  2. Placing an incense pot in front of a statue or altar is considered important.
  3. Decorate both sides of the incense pot with candlesticks or flower vases, which symbolize prosperity.
  4. In the next row, place 3 or 5 cups of rice, scooping rice to fill the cups. As this symbolizes abundance.
  5. The next row after the rice row is for teacups or liquor cups.
  6. For the next row after the teacups, place drinking cups. The number of drinking cups should be equal to the number of teacups or liquor cups that we placed.
  7. Then, place the savory food or side dishes or Sa Sae-Ngo Sae. Such as chicken, duck, fish, pork, squid, liver, dried squid, steamed buns (but if you are going to set up an ancestor worship table. You should add side dishes that have soup as an ingredient).
  8. Next are desserts or fruits such as bananas, apples, pears, golden oranges, and grapes. As for the desserts. There are Chinese steamed cakes, steamed cup cakes, pears, egg cakes, Chinese steamed cakes, and Chan-ap cakes. The number of offerings is usually equal to the number of savory offerings.
  9. The last thing to be placed is the silver paper and gold paper.

 Setting up an altar for Chinese New Year is a way to show gratitude. To your ancestors and to wish them a good New Year.

How to worship ancestors at home

Paying respect to ancestors is a beautiful tradition that has been passed down for a long time. It is a way to show gratitude to those who have done you favors and to wish for a good new year.

The method of paying homage to ancestors at home starts with preparing 5 types of offerings. Consisting of 5 types of savory food, 5 types of desserts, 5 types of fruits, 3 cups of tea, joss paper, 3 incense sticks, and 1 pair of candles.

Then, arrange the altar by placing a red tablecloth, placing two flower vases on each side, placing a photo or spirit tablet, placing an incense pot, and placing offerings.

Light 3 incense sticks, 1 pair of candles, pray for blessings, wait 1-2 hours, burn joss paper, collect offerings, eat with relatives, talk, socialize, and exchange red envelopes.