5 Items to Remove When Cleaning the Ancestor Altar on Tet Holiday to Avoid Financial Loss in the New Year

So, when putting anything on the altar, you need to be careful. Let’s see if you have these 5 items on your altar, you need to remove them!

1. Fake Fruits

Although it is cost-effective and convenient to put fake fruits on the altar, feng shui experts always advise you to use real fruits. Even though they may be a bit more expensive than fake flowers, real flowers can truly express your sincerity.

However, in reality, many people casually place fake fruits on the altar because they are convenient, without knowing that offering fake objects is taboo. In addition, when the fruits wither, you should remove them immediately, because if you leave fake flowers, dry flowers on the altar, it will bring bad luck to the family and may cause arguments and conflicts.

2. Golden Branches and Jade Leaves

According to feng shui experts, horoscopes suggest that the altar is a place of spirituality and tranquility, so golden branches and jade leaves should not be placed on it. These objects have many things that are difficult to say, such as: Can they be placed in a clean place, how to preserve them, are they unlucky… You should not visit any pagoda or temple asking for blessings and then place those things on the altar, nor should you casually place them on the altar. If you want to arrange them, you need to know the origin of the objects.

3. Golden Money Paper

Although it can be offered on the ancestral altar, the golden money paper is absolutely not allowed to be placed on the Buddha altar. This is an object offered to the deceased and should not be casually placed on the Buddha altar, compromising the solemnity.

For the ancestral altar, many families have the habit of offering golden money paper from the 1st day of Lunar New Year and keeping it until the end of the year to turn it into real gold. If so, you need to ensure that the day you send the Kitchen God back to heaven, this gold must be transformed into real gold so that your financial path can be smooth. If you forget to transform it at the end of the year, your business in the following year will be stagnant and face many difficulties.

4. Do not use sand instead of ashes in the incense bowl

Absolutely do not use sand instead of ashes in the incense bowl. This will cause family discord and bring unfortunate events. The incense bowl must be filled with clean ashes, burned from clean rice straw or clean bran, then sieved carefully to remove impurities.

5. Do not randomly put iron incense sticks in the incense bowl

Since ancient times, in temples, pagodas, and shrines, there are iron sticks inserted in the incense bowl for circular incense. But should you put these iron incense sticks in the incense bowl for circular incense in your family?

According to experts, according to spiritual practitioners, the incense bowl represents the head of the head of the family. When you light the incense bowl without pressing it, after a while, the incense ash will solidify, and people believe that it can make the head of the family have a headache. Having all five elements on the altar is good. However, metallic objects such as copper incense bowl, copper incense stick, copper incense burner, copper peacock… these objects of worship made of metal should not be placed in large numbers.

Because according to many spiritual practitioners, if you place heavy and large copper objects, it is not good for the health of the head of the family. If people want to have circular incense on holidays, they should burn it outside the incense bowl, such as placing it on a plate, which will not move the incense bowl and make it easy to clean the altar.