Ancestral Remembrance Service Protocol

is no need to raise the tray to
one’s eyebrows. Just hold the tray
at the level above one’s navel
with both hands.
(18)Other notes
(i) Before the music starts, the drum
and the bell are each struck once
and all the ceremonial attendants
and musicians wait until after
the bell has sounded. They start
moving the second time that the
drum sounds. The drum and the
bell are each struck once separately
at the start of each music
section, and then the bell, the
drum and other musical instruments
play together. The bell is
struck once before the music for
presentation and removal of the
food offerings begins, and both
the bell and the drum then remain
silent during that music.
(ii) During the ancestral remem-
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