Ancestral Remembrance Service Protocol

cestral Remembrance Service Reading”),
“quán tǐ sù lì” (“Please be upstanding”),
“dú zhù shēng, gōng dú
jì zǔ wén” (“May the reader read
the Ancestral Remembrance Service
Reading”). On hearing “quán tǐ sù lì”
(“Please be upstanding”), the reader
will take the Reading from the left
side of the altar. At the altar, the Left
Ceremonial Attendant will turn back
to face the memorial tables and read
the Reading respectfully. After this,
they return to stand at their original
position. On hearing the Master
of Ceremony call “zhū wèi qǐng zuò”
(“Please be seated”), the Reading
should be returned to its place above
the silk. The ancestral remembrance
service reading will be incinerated
with the silk at the incineration area
after the Sendoff for the ancestral
spirits.
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