I. Preparation:
+ Electric water (enough to wash incense bowls and sprinkle around the area)
+ Worship items
First type of altar:
- A large bowl of incense worships God, Gods, Ancestors... all in one bowl of incense
- Two water hyacinths on both sides (flower arrangement or leave alone)
- A pot to hold water
- Some cups or trays have five or three small cups containing water
- Two lights on both sides (fire lamps)
- Fruit plate, incense tube (optional)
Second type of altar:
- One large incense bowl and two small incense bowls
In there:
A large bowl of incense (in the middle, highest) worships God and the Ones.
A small bowl of incense worships ancestors and ancestors
A small bowl of incense worships the aunt
- Two water hyacinths on both sides (flower arrangement or leave alone)
- Water jar for water, bowl for water
- Two lights on both sides (fire lamps)
- Fruit plate, incense tube (optional)
II. Proceed
1. Cool the old incense bowl
- Take down all the old incense bowls on the altar. You should take them to the yard if the house has a yard.
- Pour the sand or ash from the old incense bowl onto a clean piece of cloth or paper
- Use your right hand to pick up talismans, essences... from old incense bowls from the pile of ash (sand) just poured out. Hold these talismans in your right hand and then switch to your left hand.
- Shake it out so it can be burned easily and burn it. When the talisman is almost completely burned, breathe intermittently for three breaths. Don't inhale, just take three long, slow breaths intermittently to clear the sounds on those amulets and bones.
- Then bring all the ash, sand, and old incense bowls to the street (crossroads, intersections...) or rivers, streams... to cool off.
2. Pick up a new incense bowl
+ Preparation:
- Use electric water to clean the new incense bowl (only use electric water)
- Transmit electricity into the incense bowls, one at a time if you set up an altar with three incense bowls
- Clean the altar, you can use water from the altar to clean the altar, the rest can be sprinkled everywhere in the house - the land where the altar is set up.
- Transmission of electricity (for example: transmission of electricity into the area - transmission of electricity into the commune, ward - transmission of electricity into the hamlet - transmission of electricity into the land - transmission of electricity into the altar)
- Transfer electricity to new ash (sand).
+ Shape a bowl of incense:
- Pour ashes (sand) into a new incense bowl and count in the order of Birth - Aging - Sickness - Death - Birth...; So that the last handful of ash (sand) I put in the incense bowl corresponds to the word Sinh.
- During the picking process, I both pick and pray:
" I Pray to God. Pray to the Great Divine Beings. Pray for the soul of Master Luong Minh Dang. Pray to the divine beings responsible for this area.
Allow me to invite my ancestors and aunts to come and live in my house"
+ Draw the form of three incense bowls:
Pick up God's incense bowl first:
- Pick up ash (sand) into a new incense bowl and count in the order of Birth - Old Age - Sickness - Death - Birth... so that the last handful of ash (sand) you put in the incense bowl corresponds to the word Birth.
- During the picking process, I both pick and pray:
" I Pray to God. Pray to the Great Divine Beings. Pray for the soul of Master Luong Minh Dang. Pray to the divine beings responsible for this area."
The second bowl of ancestral incense:
- Pour ash (sand) into a new incense bowl and count to the word Sinh as above.
- During the picking process, I both pick and pray:
" Allow me to invite my family's ancestors (if offering offerings to both paternal and maternal families - both my father's and mother's sides, then also invite them and clearly state their addresses) to come and live at my house.
The third aunt's incense bowl:
I make the same statue as above and pray: "Allow me to invite my aunt to stay at my house"
* Note: Do not use your hands to press the ash (sand) in the incense bowl. To make the ash (sand) tighter after loading, use both hands to roll the incense bowl back and forth a bit to let it settle.
You can ask someone else to count "Birth - Aging - Illness - Death - Birth..." and remind the person picking up the incense bowl if they are distracted while picking up and praying
- Finally, transmit electricity to the incense bowl that has just been loaded and placed on the altar.
With the form of three incense bowls, the layout should not be in a straight line, far away or too discrete... but we should arrange it so that it is cozy, spacious and aesthetic.
- After completing the incense bowl, transmit electricity at least once a day to the altar for the next 100 days.
(* Experience:
Daily transmission of electricity to the altar for the first 100 days:
Transmitting electricity to the province - transmitting electricity to the District - transmitting electricity to the Ward, Commune - transmitting electricity to the hamlet - finally transmitting electricity to the altar. I transmit electricity to the whole area first to neutralize selfish thoughts.)