Burn incense before filming, why do stars have to do it before acting?

I wonder if you have noticed such a problem. Whether filming a movie or a film or television drama, there must be a start-up ceremony before shooting, and the whole crew must burn incense and pray. Until today, we can still see the opening ceremony of a certain crew in major news media. The attached photos are usually stars holding a handful of incense. Why? ?

Waiting for the living crew

Waiting for the living crew

The cast of Looking for Him in the Crowd

The crew of "peach trading love detective agency"

It is said that this thing was only popular in Hong Kong and Taiwan at first, and then spread to the mainland. And the procedure of incense is still a bit complicated. First of all, please ask a teacher familiar with Feng Shui to determine the boot time, accurate to a few minutes! Then we must determine the orientation of worshipping God. Finally, it's time, and everyone in the cast will attend. As for why we should burn incense, the people have summarized the following reasons:

Reason one: follow tradition.

But in the film age, people have a technical fear of film cameras, because once the film cameras are diced, it will cause incalculable losses to the crew, and machine dicing is even more incalculable. Therefore, since the film era, some directors have had the "tradition" of burning incense and worshiping Buddha before the opening ceremony in order to pray for smooth shooting.

In addition, there is a folk saying that "poor fortune-telling, rich incense burning". Poor fortune-telling means that fate can't be controlled, and burning incense means making no mistakes. Therefore, business people generally like to burn incense and worship Buddha, and the crew is no exception.

Reason 2: Superstition

There are also many people who say it is superstition, rather than following the traditional practice of burning incense and worshiping Buddha. Superstition is also controversial.

Reason 3: A stunt.

The reason why a crew engages in the opening ceremony is nothing more than to attract people's attention and attract everyone's attention in a "quite solemn" way.

Reason 4: Auspicious.

Burning incense and worshipping Buddha is nothing more than trying to find inner peace and praying for a smooth shooting. After all, a crew will involve many people and a lot of money, and it is a place where accidents often happen. No matter people or equipment, once an accident happens, it will affect the whole creation. In fact, to tell the truth, it doesn't cost much to burn incense and worship Buddha. It's good to be at ease after the worship.