What's the difference between a drink offering and a memorial service?

There are mainly the following differences between libation and memorial:

1, pronounced differently.

Read diàn jì j ì for wine offering and jià n for memorial service.

2. Focus difference.

Offering wine refers to providing wine and food to the dead and ghosts, with emphasis on providing wine and food.

A memorial service is a ceremony held to commemorate the dead and appease them in the spirit of heaven. The point is to mourn the dead. There are many forms of ceremonies, and it is not necessary to provide wine and food.

3. The applicable objects are different.

The object of libation is generally the dead and ghosts, and the memorial service refers to the dead relatives and friends, mostly used for close or respectable people.

Extended data:

A new form of memorial service-online memorial service.

Network mourning will be a modern scientific way to inherit the fine traditions of the Chinese nation and carry forward the traditional virtues of attaching importance to family, affection and filial piety. As long as the original meaning of sacrifice remains unchanged-sincere sacrifice, the way of sacrifice is not important.

Due to the limitation of time and space, as well as the busy pace of life, it is impossible for modern people to go to the sites to pay homage to their ancestors every year, such as Tomb-Sweeping Day and Chung Yeung Festival. It allows users to break through the barriers of time and space and realize all-weather and global memory and sacrifice. Users can express respect and filial piety to their ancestors anytime and anywhere. In addition, users can also remember important days such as birthdays and anniversaries of deceased relatives online.

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