Daily Paying of Respect to your Deities at Home
(Different areas with different forms of procedures)
Before you start your prayers, clean the altar, removed any unwanted stuffs, removed old flowers and fruits; Followed by:
1 light the candles or fill the oil-lamp with new oil
2 light the Pagoda (or so-called Cleansing incense) incenses
3 if allowed, turned on Scriptures CD (can be Daoism, Christian Songs,Music)
4 lit one or three sticks of incense to invite the Deities, sincerely pay your respect to them and offered the incenses into the urn
5 present cups of tea or plain water onto the altar
6 if possible, do a 3 knees procedure before the Deities
7 sincerely stand up, step 3 steps backward before turning your body away from the altar
End of your Ceremony/Ritual