What offerings should be bought for tomb sweeping during the winter solstice? The offerings vary for different objects.

What offerings should we buy for tomb sweeping during the winter solstice? The winter solstice in 2017 is on December 22. For those who plan to visit the graves and offer sacrifices on this day, let’s take a look at what offerings you need to buy.

What offerings should I buy for tomb sweeping during the winter solstice?

A type of tribute

Tributes: raw eggs, raw fish, and raw pork slices.
Main objects: used to worship ghosts and the Tiger God.

Tribute: raw pork, raw chicken, raw fish.
Main purpose: used to worship the Tiger God.

Tribute: cooked pork, a chicken, duck or goose, and a fish.
Main objects: used to worship the God of Land, the Kitchen God, household gods and ancestors.

Tribute: a large piece of cooked pork, a chicken, a duck, and a fish.
Main objects: used for worshipping gods and ancestors.

Tribute: a whole cow. Main purpose: used for the sacrifice on Confucius' birthday.

Tribute: whole raw pig, whole raw lamb. Main objects: used in large-scale festivals, fulfilling vows, weddings, funerals.

Second Class Tribute

Tributes: vermicelli, black fungus, shiitake mushrooms, bamboo shoots, and enoki mushrooms.
Main purpose: used for worshiping the God of Heaven and large-scale ceremonies.

Tributes: shiitake mushrooms, enoki mushrooms, black fungus, longan, sugar, and dried vegetarian foods.
Main objects: used for worshipping gods, heaven and Buddha.

Tribute: salt, seaweed, kelp, and vegetarian food.
Main objects: used for worshipping gods, heaven and Buddha.

Offerings: Five bowls, each containing five different kinds of cooked food.
Main objects: used to worship the earth god and wandering ghosts.

Tribute: Seven bowls filled with seven different kinds of cooked food, such as meat wine, sesame oil chicken, glutinous rice balls, sweet rice cakes, peanut soup, longan, red eggs, lotus seeds, peanuts, etc., with no limit on the content.
Main purpose: used to worship the Seventh Mother.