What are the rules for burning incense on the first day of the Chinese New Year? What is the best time to burn incense on the

Whenever there are festivals, the major temples across the country are most popular with visitors, especially on New Year’s Day, when everyone wants to light incense and pray for blessings. So what are the customs of burning incense on the first day of the Lunar New Year? What time is best to burn incense on New Year's Day?

What are the rules for burning incense on the first day of the Lunar New Year?

1. Time and place to burn incense <br/>The time to burn incense is generally before or after dinner. Burning three incense sticks in our room represents peace and safety. Burning 9 incense sticks is for blessing three generations of descendants. The different places where incense is burned have different meanings. If we burn incense in our kitchen, it means to bless our kitchen not to catch fire; burning incense at the front door of the house means that all the evil spirits have eaten their fill here, so as to avoid being disturbed by the evil spirits. Therefore, on the first day of the New Year, we ordinary people will burn incense at the front door and in the kitchen of our house.
2. Wash your hands before burning incense .<br/>Many people burn the incense as soon as they pick it up. This is wrong. Be sure to wash your hands clean when burning incense. You must not touch the incense with your hands before washing them clean. We must shake the lit incense to extinguish it, and never blow it out with our mouths.
3. Etiquette for holding incense when burning incense <br/>The most formal way to hold incense is to hold the incense with our thumb and index finger, and raise the other fingers. Then hold the incense up with both hands, not too high, just level with our eyebrows.

What is the best time to burn incense on New Year's Day?

The best time to burn the first incense :
The first incense does not refer to the first incense stick on the first day of the Lunar New Year, but refers to the incense burned from midnight when the old and new years alternate to the first day of the Lunar New Year. The incense burned in these two hours from midnight to 2 a.m. is called the first incense. The incense burned between midnight and 1 a.m. is called the first incense. The time for burning the first incense can be based on local time (such as Beijing time). It is best to go to a temple with a strong incense.