Can we worship Buddha and burn incense during the Mid-Autumn Festival? What is the meaning of burning incense?

In our country, people burn incense and worship Buddha on the first and fifteenth days of the lunar month to pray for their own or their family's safety and health. So can we worship Buddha and burn incense during the Mid-Autumn Festival? What is the meaning of burning incense? Let’s take a look together below!

Can I worship Buddha and burn incense during the Mid-Autumn Festival?

There is a tradition of burning incense during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it is best to burn incense while worshiping the moon.

1. The gods such as Chang'e and Wu Gang in folk legends and the Moonlight Bodhisattva in Buddhism are all said to be in the moon. Offering incense to Bodhisattvas and gods will bring immeasurable merit.

2. The Mid-Autumn Festival has had customs since ancient times such as offering sacrifices to the moon, appreciating the moon, worshiping the moon, eating moon cakes, appreciating osmanthus flowers, and drinking osmanthus wine. These customs have been passed down to this day and have lasted for a long time. The Mid-Autumn Festival, with the roundness of the moon symbolizing family reunion, is a way to express longing for hometown and loved ones, and to pray for a good harvest and happiness. It has become a rich and precious cultural heritage.

What is the meaning of burning incense?

1. To show respect and piety in offering to the Three Jewels, and to serve as a model to guide all sentient beings.

2. It shows that the information is transmitted to the void Dharma Realm, and can gain support from the Three Jewels in all directions.

3. It indicates that lighting itself will spread the fragrance to all directions, reminding Buddhist disciples to be willing to make sacrifices.

4. It indicates that the true incense of precepts, concentration and wisdom has been ignited in the Buddhist believers, and carries the silent vow of "diligently practicing precepts, concentration and wisdom, and eliminating greed, noise and ignorance". The Buddha does not like the big and expensive incense in the world, but he likes the precepts, concentration, truth and fragrance of the Buddhist disciples.