Veneration
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WHAT IF I DO NOT KNOW MY ANCESTORS?
The hardest part of venerating our ancestors can be figuring out who they were. Our ancestors lived and died around the process of making us. We are a part of each and every one of them; a mosaic of other lives and other worlds. Some families proudly have a long history of records detailing each…
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CHINA’S YU LAN & HUNGRY GHOST FESTIVAL
Chinese culture is the epitome of Ancestral Veneration. The belief that ancestors become deities after death and should be worshiped is the core of Chinese religious and spiritual practices. Like many Asian countries, death and funeral rites draw from a combination of Buddhism and Taoism, with the addition of Confucianism in China. Filial Piety, a…
Venerate Your Dead 