1, the specific method of three wick incense
Choose three incense sticks, hold the incense in your left hand and light it (the handprint of your left hand is a single crane tactic), and kiss your left hand. When burning, if you use an open flame, you can't blow it out with your mouth. It should be fanned out up and down, or fanned out with your right hand. Face idols, hold incense in both hands, bow down and salute. Insert incense. Use your left hand when inserting incense. Three sticks of incense should be inserted straight, and the interval is only one inch wide (to show inches).
2. The specific worship methods of one ceremony and three knocks.
Stand in front of the kneeling mat (worship mat), with your feet in a figure of eight and your heels separated by two to three inches. Bend down and put your hands together in front of your abdomen, from bottom to top (flush with your mouth).
Cover your heart with your left hand and stay away from your right hand (Absence of mind is the taboo of Taoism, and covering your heart is to pay silent tribute to God wholeheartedly). At the same time, bend down calmly, press your knee pads with your right hand, and kneel on your knees. Then, the left hand leaves the heart and presses the back of the right hand to form a cross. When kneeling, the man kneels on a large area, that is, his legs are separated, and the woman kneels on a line, that is, his legs are required.
Bend down and kowtow, and knock your head with the back of your hand (head and spine should fall at the same time, arms should not be higher than your head, and hips should be higher than your head. At this time, think of God's face in your heart and pray sincerely. Raise your head, put your left hand back to your heart, use your right hand hard, get up slowly, then put your right hand back, clench your fists, arch high, and prepare for the second time.
Taoist regulations on temple worship
When you go to the temple to worship God, you should know some rules of worshipping God. Generally, you should enter the temple on the right side of the door (because the architectural pattern of Taoist temples generally faces south, so you should enter the temple on the right side, that is, on the east side), or on the left side, not in the middle, not in the wrong direction, don't be loud when walking, don't make noise in the temple, and be sincere and calm.
If you enter the temple from the right, you will enter with your right foot on the right side of the temple gate, that is, if you enter from the east, you will come out from the west, so you will also enter with your right foot from the west. According to Taoism, it is a natural trend to enter the east and exit the west, which is a concrete embodiment of imitating nature according to the natural law that the sun rises and sets in the west.
Five kinds of offerings, such as incense, flowers, lamps, water and fruit, are often offered on the altar during pilgrimage, which is called Lenten offerings. The five offerings of Lent have different rules and taboos.