All participants go out and close the door. Coughing three times, all participants rise to their feet and enter the room. A spoonful of steamed rice is put into the scorched rice water. Chopsticks are placed over the bowl. The spoon on the water bowl is removed and the lid is placed on the steamed rice bowl.
All participants bow twice to finish the ritual.
The table with foods is emptied and removed. On finishing the ritual, participants indulge in the food which has been removed to a different table. As we noticed, the traditional ritual for the deceased ancestors was observed in accordance with strict rules and a complicated sequence of stages. Even today, we cherish the ancestor worship as a means of keeping the memory of our ancestors fresh in our minds and of reaffirming our filial piety. Nowadays, many think that the ancestor worship ritual is redundant and bothersome, but they never underestimate the value of the worship ritual as something to be preserved and continued into succeeding generations.