Disposing of old chinese prayer urn

[myfs_113396]

Dear Master,
I used a new urn to pray during the recent chinese new year and replaced the old one on the altar with it. I would like to know what is the proper way to dispose of the old urn which I kept aside at the moment.
Thank you

[Cecil Lee]

1. Usually, some older folks would wrap (even number of coins) e.g. 20 cents in a red paper and placed it into the urn.

2. You may pour the contents (ash) into say a plastic "bin" and check to see if there was any previous "objects or items" such as the above. If so, you can still take it out and place it into your new urn.

3. Often, when changing urns, some would scoop some of the old ash into the new urn.

4. You may wrap up the old urn in a "used" clean newspaper and simply throw it away, afterwards.

[Cecil Lee]

 

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