To start the ceremony, the High Priest and his assistants first read aloud the litany which says that it has been three hundred years since the Ming descendants moved with Koxinga to Taiwan.
主祭和陪祭人員先祭拜祖先，恭讀祭文。飲水思源，懷念故土祭文中充分顯示了與祭者飲水思源、懷念故土的心意，也把大陸與台灣血源和文化上的密切關係，做了清楚的闡釋。