Why do boys use red and girls use green in paper men?

The paper men in the mourning hall are "deacons" who serve the dead in the underworld, usually served by boys and girls. When they wake up, they burn it and go to the underworld. When the dead came to the underworld, they began to serve the dead. Some paper men also wrote their own names, such as "I heard" and "I was supported". Tied for the dead, not as casual as ordinary strangers. Take the paper man as an example. Paper men are nothing more than virgins, but the colors of these virgins are very particular. Virgos must use red and virgins.

You have to use green, which is the so-called boys and girls. Moreover, a paper man can't draw eyes when he is tied up, because if he draws eyes, it will come back to life. Maybe someone will ask, how can a paper man come back to life? This is ridiculous, right? In fact, when I say come alive, I don't mean that the paper men themselves will come alive, but that there will be ghosts, and ghosts will take advantage of it and attach themselves to the paper men, so as to make them come alive. Sauer

This kind of thing is also very particular. Take the paper horse as an example. Men burn horses and women burn cows, but not all of them burn white horses when they die. Otherwise, the dead can't pass the gate of hell, and they are still paper craftsmen. Paper binding, also known as paste paper, paper packaging, color paste and so on. Set paper-cutting, painting, straw weaving, bamboo weaving, pasting in one, to put it mildly, is the traditional folk art in China.

Art, to put it bluntly, is a craftsman who eats the food of the dead. Because the tied things are not artistic, just some boys and girls burned them for the dead, paper houses and paper horses. Believe it or not, in short, these rules were laid down by the older generation and have been used for thousands of years. Some rules cannot be changed easily.