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[Edit this paragraph] Four Ghost Festivals
Halloween: March 3, Tomb-Sweeping Day, July 15, 10/day.
March 3 rd festival
In Jianghuai and Jiangnan areas, the third day of the third lunar month is called Ghost Festival every year. It is said that ghosts haunt this day. On the night of Halloween, every household will set off firecrackers to scare away ghosts.
Qingming Festival
Sweeping graves on Qingming Festival is called "respecting thinking about time" for ancestors. Its customs have a long history. In the Ming Dynasty's "A Brief Introduction to the Scenery of the Imperial Capital", it was written: "On the Qingming Festival in March, men and women went to the grave to pay their respects, and the gold ingot was hung on the back of the sedan chair, and the road was full of embarrassment. Worshipers, mourners, weeping, weeding, adding soil to graves, burning ingots several times, and buying graves with paper money. If you can't see the paper money, it will be a lonely grave. After crying, don't go back, go to the fragrant tree, choose the garden, and sit down and get drunk. " In fact, grave-sweeping existed before the Qin Dynasty, but not necessarily during the Qingming period, but after the Qin Dynasty. It was not until the Tang Dynasty that it became popular. Qing thomas lee said, "On New Year's Eve, the Cold Food Festival and the First Frost Festival, you should offer sacrifices to sweep the graves. During the period, I will serve my bed with vegetarian food, use wine and tools for cutting vegetation, seal trees in the middle of the week, and break Cao Jing, so it is called sweeping the grave. " And spread to this day. Tomb-Sweeping Day's sweeping ceremony was supposed to be held in person, but because of the different economic conditions of each family, the way of sweeping was different. "Burning a bundle" is the main form of paying homage to ancestors. The so-called "package", also known as "package", refers to the postal package sent by Tomb-Sweeping Day from Shi Yang to the "underworld". In the past, Nanzhi store sold the so-called "wrapped skin", that is, a big bag was pasted with white paper. There are two forms: one is a woodcut version with Sanskrit transliteration of "Death Mantra" printed around it, and a lotus memorial tablet printed in the middle with the names of people who died after receiving money, such as "The late Zhang Fujun was afraid of the boss in Yunshan", which is both a package and a memorial tablet. The other is plain foreskin, which does not print any patterns. Just put a blue sign in the middle and write down the name of the deceased. Also used as a master card. There are many kinds of money in the bag. First burn paper, nine k white paper, and smash four rows of round money, five for each row; 2. Ghost banknotes, which are copied after the world has foreign currency tickets, are written with the words "Paradise Bank", "Ghost Bank" and "Bank of Hell and Cao Yin", and have the pattern of the capital city, mostly with huge denominations, and the Buddhist "death curse" is printed on the back; 3. Fake foreign currency, with cardboard as the core and wrapped in silver foil, suppressing the same pattern as the prevailing silver dollar at that time; Fourth, the "death curse" printed in red on yellow paper is round money, so it is also called "death money"; Five, with gold foil and silver foil stacked ingots, hammers, and some string into a string, with a colored paper ear at the bottom. In the old society, no matter rich or poor, there was a burning burden. On that day, a confession case was set up in the ancestral hall or the main room of the family house, with the luggage in the middle. In front of it, there are offerings such as jiaozi, cakes and fruits, burning incense and holding candles. After the whole family salutes according to their generations, they can be incinerated outside the door. When incinerating, draw a big circle and leave a gap in the direction of the cemetery. Burning three or five pieces of paper outside the circle is called "special delivery." Some rich people want to take their families and their families to the grave to pay homage. At this time, it is necessary to repair the grave, or symbolically add soil to the grave and put some paper money on it to let others see and know that there are descendants in this grave. After the sacrifice, some people sat around to eat and drink; Others fly kites and even compete with each other for entertainment. Women and children will also fold some Yang Liuzhi nearby and put on steamed food with wicker. Others put wicker into reeds and put them on their heads, saying, "If you don't wear willow in Qingming Festival, you will become a yellow dog in the afterlife." This is a grave-sweeping and an outing. You can't go home until you are happy.
July 14/15
According to legend, from July 1st every year, the King of Yan ordered the gates of hell to be opened wide, so that the ghosts who suffered and were imprisoned in hell all the year round could get out of hell, get a short stroll and enjoy human blood. Therefore, people call July a ghost month, and this month is considered as an unlucky month, neither getting married nor moving. On July 14/ 15, the tolerance festivals and customs are complicated, including folk ghost festivals, Taoist Mid-Yuan festivals, Buddhist Bonihara festivals, and festivals combining Buddhism, Taoism and Buddhism. Taoism has so-called heavenly officials, local officials and water officials, which are collectively called the three officials. These three officials are the representatives sent to the world by the Jade Emperor. Every year, they inspect the good and evil on earth and report to heaven. The birthdays of the three officials are the fifteenth day of the first month, the fifteenth day of July and the fifteenth day of October, also known as Sanyuan. July 15th, known as the Central Plains, was the time when local officials were pardoned. On this day, he will take out a thick roster and draw a picture according to the performance of immortals, mortals and animals, so as to atone and avoid punishment. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, people engage in some sacrificial activities to save those ghosts and ghosts, which should be related to the forgiveness of sins by local officials. July 15 is the Buddhist Bonsai Festival. It is said that Sakyamuni had a disciple named Mulian. Although her mother is young and beautiful, she has no good words and deeds, loves money and is stingy, and especially hates monks. After her death, she was thrown into the ranks of evil spirits. In accordance with the instructions of the Buddhist group, Mulian prepared all kinds of fruits and utensils on July 15th and put them into pots to support ten monks. Her mother just left the evil world and ascended to heaven. In view of this, the Buddha, by extension, asked Buddhist disciples to be filial and become a Buddhist monk on July 15th every year to repay their parents' kindness. Buddhist Bonsai Festival and the Significance of July in the Lunar New Year 14/ 15 is the biggest festival in the underworld-Ghost Festival, also known as Zhongyuan Festival or Bonsai Festival, and it is one of the three major festivals in the underworld in China. There is a folk legend that the Lantern Festival is celebrated in the underworld and the Ghost Festival is celebrated in the underworld. It is said that on that day, Yan Xihui will spend the festive season with ghosts dressed in costumes. Let us living people bless them together and wish people in another world all their wishes come true and enjoy the happiness that this world has not had time to enjoy. Therefore, many local festivals in our country will hold activities such as offering sacrifices, chanting Buddha, sweeping graves, reviewing, enjoying flowers and fishing to celebrate. On July 14/ 15, the gate of hell opened wide. Whether it is to burn paper money to send blessings, to hold daisies to mourn for ghosts, to worship ancestors online, or to set off river lanterns, it is the spontaneity of human spirit, the extension of feelings, and the most basic belief that people living together miss the past. And at the same time, "the living should cherish every day, not be ashamed of society and friends, and not be ashamed of their loved ones who have left forever." Because, one day we will meet them. At that time, you can proudly say that you are a hero on earth and a ghost hero in the underworld! "According to the cultural logic of Taoism, the time and space of a year should be divided into two parts: upper and lower yin and yang. Moreover, according to Taoism in China, the three basic elements for nurturing everything in the world are heaven, earth and water. Therefore, Taoism regards the first half of the year as a celestial official and the second half as a local official. What needs to be explained here is that the "official" mentioned here does not refer to the "official" of human officials, but refers to the fragments in the process of time and space flow, similar to the "official" in China Weiqi game. Taoism in China is mainly produced in the developed areas of agricultural civilization in China. Therefore, Taoism in China has always believed that heaven and earth are mysterious, everything is born on the earth, water is the foundation of life, and the earth contains water. That is to say, because China's agricultural civilization pays attention to the important role of soil and water in human beings, China's Taoist cultural concept has always contained the "ontology", "epistemology" and "methodology" of observing the world with the earth as the center. According to the Taoist worldview, Taoism is used to calling the fifteenth day of the first month of the year "Tianguan" (the first half of the year) and "Shangyuan Festival"; In the second half of the year, July 15th, the local official festival, was called "Mid-Autumn Festival". Because the earth contains water, water acts on the earth, so1October 15 in the second half of each year is "Xiayuan Festival". These three elements, namely, upper, middle and lower elements, constitute a systematic understanding of the trinity world of Taoism. Taoism in China is different from many religions in the world. Many religions in the world are the unity of god and man, or just like Christianity, they pay attention to the trinity of "Tao into flesh", which makes religious communicators often highly deified. The purpose of China's Taoist missionary work is very clear. Taoist communicators are not gods, but people. So Taoism teaches students in accordance with their aptitude. For people with high wisdom, the truth in Tao Te Ching is very clear; For those who lack wisdom or have little time to deeply reflect on their own moral and ethical construction, writing stories is to explain the truth. " "Education through fun" is a missionary method originated from Taoism in China. The Mid-Autumn Festival of Taoism in China is actually a festival to spread morality and ethics, that is, to advocate people to pay attention to Xiu De on this day. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, people with thoughts and time will get together to study Laozi's Tao Te Ching, communicate with each other and reflect on themselves. For the general congregation, Taoism has created some stories of "entertaining through education". For example, in the invention of Taoism, a man named Chen Ziqi married the daughter of the Dragon King and gave birth to three children, namely, the "celestial officer, local officer and water officer" on the 15th of the first month, the 15th of July and the 15th of October. These "three officials" are in charge of the three tasks of human blessing, sin forgiveness and salvation respectively. They have infinite magic power, and they want to tour the world in these three days to check whether people's moral quality is good or bad. However, Taoism in China is a very tolerant religion, giving people the opportunity to change and renew themselves at any time. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is not only a festival of rewarding good and punishing evil, but also a festival of atonement. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also a confession festival and atonement festival in China. People who have committed crimes for one year can have various ceremonies on the Mid-Autumn Festival. Buddhism calls it "Bonsai Festival". There is a legend that a man named Mulian dreamed that his dead mother was reduced to a hungry ghost, so he sent food to his mother, but failed many times. Manglietia told the Buddha about it, and the Buddha advised him to support the monks to do more good deeds in order to free his mother from the sins of the underworld. Manglietia made a basin on July 15 (Brahman means "saving upside down"), so Buddhist monks collectively recited scriptures for Manglietia's mother and freed her from her suffering. It can be seen that Buddhists' Boni Festival on July 15 has two meanings, one is to educate people to support religious monks, and the other is to educate people to do more good deeds to transcend the sins of their ancestors and advocate filial piety.
The first day of October
The first day of October is called "October Dynasty", also known as "ancestor worship festival". Since ancient times, China has had the custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors in the new harvest season to show filial piety and not forget one's roots. So people also use millet on the first day of October? Sacrifice ancestors. On the first day of October, there are ancestor worship, including Mid-Autumn Festival and tomb sacrifice, both in the north and south. Today, in many areas south of the Yangtze River, there is also the custom of offering sacrifices to new graves on the first day of October. The first day of October is also the first day of winter, and then the climate is getting colder. People are afraid that their ancestors' souls in the underworld are short of clothes and clothes. Therefore, in addition to food, incense sticks, paper money and other general offerings, there is also an indispensable offering-ghost clothing. When offering sacrifices, people incinerate ghost clothes to their ancestors, which is called "sending cold clothes". Therefore, the first day of October is also called "Clothing Burning Festival". Later, the custom of "burning cold clothes" changed in some places. Instead of burning cold clothes, people burned a lot of ghost paper in a paper bag with the names of the recipients and senders and their corresponding names written on it. This is called "baggage". There is a name of cold clothes, but there is no reality of cold clothes. People think that the underworld, like the dead, can buy many things with money. Another story about ancestor worship is that Cai Lun made paper and Cai Mo burned paper. When Cai Lun first invented paper, business was good. Cai Lun's sister-in-law Huiniang asked her husband Cai Mo to learn papermaking from Cai Lun. They came back to open a paper mill, but the paper made by Cai Mo was of poor quality and could not be sold, so they were in a hurry. Later, Huiniang thought of a way out of trouble. One night, Huiniang pretended to be ill and died of anxiety. Cai Mo was heartbroken in front of her coffin. While burning paper, he cried and said, "I learned papermaking from my brother and didn't pay attention." The quality of the paper made is so poor that it makes you angry. " I'm going to burn this paper to ashes to relieve my hatred. "When he finished burning, he brought paper to burn. After burning for a while, I heard Huiniang shouting in the coffin, "Open the door, I'm back. "This is shocking. When people opened the coffins, Hui Niang sang in a pretentious way: the money of the dead can travel all over the world, and the paper of the dead is for business. Who wants me to go home if my husband doesn't burn paper? Huiniang sang many times and said, "I was a ghost just now, but now I am a human being. Don't be afraid. When I went to the underworld, the king of hell made me suffer and my husband gave me money, so many children helped me. Money talks. Three Cao Guan also asked me for money, and I gave it to him, so he opened the back door of the underworld and asked me to come back. "Cai Mo pretended to be confused:" I didn't send you money? Huiniang said, "The paper you burned is money from the underworld." . "Speaking of which, Cai Mo held several bundles of paper and burned them to his parents. Hearing this, all the people present thought that burning paper had great benefits, and they all bought paper from Cai Mo. Hui Niang generously gave it to the villagers, and the story spread widely. Villagers from far and near came to buy Cai's paper and burn it to their dead relatives. In less than two days, the backlog of paper was snapped up. Hui Niang's "coming back to life" is on the first day of the tenth lunar month. Therefore, on the first day of October, future generations worship their ancestors and burn paper in front of the grave to show their memory of their ancestors. On the first day of October, there is a custom of offering sacrifices to the king of cattle in some places. According to legend, this custom originated from the State of Qin in the Spring and Autumn Period. One day, Qin Wengong ordered people to cut down a catalpa tree, which suddenly turned into a cow. Qin Wengong was hunted. The cow jumped into the water and never came up again. People built a "Noot Temple" to worship this cow god. Nate is a tall, strong and majestic bull. Such a bull, in people's minds, has the function of driving away epidemics and evil spirits and protecting cattle.
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Ghost Festival originated from the story of Manglietia's rescue of mother: "People with Manglietia monks have great strength. His mother fell into the hungry ghost road, ate ghosts to save things at the entrance and turned into flames. Hunger was too bitter. Unable to save her mother, Manglietia asked the Buddha for advice. In order to talk about the Lanpen Sutra, he taught July 15 to be a Lanpen to save his mother. " It is said that at that time, after experiencing all kinds of hardships in the underworld, Manglietia met her dead mother Liu and found that she was tortured by a group of hungry ghosts. Manglietia tried to give her a bowl of vegetable rice, but the vegetable rice was taken away by the hungry ghost. Manglietia had to ask the Buddha for help. The Buddha was moved by Manglietia's filial piety and gave him the Lanjing. According to the instructions, Manglietia dedicated a rare fruit vegetarian meal to her mother on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month. The hungry mother finally got the food. Buddhists hold a grand "bonsai" every year to commemorate the filial piety of Manglietia, which is what we now call "Ghost Festival". According to the book, on this day in ancient times, people would set up a magician's seat and a stone drum platform in front of Jiekou Village in advance. In front of the mage's seat, there is a Tibetan king and bodhisattva who passed through the ghost of "hell". Below is a plate of peaches and rice. Shigu stood on the stage, holding three spiritual cards and evocative complex items in his hand. After noon, families put whole pigs, whole sheep, chickens, ducks and geese and various cakes, fruits and melons on the stone drum stage. The person in charge inserted a triangular paper flag of blue, red and green on each sacrifice, and wrote the words "Yulan Festival" and "Manna Gate Open". The ceremony began with solemn temple music. Then, the mage rang the bell and led the monks in the seat to recite various spells and mantras. Then feed, sprinkle a plate of peaches and rice in all directions and repeat three times. This ceremony is called "the opening of the flame". Wang Kaitai, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty, once wrote a poem: "The Dojo is full of ghosts, and the original ancient meaning of Magnolia still exists. However, it is strange that the red plaque is attached to the door, and the meat mountain wine sea celebrates the Central Plains. " It describes the Halloween customs along the southeast coast of China. It can be seen that "Ghost Festival" is due to the filial piety of traditional virtues. Nowadays, people in northern China still burn paper money on this day to pay homage to their ancestors who died young and express their thoughts for their loved ones. Although the sacrificial way is simple, it basically retains the simple meaning of Ghost Festival. Because of the call of blood, the extension of feelings and the reminder of one's future, Ghost Festival is endowed with rich humanistic connotation. Even if the years are different and the burned gifts are different, the living will never finish reading endless grief and deep nostalgia for their distant relatives. However, "people of different ages have different feelings about this special festival, because the future festival is coming to them mercilessly, from obscurity to clarity, from missing to fear, from fear to calmness." When I miss people in the past, I am actually thinking about my experience, content, way and pursuit of living today. " In Chinese, there are countless words composed of "ghost" such as "ghost hero, ghost, ghost genius", and folk legends about ghosts are even more inexhaustible. China's ghost culture has a long history, reaching an almost perfect level.
[Edit this paragraph] Culture
It is difficult to see the description of the world after death in ancient mythology, and the word "ghost" was not originally for Halloween. In Oracle Bone Inscriptions, the word "ghost" is a word of understanding, and here is the word "person" with a terrible head on it, which means a monster like a person. Later it gradually evolved into something that changed after death. Book of rites? "Sacrifice to Righteousness" has made it very clear: "All beings have to die, and when they die, they return to scholars. This is called a ghost. " Book of rites? The Sacrifice Law further points out: "Ordinary people in Shu Ren have no temples, and when they die, they are ghosts." That is, after the death of dignitaries, there are temples to worship and sacrifices all year round, and they become gods. Ordinary people die, there is no temple to enjoy sacrifices, and wandering around, that is a ghost. The "ghost" explained in China's first dictionary Shuowen means now. There are many words related to ghosts in pre-Qin classics. Confucius famously said "Stay away from ghosts and gods", which shows that Confucianism believes in ghosts and gods, but it is only "respect". Later, although there was Wang Chong's theory of no ghosts in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it could not shake the superstition of Chinese people about ghosts and gods. By the end of Qing Dynasty, although there were fierce ghosts in Pu Songling's works, most of them were young and beautiful female ghosts who attached importance to feelings and righteousness and understood etiquette. After watching Liaozhai, they felt cute, not scary ghosts. The perfection and enrichment of Chinese ghost culture benefit from Buddhism and Taoism. Taoism is our real estate, and Buddhism was handed down from the west during the Han and Wei Dynasties, and it was integrated with Confucian culture and secular culture. After death, the underworld (also known as the underworld in Buddhism) is gradually established, that is, the world where ghosts live. The main building of Taoism is Fengdu City, which is demonstrated in Pingdu Mountain on the bank of the Yangtze River in eastern Sichuan. The beautiful Pingdu Yamamoto is one of the 72 blessed places of Taoism. Both the king of the Western Han Dynasty and Yin Changsheng of the Eastern Han Dynasty practiced here and later became immortals. Fengdu is haunted by immortals, which is related to the surnames of two immortals. Wang He and Yin read Yin Wang backwards, thus becoming the "king of the underworld". After the deduction of past dynasties and the rendering of The Journey to the West's ghost stories such as Zhong Kui Biography, Fengdu was built into a gloomy ghost town, so there were Naihe Bridge, the Gate of Hell, the boundary of Yin and Yang, the Temple of Emperor, the Temple of Impermanence and the Temple of the City God. Compared with the Taoist underworld, the Buddhist underworld is much more complete and systematic. Buddhism has the so-called "Ten Realms", that is, there are ten realms in the world, namely, Buddha, Bodhisattva, Jue Yuan, Wensheng, Heaven, Man, Asura, beast, evil spirits and hell. The first four are called "four saints", that is, they transcend the sacred world and get rid of the suffering of life and death. The last six kinds are called "six mysteries", which need endless circulation in filthy soil. The last three kinds are also called "three evils" and "three evils", which is a more unfortunate realm, and hell is the most unfortunate. Speaking of hell, it is chilling, with as many as eighteen floors. The further you go, the deeper the pain. In hell, there are not only demons such as Yamaraja, judges and ghosts, but also all kinds of torture such as knives, frying pans, millstones and saws. Therefore, people are most afraid of entering eighteen layers of hell after death.
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China's Mid-Autumn Festival not only provides fasting for monks, but also adds activities such as repentance and burning torches. On this day, the master platform and the stone drum platform were set up in front of Jiekou Village in advance. There is a bodhisattva in front of the mage's seat-the king of earth treasure who passed through the underworld. Here is a dish of peach rice for ancestor worship. Shigu stood on the stage, holding three spiritual cards and evocative complex items in his hand. After noon, families put whole pigs, whole sheep, chickens, ducks and geese and various cakes, fruits and melons on the stone drum stage. The person in charge inserted a triangular paper flag of blue, red and green on each sacrifice, and wrote the words "Yulan Festival" and "Manna Gate Open". The ceremony began with solemn temple music. Then the mage rang the bell and led the monks in the seat to recite various spells and mantras. Then feed, sprinkle a plate of peaches and rice in all directions and repeat three times. This ceremony is called "the opening of the flame". At night, every household should burn incense at home and plant incense on the ground. The more, the better, symbolizing a bumper harvest. This is the so-called "field expansion". In some places, there are water lanterns. The so-called water lamp, tied to a small wooden board, is mostly made of colored paper in the shape of lotus, which is called "flood and drought lamp". According to tradition, water lanterns are used to guide those who are unjust and dead. When the lights went out, the water lights had completed the task of attracting ghosts to cross the Naihe Bridge. The shops were closed that day and the streets were haunted. In the middle of the street, there is an incense table every hundred steps. There are fresh fruits and a kind of "ghost steamed stuffed bun" on the incense table. There is a Taoist behind the desk singing a ghost song that people can't understand. This ceremony is called "singing".
[Edit this paragraph] History
Grave-sweeping in Tomb-Sweeping Day is related to funeral customs. According to records, in ancient China, "tombs were not graves", that is to say, only graves were dug, and no graves were built, so there was no way to offer sacrifices to sweep them. Later, graves and graves, the custom of offering sacrifices to sweep graves, were supported. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, offering sacrifices to tombs has become an indispensable custom. "Once"? The Book of Ming Di quoted the official etiquette of the Han Dynasty as saying: "In ancient times, there was no tomb sacrifice, and Qin Shihuang slept next to the tomb, so Han remained unchanged. All tombs serve meals with gloom, hope, 24, dog days, society, wax and four o'clock. " The emperor is almost a festival. Ordinary officials and ordinary people don't have so much time and money, so Tomb-Sweeping Day gradually freezes in the 24 solar terms. At that time, the government will allow officials to take time off to offer sacrifices to sweep, and the people will also "go to their parents' graves for fields and roads, full of scholars and women, humble servants and beggars." "In the Tang Dynasty, the sweeping ceremony had combined cold food with Tomb-Sweeping Day. It's the Spring Festival, and you can go to the grave with wine in your hand. Tomb-Sweeping Day is not only a ghost festival for sacrifice, but also a day for outing. From a secular point of view, the setting of these two ghost festivals is just right. Qingming coincides with the melting of snow and ice in the north. After rain erosion in autumn and winter and snow cover in winter, some loess on the tomb was washed down and became shorter and smaller. Sweep it with Qingming and add some soil to prevent the ancestors' houses from leaking and getting wet. July 15, beginning of autumn has passed, and the weather is getting colder and colder. It's time to add clothes. It's time to send some money to the underground ancestors to buy some clothes so as not to catch cold in winter. The Chinese nation is a state of etiquette and has always paid attention to paying homage to its ancestors. I remember when my family used to pay homage to their ancestors during the Chinese New Year, the words above were "woody water source" and "Zongshen pursues distant places", which means not to forget the ancestors. During the Cultural Revolution, who dared to burn paper on the grave when capitalism was broken and superstition was opposed? There is no burning paper to buy in the city, but many people still buy white paper to order books for primary school students and secretly burn them to their relatives on the graves. In recent years, with the development of economy, sacrificial supplies have become a major category for businesses to make money. Every Qingming Festival and July 15th, the burning paper in the street is pushed into a hill in front of the store, and the variety and quantity are as many as the fruit boxes piled up during the Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. Moreover, there are some modern commodities, which are burned into bundles, neat and beautiful, and the marks of ancient coins are evenly printed on them. There are also colorful dollars and Hong Kong dollars, all with large denominations, each of which is hundreds of millions. Coupled with the gold ingots of different sizes in Huang Cancan, if there is a ghost country bank, it will be ashamed of the lack of financial resources and willing to close down. Can burning so much money really make the deceased relatives live a rich life in the underworld? I don't know, there is a saying that "sincerity is the spirit", which means that the heart is there. I remember when I was a child, the old man said that it was not easy to print ready-made burning paper, and no matter how big the face value was, it was useless. It is best to take a chisel that carves wood into copper coins and tap it on the paper with a small hammer. There are many things to pay attention to when typing a paper. It is best to be a descendant of ancestors, and it must be a boy. The hammer must be made of wood, and the marks of hitting cannot be stacked together. When I was a child, I used to do it during the Spring Festival or two Halloween. The old man told me that it would be good to put a seal on it, but I was afraid I didn't know. When he goes to the underworld, he always hits hard. He is also afraid of having less money and not enough ancestors, so he has been playing closely. Although there is more paper now and it looks beautiful, I think the paper money I played when I was a child in later generations can better reflect my true feelings for my ancestors. Of course, on the day of Ghost Festival, from Shan Ye to the street, there are flames everywhere, smoke everywhere, paper scraps flying, causing environmental pollution, and sometimes causing fires and unnecessary losses. What can we do? The custom handed down from ancestors, China people have not learned to use flowers to express their grief and nostalgia for their deceased relatives like westerners. Halloween sacrifice cannot be simply regarded as superstition. In western Christian countries, modern science has sent people to the moon and rockets to Mars, but they still believe in God, which is actually a spiritual sustenance. We burn some paper for our deceased relatives, which seems vulgar, but in fact it contains rich moral and ethical connotations. This is a kind of gratitude and nostalgia for the deceased relatives, a dialogue with people in another world, an exchange with ancestors and a continuation of human race and spirit. Even if relatives are alive, there are cases of unfilial or thoughtless care. When burning paper on the grave, you can get a psychological balance by chanting a few words. Perhaps with the development of the times and the improvement of people's education level, our nation will find a better way to commemorate our ancestors, but in any era, it is indispensable to pay tribute to and remember our ancestors.