Can I take that bowl of spilt rice home?
Splashing rice, called Huoliha in Hani language, is a common resurrection ceremony of Hani people in Ailao Mountain, Yunnan Province.
Local people think that whenever they come home from Shan Ye or Tianba and suddenly get sick, they are considered to have met a ghost on the road. This ghost is disgusting and wants something.
However, the disease failed to explain why ghosts are so precious, so they were given various sacrifices, such as rotten bowls or bamboo leaves, and wine, meat, rice, peppers, tobacco, rags and charcoal fire were put on them for all kinds of ghosts to choose freely.
The origin of burning paper
It should be pointed out here that burial and burning are two concepts. Paper money may not be used for burning at first, and it may be buried, scattered and hung earlier than burning. However, because the image of paper money turning into smoke when burning can make people imagine entering the underworld, burning immediately became the most commonly used way to deal with paper money.
From this point of view, the upper limit of the legend of the origin of paper money can theoretically be traced back to the same era of paper money in Wei and Jin Dynasties. Mingbi has also been unearthed in Buddhist national sites such as the former site of Gao Changguo in the Western Regions.