What does the old friend mean by "sending the toll"?

Pronunciation: Song Panchan

Interpretation: custom: after burying the body the night before burial, when it is quiet at midnight, we should "send travelling expenses" and burn "paper horses" for the dead in Wudao Temple. "Snail" is a kind of white bread made of flour and baked to the size of almonds. How much to burn depends on the age of the deceased, one year old. Put the money in the paper horse's wallet. These foods are for the dead to eat on the road. In addition, use paper foil to knead it into "golden shovel" and "gold ingot", and burn it more. This is "road money" for the dead.

Origin: According to popular saying, people will go to another world after death and live like people in this world. Therefore, after the death of a loved one, you should be prepared to go to another world for "travel expenses". For a period of time after burial, paper money and paper sticks should also be burned regularly in front of the grave to show that money and things are sent to the deceased relatives.

Story: In Jin Dynasty, Ge Hong's Book in Pillow said that there were five ghost emperors, among whom the Northern Ghost Emperor ruled Luofeng Mountain, and later generations mistakenly called Luofeng Mountain Fengdu County in Sichuan. Therefore, since the Song Dynasty, people have built an underground world in Fengdu County according to their own imagination, making it the office of Ye Yan. When people die, they have to report to the underworld, or go to heaven, or go to hell, or be reincarnated, and listen to the underworld according to the performance of the deceased before his death, so Fengdu has become a ghost that people imagine the deceased will follow. Although ordinary people don't necessarily know what the underworld is called by Taoism, there is a difference between life and death and yin and yang. It is recognized by many people that ghosts will go to another world after death. For the living, the unknown strange world is far away, shadowy and mysterious. Therefore, it is natural for people to prepare "travel expenses" and "transportation tools" for their relatives who go to the distant underworld according to their real life experiences. This is the origin of "funeral expenses".