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What does the fortune teller mean by asking me to burn seven kinds of paper money?

One: What is the emphasis on burning paper in Qingming?

"There are many rains during the Qingming period, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls." This is the poet Du Mu's portrayal of Tomb-Sweeping Day. Starting today, enter a three-day Qingming small holiday. Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the Walking Festival, is one of the traditional festivals and one of the most important sacrificial festivals in China. It is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, that is, the first 108 day after the winter solstice. This is the day to worship ancestors and sweep graves.

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It cleared up, and the streets and alleys began to smoke again. As one of the most important traditional festivals in China, Tomb-Sweeping Day is not only a festival for people to pay homage to their ancestors, but also a link for the Chinese nation to recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestral home. As one of the few festivals that can keep our folk customs and original meaning, we should really review those things about Qingming. Qingming burn paper, is it right? This article will popularize knowledge about Qingming.

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Han Dynasty

At first, the birth of Qingming was only spread in Shangdang and other areas of Taiyuan, and it evolved into a national festival after the Six Dynasties. At this time, it is the Cold Food Festival, and it is required not to make a fire during this period and eat the food prepared before. The original Cold Food Festival was nothing more than a meson push to commemorate the burning of Mianshan Mountain, and it did not mean to pay homage to ancestors.

the Tang Dynasty

According to "Return to the Heart and Miscellaneous Knowledge", during the Qingming period in the Tang Dynasty, imperial academy had to have a three-day holiday (the Qingming small holiday was originally a historical practice) and held a military exercise for one day. Fire (no cooking) in Shanxi will be banned for seven days, and it will be banned for three days in troubled times. Because the whole country banned the burning of fire, and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, the emperor would issue a decree to let the people of the whole country drill wood for fire, so the Tang Dynasty did not burn paper money. According to the poem describing Tomb-Sweeping Day in The Whole Tang Poetry, Tomb-Sweeping Day held sports activities such as playing football, playing badminton, swinging and tug-of-war in the Tang Dynasty.

Song dynasty

The three-day Cold Food Festival in Song Dynasty, also known as "Hundred Five-Day Festival" and "No Smoking Festival", is an important national festival. It is the most popular in Shanxi Province. The Cold Food Festival in Song Dynasty is a day to worship ancestors. You can go to the grave to worship your ancestors any day in three years, but you can hang paper money on the trees around the grave without incense.

the Yuan Dynasty

The day before or two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day in Yuan Dynasty was the Cold Food Festival. In the Yuan Dynasty, it was forbidden to set off fireworks and firecrackers, and only the cold food prepared before was eaten. The Yuan Dynasty stipulated that the Cold Food Festival should be closed for three days. This was officially recognized by Tomb-Sweeping Day at the Cold Food Festival in the Yuan Dynasty. Customs are the same as in the Song Dynasty.

Ming and Qing dynasties

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Cold Food Festival was combined with Tomb-Sweeping Day, and the main folk activity in Tomb-Sweeping Day was to sweep the graves for an outing. In the Ming Dynasty, men and women brought wine and food sacrifices and paper money to sweep graves. Burn paper ingots by the grave and press a pile of paper money in front of the grave. After sweeping the grave, men and women don't go home directly, but go hiking near the cemetery. Southerners prefer outing activities to northerners. Tomb-Sweeping Day in Qing Dynasty could fly kites on the basis of Ming Dynasty. At the same time, put new willows (willow branches) on your head. In the Qing Dynasty, when offering sacrifices to ancestors, both rich and poor should prepare sacrifices, and Tomb-Sweeping Day, July 30th and the first day of October were officially called Ghost Festival. According to Jia Qinglu, the custom in Suzhou is to pick up new soil in front of ancestors' graves, burn paper money, offer sacrifices to mountain gods and neighbors. Note: Tomb-Sweeping Day finally hooked up with a ghost.

According to the corresponding requirements and different characteristics of the three Ghost Festivals (namely, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Mid-Autumn Festival and Cold Clothes Festival) a year, we can know that Tomb-Sweeping Day paid homage to his ancestors and gave money and other materials to his dead relatives so that they could live a normal life in the underworld. Mid-Autumn Festival is a big open festival. The deceased relatives return to the deceased to fulfill their unfinished wishes, so they will put more lanterns or worship their ancestors at home to tell their ancestors that everything is fine. Cold clothes festival is to send cold clothes to the deceased relatives. While burning paper money, you also need to burn some burnt products made of cloth, clothes and quilts.

So why does Qingming have to burn paper money? You know, paper money was not burned in the Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, paper money was hung on trees at most. The Ming dynasty was different. Since the words "take" and "burn" are homonyms, after the Ming Dynasty, people began to burn sacrifices to show that they would bring things to their deceased relatives. In the Ming dynasty, paper ingots were burned beside the grave, and a pile of paper money was pressed on the grave. During the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, people picked up new soil, burned paper money, offered sacrifices to mountain gods and laid graves next door. The contemporary reform and opening up is the boundary. Before, we didn't burn paper money, but only bowed three times. After the reform and opening up, in the twentieth century, Tomb-Sweeping Day mainly burned paper money and paper money; With the advent of the 2 1 century, modern fashion items such as bank cards, mobile phones and automobiles have been added, and even some paper-burning iphone and ipad have been found in recent years.