When did Tomb-Sweeping Day start burning paper for sacrifice? You will understand after reading it.

"It rains in the Qingming period. Pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. " April 5th this year is Tomb-Sweeping Day, and Tomb-Sweeping Day is also called Youth Day. What many people don't know is that Tomb-Sweeping Day actually has two functions. One function is one of the 24 solar terms in a year, that is, half a month after the vernal equinox in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Another function is to sacrifice and remember the anniversary of ancestors. In Tomb-Sweeping Day, people who live in the city will go back to their hometown to burn paper. "Burning paper on the grave" is actually used to burn some mingbi for the dead relatives. Of course, this is actually a superstitious statement. With the development of network technology, there are two ways of online sacrifice and entrusted sacrifice, which pin the wanderer in the distance.

So when did the custom of burning paper for sacrifice in Tomb-Sweeping Day begin? You will know after reading it.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as March Festival, has had the custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors in Tomb-Sweeping Day since the Zhou Dynasty, and now it has a history of more than 2,500 years. According to records, Tomb-Sweeping Day's sacrifices evolved from ancient sacrifices. If we go further, there was no sacrifice in ancient matriarchal society, because at that time, the society was in the stage of group marriage, and the rest of the children only knew who their mother was and who their father was, so there was no sacrifice. Later, only in the patriarchal society did sacrifices gradually form. At that time, it was to thank God for giving them food and meat, but to regard God as their mother.

With the development of history, Tomb-Sweeping Day was endowed with new meanings and legends in the Spring and Autumn Period, and entered the third month of the lunar calendar.

It is said that according to legend, at this time, Ye Yan opened the door of hell and let some ghosts come out to breathe the air.

In order to prevent these ghosts from meeting people when they go for an outing, people burn paper on graves, which means giving them some money to go back quickly. Don't run around, lest they hit people. Slowly, people began to think that if children can receive money, their relatives under the grave should also receive money, so they began to burn some money for their dead relatives, so that their relatives could have "money" below, so don't treat them badly.

There is also a saying that Cai Lun invented papermaking, but because of too much research time, the paper made was still not wanted, and I don't know what's the use. The daughter-in-law is very annoyed with him and often quarrels with him. Later, Cai Lun thought about it, found a big radish, carved something on it with a knife, found some colors, and then printed something on the paper. At first, it was to get some patterns on paper to sell better, but it didn't work at all, so they thought of a good way.

The next day, Cai Lun played dead in the hospital. His daughter-in-law roared, "Xianggong, you are so stupid. I told you not to do these things." If you have to do it, you will get yourself involved. "Cried and held a pack of paper, put it in front of Cai Lun's head and burned it ... Many people shouted at this, so they all came to watch the fun.

Is burning burning, Cai Lun "Teng" to jump up and froze. Cai Lun said, "Don't burn it for me! This is a good thing, I made money! Made a lot of money! " As he spoke, he took out a handful of money from his pocket (the foreign currency ticket he printed). People look, hey! When this kind of paper is burned, people can live and become money. In this way, the deceased burned paper, and the custom of burning paper in Tomb-Sweeping Day has continued to this day.

Of course, these are legends and feudal superstitions. This is the origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day's burning paper, which has spread slowly to the present. There is no way to verify the truth. If you believe, there will be, if you don't believe, there will be.

However, burning paper in Tomb-Sweeping Day is still a fire hazard. Now we advocate civilized grave-sweeping, civilized sacrifice, replacing burning paper with flowers as much as possible, and civilizing you, me and him.