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Do you have to burn paper on Halloween?
Mid-Autumn Festival, the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, commonly known as July and a half. On that day, all the ghosts were released from the underworld, and people generally held activities of offering sacrifices to ghosts. People will burn paper money and offer sacrifices to show their respect for their deceased relatives. In some places, ghosts are sacrificed, so it is a festival centered on ghost worship and the largest folk ghost festival in China. Buddhism is called bonihara Festival.
Why do we burn paper? Because our world is a multidimensional space, that is to say, from the perspective of China's traditional culture, there are ghosts and gods. So this day will burn some paper money, gold ingots and the like for the deceased relatives.
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