Tomb-Sweeping Day, Shangyuan Festival, the date of death of the deceased. Besides, what other date is the day of burning paper?

A: The 14th day of the seventh lunar month and the 26th to 28th day before the Lunar New Year (New Year's Eve) are the days for burning paper to worship ancestors.

1, the meaning of burning paper

Burning paper, also known as burning paper money, refers to paper money for people to burn to worship Buddha. It is one of the folk beliefs in China, and later evolved into burning paper, which has become the concern, yearning and respect of the younger generation for their ancestors.

2. The origin of burning paper

Legend has it that Cai Lun invented papermaking, which caused a sensation all over the world and gained fame and fortune. Cai Lun's sister-in-law was jealous and forced Cai Lun's brother Cai Mo to learn papermaking. Cai Mo did a paper behind his brother's back and didn't get the point. The paper was dark and thick, and no one came to buy it. It was piled up all over the room.

Sister-in-law Cai Lun felt deeply guilty and died suddenly. In a rage, Cai Mo burned paper in front of his wife's coffin and heard her shout in the coffin: "Open the door, open the door! When people opened the coffin, Cai Mo's wife sat up and muttered, "The dead have money, and the underworld uses paper for business." Who wants me to go back if my husband doesn't burn paper?

Later, everyone said that I died, the children sent me to the palace of hell, and hell made me suffer. On the way, the husband burned paper to give money, and the children scrambled for it. They got the money and saved me from hell. In this way, the news that the paper made by Cai Mo can be used as money in the underworld quickly spread, and the original mountain of paper was snapped up. Cai Mo knew that it was his wife who deliberately pretended to be dead in order to sell paper, and there was no deep responsibility. As a result, the custom of burning paper has been handed down.