How to cut out a circle from paper

Put the paper on the lid and make a circle with your hands.

2. Fold it into a quarter circle.

3. Then cut off that small corner with scissors on the dotted line.

4. Finish.

Detailed explanation

Superstitious people in the ritual incineration of the dead or ghosts and gods as money. It can also be thrown in the air or hung in the graveyard. The shape of the paper can be round with square holes like copper coins, or the paper can be punched in the shape of money. Hong Xi-Qing's "Du Poetry Defense" said: "Qi Donghun Hou good ghosts and gods, cut paper for paper, to replace the bundle of silk, to the Tang prevailed in the matter".

Tang? Zhang Ji?

Tang Dynasty, Zhang Ji's "Mang Xing in the North": "Every family sends paper money for the cold eclipse, and the kite makes a nest on the tree." Rulin's Lay History (儒林外史)第二一回: "On the first day of the new year, he was told to burn paper money on the graves." Chen Yi, "Three Chapters on Meiling", poem no. 2: "After the death of all the gentlemen, make more efforts, and the news will come as paper money." It is also called "paper money". Qing Hongsheng, "The Palace of Eternal Life - Weeping Statue": "Folding gold and silver mountains in a hundred, and transforming the underworld into ten thousand pieces of silk. How can paper and copper money buy the heavenly immortals to come down?" [

There are many kinds of meditative money about the baggage.

One, the big burnt paper, white paper, smashed on four rows of round money, each row of five pieces;

Two, the meditative money, this is on earth after the foreign money imitation, written on the "Bank of Heaven", "Bank of the Underworld", "Bank of Heaven", "Bank of the Underworld" and other words, and the pattern of Fengdu City, more than a huge amount of tickets, printed on the back of the Buddhist "Mantra for the Future";

Third, the fake foreign money, with cardboard for the heart, wrapped in silver foil, pressed with the same pattern as the prevailing silver dollar;

Fourth, the "Mantra for the Future" printed in red on a yellow sheet of paper, into a round money-like, so it is also the same as the silver dollar;

Fourth, printed in red on yellow sheets of paper, "Mantra for the Future", and then the "Mantra". Into a round money shape, so also called "past life money";

5, with gold and silver foil folded into the dollar, ingot, some also threaded into a string, the lower side of the decorated with a colorful paper spikes.

Old times, regardless of the rich and poor have burned baggage action. On this day, in the ancestral hall or the main house of the family house set up offerings, will be placed in the middle of the package, before the dumplings, cakes, fruits and other offerings, burning incense and candles. After the whole family salutes in order of seniority, the package is incinerated outside the door. When incinerating, make a big circle and leave a gap according to the direction of the grave. Burning three or five sheets of paper outside the circle is called "sending out the evil spirits".