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Why do most people kneel, wear mourning clothes and burn paper at Chinese funerals?

Has been passed down for a long time, there is no way, kneeling is the ancient class strict background, to express respect for the deceased, funeral dress is from the Zhou rituals, burning paper is people believe that there is special money in hell, the deceased will have lonely souls blocking the way, burning money is to send them away, but also bribe the ghosts, so that the soul of the deceased to go to the peace of mind, from generation to generation, deep-rooted

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