Is it a worthwhile folk culture for Chinese people to burn paper offerings to their departed loved ones?

Burning paper offerings belongs to the traditional mode of worship. Burning paper money originated from the custom of ancestor worship in primitive China. The custom of primitive ancestor worship is to mourn the ancestors and pray for their blessings on the family. There is a tradition that "death is like life". When a person dies, he should be treated as if he were alive, so there is a way to give him money for his enjoyment.

The history of human civilization since 12,000 years ago began with the culture of sacrifice. In the long ancient Furuang ritual activities have easy, witch, medical and agricultural content included, there are eight times a year, the first year of the first spring ritual activities is the first three days after the beginning of the lunar calendar in March of the spring of the trees, will be the "festival" and "festival customs" as a whole for the festival. This is the earliest historical description of the activities of the day of the Qingming Festival.

Tomb-sweeping is the expression of nostalgia and mourning for friends and relatives in front of their graves. In ancient times, this custom was very popular and still has a great influence today. Tomb-sweeping is to offer tomb-sacrifice, tomb-sacrifice, tomb-sacrifice, on the tomb, on the tomb, on the mound, on the grave, on the food, sweeping, and so on. Later on, after a long historical evolution, it gradually formed the custom of tomb-sweeping mainly on Qingming Festival, Zhongyuan Festival and Sending Clothes Festival. These three fixed days are known as the "three days of darkness" in folklore. With the progress of the times, from the original burning of paper to the current flower offering. The cloud offering, the valet offering, and so on. From the cultural, historical, conceptual, and innovative perspectives, explaining the network as a product of the times and promote funeral reform, and gradually drive the transformation and development of the traditional mode of sacrifice, the times are driving the transformation of the mode of sacrifice.

This is a national obsession, engraved in the depths of the soul, just like smoking opium, it is difficult to quit. We are not doing this as if there is always a sense of loss, just as Christians or those who believe in other religions feel y sinful if they do not go to worship. Burning paper offerings to the ancestors, as the Dragon Boat Festival to eat dumplings, Mid-Autumn Festival to eat moon cakes, is a customary convention, dumplings and moon cakes in the continuous improvement, more and more flavors, so the rituals with the paper products are also increasing the beauty of the cell phone can be burned modern people do not eat a lot of moon cakes and dumplings, but still the same Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, and the same sense of ceremony, the same way to offer sacrifices to the deceased, burned or not to burn the paper products, is not the fundamental problem! The most important thing is the sense of ceremony. If one day even the sense of ceremony is not, then the custom is completely finished, just like the ancient burial, or just died out soon after the sacrifice of heaven.

So, what disappears will disappear naturally, and what comes will come naturally. We don't have to say that people's hearts are not ancient, and throw away traditional culture; after all, society is constantly evolving, and some of our daily behaviors today may become superstitions in the eyes of our descendants after a few years. In short, I personally think that the laws of the ancestors are mutable, but the ancestors must not be forgotten. Where we will go is not known and must not be asked, but where we come from must still be understood! Therefore, I still have to burn some paper products to my ancestors in the middle of the year, sort of informing my ancestors that I still remember them, and create a little sense of ceremony, because, in the wisp of blue smoke, I seem to be able to see the future, but also sort of superstition! After all, the folk cultural heritage of this burden is too large, a person is unable to carry, the day everyone can not carry the time, let the Koreans to heritage or experts to rescue it.