What do you mean by tradition?

This is a custom, a tradition and a sustenance.

Folklore can be passed down for thousands of years, but what is culture? Besides China, what other cultures can be passed down for thousands of years? The folklore in China is the gene of China, and what can be passed down is culture, not intangible culture.

This culture has been circulating for thousands of years, mainly because ancient people believed that people would go to the underworld after death. Now, although most people know that there are no triads, why do they hold ceremonies? This is mainly a way to commemorate our ancestors.

Burning paper money after death is to remember our ancestors with our own understanding. Filial piety when you are alive, and you don't care after you die? Or you can't do something useless to express your feelings when you are alive and sensible after death. In fact, most people don't believe in this kind of ghost, but sitting at home and remembering it is completely different from burning paper in front of the grave.

The legacy of ancestors, there is no way to say right or wrong, it feels more like personal understanding. Is burning paper comfortable? Are you sad not to burn paper? This is just a custom. Is it right or wrong for Sichuan to put the coffin on the cliff? Don't say that professors will be confused, even specialized research institutions may not be able to explain clearly.

What has been handed down has both essence and dross. You can disagree, but there is no need to strengthen the correctness of your personal views with approval or denial. The custom rooted in people's blood is not someone's ability, which can make him change overnight.

Yes, I didn't understand it before, but now I understand that all needs are when I am alive. People have to face the reality. Real money can buy counterfeit money, but can counterfeit money buy real money? Do sleeping people still need to eat? Besides, can the dead still eat and use it? Have you ever thought that this is obviously a kind of deception, so you should change it quickly and turn around quickly?

We can't lose our souls. From a big perspective, we can talk about the Chinese soul and soul of china. From the perspective of faith, people respect the souls of countless martyrs who have contributed to the practice of struggle. The military spirit that soldiers talk about must not be classified as superstition. People sacrifice their parents to commemorate their parenting. Sacrificing everything for the martyrs is a natural reaction of human nature. Sometimes it does violate atheism, but self-purification and self-reflection are progressive. I am against nihilism.

Paper was invented in China. It contains the elements of fire, water and earth in Jin Mu (the earth has only five elements), and it is also the carrier of information transmission from the two-dimensional world to the three-dimensional world. Burning paper sacrifices may spread to another world. Think about China when paper was invented, and now the United States is the best when computers and electronic information are invented. The next invention may be the application of 5G and 6G, and maybe we can see the deceased relatives. Not superstitious, but they are all mysteries. Treat future people and solve mysteries.

Burning paper for deceased relatives is a folk custom, not a superstition. This folk custom has a long history, some say it began in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, some say it began in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and some even can be traced back to ancestor worship activities in primitive society. No matter when it originated, it is to express the memory, nostalgia and gratitude of future generations to their deceased relatives and highlight the Chinese nation. Things die like life? The virtue of. After my mother died, I have always insisted on doing this on holidays. It snowed in Tomb-Sweeping Day that year. After burning paper for my mother at the grave, I wrote this poem: I sacrificed cigarettes for my mother, and heaven wept, and went to the grave to accompany me. Pear trees bloom late, and there are no flowers to offer. I use the residual cold as snow. Every grass and tree knows its grace for a long time, and spring first turns to ashes. After a lifetime of hardships, Fan Yi won the sorrow of heaven and earth. ?

In my opinion, this is the clearest confession for future generations to burn paper for their deceased relatives. Where is the slightest superstition?

As a university professor, this understanding is too one-sided. Paying homage to ancestors is the recognition of their achievements in creating the world, and it is the efforts of generations of ancestors that make you enjoy modern civilization from birth. It is a gratitude for inheriting the cultural heritage of our ancestors. Your development today is on the shoulders of your ancestors, and all your achievements are developed on the basis of inheriting the heritage of your ancestors. You have taken so much inheritance from your ancestors, shouldn't you say something or explain something to them? Worship the ancestors! It is a kind of ceremony, which people use to communicate with their ancestors and express their gratitude to them! It also expresses that the younger generation will inherit the past by going up a storey still higher and live up to expectations. Burn paper money, offer flower baskets and set off salutes. It is just a more vivid form of ancestor worship ceremony.

China's excellent traditional culture cannot be lost. Everything should be divided into two parts, such as burning wood and cooking in the countryside, weddings and funerals, setting off firecrackers in the New Year and so on. It is necessary to advocate changing customs and doing new things, but it cannot be stifled by a few people. It must go through thousands of years of historical inheritance. As long as some Dong people are harmless to society and like it, they should be allowed to continue to develop. With the progress of society and the improvement of people's material life, some things will be eliminated naturally without human intervention and intervention.

This is the excellent culture of the Chinese nation, the fine tradition of our nation, the carrier of not forgetting the worship of the fundamental ancestors, and the driving force of national cohesion, which should be vigorously promoted.

Burning paper and incense is dross, which cannot be inherited, let alone carried forward. China's historical tradition is not necessarily the essence. Contemporary China people should be smart, not stupid. Burning paper and incense pollutes the environment and wastes resources. What does it mean that Tomb-Sweeping Day burns paper in the tomb, in July and half, and in the Spring Festival? It's called continued fragrance. If a family has no boys, it is called Duanxiang. Girls get married, and the children born with surnames are not your family's surnames, so why give birth to boys? Only boys can continue the family incense.

From ancient times to the present, different nationalities have different folk customs. There are different ways of offering sacrifices. It can't be said to be a cultural heritage, nor can it be said to be a superstition. But we should respect a ceremony left by our ancestors to remember and cherish their ancestors.