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Why burn incense and wax paper at the grave

Folk tradition, it is believed that the ghost to incense for food, paper for the money used in the underworld. Therefore, to go to the grave to burn incense and paper.

At present, due to the grave burning paper and incense is easy to cause a fire, over the years, the grave caused a fire of the painful lessons, as well as the government's efforts and publicity has been so that the folk no longer in the grave burning paper and incense, there are places where people first burned the paper in their own yards, to the gravesite to pour the paper ash in the graves, to the heart to the line.