Why should the Mid-Autumn Festival "burn paper to eat ducks"? How much do you know about traditional customs?

In fact, most people don't know why they want to burn paper to eat ducks in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Maybe many people think this is a custom, passed down from the older generation, so we should do the same. In fact, burning paper has a lot to do with Cai Lun in the Eastern Han Dynasty. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cai Lun had a big brother named Cai Mo, who also studied papermaking. However, this man is always eager for quick success and instant benefit, and wants to make money by making paper, but his technology is poor, and the paper he makes is poor, so he sells these poor quality papers to the poor, but the poor don't want to sell them to the rich, who don't like them very much. So these white papers I made in the end can't be sold, and there's nothing I can do.

So Cai Lun's sister-in-law came up with an idea. Cai Lun's sister-in-law claimed that if someone died, they could burn the white paper at home and let the deceased live a better life in another world. For example, many local villagers believe in it. After that, they have the custom of burning angelica dahurica in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Of course, this is actually just a folklore, which is not credible.

As for eating ducks in the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is also very particular. Duck? And then what? News? It is homophonic in itself, so eating ducks in Zhongyuan Street is actually to suppress those things that are not very clean. There is also a legend that those ancestors who passed away will go home to visit relatives during the Mid-Autumn Festival. However, if they want to go home to visit relatives, they must cross the Naihe Bridge. They can't cross the Naihe Bridge without a boat. So we must send some ducks down that day, then let them swim and bring these ancestors back. Over time, by the Mid-Autumn Festival, the custom of eating ducks was formed.

The Double Ninth Festival is actually just a traditional festival in our country, and there is no such thing as Mid-Autumn Festival abroad. In fact, many young people have basically celebrated the Double Ninth Festival now, because many young people think that the so-called Mid-Autumn Festival is feudal superstition and has no credibility at all.