It is a traditional custom to sweep graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Why is the main form of ancestor worship "burning a bundle"?

In fact, when we China people go to Tomb-Sweeping Day, Mid-Autumn Festival and Cold Clothes Festival, we usually go back to our hometown and pay tribute to our dead relatives and ancestors in person. However, there will always be some special circumstances when people are alive, which will lead to their inability to return to their hometown in time to burn paper for their loved ones, so people at this time will use the form of burning bags instead.

What exactly is burning luggage? Burning treasure is also called burning treasure by our people, and it is a special form of ancestor worship in China. That is, when the living can't go to the cemetery in person, the burial materials and burial clothes are sent to the deceased in the form of burning bags, which is called mail.

Generally speaking, it can be done when someone meets the following situations. For example, if the family is too poor to have a cemetery, they will be buried in mass graves after death. After a long time, they couldn't find the exact grave, so they had to send "daily necessities" to the deceased. For example, there is a cemetery at home, but after a long time, the owners are getting poorer and poorer, and they are embarrassed to go to the grave because of their feelings. In short, you can't go to the cemetery and burn paper far away.

Bags and parcels burned for the deceased usually contain mingbi and some clothes and daily necessities of the deceased, but they are basically symbolic or useless, but there is also a kind of red baggage that will be burned for the deceased. This kind of baggage is generally called happy baggage, which is used to give good news to ancestors when there is a happy event at home. This kind of luggage is not only red on the surface, but also contains red banknotes.