How to make crepe paper for grave-sweeping paper?

The steps of making grave-sweeping paper flowers with crepe paper are as follows:

1. Cut the paper into this size first: a roll of corrugated paper can make about 8 flowers. First, fold the paper in half along the width twice and cut it open, and it becomes four rectangular pieces of paper.

2. Then fold 4 pieces of paper together and cut them into 8 small stacks. Remember, there must be 4 sheets of paper or 5 sheets of paper in each stack. You'd better cut it with scissors.

3. Fold it like a fan, so that it can be tied in the middle, and it can also be ordered with transparent glue or stapler.

4, and then do a few more superimposed together.

The significance of sweeping graves:

Grave-sweeping is a kind of "grave sacrifice" and "respect for time thinking" to ancestors, and its custom has a long history. In the north, it is called going to the grave; in some places, it is called "sweeping mountains" or "worshipping mountains"; in the south, it is called "hanging mountains" or "hanging paper".

There are two kinds of "mountains" for offering sacrifices: one is called "home mountain" for tracing ancestors within three generations, and the sacrifice of home mountain is called "family sacrifice"; The other is the worship of clan ancestors, which is called "Zushan" and "Dazhongshan", and the worship of Zushan is called "sweeping Dazhongshan".

Grave-sweeping refers to offering sacrifices to ancestors in a cemetery to express filial piety and yearning for ancestors, which belongs to a cultural tradition of honoring ancestors and pursuing the future with caution. Usually in the morning, people set out to sweep the graves. When sweeping graves, people should bring food, wine, paper money and other items to the cemetery, trim the graves, cultivate new soil, remove weeds, provide food for the graves of ancestors, burn paper money, and then kowtow.

Influenced by traditional cultural psychology, China people have a strong sense of family, paying special attention to their families and ancestors, and they have a strong sense of ancestor worship and returning to their ancestral home. Sweeping their graves is a special way to commemorate their ancestors.