The first day of the lunar calendar, the October Dynasty, the Ancestor Festival, also known as the Burning Clothes Festival, the Clothes Festival, and the Qingming Festival, the Zhongyuan Festival are called the three major ghost festivals. On this day, the ancestors will be paid tribute to and mourned in various ways. On this day, they all go to the grave to add soil to worship their ancestors, in addition to placing offerings to burn paper money, they also use colored paper to cut into clothes, hats, cardboard boxes, and burn them in front of the tomb. Married daughters still routinely return to their parents' homes to worship their deceased elders.

On the first day of October, ancestors are sacrificed, and there are family sacrifices and tomb sacrifices. This day is also the first day of winter, after which the weather gradually gets colder, and people are afraid that their ancestors in the underworld will lack clothes and clothing, so in addition to general offerings such as food, incense, candles, and paper money, there is also an indispensable offering - the underworld clothing. During the sacrifice, people burn the clothes to their ancestors, which is called "sending winter clothes".

There are also people who do not burn winter clothes at the grave, but burn them at the door of their homes and at intersections. On the first day of the first month of October, seeing that it was almost dark, grab a handful of ashes, sprinkle an ash ring in front of the house, and then burn incense and make offerings, burn paper clothes and ingots, and pay tribute to the ancestors. Exquisite people will deliberately run to the intersection not far from their homes to send winter clothes to the "wandering ghosts", in order to "have a home, but not to be terrible", bribing those wandering ghosts so that they can live well with their own dead.

On this day, every family has been burned, all have been burned for 1,800 years, and nothing happened, the ancestors have come over like this, but they didn't expect that this year they burned paper money winter clothes, and after a few days, there were several families who had deceased relatives to dream, saying that they had been waiting for paper money winter clothes for the winter, how did they have no movement after three or five days, did they forget to burn?

After a few families woke up, they were not scared, it was obviously burned, but the relatives did not receive it, so let's continue to burn, the big families should not take it seriously, but some small households, the money for burning paper is not a minority, but it is better to offend the living than to offend the dead, not to mention that they are all relatives who have passed away, so they can't be wronged.

Then continue to burn, this time they are all serious, according to the instructions of the elders to burn paper money, winter clothes, but after a few days the family dreamed again, or said that they did not receive it, and this time it is not only those few, but dozens of families have dreamed, this is a bit strange, but this kind of thing, is not a good thing, no one hides it, and bought paper money winter clothes to burn, within a few days, more than a hundred families dreamed of deceased relatives begging for paper money.

This is fatal, the big girl and the little daughter-in-law are already timid, the east and west families are running out of the door, but they can't hide it, so every household began to burn paper, and the child passed day by day, and now it has been a month, and the rich people have become and can afford it, like that outside the party, it is nothing more than spending two more dollars, and the poor family is worried, not burning, burning and burning, so dry and consumed, to this day.

If you say that the most well-informed person in the world, it is none other than the little two in the store, there are many people coming and going from the south to the north, and there are many people who know everything, this little two is articulate, and he told the cause and effect of a matter, his eyes stared at the silver in Zhang Qingshan's palm, and he nodded vigorously.

Zhang Qingshan smiled, threw the silver to Xiao Er, and said generously: "I've rewarded you, if you have anything else to ask you, don't hide it." ”

Xiao Er accepted the silver, his face was full of joy, and he patted ** and said: "Don't worry, the guest officer definitely knows everything." ”

Xiao Er retreated, Zhang Qingshan looked at Lin Qi and said: "This thing is a bit interesting, I have encountered such a strange thing when I am so big, Lin Qi, where did you say that all the paper money burned by people here?" ”

Lin Qi raised his eyes and looked at him, and said, "It's about you, it's about me?" It's still important to hurry early, take care of everything, do you manage so much? ”

Zhang Qingshan smiled: "You're not curious? ”

Lin Qi said: "What's curious? It's nothing more than a bad luck who is greedy for these dark money, and our parents and officials in the Great Yuan Dynasty are like this, and they have learned the same, so it's nothing. ”

Zhang Qingshan said: "No, the underworld is different from the yang, the rules of the underworld can be big, and it is a good errand to escort the silver money, who burns paper and doesn't throw some of it out, these pick it up, it's not a decimal, take people's money, and eliminate disasters with people, and there is a special supervision of yin, there is that little ghost who dares to do this?" The idea of beating these silver coins, cause and effect is not something that a little ghost can afford. ”

Lin Qi smiled: "What do you care so much about?" And no one burns paper for you, and it's not that you can't receive it. ”

Zhang Qingshan thought about it, smiled, and said: "I just think it's strange, but it's also good, it's better to be less troubled by ghosts and gods." After speaking, let Xiao Er pack dry food, settle the account, the two of them went out of the store, the sky was already dark, but the street outside was bright with firelight, countless men, women and children came out to burn paper, looking forward, the firelight was dotted, like the starlight in the sky, it was impossible to see the end at a glance, the scene was spectacular.

The firelight reflected the faces of the people who burned the paper, each of them was extremely religious, muttering nothing more than saying something like letting the ancestors bless him, Lin Qi shook his head and walked forward, Zhang Qingshan caught up and said to him: "None of these people who burn paper money have broken the rules, they are all right, I really wonder how the ancestors who passed away here can't receive it?" ”

The scene in front of him was too spectacular, and Lin Qi also became interested and asked, "What are the rules for burning paper?" ”

Zhang Qingshan said: "Burning paper is nothing more than a few festivals, the Spring Festival, Qingming, July 15, and the first day of October, but it is best to burn it a few days in advance in these four festivals, because the festivals are to be purchased in advance, and the world is like this, and the underworld is the same.

It's okay to burn paper without writing a specific name, write "a certain ancestor of the past generations", so that your ancestors can receive it, as for their whereabouts, don't ask, ** can use the money to do good deeds, to accumulate blessings for children and grandchildren, and the ancestors who are still in the ghost road can use this money to buy things, and the ghosts who have no money to spend are very envious when they see other people's descendants giving money to spend, and when burning paper, take three sheets to the yin outside the circle, or lonely ghosts!

Why do you want to burn paper for your ancestors? Because paper money is the underworld currency used by ghost beings, it needs to be burned by people in the yang world to take effect, the ancestors of each family are in the ghost road, so it is natural for descendants to burn paper for their ancestors, and there are ghosts in the underworld who want to eat, which is mostly not virtuous in life, and the descendants have no sacrifices, if the descendants have this ability and do not send money, the ancestors have fallen to the point of asking for food, and they belong to the descendants who are not filial.

There are also ancestors who ask their children for money, and they generally dream of it, but some people who don't believe in ghosts and gods don't pay attention to it when they dream of it, so the ancestors are helpless, but they also have a way, they can lie on people, and the attached person will be very uncomfortable, and gradually become a lesion, and that Lang Zhong can't see this disease well.

Lin Qi said with a sigh: "I really didn't expect that there are so many rules, I used to think that I would buy yellow paper and burn it, it is really a knowledge everywhere in the world." ”

Lin Qi had the meaning of holding Zhang Qingshan in his words, and Zhang Qingshan was also proud, and said: "The yellow paper I bought cannot be counted as yin money, and the best yin money is to take a chisel carved into a copper coin like a wood and use a small hammer to hit it on the paper." There is a lot of attention to when beating paper, it is best to be the descendants of the ancestors, it must be a boy, the hammer must be wooden, and the traces of the beating cannot be stacked together. This kind of yin money is the most effective. ”

When Lin Qi returned to Huaishu Village before, he didn't understand these rules, he just bought yellow paper and burned it, and he did his filial piety, and his feelings were useless, what Zhang Qingshan said was also useful, the next time he burned paper for his father, he knew how to burn it, thinking of this, he said to Zhang Qingshan: "Be taught, be taught!" ”

Zhang Qingshan seemed to understand his thoughts, and said to him: "There are two ways to burn to ancestors and relatives, one is at the intersection near the home, before incineration, you can write the name of the ancestors, but do not write the descendants or your own name, if you want to write the general descendants collectively referred to as descendants; The other is to burn in front of the graves of the ancestors or next to the spiritual throne according to the rules. Most types of paper money are used for incineration, and there are some paper money that are not used for burning, such as tomb coins, which are sprinkled with paper money at the funeral to prevent all kinds of lonely souls and wild ghosts from making trouble, commonly known as "road money". In addition, in some places, in order to calm the nerves, paper money will also be sprinkled at some villages and intersections where accidents often occur. Zhengshen is generally not greedy for money, so paper money is generally used to "bribe" ghosts, so where there is always "haunting", just scatter some paper money, pay the money, and naturally one party will be safe.

Lin Qi listened very carefully, feeling that this rule was a little more, and couldn't help asking, "What else?" ”

Zhang Qingshan said: "Let's talk while walking." Saying that he led the way in front, he pointed to the person who burned the paper from time to time, and said to Lin Qi: "I don't burn until it's dark, and no one dares to come out to withdraw money at dawn." On the way back and forth to burn paper, try to bypass the burning paper, don't step on, sometimes an intersection is full of paper ash piles, you can't get around it, then you have to carefully intersperse the past, sometimes you may need to take a big stride, before you have to say, sorry, sorry, borrowed. ”

Before burning the paper, draw a circle on the ground to be burned, don't circle yourself inside, and leave a gap in the southwest corner to facilitate Yin Cha to come in and get money. Be serious when burning paper, don't laugh and play, and be respectful since you're here. Before burning paper for your loved ones, light two sheets and throw them outside the circle, and answer correctly the lonely ghosts who don't have relatives to send money. When burning paper, you should recite words, such as: Whoever is who, who will send you money to spend. Today, my brother and daughter have come to see you. Burning paper for ancestors should follow the festival of burning paper, and you can't burn it on your own whim.

There are also people who burn to the ghosts and ghosts in order to accumulate yin virtue, which is really a dead soul who is beyond acquaintance, and it is the same as the generosity of the yang world, which is a matter of merit, of course, it cannot be burned at home, and burning at home is not the initiative to invite "friends" outside to be guests? Generally next to the crossroads, this is from the water mouth next to the practice of the transformation, the road is water, the intersection is the water mouth, for the gathering of yin, but also a lot of yin soul like to gather place, there are some art and bold masters, will specifically find the "fierce ghost land", in these places to burn paper over the practice, and these places have no fixed address. Remember not to report your home, your name and your treasure number, lest you cause trouble......

Speaking of this, Zhang Qingshan had the intention of continuing, but Lin Qi felt a gust of wind coming towards them, and stopped at a distance of less than two or three zhang, Zhang Qingshan also saw it, and said in a loud voice: "There are still lonely souls and wild ghosts who dare to trouble the two of us?" ”

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