Tomb-Sweeping Day burning paper is controversial! Is it "tradition" or "bad habit"? Should it be banned?

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Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional sacrifice day in China, while China is a country with traditional etiquette and attaches great importance to sacrifice, so Tomb-Sweeping Day is also a very important one among many festivals.

The custom of ancestor worship in Tomb-Sweeping Day is usually to set off firecrackers, burn incense and burn paper.

With firecrackers banned in many places, there is also controversy about burning paper.

At this year's two sessions, delegates suggested that Tomb-Sweeping Day should ban burning paper for sacrifice and encourage them to offer flowers instead, which once caused a heated discussion.

One view is that burning paper is really harmful, and most of the burned paper is rough in texture, which will release a lot of dust and smoke when burning, causing pollution to the air and environment.

Secondly, burning paper is easy to cause fire, because it involves open flames.

A sheet piling burn together, it is easy to be incomplete.

Especially in some rural areas, paying attention to burning paper in the mountains is more likely to cause forest fires, which has great security risks.

Third, burning paper means burning money for deceased relatives, which is a superstitious behavior when people's cognitive level is not high. The development of modern civilization has far surpassed that of ancient times, and burning paper should also be banned.

However, another view holds that burning paper for sacrifice in Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional custom.

China is a country of etiquette, and many customs and etiquette come from these traditions.

Although offering flowers is environmentally friendly, it does not conform to the tradition of China people, and many folk traditions have been lost in modern civilization.

The public says that the public is right, and the woman says that the woman is right. So is burning paper a bad habit or a tradition?

This can be traced back to the origin of burning paper in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

How does Tomb-Sweeping Day burn paper? This can be traced back to ancient times.

In ancient times, our ancestors didn't know much about nature and thought that heaven was a sacred existence, so in order to express their respect for heaven, they would hold a ceremony to worship it.

One of the links is called burning, which means burning jade and livestock as a way to communicate with heaven and pray for blessings.

Later, in the Zhou and Qin Dynasties, the activities of offering sacrifices to heaven and earth and ancestors continued, but it was no longer Tomb-Sweeping Day, and Qingming was just an ordinary solar term.

Later, in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, in order to commemorate the retreat of Jin ministers in the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a "Cold Food Festival", which gradually evolved into a cold food festival to worship ancestors and sweep graves.

Because meson tui was killed by fire, in order to commemorate him, it is forbidden to use fire and eat cold food on this day, so it is called "cold food"

When offering sacrifices to sweep the grave, paper banners are hung in front of the grave instead of burning paper.

In the Tang Dynasty, because the Cold Food Festival was very close to Tomb-Sweeping Day and gradually merged, Tomb-Sweeping Day became the mainstream of sacrifice, while the Cold Food Festival gradually retreated behind the scenes.

In the Yuan Dynasty, the custom of forbidding fire was abolished, so people began to burn paper for sacrifice.

From the whole development process, although at the earliest time, people did express their awe of their ancestors and heaven by burning things, which is directly related to people's cognitive level of nature.

However, it is in the constant exploration and communication between society and nature that certain emotions and behaviors have been produced and passed down, which has become our custom today.

So strictly speaking, we can't judge the scientific right or wrong of history only from today's perspective. Many customs are more the process and result of historical inheritance.

Although there are some disadvantages in burning paper in Tomb-Sweeping Day, we should not "cut across the board" everything.

China has a vast territory, different local conditions and customs, and different rural areas and cities.

Although offering flowers is environmentally friendly, it is not necessarily applicable. First of all, the cost of flowers is a big problem.

In addition, Tomb-Sweeping Day, as a special festival, also needs a ceremony to express people's thoughts on their deceased relatives.

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