What is the burning of Sanqi paper when a person dies?

After a person dies, the ritual of visiting the grave at the 37th hour, burning paper money and placing offerings is called burning 37th paper.

"Burning Seven" means that starting from the date of death of the deceased, every seven days is a memorial day, which is called "First Seven", "Two Seven", "Three Seven", "Four Seven", "Five Seven" "Seven", "sixty-seven", "last seven", total 49 days. Especially the "March Seven" and the "Last Seven" are the most important. On these two "Seventh" days, relatives and friends will go to the grave to burn paper to pay tribute, and filial sons will also cry loudly.

Extended information:

In Yao County in Guanzhong and Danfeng County in southern Shaanxi, in addition to considering "Chongqi" as a taboo period, "Burning Qi" is also associated with the middle of the month. The eighth, eighteenth and twenty-eighth of the lunar month are also taboo periods. As the saying goes: "When the seventh is the eighth, copper hammers and iron hairpins are fired; when the seventh is burned and the ninth is burned, the king of hell invites you to drink." It is believed that when burning seven meets seven and eight, the King of Hell will torture the souls of the dead. In this case, the memorial ceremony should be carried out one day earlier or later.

In some rural areas of Guanzhong, when encountering the "Chong Qi", filial sons will put paper umbrellas on the graves of the deceased, in order to help the deceased souls avoid disasters. In Yanchang County in northern Shaanxi, a number of white paper flags are cut on the afternoon before "Chongqi", and children and daughters-in-law insert them from the door of the house to the grave, and invite the souls of the dead back home to pay homage to avoid disasters. The purpose of planting a white flag is to guide the way. It is said that if the soul of the deceased cannot return home in time, he can hide under the white flag to escape danger.