When is the best time to burn paper during the Midyear Festival? What s so important?

China's 5,000-year-old culture has been passed down to this day, and Confucianism has penetrated into everyone's bone marrow, and humility and kindness are the duty of every Chinese. Everyone is talking about what faith is, faith in addition to religious belief, the faith of the Chinese is kindness, simply a character, everyone strives to do nothing more than to make their own character writing beautiful and down-to-earth. We often have a saying that recognizes ancestors and returns to their ancestors, which is not only the inheritance of culture, but also the inheritance of blood.

So the midyear festival is a festival to commemorate the ancestors, let's talk about when the best time to burn paper in the midyear festival, and what is the importance of burning paper in the midyear festival? Let's take a closer look.

Generally, during the Midyear Festival, every family will go out to burn paper for their deceased relatives to pay tribute and remember, so that they can live a better life in the world on the other side. People in this world will always be concerned about their closest people, but the division of the two worlds, can not cut off everyone's blood and family affection, at night on the occasion of the moonlight, is the best time to burn paper in the Midyear Festival, while the night, we can tell some of the usual unspeakable feelings of missing, or do not say a word, everything is in action.

What are the particulars of the Midyear Festival? In fact, the emphasis on each region is different, but everyone agrees that it is not possible to burn paper in advance during the Midyear Festival, because if you burn paper before the Midyear Festival, then it is very likely that the lost relatives will not receive it.

Many people think that burning paper on the Midyear Festival is just a process, but I have to say that the customs that can be handed down by the ancestors must have some origins. Here, we also hope that those deceased relatives can catch up with a good era in the next life, forget all the suffering in this life, and compensate for their kindness with the happiness of the next life.

It is generally best at night. And when the paper is burned, you should clean the surroundings and choose some soft paper.

Try to be at night, this is also a kind of feudal superstition, and it is also a tradition left over from the old society, and at the same time, people will pay tribute to their ancestors on this day, and then they will also put river lanterns. So don't believe in this traditional custom, be sure to believe in science.

On the day of the Midyear Festival, the time to burn paper is generally chosen when it is dark, that is, after 9 pm to before 12 pm.

But because burning paper is the most solemn activity of this festival, so according to different places, the time of burning paper will naturally be different, take people in some areas, they tend to burn paper money in advance, and generally choose to burn on July 14.

But normally, it is more common to burn paper on the night of July 15.

Legend has it that on the night of July 15, the Lord of Yama will close the ghost door, so those lonely ghosts and wild ghosts will take the opportunity to make trouble, people in order to prevent the mountain gods and wild "ghosts" from entering the house, every household burns paper money inside and outside the house, lights incense and wax paper to surround their houses, and children are not allowed to go out at night, in case they are caught by wild ghosts in the chaos.

1. Many families will tell the family to burn paper carefully, such as when burning paper, it is only possible when it is completely dark.

2. The time to burn paper during the Midyear Festival must be selected when it is dark, generally after 9 o'clock in the evening and before 12 o'clock.

3. Burning paper money is the most solemn sacrificial activity during the period, according to different regions, the time of burning paper money is different, and some Tongsu areas will burn paper money in advance, burning on July 14. But generally speaking, the paper money burning event on the night of July 15 is the most grand.