Nantong City, Jiangsu Province announced a complete ban on the sale of dark paper and dark money, and for a while, everyone was boiling. This is not some feudal superstition, it is part of traditional culture. Let me ask: How much traditional culture is left in an ancient civilized country?
Paper burning has existed for thousands of years as an act of remembrance of the deceased. If this behavior is feudal superstition and is to be forbidden, it means that the deceased does not need to be buried, and the deceased does not need to erect a monument. People go away with everything, and all forms of commemoration are avoided. In this way, flower commemoration is also a form of feudal superstition?
Some things are too one-size-fits-all, which has a negative effect on the spread of Chinese culture. If the firecrackers in the Spring Festival are not released, the New Year's flavor will be at least half. Qingming or July and a half are less paper money, and the remembrance of the sages seems to be less atmosphere. Urban management can consider the centralized management of a few cemeteries, and the countryside will publicize fire hazards before the festival.
It is a tradition to burn paper for sacrifices, and it is a way for family members to express their grief and remembrance of the deceased. Since it is a tradition, it should not ban burning across the board, and the relevant departments should plan humanely, appropriately limit, and set the regional scope of urban streets. If the burning of fire paper and money is rudely forbidden in the name of waste and superstition, is it still necessary for incense and candles to exist? Temples, Taoist temples, and ancestral halls should also ban incense and extinguish candles?
Netizen Chen Guotao said: When I burn paper money, I can always realize that a person's life is like this process of burning paper money. A small flame ignites, just like when I was born, so weak that it was easily blown out. The process of constantly adding paper money is like the care and feeding of parents and elders, so that the flame continues to grow and grow, and the future burns more and more. But it also needs to be controlled, otherwise it will burn everything around and cause damage. Then, the flame is extinguished, and the ashes are still burning, as if in the old age of life.
By the end, the ashes were all gone, leaving only a small speck of dust in a large pile of paper money. This is life, through the tribute to ancestors and deceased relatives, to understand the process and humility of life, and to express endless and helpless sorrow. Everyone has unspeakable suffering, when worshipping ancestors and burning paper, there are many grievances that can not be expressed, the thoughts of ancestors to relatives, and the indifference of human feelings in today's society, this traditional culture can make human feelings indifferent and ruthless into harmony.
Personally, I think that what we want to inherit is an excellent traditional culture, and what is really not suitable for modern civilization should be changed, but I don't advocate hard change. Wouldn't it be better to advocate step by step and make a little bit of restrictive change? Those things may not be useful, but we also need a kind of spiritual sustenance to live, which is a kind of emotional expression.
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