Written by Yanagi Cheng
The headline Q&A gave me a serious topic: Does burning paper have a big impact on air quality?
This is a boring topic, and the author was not interested in answering, but Toutiaojun put gold on my face: Thousands of friends are looking forward to my speech, and it is an exclusive invitation.
Flattered, it seems that he had to answer.
I just want to ask a rhetorical question: does smoking have a big impact on air quality?
Northerners burn paper on the grave during the Qingming Festival, southerners burn at the three-way intersection, and those who are not south or north burn at home.
Taking the central Jiangsu region as an example, on the day of the Qingming Festival, prepare a table of food at home, fold some paper money to burn, and the family kowtows to be considered a sacrifice.
The folded paper money was burned in the south-facing corner of the room, and it burned in a minute or two, and it didn't feel like it was smoky, and it turned to ashes in an instant. Nowadays, the paper money is all tinpoon paper, and the smoke produced is almost negligible.
My house has been built for 30 years, and Qingming has burned paper money at home 30 times, however, the wall has not been blackened so far, is it that the smoke produced by burning paper money can be ignored?
Smoking, however, will smoke the walls. Every time I write, I can't do without cigarettes on my fingers, and after I finish writing a short article, the clouds are already in the fog in the study. It's been the same thirty years, and the walls have turned yellow.
People can smoke every day, and the Qingming Festival is only one day a year, so who has the greatest influence?
However, knowing that smoking is harmful to health, they did not close down the cigarette factory, and they did not prohibit the burning of paper in Qingming Dynasty, but they banned the production and sale of it.
What kind of logic is this?
Is the exhaust fumes from automobiles more harmful than burning paper money? Why is it not banned from production and sales? Is the smoke emitted from chimneys in factories worse than the smoke from burning paper money? Why is it not banned?
Catch the pollution of air quality, you shouldn't catch the sesame seeds and lose the watermelon!