Immediately Qingming Festival, many local governments hurriedly came out to carry out the annual so-called "change customs" and break the "feudal superstition" activities, especially in Nantong, Jiangsu, which is the most lively and influential, and directly prohibits manufacturing and sales.
Not only Nantong, but a casual search for "banning paper burning" on the Internet found that many places in the country are prohibited, just like the ban on guns during the Chinese New Year, which has become a consensus.
The comrades with mobile phone numbers in Beijing should have received a text message that "burning paper and incense is prohibited on the Qingming Festival", and more than once, I have received it three times in the past few days. It's really heartwarming, I'm afraid you'll forget, and I take the trouble to remind you.
"The memorial is important in the heart", look at it, how patterned, how magnanimous, very suitable for the image and temperament of the magnificent atmosphere of the capital.
I actually don't quite understand, what is "feudal superstition"? What are the standards? Often compared with feudal superstition, there is also a positive word, called "faith", this word usually has little to do with Chinese, what we hear is generally "Chinese have no faith", first heard from the mouths of Chinese people who like to reflect, and then people all over the world know it, and now this sentence is heard in the ears of callousing.
What is feudal superstition? What is spiritual belief? It is probably that Chinese worship gods and ancestors is feudal superstition, and foreigners go to church to worship gods is a noble spiritual belief.
Actually, faith is not the same as religious belief. The tree is thousands of feet high, the leaves fall back to the root is faith, thousands of miles, going home for the New Year is also faith, and worshiping God and ancestors is even more faith. The Chinese believe in loyalty and filial piety, benevolence, righteousness and shame, rather than the extremely fanatical monotheistic religion.
On the one hand, it is the ridicule and contempt of outsiders, and on the other hand, there is extreme self-loathing within the country. For example, the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and other festivals.
For example, the Chinese New Year. From giving up the title "New Year" to the so-called Gregorian calendar, and then borrowing the "Spring Festival" from Lichun, and putting it on the head of the traditional Chinese "New Year", the Chinese began to have a bad name, began to misplace, and gradually became an empty shell, coupled with the urbanization process and the one-child policy, completely crushed the remaining tradition.
Many rural families still retain shrines and ancestral tablets in the halls, whether it is "Heaven and Earth Monarch Teacher" or "Heaven and Earth Three Realms Seventy-two Gods", the basic form is still there. However, after entering the city, due to the limited living environment, the worship of gods and ancestors had to be cancelled. The one-child policy is to break the previous big family, and replace it with a self-centered small family.
In addition, all the media remind you all the time that your festivals are uncivilized, and the customs that you have passed down for thousands of years are very vulgar and vulgar, so we have to "move your wind and change your customs".
So the connotation of Chinese festivals is only eating, eating Qingtuan on Qingming Festival, zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival, glutinous rice balls on Lantern Festival, and dumplings on Winter Solstice Festival. No, some people will tell you that Chinese know to eat during the holidays, and the food they eat is very unhealthy, and the Chinese diet is overcooked and full of harmful substances.
Either way, your customs are vulgar and uncivilized.
Many people may still remember that 20 years ago, there were no holidays for Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival, and these festivals were the same as the current Double Ninth Festival, almost only having names.
Around 2008, the Koreans directly came to the "bottom of the kettle" and applied for the so-called "Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival" as a world cultural heritage. This incident caused an uproar in China at that time, and caused a huge psychological impact on Chinese.
Although this is the garbage we threw away, but it was picked up by others as a treasure, that is not good, I am reluctant to throw it away, I have to pick it up quickly.
Therefore, that is, around 2008, Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival have become legal holidays.
I really hope that Koreans will quickly apply for Qingming customs such as paper burning on the World Heritage Site, and it is very likely that paper burning will suddenly be allowed in China again, not only allowed, but also greatly encouraged.
Having said that, we really don't need to be dead in our own traditions, don't make ourselves useless.
If one day, no one burns paper on the Qingming Festival, and the so-called "changing customs" is completed, and everyone believes in the purpose of "paying attention to the heart", for the entire cultural sense of the country, that is the real great sorrow.