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Origins of burning joss paper
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07/11/2014
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The practice of burning joss paper is a longstanding tradition in folk . Traced the origin of the custom of burning paper money and found this Votive tradition derived from ancient Chinese society .
According to the United thinkers Tang Yu said : " From the Han dynasty , had to bury his money and then take the money instead of paper ." According to the pure-minded beliefs of the Chinese in the ancient times is , it is believed that the dead are not lost but transformed into devils ( demons wrote factor - Ton Nhan Nguyen , Kinh Le, Thien International law Publisher . Literature , 1999 , p . 192 ) .
"The concept of death devil wrote ," is formed from the five university ( more than 2000 years BC ) . From this concept , it is believed that the dead and the living, as ie birth and death. What people alive on how to spend it , then you die and need to have that . Due to such trust , so after death , the deceased's body buried in the items they need , including money to spend for the dead . This is their expressed deep intimate relationship when they live so well as the time of death .
According to archeologists , they have discovered from excavations and affirmed this. But later , it was found that the buried objects and money damages , is so wasteful , so it is gradually revealed new ways to use things and make fake money , paper author , to spend the dead .
Thus, the burning votive paper money is the practice of Chinese origin from ancient times . Of course , this tradition has huge impact in the spirit expressed deep feelings of the Chinese people . Since then spread influence affected the national life of their civilized culture . Vietnam is one of the countries most deeply affected , because our country has gone through a long period of time they were ruled .
This practice should be made clear , according to the Buddhist view , this is a costly waste of useless . Because the Buddhist conception , who died later than 49 business days depending on certain student falls into the realm of good and evil are different , because it has caused the creation of life . Different realm , the items of each species depends now official , but they also use different life . Therefore , can not take things in the world that gives beings in other realms . So , how are they for beneficiaries ?
For example, the human beings living on earth , the only difference between the boundary only, that the amount of water that among these , are not to be carried by other countries that have been able to spend , to spend , need to to convert. So , how then does the burning of paper money by the end of the fly ash , how the dead are getting to spend ? This is nothing , is to show love for the idea of living piety towards the dead ball . Doing this , that comes from the heart of the sincere desire to live to die happily full .
