Excuse me, why do you put red, white, gray and yellow notes on the grave when you sweep it?

In addition to the purpose of giving money to ancestors, red paper was also pressed on the tomb, indicating that some people were engaged in wedding ceremonies in later generations. This is what Lu Fangweng meant when he said, "Don't forget to tell the family that it is Weng". This red paper is for sweeping the grave.

There are two ways for people in Taiwan Province Province to sweep graves: repairing tombs and pressing paper. Generally speaking, it takes three years to cultivate a new tomb, and a bride or boy at home also needs to cultivate a tomb. Sacrifices such as pork, chicken, fish, rice cakes and potatoes. We must be prepared to cultivate graves. If you want to have children or buy land, you need to bring a pair of "children's lanterns" to comfort your ancestors. And pressing paper only needs to cultivate soil and weed, clean the grave, and finally press the tomb paper on the grave with stones.

"Pressing paper is to repair houses for ancestors. In the past, houses were mostly covered with thatch and tiles. The purpose of' pressing paper' is to prevent the ancestral home from leaking rain due to years of disrepair. " Lin Maoxian explained that this custom also embodies the idea of "death is like life" in traditional funeral customs.

There are also differences in the styles of tomb paper among descendants in different regions: for example, descendants of Zhangzhou people often use yellow tomb paper to "press paper", Quanzhou immigrants use five-color tomb paper, and Hakkas often use red tomb paper.

The origin of grave paper:

Liu Bang was the first emperor of the Han Dynasty. He successfully ended years of war and established the Han Dynasty, which was called "Emperor Gaozu" in history.

It is said that after Liu Bang ascended the throne, he returned to his hometown to hold celebrations. However, his parents have passed away and can no longer share his success. In fact, during the war, no one remembered where his parents' graves were.

Liu Bang and his servants searched desperately in the village cemetery and found some colorful pieces of paper flying in the air. It turns out that this is a local custom of sacrificing paper to the gods. Liu bang had a brainwave, grabbed a piece of paper and threw it in the wind. He silently prayed that these pieces of paper could guide the right direction, only to see them fly to a grave and fall. Liu Bang declared this to be Raul's grave and built a huge tombstone here. Since then, every year when people in Tomb-Sweeping Day visit the grave, they will press a few pieces of paper with stones on the tombstone to show their respect for the remains of their ancestors.

The traditional custom of northerners calls burning paper money for the deceased ancestors to go to the grave. Every time I go to the grave, I have to press the grave paper. Especially in Tomb-Sweeping Day, weeds growing on ancestors' graves should be sorted out first, and then the tomb paper should be pressed on the graves with clods or bricks, indicating that the graves have heirs, otherwise it will be easily mistaken for orphan graves and destroyed. The tomb paper in the north is mainly Huang Xian paper, and the texture is that the more tension Huang Yue has, the better. First, dig a piece of green turf with a shovel, press it on the grave, and then lay paper on the southeast side of the grave for burning.