The taboo and rule of burning paper on the Mid-Autumn Festival is not to buy burning paper in bundles, buy yellow paper and fold it before burning.

1. When buying burnt paper, don't buy piles of printed matter. One piece is much more. That money is not real, and it is not as valuable as old rubles and Vietnamese dong. You can't even buy a popsicle under a pile. It's too hairy However, while burning a lot of money, it's okay to burn more or less of this. There are many debt collectors here who insist on asking you for money and will grind you if you don't give it, so you have to answer them correctly with such small money.

2. To buy yellow paper, spread it out, take a piece of real money and press it on the paper, and cover it from right to left and top to bottom in rows until the whole paper is covered. Such burning paper is hard currency below. Money is real, and you have face in your pocket.

3. Fold the burnt paper, divide it into seven or eight pieces with one knife, and fold it diagonally twice, otherwise it will be very troublesome for a stack of paper to burn. It will be convenient to fold it and burn it.

Origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival

The origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival is also closely related to the Buddhist "Menglan Basin Society". "Menglan" is Sanskrit, which means upside down, and the basin refers to the container of offerings. They believe that this instrument can save the suffering of deceased parents and relatives. There is a story recorded in the Buddhist scripture "Meng Lan Pen Jing", which says that Mulian (also known as Mu Jian Lian), one of the top ten disciples of Sakyamuni, got six connections (six kinds of wisdom), and then inspected with the Taoist eye, and saw her dead mother suffering in the hungry ghost road, and she was as thin as a skin and bones.

Mulian was very sad, so he filled a bowl with rice and wanted to give it to his mother, but the rice was just delivered to his mother and turned to ashes before it was eaten. Mu Lian was helpless and cried and asked the Buddha to help save his mother. The Buddha said, "Your mother is sinful, and you can't save her by yourself. You have to rely on the Taoist power of ten monks. On the 15th day of July, when the monks settle down in summer and practice successfully, you should offer a grand pot of Menglan, feed the ten monks with all kinds of food, and rely on their spiritual power to save your mother."

Mu Lian followed the instructions of the Buddha, and his mother really broke away from the hungry ghost road. The Buddha also said: "In the future, all disciples of Buddhism can enjoy themselves (comfortably) on July 15th, when the Buddha likes the sun, prepare various kinds of food, and provide a wide range of pots for the monks. This will not only add happiness and longevity to the living parents, but also leave the suffering for the deceased parents and get happiness, in order to repay their parents' kindness in raising them.

refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhongyuan Festival for the above contents.