The purpose of burning paper is to hope that the deceased can live a better life in the underworld, and it is an emotional expression of people's yearning for their deceased relatives. The traditional custom of Mid-Autumn Festival is to offer sacrifices to ancestors and express the thoughts of their deceased relatives. Burning paper is just one of the expressions.

The Mid-Autumn Festival originated in the early "July and a half", harvesting crops in autumn and offering sacrifices to ancestors. The birth of "July 30" can be traced back to ancient ancestor worship and harvest festival. In ancient times, people often relied on the blessing of the gods to obtain a bumper harvest in agriculture. Worship ancestors in spring, summer, autumn and winter, but the "autumn flavor" in early autumn is very important. Autumn is the harvest season. People hold ceremonies to sacrifice the souls of ancestors, first offering the best seasonal products to the gods, and then tasting the fruits of these labors themselves, hoping for a bumper harvest in the coming year.

The custom of Mid-Autumn festival

1, Hebei: Botou City and Nanpi County take fruits, bacon, wine, money, etc. Go to the ancestral grave on July 15. It is called "recommending new things" to hold a hemp valley to a field stalk. The Mid-Autumn Festival in Guangping County offers fresh food to worship ancestors, and prepares fruits and vegetables and steamed sheep for grandchildren, which is called "sending sheep". On July 15, Qinghe County went to the grave to pay a sacrifice and offer steamed sheep to her daughter.

2. Shanxi: Scholars in Yonghe County sacrificed Kuixing on this day. The shepherd family in Zhangzi County slaughtered sheep in the Mid-Autumn Festival, competing with the gods. It is said that this can increase the output of sheep. Meat is also given to relatives, while those who are poor and have no sheep use steamed noodles in the shape of sheep instead. Farmers in Yangcheng county make cats, tigers and grains from wheat crumbs and sacrifice them in the fields, which is called "going to the fields". People in Mayi County take wheat flour as the shape of children in the Mid-Autumn Festival, named "Mianren", and give each other children from relatives. Farmers in Xinxian County hang colored paper on the stalks of fields on the Mid-Autumn Festival.