My Ranch

“Buy it for me? What did you buy?” Hearing them, Jiang Hai looked towards them with some confusion, he was really not sure, and what Hearing-Jiang Hai said, Feng Yunchen and Ai Xiaoxi here He couldn’t help but glance at him, then took out a bunch of keys, scratched off the layer of tape on the outside of the parcel, and then a piece of gold glorious thing appeared in front of Jiang Hai.

When I walked closer, Jiang Hai looked strangely towards 2 people, because the contents of this box, uh, the speaking of which is really a bit obscure, this is a box of paper, but this paper is not strange to Jiang Hai It was the paper that burned the elderly at home.

This game should not be easy to play in the United States, and only San Francisco with a large Chinese population will have this thing.

But Jiang Hai really doesn’t understand. Why do you make these things? Qingming passed by tomorrow morning.

“It’s almost Ghost Festival, stupid.” Looking at Jiang Hai’s confused look, Ai Xiaoxi here could not help but scold him.

In fact, she was also a few days ago. When talking on the phone with her at home, her mother asked her, by the way, she would n’t come back for the festival during the Mid-Autumn Festival. After all, they have n’t seen Ai Xiaoxi in some days. After the festival, I said something casually, and went to her grandfather to grave in a few days. After listening to Ai Xiaoxi, she also wrote it down.

Then I quietly bought this box of paper for Jiang Hai. It is indeed going to the Ghost Festival, and Jiang Hai will not go back to Harbin to offer a sweep. I will burn the paper here to show my heart. As for sending If you do n’t send it, who knows?

In fact, this thing is more of a form, a way for living people to miss their ancestors.

According to materialistic thinking, when a person dies, there is nothing left. Will there really be a soul or something? No one knows.

Anyway, Jiang Hai hasn’t seen it. As for Jiang Hai’s generation, not many people believe in this thing.

Maybe in a few decades, when Jiang Hai and their next generation grow up, even this tradition is expected to disappear.

For Jiang Hai, in fact, he did n’t remember too much about burning paper, like his mother said. He ’s not filial alive and barking when he ’s dead. What ’s the use? When people should be filial, they are alive. When people are gone, no matter how big the show is, others who really deserve to be filial ca n’t remember.

So before Ai Xiaoxi didn’t come, Jiang Hai burned it in Qingming, and went home to burn it in the New Year, that’s all, but now Ai Xiaoxi and Feng Yunchen remember this, Jiang Hai is still very relieved.

“You don’t say, I don’t remember, what day is it?” Looking at the two people in front of him, Jiang Hai smiled with a stroke of hair.

“This thing doesn’t burn on the day … the day after tomorrow is the day, but we can burn it tonight or tomorrow.” At a glance at Jiang Hai, it seems that Jiang Hai really did not understand these, and Ai Xiaoxi was born in the country. , To these is to know the point.

China’s traditional festivals have 3 yuan, but everyone is familiar with only the first yuan festival, which is the 5th of the first month.

Commonly known as the Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival, etc., in modern terms, after the 5th, it means that the New Year has passed.

Of course, in the current situation, few people work after 5:1.

Basically, they have finished the 5th grade, and the 6th and 7th grades have already gone to work. Nowadays, the pace of people’s life can be completely different from the ancient times. Except for the Upper Yuan Lantern Festival, Central Yuan and Lower Yuan know Few people.

The San Yuan Festival is mainly related to Taoism. Taoism has 3 officials, heaven officials, earth officials, and water officials. The so-called heaven officials bless. So in ancient times, everyone had the Yuan Festival. Sin, the water officer relieved.

The official birthdays of the three officials are the first lunar month of the lunar calendar, the fifth of July, the fifth of July, and the fifth of October.

In ancient times, October 5th was the time for the Great Family to sacrifice ancestors, but it is no longer there. After all, after the establishment of the new China, there are no more families to speak of, so Jiang Hai they are all just the Yuan Festival.

The Ghost Festival actually does n’t know many people, but in recent years, when promoting China ’s traditional culture, it seems that this festival has also been promoted. At this time of the year, there are stars everywhere It is basically the same in all parts of the country, but it is not worshipped on the regular day. This seems to have some opinions.

Jiang Hai doesn’t understand this, but since Ai Xiaoxi understands, then just follow her words …

After understanding the situation, Jiang Hai began to sort out the contents of the box. There were a lot of yellow paper in the box, and a lot of paper money, apart from this, and a lot of paper ingots like gold ingots. .

The customs are different and the things are different in each place, but the northeast where Jiang Hai is located is somewhat similar to the customs in Shandong.

After all, many people in Northeast passed by when Shandong broke through Kanto, so Jiang Hai listened to Ai Xiaoxi, and he was busy for a long time. Before the evening, Jiang Hai got these things done.

Qi Jie and Qi Ya have seen these things before, so nothing unexpected.

On the contrary, Avra, they are a little bit confused, Dalena and Marianne, but went back with Jiang Hai in the middle of the year, naturally they have seen these things, so they are not obviously strange, Jiang Hai simply talked to these people after that.

In the evening, Jiang Hai and their entire group left the manor. This thing was burned, but it was not burned in their own home. Even if Jiang Hai’s home was so large, it could not be burned at home, because according to the older generation, burn This thing, but it will attract some Ghost Messenger and Wandering Soul, and recruited into their own home, which is obviously not a wise choice.

So they went out to find a crossroads and drove to Winthrop for more than ten minutes. Jiang Hai, they found a small crossroad, and they did n’t know if it was useful at a crossroad in the United States. Anyway, it was just Jiang Does Hai have a heart?

First went to find a branch, and then made a circle, leaving a mouth in the middle, this is where Ghost Messengers withdraw money.

Then Jiang Hai lit the yellow paper on which he wrote the ‘address’ first, and then began to put the paper in the circle while he meditated.

Not long after, the raging fire had already burned, and people could see it as far away as possible.

Many people living around the town saw the fire, and some even called the police directly.

Just kidding, in the United States, many customs in China are difficult to understand, such as traditional Chinese medicine, rituals, speaking habits, etc. This Jiang Jiang also said before that Chinese speaking likes politeness, such as Someday I will invite you to dinner! Let’s get together next time! Chinese always says so.

But in the United States, if you say so, this person will really be waiting for you to invite him to dinner, to get together with him, and the aa system will do. If you do n’t find him, then he will not be happy and think you are a liar. He, some radical people, friends have no choice.

Some people boil Chinese medicine at home, and then neighbors call the police and say that they made it at home-poison.

The same is true at the ceremony. In addition to protests in the United States, meetings must be reported to the government.

And the Chinese should be considered an accident, because the Chinese in the United States, not at all, the idea of ​​only children, so a Chinese family is sometimes very large, when they look, when they will know their ancestors, or at a party when.

There were hundreds of people all at once, but in the earliest days, those police officers and the like were not a little alarmed, that is, they have been better in recent years, and the paper was burned during the ceremony … hehe, which is naturally not acceptable in the United States.

However, Jiang Hai did not know this, and other people did not. When someone saw Jiang Hai and they burned paper there, there were some good citizens who called the police. They did not know what Jiang Hai was doing, so they asked the police to ask Ask better.

Just when Jiang Hai and they burned the paper, the two police cars over here drove over. After they found it was Jiang Hai, the people coming down from the two police cars were very polite and came to Jiang Hai with a smile.

“Mr. Jiang, what are you doing here?” The two policemen asked strangely, looking at Jiang Hai who was still burning paper.

“Uh, burn paper, how do you say this? This is our custom in China to commemorate the deceased ancestors, isn’t this okay?” Watching the police all over, Jiang Hai also stunned, then remembered, This may not work … After all, in the United States, the flowers were given at the time of the memorial service, and no one burned the paper. Jiang Hai did this now, as if it had some problems.

“There are some residents who don’t know what you are doing, so they responded to us. I don’t know how long it will take you?” Hearing-Jiang Hai said that the two policemen also laughed. So good to say.

If it is other people in general, they may have to talk and drive away, but the paper burning is Jiang Hai, then they really don’t say anything. Fortunately, the paper burning on Jiang Hai is also very fast.

After hearing their words, Jiang Hai also accelerated their pace. About ten minutes later, the contents of that box were burned out, and watching the fire burned out, Jiang Hai said apologetically, Then got in the car and left.

Jiang Hai After they left, the two policemen left after watching the fire go out.

Otherwise, there was a fire or something, Jiang Hai couldn’t run, they couldn’t run either.

“It looks like I won’t be able to burn paper anymore.” Jiang Hai grinned after touching his nose. This is really annoying. Although Jiang Hai doesn’t care about these formal problems, but He still burns when it’s time to burn.

But next time, he may have to find a way to burn it again …