A psychic talks about the ghost coins in the underworld
A psychic talks about the ghost coins in the underworld. In our folk tradition, when a person dies, relatives need to burn paper money. Paper money is also called ghost coins. Also called underworld paper, it is burned to family members during sacrifices. It is also used when worshiping ancestors and Bodhisattvas and Buddhas as coins for the deceased to use in the underworld. Let’s take a look at the psychic’s discussion on the underworld coins. A psychic talks about the underworld coins in the underworld 1
The first type has the longest history and is most effective. This type of underworld coins is called playing money. It is to use a mallet to beat the copper and iron money mold on the earthen paper. There are money-making spells by some inherited money-making spells. This kind of money is also recognized in the underworld.
The second type is Yuanbao money, which is made by pasting gold, silver and tin on paper to form a Yuanbao. This kind of money is widely circulated in Taoism and among the people, and is recognized by the underworld.
The development history of paper money
Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the theory of karma, rebirth, reincarnation and hell brought by the spread of Buddhism to the east has enabled people to understand the various and rich worlds on the other side. their imagination of the afterlife. Influenced by the karma of the immortal soul advocated by Buddhism, a large number of folk works have also been produced that specifically depict the underworld and the conditions of hell, such as supernatural novels since the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. The production of such novels, coupled with the propaganda of a large number of storytellers and Buddhists, caused everyone from common people to emperors and generals to believe deeply in Buddhism and the existence of the other side of the world.
According to Master Shengyan's "Buddhism of the Right Faith", the Chinese custom of burning paper money began after the Han Dynasty. Wang Yu, a Taichang doctor in the Tang Dynasty, said: "Since the Han Dynasty, funeral money has been "In later generations, it was regarded as a ghost thing to put money on paper." This means that since the Han Dynasty, coins have to be buried with the dead after death.
The ancients believed that people become ghosts after death, so Shuowen Jiezi also said that "people are classified as ghosts". Since people die as ghosts, it is assumed that the world of ghosts is the same as the human world, except that there are two elements of yin and yang. The worlds are just different, so I think ghosts also need to live and use money, so they are buried with coins. Later, people felt that it was a pity to use real coins, so they cut paper into the shape of money and burned it for ghosts to use. It was called paper money. After the paper money was circulated in modern times, it developed into the underworld currency of the "Bank of the Underworld".
Can dead people receive ghost coins?
In fact, Buddhism believes that the possibility of a person becoming a ghost after death is only one-sixth, because the ghost path is only one of the six reincarnations. , life is constantly rotating and reincarnating among the six realms, and which realm you are reincarnated into after death is driven by the karma and causes and conditions of your life (including previous lives), and you cannot make the decision.
Moreover, most people immediately enter the "bardo body" stage after death. After a maximum of forty-nine days, the bardo body will be reincarnated with karma. After this time, generally Nowadays, simply burning paper money or ghost coins has little or no benefit to the undead, but it may have benefits to lonely souls or other sentient beings in the ghost realm.
Let’s look at ghosts again. The ghosts mentioned in Buddhism are one of the six reincarnations. If you are really reincarnated into the ghost realm after death and become a so-called "ghost", it would be really bad, because ghosts Dao is one of the three evil paths in the six paths of reincarnation. Most sentient beings in the ghost path are very miserable and miserable. Buddhism is often called the "hungry ghost path" because it is the painful retribution caused by the corresponding bad karma created during life or previous lives. , suffering unimaginable pain every second, either dying or living, or half-dead and half-living with no end in sight. There is basically no possibility or opportunity to accept any money burned from the world, and there is no place. Go spend. Psychic Man Discussing the Underworld Coins 2
Before Cai Lun’s papermaking, it was customary for Chinese funerals to be buried with objects, including some gold, silver, jewelry and copper coins. However, the sacrifice of objects in burials often results in ancestors having their graves dug up and their bones lost. Whether the ancestors can use it is another matter. In short, the disadvantages outweigh the advantages, and there may even be disadvantages but no advantages. After the invention of papermaking, the custom of burning paper money originated in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, flourished in the Tang Dynasty, and continues to this day.
In the past, paper money was made by cutting paper into the shape of copper coins. When the deceased was buried and the coffin was moved, the family members would sprinkle the paper money at intersections and bridges to provide flowers for ghosts and gods on the roads and rivers to avoid making trouble. The souls of the dead are called "travel money". People scatter "travel money" along the way to the funeral, and burn a large amount of paper money when they arrive at the cemetery. In addition to burning paper money, the ancients also burned some gold and silver ingots made of tinfoil.
These are burned as flowers for the ancestors.
Modern paper money has kept pace with the times and began to develop paper money. The earliest printed banknotes were banknotes with images of the Jade Emperor or Emperor Yama. In recent years, for some unknown reason, they have evolved into imitation RMB-style banknotes with images of great men on them! It has been stopped by relevant departments.
It is said that these underworld coins are not recognized in the underworld and are not allowed to circulate at all. Think about it, if those banknotes worth billions or tens of billions could really circulate in the underworld, wouldn't they trigger inflation there?
At present, paper money is beginning to keep pace with the times. Tiandi Bank’s “underworld credit card” and “underworld check” have appeared one after another. The design of the “underworld credit card” is very similar to a real credit card. , the production is careful and exquisite. Instead of burning large amounts of paper money, "checks from the underworld" have huge sums written on them. I wonder if this thing will be considered a bad promise in the underworld? Speaking of bad checks, some people also burn blank "checks from the underworld" so that the deceased can enjoy the convenience and fun of writing their own checks in the underworld. In fact, it doesn’t need to be so troublesome. Don’t we all have “smartphones”? It would be great if our ancestors learned how to pay with their mobile phones! If the ancestors didn't know how to use it, they might have asked the two bosses to teach them.