Can Someone Exprain to me?

[Darryn]

This morning when I came to work, the whole carpark was littered with 7th Month offerings that had blown from the incinerator.

 

This I don't understand. I'm just an ignorant furriner but it seems to me that there's a couple of takes on this

 

1. The offerings are burnt to send them to the "otherworld". If you are supposed to burn them, but don't - isn't that like throwing away stuff? Wouldn't be equivalent to drawing money for your parents, and then flushing it down the toilet?

2. If I did something like that, my grandparents would haunt me mercilessly

3. If you don't really believe, and are just doing this for the sake of tradition - don't you care that you are making one hell of a mess all other the place?

 

It just perplexes me. I don't get it.

[RadX]

go to the noticed thread. your post will be there