It is natural in a culture to have certain ceremonies functioning as access to gods and ancestors. People use certain ceremony to build as well as revise the connection to the ones they trust in.
At the first time these ceremonies were created, they were certainly complete and fixed sets of actions, but as time goes by, these ceremonies turns into varies of forms, as a result of different culture background and other synthetic factors. Sometimes even in the same country, the process of feting the same god varies in different regions. Meanwhile feting ceremonies varies from region to region, they are also simplified since people's pace of life today are becoming quicker and quicker. So does these alternatives matter?
Why no begin with the reason why people do these ceremonies? Let's let alone the belief arena and just talk about the motivation of such action (in fact religious belief among youth in east Asia isn't very strong today). People in trouble or feel helpless tend to seek help from other strength, and religious or supernatural belief can become one resource of mental support. Ceremonies like burning symbolized paper products can also relief the sorrow and depress of having beloved relatives gone. By being a part of these ceremonies, no matter if perfect process is followed, can make people alive feel they are actually making the person gone live a better life.
Just like what was said in the interview this week, once the ceremony is taken out of a good tendency, no matter how it is held, it works. After all, the original reason why fete is created is to deposit people's good intention.
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