Yes, people's superstition is that they are afraid of the unknown and don't know how to solve it, so they believe in the gods.
Zhang Hongjie talked about the burial of Zeng Guofan's grandmother in Zeng Guofan's Biography. Grandfather insisted on burying his grandmother in his favorite wooden chong, while others thought it was narrow and the feng shui was not good, so it was not suitable for burial.
Finally, Zeng Guofan's depression made his grandfather unbearable and he agreed to bury his grandmother in Muchong.
Coincidentally, since grandma was buried, many happy events have taken place in the Zeng family. Grandpa is ill, even adding three Ding, and his younger brother is a scholar. Zeng Guofan was promoted to assistant minister of the Ministry of War several times.
Depending on the situation, people have to believe that it is the good feng shui burial of grandma's cemetery that sheltered future generations.
Is that really the case?
In fact, it's just that people are full of fear about the unknown future, and something good happens at this time, which is considered as a good choice for ancestral graves.
Great, thanks to the ancestral graves.
This may be the obsession to avoid ignorance. I have to say that people have been convinced of this obsession for thousands of years.
Including my late mother.
I remember when I was a child, my mother believed in superstition. She always asks the gods for blessing in everything, and often goes to fortune-telling and divination. This seems to turn bad luck into good luck.
Even when taking care of my sister's daughter, she went to the so-called "master" to get water (that is, water made of incense ashes) in order to cure the child's cold, and she was convinced that this would cure the child's fever.
I scoffed at this behavior and subverted my imagination. If it can be cured, why do we need a doctor?
10 years ago, even when his mother needed to be hospitalized because of the worsening diabetes, he still believed that the gods she believed in would help her tide over the difficulties.
And finally? The gods were still powerless and did not bring her a miracle.
Therefore, having faith is not terrible. The terrible thing is, because of ignorance, I deeply fell into the wrong obsession with faith.