Thus strict demarcation lines are observed, with gold-foil money being reserved for deities and silver-foil money for ancestral ghosts and minor demons.
俗語說「有錢能使鬼推磨」，神明或許可以不送錢，對難纏小鬼卻還是免不了要以「小人之心，度小鬼之腹」，打點一番。因此道教拜神也不主張燒金紙，不過在打發小鬼，才燒化少量銀紙，花「錢」消災、息事寧「鬼」嘛。