Where did the custom of not wearing red clothes and red hats come from during mourning?

It was handed down from our ancestors, but I'm afraid no one knows the earliest situation, but red represents happiness, so it can't appear in white? History is a long time ago. During the mourning period, ancient children paid attention to wearing filial piety and white mourning clothes within 100 days; After a hundred days, wear dark clothes such as black and blue to show filial piety, and avoid wearing red and green heavy makeup. In modern society, although many friends wear the word "filial piety" instead of mourning for such a long time because of their work and life; However, you still can't wear red with green.

Pingdu's dutiful son is wearing a white coat and trousers. Buttons and buttons are made of coarse cotton. When making them, you can't cut them with scissors, you can only tear them by hand. The first move is to avoid cutting off the roots of future generations, and the second move is to reflect the pain of heartbreak after losing loved ones. The edge of the skirt is raw, so there is no need to sew, which symbolizes endless pain. Wearing a dutiful son hat with a cylindrical spire made of white cloth, the top is tied with hemp rope (or quilt, now mostly nylon leather). When his father died, he tied a cotton ball on the left ear of the filial piety hat, and when his mother died, he tied it on his right side. Put a small piece of linen on his forehead to cover his eyes, to show his bereavement. Don't listen to him. In addition to mourning, you should wear a sleeveless coarse coat, tie a hemp rope around your waist and attach an axe or two. This is called "Pima Dai Xiao".

The daughter-in-law of the deceased not only has white mourning clothes with buttons, but also wears a pointed head made of a few feet of white cloth, with a hanging cloth tied around her waist and a hemp rope tied around her waist. Wear a headband in Zhugou and Pingtung Guxian. Grandchildren, granddaughters, nephews, etc. Wearing "flower filial piety" means sewing a blue cloth or red cloth strip on the filial piety hat or knee. Daughter-in-law and granddaughter-in-law who have never been through the door should tie six feet of red cloth around their waist. Men and women in mourning need to cover their uppers with white cloth, commonly known as "framed shoes". When the old man dies, he can't pretend completely. Only when the two old people are dead can they get on the horse completely. Children also have to hold willow branches wrapped in yellow paper, commonly known as "filial piety sticks". Its meaning is: first, it is reluctant to part with you, and second, it is to prevent excessive pain. I can't walk normally and need to rely on the support of filial piety.

At the same time, Dai Xiao has to break the filial piety, that is, to those who attend the funeral, we should distribute corresponding mourning clothes according to the distance between relatives and friends. At present, adults usually bring less than three clothes, and each person is divided into six feet or one foot and two feet of white cloth. Others usually give a dutiful son a hat or a three-foot "waist tie", while women give a three-foot "circle head".

Wake up. After the death of the deceased, a mourning hall should be set up with a sacrificial table in front. Incense burners, candle stands, ever-burning lamps, chicken, fish, meat, steamed bread, vegetables and other offerings should be placed on the table. An old man died for five steamed buns; Two old people died and provided 10 steamed bread. Put a brazier in front of the table, and then start burning paper money and incense in the basin, and light a "corpse taking" lamp, also called an ever-burning lamp. The children knelt on both sides of the coffin bed with men on their heads and women on their feet to wake the dead.

During the wake, men don't shave their heads, women don't comb their hair, sleep on pillows, drink porridge and be vegetarian, and stay in front of the wake day and night to show filial piety. It is necessary to burn incense, paper and oil constantly to ensure that the incense will not go out and the lights will not go out. Cats and dogs are forbidden to walk in front of the spirit to prevent the dead from "corpse". Always accompany those who come to mourn, wail and kowtow to thank you. According to folklore, after the death of parents, if the children don't cry, the offspring will be dumb. Influenced by this custom, many children were unfilial before their parents died, but they cried decently after their death.