What are the rules of Pima Dai Xiao?

1. Xiao wears linen, a hemp hat, sandals on his feet and a straw rope around his waist. If this dutiful son has been adopted by someone else, don't wear a hemp hat to tie his head white and a leucorrhea around his waist to show the difference. When the dutiful son goes out, he should put this set in a bamboo basket to show his sense of existence.

2. Filial piety wears yellow linen, a yellow hat and a leucorrhea at the waist; Grandnephew is also dressed in yellow without a hat; Great-grandchildren wear green clothes and green hats; Grandnephew is green, too. He doesn't wear a hat.

The origin of Pima Dai Xiao:

Once upon a time, an old woman had two sons. After they got married, they didn't honor their mother. In order to let them know what feedback is, the old woman thought of a way.

One day, she called her two sons to bed and said, "After I die, you don't need to spend any money. Just roll me up with a broken straw mat and bury me. " But from today on, you will see crows on locust trees and owls in the Woods living behind the house every day until I close my eyes.

The mother can be buried without spending a penny, which is exactly what the two unfilial sons want, and they immediately agreed. The two brothers had no intention of watching the life of crows and owls, but after being reminded by my mother, they couldn't help but pay attention after work. It turns out that crows and owls are very careful when feeding their children. These little guys always need to be fed with their mouths open.

When the little crow grows up, her mother can't fly, so she stays at home. The little crow fills her mouth with food. The little crow is old and has its own children to feed, and the feeling of feeding back is passed down from generation to generation. But owls are different. Mom is old and useless, so the owl ate her.

The more the brothers watched, the more guilty they became, and gradually changed their attitude towards their mother. However, the weather is not beautiful, and the two brothers have just begun to honor and support their mother, but her old man has just died. In order to remember the lessons of good and evil, filial piety and rebellion of crows and owls, on the day of burial, they imitated the color of crow feathers, dressed in black clothes, imitated the color of owl fur and wore a linen coat.

Since then, this custom has gradually spread. In some places, people are poor and can't afford to wear black clothes, so they wear a black cloth on their arms.