Why should a piece of cloth be covered on the body of the funeral home? What's the point?

Because of the rapid loss of water in the body after death, the blood stops flowing and coagulating, the color of the skin surface will darken, and many spots will appear on the body, so a piece of cloth will be covered to prevent relatives from being sad or even afraid.

Another is that after death, the surface of the corpse will emit a smell, and the naked skin of the corpse will attract many flies. Covering the body with cloth can also play a certain role in absorbing water and preventing corrosion. However, today's remains will be placed in the cold storage, so it is more important to prevent the remains from contacting with the air too much and prevent the bodies from being destroyed.

It is not the funeral home that covers the body with white cloth, but it is the same everywhere. Cover the body with white cloth, not from the funeral home. It first came from the Zhou Dynasty, and it was recorded in Zhou Li. It is the practice of funeral homes to cover bodies with white cloth, while hospitals cover them with blue cloth. According to Bai Wu, it comes from white cloth strips and was collected after the death of the folk deceased.

The deceased will cover his face with a piece of yellow paper or a piece of cloth, wear a shroud, cover himself with a quilt or something like that. You don't need too many long speeches and a lot of unimportant things to make up the numbers. To put it simply, covering the body with a quilt or cloth is mainly to prevent the body from looking too horrible and scaring others.

Flies like to lay eggs and hatch larvae on carcasses and meat. These fly larvae will quickly suck the rotten liquid, causing the corpse to stink and rot quickly. Therefore, covering with a quilt or cloth is to isolate flies, delay the decomposition of the corpse, and also to cover the corpse and avoid scaring the living children, because the appearance of the corpse is really scary.

In fact, some practices of funeral parlours absorb and draw lessons from some folk funeral traditions. Covering the body is good for the living and the dead. No matter how the body is repaired, the dead are still dead, which is very different from the living. Generally, it's scary before makeup, so you must cover it up first. You can cover your face or not after makeup.