Common sense of funeral culture

1. What are the traditional funeral customs in China?

Ceremony 1. Mortuary ceremony: He was moved to the coffin bed in the main room and spent the last moment of his life under the protection of his relatives. This is called "quite mourning".

2. Funeral ceremony: Funeral ceremony can be said to be the first ceremony after death. It tells relatives, friends and villagers the news of someone's death through signals. 3. Soul-evocation ceremony: the soul of a guest who died in a foreign land could not find the way home. Only when his family "evokes the soul" for him and lets him hear that the enterprise expects his voice can he follow the voice.

4. Performing the "Seven-Day Rite": People think that people don't know that they are dead until seven days after death, so they should hold the "Seven-Day Rite" and offer sacrifices every seven days. The "July 7th" will not end until forty-nine days later. This is mainly influenced by Buddhism and Taoism.

5. Mourning ceremony: Generally, mourners carry clothes and quilts presented to the deceased, and hang a note with the words "XXX" on it with a pin. 6. Funeral ceremony: Funeral can be divided into "big funeral" and "small funeral". Xiao Ji refers to dressing the dead, and "coat" refers to the coffin of the body receiver. The Han people commonly call it "Da Gui Wu".

7. Funeral: In the funeral, the younger generation wears mourning clothes for the elders mainly to express filial piety and mourning. This was originally from Zhou Li, a Confucian ritual system. Later, it was extended to "exemption from punishment" for the deceased.

8. Funeral Ceremony: According to superstition, people who died on the first day of the month should be buried on soft days; If you die in Rouri, you must choose to be buried in Gangri, and Gangri and Rouri should cooperate well. 9. Mourning ceremony: Mourning is a major feature of funeral customs in China. The mourning ceremony runs through the funeral ceremony and there are many big scenes.

The mourning ceremony at the funeral is the most important. 10. burial ceremony: this is the last moment for the deceased to stay in the world, and it is usually very serious.

Editor's note of the original grave, burning for seven days, burning for one hundred days, burning for the first anniversary and burning for the third anniversary 1: The funeral custom in China since ancient times is: the custom of going to the original grave three days after the funeral, that is, people buried in the cemetery need to go to the cemetery, put out offerings, burn incense, step on the yard and burn paper. The urn is stored in the funeral home, where only offerings, incense and burning paper are placed.

2. From the date of death, people burn paper once every seven days, seven times, seven classes and forty-nine days, which is called burning seven (also called doing seven or committing seven). At present, it is often changed to four times, namely: 17 (changed to three-day original grave), 37, 57, 77 (now only the odd number is burned, and the big seven is burned).

According to the funeral custom, it was burned on July 17, 1977, mainly by the son of the deceased, and it was called: a head and a tail; Sanqi, mainly the daughter-in-law of the deceased; Five or seven, mainly the daughters of the deceased. (Burn five pots of paper flowers).

According to the funeral custom, burn seven (do seven). There is also a special need to talk about the seven deadly sins.

What is Article 7? According to the lunar calendar, from the date of death. If every seventh day falls on the seventh, seventeenth and twenty-seventh day of the seventh lunar month, it is called committing seven deadly sins. For example, the coincidence of Sanqi these days is committing Sanqi. There is a saying: "The dead don't commit the seven deadly sins, and the living have no food to eat", which means that committing the seven deadly sins is beneficial to the living, but the dead will suffer. Therefore, in this case, the living need to eliminate disasters for the dead, that is, they need to go to the grave to shower seven showers for the dead.

Take Shanxi as an example, the specific method is: paper-cut people with hemp paper, the number is three more than the life span of the deceased, tied to straw, cut an umbrella, a ladder and a bridge. Surround these paper men in a circle, put them in front of the grave, put umbrellas, ladders and bridges in the middle, then pour water on the paper men with a colander of walnuts and dates, and piously read various words to remind the dead, such as sheltering from the rain, crossing the bridge, thundering and so on.

3. Significance of Hundred Days Burning, Anniversary Burning and Third Anniversary Burning: After a person dies in the underworld, * * there are ten Wang Guan (prosecutors of the underworld) and four judges. Their duties are: to ask the deceased and interrogate good and evil according to what he did before his death. * * * There are ten Wang Guan, who are in charge of the ten halls, and must pass through the first seven halls. Seven times to pay homage to Ming Wang, and check his deeds of | "kindness" before his death. Forty-nine days later, he was transferred to the Cao Yin court for the fourth trial, with the first trial every ten days, and the trial was transferred once: the first trial, (the first ten days, the fifty-ninth day) Judge Cui Shi; In the second instance, (20th, 69th) Judge Li; Third trial, (30 days, 79th day) Judge Han; The fourth trial, (lent, 89 days) Judge Yang; In another ten days, it will be 99 days, burning for a hundred days (called short hundred days, long anniversary), and then worshiping. The eighth hall will be the first anniversary of the Ming Dynasty, and the ninth hall will be the third anniversary of the Ming Dynasty. After the Ming dynasty, it is necessary to decide how to be reborn and how to be reincarnated.

2. What are the funeral rituals in China?

What are the funeral rituals in China?

1, notify friends and relatives

If the family of the deceased is absent, the first thing people present should do is to inform the family of the deceased. And inform one or two good friends who are capable and close to the deceased. Family members and close friends of the deceased should inform their close relatives by telephone. Even if they live far away, if the telephone bill is too expensive, friends and distant relatives can inform them by telegram.

2. Death certificate

The death certificate should be filled out by the doctor who is responsible for caring for the deceased. If it is sudden death or accidental death, or there is no doctor present at the time of death for some reason, a public doctor should conduct an examination to determine the cause of death and fill in the death certificate. This procedure must be completed immediately, because nothing else can be started until the death certificate is completed.

Step 3 publish an obituary

The obituary is a notice or document used by funeral committee or his family members organized by the deceased unit to provide funeral services to relatives and friends or relevant units. The obituary usually includes the name of the deceased, the time of death, the name of the immediate family, the time and place of the funeral, etc.

4. Buried clothes

The person in charge of funeral arrangements shall, with the assistance of the family members of the deceased, prepare the clothes buried with the deceased for the deceased to wear. There are no strict rules about the clothes buried with the dead. You can wear clothes that the deceased liked before his death, or you can wear clothes that the deceased wore on formal occasions before his death. Young women wear white clothes when they die, and children wear student clothes. Wedding rings are usually buried with the dead, while other jewels are removed. Now everyone is used to holding mourning ceremonies and memorial services in funeral homes. The families of the deceased often meet friends who come to pay their respects here.

Step 5 send a wreath

People attending mourning and memorial service can send wreaths to express their condolences, and wreaths are usually sent to funeral homes. The family members of the deceased can ask one person to take charge of the wreath-related matters, and write down the name and unit of the wreath to show their gratitude in the future. If the obituary has already stated that there is a "heartfelt wreath", don't send a wreath. It is also meaningful to send flowers to important friends who have lost their loved ones. If you can send flowers regularly after the funeral, your lasting sympathy will comfort the families of the deceased.

Step 6 mourn

Modern funeral condolence ceremonies are mostly held in funeral homes. The families of the deceased also received relatives and friends who went to the funeral home to express their condolences. In this case, when the funeral director publishes the obituary, he should announce the time when the family members arrive at the funeral home to accept the condolences of relatives and friends. Sometimes, when people want to mourn, but feel that the relationship with the bereaved is not close enough to disturb them, they can go to the reception room of the funeral home, sign the autograph book prepared in advance, and then leave.

7, memorial service and its ceremony

It is a new type of funeral that people often use and should advocate to hold a memorial service to mourn the dead, no matter in cities or villages, units or people's families. Holding a memorial service is not only a mourning for the deceased, but also a manifestation of social civilization, which is gradually accepted by people.

8. Farewell ceremony for the remains

In recent years, most people only hold farewell ceremonies when they die, except those famous scholars who have made great achievements to express their condolences to the deceased in the form of memorial service.

9. Funeral

When all the families of the deceased know the funeral time, they should attend the funeral immediately. If the obituary says "family funeral", the friends of the deceased don't have to attend the funeral. Unless the family of the deceased informed them to attend the funeral. If the time and place of the funeral are written in the obituary, it can be considered as a formal invitation to attend the funeral. It's up to you whether you want to participate or not. Of course, if you are a frequent visitor or a close friend of the family of the deceased, not attending the funeral will be considered heartless.

10, ashes laying ceremony

The etiquette of placing the urn is generally carried out in the cemetery. Graveyards usually have tombstones. The front of the tombstone is engraved with the name of the person in the tomb, the person who erected the monument and the time when it was erected. There is no inscription on the back of the tablet. The relatives of the deceased stood in front of the grave, and the undertaker (the children of the people in the grave) held the urn and slowly put it into the grave. Then seal the hole and cover it. After the cave was sealed, relatives in front of the tombstone presented wreaths and fresh fruits to salute and mourn.

1 1, mourning

The traditional funeral system in China is complicated, and it pays attention to "wearing leucorrhea to show filial piety". Different relatives and friends wear different mourning clothes and different service periods. Funerals and mourning clothes are greatly simplified now, and most people try their best to mourn and avoid letting their grief affect others. Wearing mourning clothes easily reminds people of the past. In addition, wearing mourning clothes often prevents the wearer from leading a normal life.

3. Ancient funeral customs

The whole process of funeral is a dialogue between the living and the dead, and there is a knotty knot between them-remembering their ancestors and cherishing their loved ones.

Ancient funeral customs in China: 1. Before swallowing his last breath at the mortuary ceremony, relatives should move him to the coffin bed in the main room to guard the last moment of his life. This is called "mourning". On his deathbed, the deceased must wear a shroud.

The shroud must be traditional. Even if the dynasties change and the times change, the traditional costumes of the * * * nation will no longer be used at ordinary times, and the original costumes will be restored when they die. 2. Before the patient dies, his family must give him a bath and change clothes.

This is actually the victim's first plastic surgery. The front and back of clothes, like the odd and even numbers of clothes, are the last dressing ceremony held by people in the "transition" of life between life and death, yin and yang.

This custom is called "anti-decoration", which is to change the way the deceased wears the shroud so that his soul cannot stay in the body of the deceased. At the same time, it also implies the meaning of yin and yang by reversing it anyway, because in people's minds, the views of yin and yang on things have been completely reversed.

The shroud has become the code name of the soul in people's soul concept. 3. Buying water to clean up the corpse is generally bought, commonly known as "buying water".

It is a ceremony that can exist alone, that is, a conversion ceremony that turns "Yang Shui" into "Yin Shui". The money used to buy water is mainly yin money: burning incense and turning paper into paper money.

This kind of money is valuable only in the underworld, and only the soul can enjoy it, but it is just a pile of waste paper on earth. The purpose of "buying water" to bathe the dead is not only to "wash away the sins of the dead and eliminate the sins committed by the dead", but also to let the souls of the dead know that this is not to bathe the living, but to let the dead reach the underworld cleanly and be taken in by their ancestors.

4. The relatives should immediately move the body to the coffin bed after the spirit is used to bathe and change clothes for the deceased. At the same time, some rituals should be taken to guide the soul of the deceased to the spiritual bed.

The custom in Linyi, Shandong Province is to take a piece of white cloth from the beam, then drag a white rooster several times on the hospital bed, spread it from the beam to the outside along the white cloth, walk around the dead, and then kill the rooster. This is called "evocation". 5, including rice according to the old rules, after the bathing and dressing ceremony, a rice-containing ceremony should be held.

Rice contained things like rice husk, jade shell and rice in the mouth of the deceased. This is to prevent the dead from going to the underworld with an empty mouth and an empty stomach and becoming hungry ghosts.

6. After the funeral ceremony has stopped for a period of time, everything is ready, and it is necessary to attend the funeral on another day. Mourning can be said to be the first ceremony after death.

Funeral ceremonies were formed as early as the Zhou Dynasty. It tells relatives, friends and villagers the news of someone's death by signaling, and even relatives and friends who already know the news will go to the funeral home as usual.

In old Beijing, funeral obituaries are strict. After a person dies, relatives will tell their relatives and friends the news.

Generally, the obituaries used for funeral service only write the official titles and titles before death, and do not write the resumes and life stories of the deceased. For example, "unfilial XXX and others are extremely guilty, and the disaster is delayed." A doctor, her husband, died in a certain year, was born in a certain year and enjoyed his life for several years. Unfilial XXX waited on him, looked at him with his own eyes, and bowed respectfully. He chose to be buried on a certain day in a certain month, hitting his hometown, school, world and so on. "

Pick up three one day and brush off the classics the other day. "Finally, at the end of the obituary, write a sentence such as" lonely so-and-so tears of blood ".

7. Soul-evoking Ceremony After the body of the deceased is sorted out, a soul-evoking ceremony will be held. It is said that souls who died in a foreign country can't find their way home.

This soul will stay in a foreign land like his body and suffer endless bitterness. He can't enjoy the sacrifice of cigarettes, the provision of food and the passage of scriptures.

This lonely soul will become the most miserable hungry ghost, reborn in a different place forever, wandering for a long time, and there is no hope of reincarnation. Only when his family "evokes his soul" can he hear the voice of expecting him and he can follow it.

A suitable date must be chosen for the evocation ceremony. On that day, mourners will put up a banner of evocation in front of the door, or hang a silk of evocation.

In some places, relatives have to climb the roof and call for their souls to go home. It is said that this is left over by nomadic people such as Manchu. On the grassland, when you see a big tent erected in front of you, you will know which one is dead. Everyone will come to mourn and help with the funeral.

8. After the death of the guide, the soul will of course leave the body. But the vast underworld, where to go? So the next procedure is to let the living show him the way.

"Leading the way" means leading ghosts to heaven. In the undead world of some northern religions, the "return" of the undead needs the help and guidance of wizards.

First of all, take the first road and go on, there will be many forks in the road, which is set according to the different sexes of the deceased. The deceased took the road of his own clan and crossed a river, where there were many bones.

In this way, it is said that you can cross the river safely. The soul-evoking and soul-sending ceremonies show people's two contradictory folk psychology.

On the one hand, I hope that the soul of the deceased will come back alive, on the other hand, I want to tell the soul of the deceased to leave quickly. According to the ancient funeral custom, the coffin should stop for at least three days.

It is said that I hope the dead can come back to life. If you can't be resurrected within three days, your hopes will be completely dashed.

In fact, it takes a long time to stop the funeral, because the funeral at that time was very complicated, especially for emperors, who needed huge graves and a lot of funerary objects, which required a lot of manpower and time. Besides, parents should be buried together after death.

If the father dies without knowing the mother's tomb and the mother dies without knowing the father's tomb, the deceased shall be buried temporarily until the father's tomb or mother's tomb is found. It is hard to say when the coffin will be parked.

After modern times, coffins were generally buried after "seven days". People think that people don't know they are dead until seven days after they die, so they have to hold a "seven-week" ceremony, seven days and forty-nine days.

This is mainly influenced by Buddhism and Taoism. 10, opening ceremony.

In Zhejiang, undertaker will set up a mourning drum at the gate.

4. What should we pay attention to in funeral etiquette?

1. Clothing: Both men and women should wear dark clothing such as black or blue. Men can wear white shirts or dark shirts, and women should not wear lipstick or scarves with the color of Dantè s Dantès Dailiang.

2, jewelry: try not to wear jewelry, if you need to wear plain jewelry or try not to leak, do not leak gold, this is a great disrespect for the deceased. 3. Comfort sentence: Care and comfort are very necessary for the relatives of the deceased. Some excessive weightlifting, such as crying, should be avoided as much as possible, and attention should be paid to wording. As a condolence sentence, you can generally say: "This kind of thing really makes me very sad, please mourn" or "This thing is too sudden, please take care".

4. Wording and behavior: Pay attention to the wording at the funeral, and don't have words such as "death" and "misery" that remind people of misfortune; The solemn mourners at the funeral should restrain themselves and not talk too much. With children, don't let children laugh and play, speak as quietly as possible, and behave gently and steadily to show sincerity.

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Choice of condolences: 1. People often give gifts at memorial services. This is an agreed exchange gift and a gift from you. After all, there is always a cost to hold a memorial service, and your gift can reduce their financial burden. Remember, this gift must not be wrapped in red paper. It's best to wrap it in white or plain paper, and write black words such as "Li Yi" and "Silk Gold" on the cover and sign it.

2. Holding a bucket, a shaft and a forehead is also called a gift. Inscriptions are informal, usually four words, mostly written directly horizontally. 3. Sacrificial gifts such as incense, firecrackers, "three sacrifices" and fruits are attached to the offerings. 4. garlands or baskets.

Flowers or paper flowers can be used, with straps on them and upper and lower styles. The above paragraph reads the title of the deceased and a short eulogy to express the memory of the deceased. However, there are also some exquisite flowers, because each flower has a different meaning. Generally speaking, the flowers for funeral are mainly yellow and white. Don't send those flowers that are too bright.

The main flowers that can be sent are: (1) Huang Ju and Baiju tied together to express their solemn condolences. (2) White Chrysanthemum expresses sincere condolences.

(3) Cuiju expressed her thoughts and condolences. (4) Yellow and white carnations express nostalgia and let the deceased leave.

(5) White dahlias can decorate mourning halls and hearses as a sign of mourning. (6) Bai Baihe symbolizes mourning for the dead in India.

5. What is the traditional funeral culture in China?

Funeral culture is a synthesis of various heterogeneous cultures in community activities related to death created by human beings, which covers physical objects, beliefs, psychology, ethics, morality, art, etc., and thus extends to form hospice care, will culture, death education, death concept, funeral customs, funeral culture, funeral economy, funeral technology and other related activities.

Different nationalities and cultures in China have led to different burial styles and burial systems. The burial method and burial style are greatly influenced by natural environment, survival, form and religious belief, while the burial system is mainly influenced by social form and social consciousness. This makes the funeral culture in China diversified.

China's concept of ghosts has a long history. Mozi's Ming Ghost says that people become ghosts after death and believe in ghosts and gods. Funeral culture is a way for future generations to mourn. We should not treat it completely as feudal dross, and we don't need to look at it with superstitious eyes. This is also part of our traditional culture. In the Han Dynasty, China people had the concept of "birds of a feather flock together". The ancients built living rooms, kitchens, toilets, sheds for raising livestock and warehouses for hoarding food. The tomb is also engraved with patterns such as sun, moon, stars, morning, fairy tales, beasts, birds and fairy clouds.

For thousands of years, people have formed funeral etiquette, which is to let the dead rest in peace and the living meet. In the whole funeral process, it is a dialogue between the living and the dead, and there is an intractable knot between them-remembering their ancestors and cherishing their loved ones. This knot is manifested in the physical connection between the living and the dead, and also in the spiritual connection between them. "Breaking the Four Classics" has shaken the existing traditional funeral culture and its interpretation system; But also with religious superstition and witchcraft to explain and characterize; Instead, it is a rational and economic way to deal with funerals. However, in rural areas, people still yearn for some traditional mourning methods as the inheritance of the education and traditional customs and culture of the younger generation. Funeral culture is a kind of culture that lives in China, and it is full of life. It is more real than the words written on paper, and it embodies the actual connotation of China culture-the enthusiastic attitude towards life.

For example:

Guanzhong is the birthplace of the ancestors of the Yellow Emperor, with a long and heavy funeral culture. Funeral belongs to the "fierce ceremony" in the ancient "Five Rites". For a long time, people have followed the old adage that "life should be just, death should be just, burial should be just and sacrifice should be sincere". The affection, filial piety, morality, custom, law and worship in the agricultural era are fully displayed in Guanzhong funeral culture.

Taboo and attention in funeral culture

The red tape in the old ceremony contains superstitious elements, but it does not rule out the cultural background and scientific truth of certain things. In the mourning of Guanzhong custom, people should say "dead", "gone", "lost", "driven" and "cast", otherwise it is disrespectful to the deceased. The first thing after death is to send a funeral report. The funeral service in Guanzhong is like a spark, rain or shine in the morning and evening. A funeral news was reported to several people, but it could not be reported. At the same time, paper banners and going out signs are hung on the gate to announce the funeral of the people in the neighboring village so as not to be disturbed by the visitors.

After a person's death, the immediate descendants should wear hemp Dai Xiao to show filial piety and mourning for the deceased. This custom originated from Zhou Li. People should establish a spiritual position after falling. According to the custom of mourning in Guanzhong, an ever-burning lamp should be lit at the foot of the deceased until it is buried. Before death, people should shave their heads, wash their faces, clean themselves and put on "old clothes" such as robes and jackets prepared in advance. The reason why the deceased wore the old style clothes was because they were going to meet their ancestors in ancient times, for fear that they would not recognize the new clothes and would not let the deceased recognize their ancestors. Avoid satin and fur for old clothes. "Satin" is homophonic for "childless", and fur is because of worries about the afterlife. After death, people should cover their faces with a piece of linen paper, commonly known as facial tissue. First, people are afraid to see the pain on the face of the deceased, and second, they hope that people can be resurrected, because they will appear on paper as soon as they breathe. At least three days after the death of Guanzhong people, they are still considering suspended animation. When a male deceased dies, his uncle and family must be present to supervise whether he died normally. Similarly, when a woman dies, her family must be present. Burying people in Guanzhong is not called burial, but "settling down", which means filial piety. In addition, the dutiful sons wept around the coffin. No tears will fall into the coffin. Saying it's bad for the dead is actually changing sides to advise people not to grieve. For example, on the way home after burial, the dutiful son can't look back, which means that the deceased will follow him back. In fact, it is also to persuade the dutiful son to leave the cemetery as soon as possible and not to be too sad.

6. Funeral customs in various parts of China

1, Seven Rites: People think that people don't know they are dead until seven days after death, so they have to hold seven rites, offering sacrifices every seven days, and it won't end until 7749.

This is mainly influenced by Buddhism and Taoism. 2. Mourning ceremony: Generally, mourners carry clothes and quilts presented to the deceased and hang a note written with a brush on it with a pin.

3. Funeral Ceremony: There are big funerals and small funerals. Small mourning refers to dressing the dead, while big mourning refers to the coffin of the body receiver, commonly known as Da Gui House by Han people.

4. Funeral: In the funeral, the younger generation wears mourning clothes for the elders mainly to express filial piety and mourning. This was originally from the Zhou ceremony, which is a Confucian etiquette system. Later, it was extended to exemption from punishment.

5. Mourning ceremony: Mourning is a major feature of funeral custom in China. The mourning ceremony runs through the funeral ceremony and there are many big scenes.

Funeral ceremonies are the most important, so some places have the custom of asking people to help them cry.

7. Funeral knowledge

It seems that only three funeral companies are legal, namely "people-oriented", "concentric" and "Enron". Other funeral companies are illegal and have no legal status, and many of them are composed of two or three people! Among them, the "people-oriented" funeral company is the best, which is the product of the cooperation between Hefei Funeral Office and Hefei Dashushan Cultural Cemetery! I remember my friend's grandmother passed away last year. When people are not dead, there is a funeral company standing in front of the hospital, which is annoying. Later, they chose Tongxin Funeral Company. Those people only know how to sell funeral supplies, but they don't know what funeral is! I don't even know some basic funeral knowledge. The farewell ceremony is similar in form and badly done! Some time ago, Professor Xu from the Department of Mathematics of Anda University passed away. He is a humanistic funeral company, which is far from Tongxin funeral company. The service is too good to say. The whole funeral was written in the form of a planning book, especially the farewell ceremony, which used Professor Xu's favorite song "Farewell". That scene made people cry and touched everyone present.

8. What are the funeral customs in ancient China?

Funeral ceremony

China's traditional funeral culture is very particular about death. Before the patient takes his last breath, his relatives will move him to the coffin bed in the main room to guard him through the last moment of his life. This is called mourning.

On his deathbed, the deceased must wear a shroud. Before the patient dies, his family must give him a bath and change clothes. After bathing and changing clothes, relatives should immediately move the body to the hearse. At the same time, some rituals should be taken to guide the soul of the deceased to the spiritual bed.

At the same time, the family also stuffed a copper coin in the mouth of the deceased, which was called "mouth money". In rural areas around Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it is also popular to burn paper ingots and tin foil for the dead, that is, "burning paper".

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After stopping for a while, when everything is ready, choose another day to mourn. Mourning can be said to be the first ceremony after death. Funeral ceremonies were formed as early as the Zhou Dynasty. It tells relatives, friends and villagers the news of someone's death by signaling, and even relatives and friends who already know the news will go to the funeral home as usual.

In old Beijing, funeral obituaries are strict. After a person dies, relatives will tell their relatives and friends the news. Generally, the obituary used for funeral service only writes the official title and job title before death, and does not write the resume and life story of the deceased. In the concept of Han nationality, mourning is not only a formal etiquette, but also a way to share grief with relatives and family.

Soul-summoning ceremony

After the body is sorted out, an evocation ceremony will be held. Mourners set up prayer flags or hung soul silks in front of the door.

Do the' seven' ceremony

According to the ancient funeral custom, the coffin should be stopped for at least three days. It is said that I hope the dead can come back to life. If you can't be resurrected within three days, your hopes will be completely dashed. After modern times, coffins were generally buried after "seven days". People think that people don't know they are dead until seven days after they die, so they have to hold a "seven-week" ceremony, seven days and forty-nine days.

the memorial service

A condolence ceremony should be held at the same time as "doing seven". Mourning means that relatives and friends mourn after receiving the obituary and express their condolences to the families of the deceased. The family members of the deceased will mourn their bodies in the room, bow down and thank those who come to pay their respects, and greet them as gifts. Generally, mourners will carry clothes and quilts given to the deceased, and hang a note with the words "XXX" written with a brush on it with a pin.

First of all, we should decorate the mourning hall and light the ever-burning lamp. The opening ceremony will be held next. Now in the city, the mourning ceremony has been greatly simplified, mainly the farewell of the body and the memorial service.

Admission ceremony

After the condolence, a funeral ceremony will be held for the deceased. After putting on mourning clothes, some places will hold activities such as opening the light and sipping eyes. Funeral has "great convergence" and "small convergence". Lian Xiao means dressing the dead. "Big coffin" refers to the coffin of the person who received the corpse, which is commonly called "Da Gui coffin" by the Han people. This means that the dead are isolated from the world and say goodbye to their loved ones for the last time, so it is very grand to hold a grand funeral ceremony.

After the bodies and sacrifices are put in place, they should be nailed on the coffin cover, which is called "town nail" by the people. Town nails generally use seven nails, commonly known as "children's nails", which is said to make future generations prosper. After the funeral, the rain hit the coffin. Otherwise, I think future generations will suffer from poverty. Before and after the funeral, the coffin stopped at the mourning hall until the funeral was over.

the memorial service

In all these funeral customs, mourners must wear mourning clothes. At the funeral, the younger generation dressed their elders in mourning clothes mainly to show filial piety and mourning. In addition to the five clothes, there was a lighter way of mourning in ancient times, which was called "exemption from service".

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After the body converges, the coffin will be sent to the burial place for burial. This is called funeral, also called funeral, commonly known as funeral. After the mortuary sacrifice, you can go out for funeral. In many ethnic groups, the date of funeral should be carefully chosen. The funeral ceremony is very simple. Sometimes you just need to look through the imperial calendar or ask "Mr. Yin Yang".

the memorial service

Mourning is a major feature of funeral custom in China. The mourning ceremony runs through the funeral ceremony and there are many big scenes. The mourning ceremony at the funeral is the most important.

Burial ceremony

After the initial mourning, mourning, seven-week ceremony, mourning and other ceremonies, the last link is burial. This is the last time the dead stay in the world, usually very serious.

The burial ceremony is very elaborate and complicated. The person who carries the coffin is called "Eight Immortals", and the cave where the coffin is dug is called "Construction". Before the start of construction, there is a ceremony to break the mountain, and the dutiful son will burn incense and light candles. In some places, fairies should be invited and Tai Sui should be painted. When you start a mountain, you must avoid the direction of Tai Sui, otherwise it will be "Tai Sui's head is broken" and the family will be ruined. When cutting a mountain, put a stake in front of and behind the grave, and then let the dutiful son dig with a hoe three times within the range of putting the stake.

finally

According to folk custom, the soul after death may run out of the grave at any time and follow the living to go home. So people who are buried must go around the tomb three times, and it is forbidden to look back on the way home. Otherwise, it is not good for both sides to see the traces of the dead in the underworld. In fact, this is also a measure of mourning. Otherwise, it is difficult to convince the relatives of the deceased to keep looking back and not want to leave.

After burial, people must wash their hands, and some even wash their hands with wine. This means that no one will die in the future, which is used to drive away bad luck. Then you have to thank the trumpeter and the guests who held your funeral. After that, a ceremony will be held to worship the spirits of the deceased. In some places, as long as they are relatives, they have to eat together, which is called "grabbing the inheritance meal".