The hairpin is the flag of evocation in ancient times, so it is called evocation hairpin. And a little particular about who will hit the dead. Traditionally, the eldest son will beat undertaker at the funeral, and his father will beat him with his left hand when he dies. Mother died in her right hand.
If the eldest son dies first, it is not the second son who beats him, but his successor. If the deceased has no children or grandchildren, it will be played by relatives (such as nephews and nephews) or adopted sons who inherit the deceased's estate.
After death, children are a sign of fertility. It would be a pity if there were no mourners at the funeral.
Soul guides are all paper works pasted from the dressing room. Its production forms are also different. Among them, the most common is brand banners, in addition to bobbin banners, door banners, flower basket banners, fish banners and so on. It depends on the specific situation of the deceased.
At the funeral in Beijing, the eldest son played banners, but in the suburbs, the eldest son played white banners, the second son held cards, and the third son played plain banners such as yellow and blue. Grandchildren, according to different generations, wear colorful banners such as pink, red, blue and green, which are called noisy banners. The so-called funeral commitment is also one of the manifestations.
Pyle is a paper spirit tablet temporarily offered before the burial of the golden coffin. This is a small shrine made of shroud. From the appearance, it looks like a small building, only more than a foot high. The roof of the palace, the front porch column, and the carved column are painted, with seats attached to the bottom.
The front door is open, and there is a white spirit tablet stuck inside, with a lotus leaf treasure cover above and a lotus seat below. For example, monks carved the names of the dead. And put a piece of black gauze on the paper spirit tablet. At the funeral, the second son held it.
The stick is the so-called crying stick in the past. This evolved from the staff used in mourning in ancient times.
In ancient funerals, the use and production of funeral sticks were also very particular. Father died with a bamboo stick, and mother died with a tung stick, which was below the upper circle and reached chest height. As the saying goes, a dutiful son's sorrow is greater than his heart's death, and the column sticks to help him.
Later, it was gradually simplified, and only white paper for ear cutting was used to wrap straw, which was about two feet long and was only used as a courtesy item at the funeral. At the funeral, all male filial relatives under the third son should hold a funeral stick in their left hand.
Pot is a kind of earthenware, which is called auspicious pot and yin-yang pot. Folk also called burial basin. Together with the sand brick used to throw the basin and the crock filled with flame dishes held by the daughter-in-law, they are called the first three things. In the past, when a patient died, his descendants went to the brick shop to buy the first three pieces.
The jar, also known as the flame jar, is called Aquarius. It is a small glazed earthenware pot, slightly narrow from top to bottom and thick in the middle, with a diameter of about two inches and a total height of about half a foot.
On the night of lodging and mourning, according to the old custom, the deceased's son, daughter-in-law, daughter and relatives and friends from other places took turns to put the sacrificial food in a jar with a pair of new chopsticks or straw stalks and tied it with red silk.
At the funeral, the eldest daughter-in-law holds the jar. If the eldest son is not here, there is no wife of the eldest son. If the grandson bears a banner, the wife of the grandson bears the jar as usual.
Of course, there are other individual phenomena, such as letting the deceased's original wife hold a jar. It is said that after Yuan Shikai's death, his first wife gave him the jar on the funeral day.
When buried, it is placed in the front seat of the coffin (male left and female right) as a permanent support for the deceased.
Most of the above five funeral supplies are used by Han people, while Manchu people have no such etiquette. In the old days, Manchu people went to funerals, and the dutiful sons just walked with their bare hands, without any sign of playing. After the Republic of China, due to the influence of Han customs, Manchu people also had to throw pots at funerals.