Most Koreans practice burial, and those scattered in towns also practice cremation.
In Korean society, father-son relationship is the basis of all interpersonal relationships. Value father and love filial piety, and the eldest son supports his parents. Old people in society are respected, and people despise unfilial people and behaviors. After the death of an old Korean man, relatives are not allowed to wash their faces, have haircuts or eat dry food for three days, and they must wear mourning clothes. When relatives and friends come to pay their respects, they kowtow three days before the body, and then kowtow to each other with relatives of the deceased. The funeral must be held on the same day. Dress the dead with new clothes and burn the old ones. Buried in three days. Before burial, please ask Mr. Feng Shui to choose a cemetery. The cemetery should be located on the sunny side of the hillside, with the head facing the top of the mountain and the feet facing down. After burial, the tomb was offered offerings and bowed down. In the future, we will worship for three days, and make sacrifices before meals: the first day is called "the first cloud", the second day is called "cloud worship", and the third day is called "the third cloud" when we take sacrifices to the cemetery. In the future, every birthday, anniversary, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival will be dedicated to the dead.
Funerals in Korea include all the ceremonies from the beginning to the end of the funeral ceremony, such as death, evocation, corpse collection, funeral, face attack, cross-dressing, funeral, mourning, three-danger sacrifice, death-crying sacrifice, Xiaoxiang and Daxiang. Sacrifice only includes taboo sacrifice, seasonal sacrifice and common festival sacrifice. People used to stop for three, five or even seven days, but now they usually stop for two or three days. In the past, coffins were placed in mourning halls and carried by young people in the village. There is generally no need to mourn now. Cattle carts are used in rural areas, cars are used in cities, and cremation has been carried out in cities. I used to ask Mr. Feng Shui to choose a cemetery, but now I basically don't have this habit. It's just that the old people in the village go to a nearby mountain to choose a suitable place for burial, usually a sunny hillside.
In mourning, there is a procedure called "rice containing". Rice bag refers to putting rice grains into the mouth of the deceased before entering the coffin. Generally, the rice you bring when you get married is used. The spoon made of willow leaves is divided into left, middle and right three times. Starting from the first spoon, it is called "Hundred Stones", "Thousand Stones" and "Shiwan" in turn. Then put in three copper coins, which are called "hundred taels", "thousand taels" and "ten thousand taels" in turn. After the meal, the body was tied with white cloth or linen and put into the coffin.
In order to rely on collective strength to handle the funeral, once upon a time, a kind of non-governmental organization, such as "funeral service contract", appeared in rural areas where Korean people lived in concentrated communities, in order to unite neighbors, carry forward the spirit of mutual assistance and cooperation, and solve the specific difficulties encountered in the funeral.