The taboo of a week's death
The first is the funeral custom. It is customary to think that "the first seven" refers to the seventh day after death. It is generally believed that the deceased will go home in the first seven days. Family members should prepare a meal for the deceased before he comes back, and then they must avoid it. The best way is to sleep. If you can't sleep, hide under the covers. If the deceased sees his family, it will make him miss and affect his reincarnation. It is also said that when they go home at midnight on the first seven days, their families will burn something in the shape of a ladder at home, so that the deceased can follow this "ladder" to where they want to go.
Children should not wear red and green during filial piety.
During the mourning period, ancient children paid attention to wearing filial piety and white mourning clothes within 100 days; After a hundred days, wear dark clothes such as black and blue to show filial piety, and avoid wearing red and green heavy makeup. In modern society, although many friends wear the word "filial piety" instead of mourning for such a long time because of their work and life; However, you still can't wear red with green.
No visiting relatives and friends.
Actually, it's easy to understand. In the folk, we call 100 a warm period of filial piety, during which we can't attend weddings and funerals outside. I believe everyone is not in the mood, because someone close to them has just died, and of course this has become a taboo in rural areas.
Don't take part in recreational activities during mourning.
In ancient times, when parents died, children generally had to observe filial piety for three years. During these three years, marriage and auspicious celebrations are not allowed. In ancient times, people who paid attention to "ruling the world with filial piety" and served as officials, no matter how old they were, had to take time off to go back to their ancestral homes to observe filial piety after their parents died, which was called "Ding You". Officials who don't go back to their hometown to observe filial piety may be impeached by the censor and punished. In serious cases, they will have no career path in life.