The funeral customs and etiquette in Guanzhong mainly include the following: small coffin, announcing the funeral, attending the funeral, large coffin, moving the soul, offering sacrifices, clothing, wearing red, calling the soul, calming the spirit, calling the drum, offering three gifts, eating with music and food, Paying homage, crossing the Gold and Silver Bridge, paying homage to ancestors, door ceremony, passing three passes, filial songs, libation, waking up the coffin, welcoming the ceremony, transferring rice, sweeping the dragon's bed, offering lunch, moving the coffin, sending a memorial ceremony, sweeping the tomb, and attending the funeral. Road sacrifice, house town, house cleansing, burial, tomb sacrifice, posthumous soil sacrifice, thank you paper, banquet, family funeral, etc.
Guanzhong funeral customs and etiquette are distributed in the Guanzhong area of ??Shaanxi Province. As early as the late Neolithic Age, the Banpo people of Xi'an had their own set of funeral customs and etiquette. The funerals of the Banpo people of Xi'an proved that Guanzhong Funeral customs and etiquette date back to about 4,000 years ago.
Filial piety ceremony
Dabao, Fu Er or Fu San, the seventh day, the hundredth day, the Spring Equinox Festival, the first day of October, the New Year's Eve Festival, and the first day of the first lunar month. Food, lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Hungry Ghost Festival festival, anniversary festival, second anniversary festival, third anniversary monument ceremony, etc.
The whole funeral process in Guanzhong is accompanied by the cries of the filial son, accompanied by the mournful suona sound and the educational and commemorative Qin Opera, which can fully vent people's inner grief.
"Etiquette" is the core of Guanzhong's funeral customs. Many customs related to funerals are all Guanzhong people's ancient motto of "complete funeral rituals and sincere sacrifices" to interpret "filial piety, family affection, morality, worship".