Don't smell the cat, and don't let the cat into the mourning hall. According to legend, when a cat touches a corpse, it will "fry the corpse", so it is necessary to lock the cat up or send it to the next door at the funeral.
When the coffin is to be covered, people should wake the sleeping child, otherwise, the child's soul will be covered in the coffin and die.
4, funeral, coffins are forbidden to stay on the road, otherwise it will be bad for future generations.
5, before and after burial, avoid burying the old dead, offenders will bring death.
6. It is forbidden to dig around the ancestral grave, and it is forbidden to touch the soil and weeds on the grave, otherwise it will be unfavorable to its descendants.
7, avoid haircuts. When a person dies, all the men in his family are not allowed to have a haircut or shave for one month. To ward off evil spirits. One is to change the appearance so that the deceased can't recognize each other to avoid disaster.
8. Tujia people in Shimen County, Hunan Province also prohibit the remains of the deceased from being parked in the bedroom, otherwise it will also bring disaster.
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The main colors of traditional funerals in China are white and yellow, so they are also called white events, as opposed to red events. With the belief and economic situation of the deceased, the whole process is often accompanied by related Buddhist, Taoist or Feng Shui ceremonies.
The main process is as follows:
Xiao Di: Wash the body and put on the shroud. This step should be done as soon as possible, even sometimes before the end of life. Because in a few hours, due to the death of muscle cells, there will be a phenomenon of limb stiffness called rigor mortis, which will affect the wearing of the shroud. Shrouds can't be made of leather, because it is traditionally believed that the dead will be reincarnated as animals.
Funeral service: formally inform relatives and friends near and far about the time, circumstances and funeral arrangements of death. There are often strict conditions and order regulations.
Funeral: relatives and friends come from other places to attend the funeral, bringing gifts, presents, elegiac couplets, wreaths, etc.
Stop the spirit: also known as temporary mourning, the body is parked in the mourning hall for several days, waiting for relatives and friends who come to mourn; At the same time, it helps to determine death instead of coma and suspended animation. The mourning hall can be a room at home, a temporary shed, or a special room for a funeral home. There are mourning banners, portraits of the dead, food (offerings), incense, candles and paper money in the mourning hall. In addition, when the deceased can't be buried formally for the time being, leaving the coffin in temples and other places for future burial can also be called stopping the spirit.
Wake: During the wake, relatives and friends who have been present, especially the younger generation of the deceased, take turns to guard in the mourning hall.
The dead, accept the condolences of the mourners. During the whole funeral, the younger generation (called dutiful son/daughter) close to the deceased wore white seamless coarse clothes or jackets, tied with straw ropes or hemp ropes at the waist and sandals at the feet, which was called mourning.
Coat: In front of family members, move the deceased into the coffin with a mattress, cover it with a quilt, and nail it to seal the coffin. Wealthy families may use an inner coffin and an outer coffin to place funerary objects. Funeral: Send the coffin to the cemetery for burial. The sign of the beginning of the funeral is that the dutiful son will break a clay basin, which is called "throwing the basin". Led by a dutiful son holding a "talisman", a band played and distributed paper money to the cemetery along the way. The burial ceremony was assisted by Feng Shui master.
Burning Seven: After burial, relatives and friends go to the cemetery once every seven days to burn paper money, seven times a day for forty-nine days. There are also similar activities such as evoking souls and burning paper money, which are called "doing seven". The ceremony on the 49th day was called "Breaking Seven", which was the end of the official funeral.
May 7th: On the 35th day in the northern region, traditionally called May 7th, my daughter made a paper gourd and a bowl of noodles, commonly known as May 7th unlocking. Folk beliefs say that the dead must be locked somewhere before May 7th, and they must be unlocked, and then they can cross the river with gourds and go to the western paradise.
Filial piety: According to the Confucian tradition, the dutiful son should stay around his parents' graves for three years (everyone will never leave his parents' arms before he is three years old, which is how many village students are born). During this period, he should avoid socializing, drinking and eating meat, and sharing a room with his husband and wife.
Memorial tablet: Family members offer incense to a memorial tablet with the name of the deceased written on it.
Grave-sweeping: Tomb-Sweeping Day (Jie Zhitui died on this day) relatives and friends repaired and cleaned the cemetery.
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