The main features of Hui funeral:
1, advocate quick burial. According to the "three-day burial" in Islam, Hui people generally die in the morning, bury in the afternoon, die at night, and be buried the next morning, which can not exceed three days at most. Some were buried on the fourth day under special circumstances.
Step 2 save money. Influenced by Islam's "frugality in burial", Hui people advocate thin burial and frugality, and oppose extravagance and waste in handling funerals. Hui people have a saying: "It is better to raise filial piety before death than to spread gold and cover silver after death." So, now go back to the private funeral. First, they don't need coffins, they just need three feet six feet of white cloth.
3. Everyone is equal. Hui people have a higher position in dealing with funerals. Imams and scholars with certain influence and prestige, or ordinary parishioners, widowed and neglected people; There is no distinction between rich and poor, whether it is a long-lived centenarian or a babbling child, the difference in size is equal.
4. Have your own venue. No matter where the Hui people live together or where they live together with the Han people, they have their own graves, and people of other nationalities are never allowed to be buried in them, nor are they allowed to be buried in the graves of the Han people and other nationalities.
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The Hui people's custom of avoiding cremation has not changed.
It is understood that there is a legend in the Hui nationality that the stake is used by Allah, and only Allah has this power, which ordinary people cannot use. It is also said that the stake is a place where sinners are punished after death. In addition, it is said that Islam does not need to burn people. Influenced by Islam, Hui people gradually formed the custom of avoiding cremation after death.