2. Mourning-The deceased usually wears blue trousers and a white shirt. People regard white as purity and blue as national color. This cloth is plain, not cotton-padded. The children stretched out their hands to dress the dead. The clothes and articles for daily use left by the deceased will be burned and cannot be left behind.
3. Stop the spirit-in the folk, the time of stopping the spirit is generally not more than three days, and a memorial service is held in the funeral home to bid farewell to the deceased. However, in some areas, according to the birthday of the deceased, local "gentlemen" are allowed to choose a suitable date to hold a memorial service.
4, funeral-at the funeral, relatives approved Ma Yixiao, the hearse is not the head of the deceased forward, but the feet forward. Now, with the funeral reform, it is the custom of cremation. After cremation, put the ashes and broken bones into a cloth bag, and then put them in a jar or urn with the front face up.
5, dead animals-dead people, rich and poor, have to die to sacrifice, according to the rich and poor, as big as pigs and cows, as small as chickens. To a certain extent, it is the legacy of killing martyrs and blood sacrifices in ancient times. If the deceased is old, the offering is regarded as a blessing. Offerings should be distributed to relatives. Most of the chickens sacrificed are reserved for people who send the spirits to be buried, so that they can eat them after they come back from the funeral.
6, buried together-the couple buried together are men on the left and women on the right. (Mongolian, on the contrary) If young people are buried together, they are in the west and their elders are in the east. In western countries, people are buried below after death, and then the dead overlap on it. In some parts of our country, when a husband and wife are buried together, one of them dies and is buried first. The other one is dead and buried, and the person who buried first needs to dig it out and bury it at the same time after meeting and worshiping.
7. Orientation-The oldest custom is burial, and the orientation is vertical from north to south. Now the urn faces south and north. Now some graves refer to the oldest custom of vertical burial from north to south-citing "century-old harmony" (in the folk, century-old harmony is often used to bless everlasting marriage, but it refers to the end-result of the deceased's life-eternal peace)
8. Burning-People traditionally burn tin foil, yellow paper and other daily necessities (such as cars, houses, televisions, etc.). ); In the early days, Mongols would burn some foods that the deceased liked to eat before they died. Burning edible animal bones to pray for the dead, burning tin foil is influenced by the Han nationality.
9. Mourning-There was a custom of mourning in ancient times. (Biography of Wei Shi: A History of the North): Your father died, and men and women got together and cried for three years. In modern times, it has become the memorial hall of the seventh (first seven to five seven, or July seven) family to celebrate the centenary and anniversary. During mourning, wear plain clothes and eat vegetarian food.