Then this proverb is really the advice of our ancestors. Now that we have accepted the study of socialism, will we still follow this proverb? So what is this sentence about? In ancient times, this proverb was something we should pay attention to when holding a funeral. The current funeral system is cremation, and then the ashes are buried in the cemetery. But in ancient times, ancestors were buried in ancestral graves with earth burial and coffins. The appearance of this proverb is related to the rainy day during the funeral.
I have to mention a poem here, "It rains a lot during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls." When I was in Tomb-Sweeping Day, it rained. The ancients thought it rained because the dead people were expressing their regret for future generations. Extending to ancient times, the elders in the family passed away, and after the funeral, it rained. This is the feeling of God. The descendants of this family are very filial, which makes the deceased reluctant to part with the warmth of the world and leaves tears. Let the warm tears touch God, and the rain will fall, so that future generations can know the memory of the deceased. With such a filial person, their family will not be too bad luck in the future. Over time, there will be a saying that "rain hits the grave and makes a noble person". Now in the countryside, if such a situation occurs, this family will also be rated as a filial family, and it will definitely have a bright future in the future.
As for "rain hits the coffin, wealth is sparse." The funeral ceremony usually takes three days, and the remains of family members will stay at home for a few days to be worshipped by family members and close relatives and friends, and will be buried on the third day. If it rains during the funeral, people will think it's because the old man doesn't want to be buried, but he still doesn't want to be realistic. Perhaps it was because his children were not filial to him, and he had not finished criticizing them, so he left unwilling tears when he was buried. In this way, the "rain" will wet the coffin, and people will know that the children of this family are not filial, so those families that have not been blessed by their ancestors will surely die out in the future and will decline sooner or later. Over time, people have been told by word of mouth that "rain hits the coffin, and wealth is sparse."
The original intention of this proverb is to let the children at home be filial to the elderly and not let the elderly leave with regrets. Today, this proverb is no longer appropriate. Even without this proverb, every daughter in China remembers the traditional concept of filial piety to the elderly. Even if we can't stay with the elderly all the time because of work and study, we always care about the elderly at home. The tragedy of "the son wants to raise and the relatives don't wait" will not be staged again.
As the saying goes, it is filial piety to raise well before death; It's a good son to be buried thin after returning home.
Of course, true filial piety cannot be judged by a funeral. Does it mean that the more beautiful the funeral is, the more it can represent the filial piety of children? True filial piety needs to be revealed in our daily life. Remember everyone's taste, cook their favorite meals for their families, sew warm clothes for their families by hand after the weather turns cold, and so on. Although these gifts are light, they contain our full care for our families. These daily details are the embodiment of filial piety.