Rural funeral, why send towels back?

It is a courtesy to return the towel. In rural areas, when a funeral is held, many friends from the village will come to the scene with incense and paper money to express their grief for the dead. I don't know if it's like this in other places. In my family, it's really a way to show respect. China people pay more attention to reciprocity. Since others are sincere, send them back. It happened that towels were cheaper, and rural people could afford them, so they sent them.

Sending towels is bad luck. In rural areas, many things left over from the past are still continuing, so are traditional concepts, and even have become a culture. Some people think the funeral is unlucky, and they may be a little unlucky when they enter the host's house. Towels are used for wiping. The host family understood everyone's thoughts, so they sent towels to those who went to their house to wipe off the blush and returned home happily. I think this is actually a psychological suggestion.

This is a funeral custom.

In the past, people died. The younger generation in the family should wear Pima Dai Xiao. They should wear mourning clothes and Dai Xiao hats. Many of them are exquisite, so I won't explain them here.

If relatives, relatives, friends, villagers and colleagues come to pay homage, they usually wear white when holding the ceremony. This "white" is a piece of white cloth, which is used to wrap your head when you burn incense and bow down, when you bid farewell to your body, and when you attend a funeral. When tying a knot on your head, you can only tie a slipknot, not a dead knot. The so-called "slipknot" is a knot that can be untied by pulling.

In the past, after attending a funeral, people kept the white cloth they distributed and used it as a pocket when sewing clothes and trousers. However, with the improvement of people's living standards, everyone stopped making clothes and generally went to the store to buy clothes, so these inferior white cloth became useless after the funeral and was thrown away by everyone.

Why do rural funerals give towels back?

The funeral customs here are basically the same as what the subject said. The difference is that the undertaker should give two towels, one red and one white, to the guests who come to the funeral at the same time, and hang a red towel on the door of the neighbor's house after the death of their loved ones. The original intention is that if someone dies in the family, it will scratch the neighbors. I hope that after the death of my family, I will bring good news to my neighbors and bless everyone's safety. It is also polite to wear two towels, one red and one white, and distribute them to relatives. At the end of the funeral, everyone can only wear a white towel on his left arm. After the funeral, the white towel will be thrown away and the red towel will be tied on the left arm. Its moral is also to bless people's joys and sorrows, look up and see happiness, happiness and peace.