Burial and funeral are the same thing?

Burial is a step in a funeral. The Han people mainly practice burial at sea. Funeral refers to moving the coffin to a burial place or funeral home.

Generally speaking, a funeral is the first step before burial. On this day, relatives, friends and neighbors gather to mourn and offer libations to show their condolences. A libation usually includes a sacrificial mat, a steamed bun, a spoon and a paper tie. The closest relatives send sacrifices. Commonly known as "sacrifice", it is mainly dishes, and each pair should be inserted with paper flowers of different sizes, followed by steamed bread, which is a kind of pasta steamed in a bowl. Most relatives and friends asked them to pull their arms and tie couplets, which later became a piece of cloth. Ordinary neighborhoods give four-color paper gifts, including candles, incense, tin foil, paper, or just a piece of paper. After 1950s, most paper gifts were replaced by wreaths.

Burying is generally to bury the body of the deceased, that is, to bury the coffin. Before burial, the old custom often depends on geomantic omen and chooses a cemetery, which is called "choosing good luck". Funeral is also called funeral. At the funeral, the ancient Han people were generally "dutiful sons", and undertaker sang an elegy. Elegy has evolved into elegy in modern times. Relatives and friends wrote elegiac couplets or funeral elegiac couplets, which evolved into wreaths of elegiac couplets in modern times.