What are the customs and characteristics of Buyi folk funeral?

When the Buyi old man died, he mourned his family and friends and invited Mr. Pumo of his own nationality to hold a funeral on auspicious days. If the deceased is a woman, she can't be buried until her uncle's family personally examines the coffin at the scene. Whether the funeral is simple or not depends on the financial situation of the family.

The poor family only wants "Pumo" to clear the way, and everything is simple.

Rich people talk about ostentation and extravagance, in addition to offering sacrifices to the church, they also hold the ceremony of "king of the ancient night", cutting cattle and fasting.

In ancient times, there was a funeral, and a few cattle and sheep were sacrificed and a banquet was held to entertain guests. The funeral lasted for three or five days. During the closure period, all funeral homes were vegetarian. You can't eat meat until the funeral. Two days before the burial, relatives and friends in the village gave gifts to mourn. Send banners, wine, chicken, money and pigs according to relatives. Son-in-law and uncle's house will send incense pavilions, paper horses and sacrificial banners. The dutiful son wears a handkerchief, sandals and hemp. When my uncle arrived, the dutiful sons knelt in front of the coffin with filial sticks, and the newcomers helped them up. That night, bronze drums, suona and bamboo tubes were knocked together and a funeral ceremony was held.

At that time, the men and women in the village will gather outside the funeral home, each holding a bamboo tube more than a foot long. Cross each other in pairs, and one hits the bat with a wooden stick. There are singles, doubles, three dozen, five dozen to twelve dozen, and the timbre is sonorous, neat and harmonious. Hanging several bronze drums in front of the coffin, beating them rhythmically, and knocking on the floor with a bamboo pole at the same time is called "knocking on the bronze drum" The suona team was invited by the son-in-law There are one or several couples, and the whole village is shrouded in sadness. A memorial service was held the night before the funeral. There are two kinds of family sacrifices and guest sacrifices. Family sacrifice is a mourning for son-in-law The guest sacrifice is a memorial to ordinary relatives and friends. The memorial service read the eulogy, remembered the life of the deceased, and pinned their grief. Sacrifice with nine vegetarian dishes. In the past, the filial family had to cook vegetarian dishes and meat dishes. Now, the filial family cooks vegetarian dishes and the son-in-law cooks meat dishes. After the ceremony, the coffin was moved to a bench outside the door and parked. On an auspicious day, the dutiful son bowed down in front, bronze drums, suona, iron cannons, firecrackers and wailing came and went, and the coffin slowly moved forward surrounded by everyone. When digging a grave pond, Pumo first killed a rooster in the selected cemetery, which is called "sowing soil". Dig the grave pool, draw gossip, dragons and houses in the well with cinnabar, sprinkle glutinous rice, and then kill a chicken to drop blood in the well, which is called "please the dragon god of the earth vein". When the coffin arrives, it burns paper money in the well, and the dutiful son bows down, which is called "warm well". Move into the cave and seal the grave. If the cow or horse is slaughtered, the head of the cow or horse is sacrificed to the grave.