A village in Shanxi stipulates that it is not allowed to wear Pima Dai Xiao at funerals. How did the story of Pima Dai Xiao come about?

In the past two years, there has been a great resistance to the funeral. For example, a village in Shaanxi recently stipulated that Dai Xiao's funeral was not allowed to be covered with marijuana, which caused a wide discussion in an instant. However, the notice posted by this regulation was cancelled after only two days. In fact, Pima Dai Xiao is not only for living, but also represents a custom and tradition. Because a long time ago, for us in China, someone died in our family, and we would wear linen and Dai Xiao to show our filial piety. Today, I will tell you the story of Pima Dai Xiao.

According to legend, in ancient times, there lived an old woman who had been widowed for many years in a village. She worked hard to bring up her two sons, but neither of them was particularly filial. After they got married, they began to divide the property, regardless of their mother's life or death. However, these two unfilial sons still said in front of their mother that as long as her mother died, she would be put to sleep in the coffin, dressed in red and green clothes, and sang 49 heavenly fields for her. For this mother, the heart is like a mirror. He knew that the two sons would never do it after he died. They didn't care when they were alive. How can they treat themselves like this after they die?

Finally, the two old women told their sons that after their death, you should write with dashes, roll up the bodies and throw them into the river to feed the fish, or throw them into the mountains to feed the wolves, so that you don't have to pay a penny, but I have another request, that is, from now on, you should go and see how crows and owls live in trees every day. These two unfilial sons are very happy after hearing their mother's words, because they can save a sum of money again.

So the two brothers will go to see crows and owls after work. They found that crows take good care of them once they have children, but when the children grow up, the mother crow can't fly, so they go out to find food to feed her. However, owls are not like this. When I grow up, when I see that my mother can't fly, I will eat my old mother, so the owl's life has been in a causal cycle. So the two men finally understood what their mother meant.

From then on, they began to be kind to their mother. A year later, her mother died. In order to show filial piety, the two brothers imitated the crow and put on black and linen clothes. It was from this time that Pima Dai Xiao began to spread among the people.

The second legend is about Confucius, the founder of Confucianism. Confucius is a very filial person. One day, when he heard the news of his mother's sudden death, it was like a bolt from the blue and he fainted on the spot. After waking up, he grabbed a piece of white cloth as a headscarf, wore a white robe as a coat, tied a hemp rope with letters into a belt, and hurried home. As we all know, Confucius has many disciples. When the apprentices came to the funeral, they all wore his mother's clothes. In addition, the Five Blessingg system was established during the Three Kingdoms, the Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties. According to the blood relationship, there are also five different mourning clothes. Since then, Pima Dai Xiao has become a symbol of filial piety to parents and the elderly, and it is also the filial piety of our Chinese nation.