What are the rituals of the funeral?

One, complaints (mourning): the death of an old man at home, the officiating person to ask the family elders to collaborate in cooking a few days to send a funeral. Summer and fall one to three days, winter and spring three to seven days can be. If there are children in a distant place to wait, in the summer can not be more than five days. Filial son to go out to report, dressed in mourning clothes, holding a funeral stick, a person familiar with the relatives of the deceased led to go to report, the filial son to each side of a family kneeling by the door, such as being invited to meet, the filial son kowtowed and then leave. Never enter a home.

Second, the super-introduction. (do dojo, perform great rites), dojo divided into monk dojo, yin and yang dojo two kinds. Monk, yin and yang dojo can be recited in the same spirit of the hall, but must monk read road stop, rotate open for, monks do not break the ground, do not go to the grave, funeral vegetarian vegetarian food does not receive payment, but not the children of Buddha do not go to read the scriptures. Yin and Yang dojo have with the food, three food, tin can food three forms. Where the family is small, fewer children and grandchildren, the family is poor, more held with the form of mourning food; family economy is more affluent, the deceased life accumulates grace and virtue, the way to make money, thrift and good family, the people respect the family more held the three reported food (reported to the earth, reported to the ancestors, reported to the parents of the grace of the mourning dojo; a very small number of family economy is very rich. A very few families were rich, with several courtyards and hectares of land, and the deceased was a clean official with high prestige, and was respected by the public when he passed the age of "Shouxi" (seventy years old), and the children and grandchildren of his descendants were in the government field, so his children and grandchildren held a majestic and lively "tin can food" for the deceased after his death. The old man's children and grandchildren for the deceased "tin can food" scene majestic and bustling, (there are three high tribute, five Taoist priests composed of chanting sutra dojo) blowing, reading, paper work, elegiac couplets, out of the funeral are very elaborate.

Three, incense and wax. Spirit Hall to point incense, day and night, absolutely can not break the incense, candles also a reason. Every day at mealtime to honor the deceased first, put the meal on the table in front of the spirit, chopsticks should be inserted vertically, can not be placed horizontally.

Four, lying grass (kneeling grass). After the death of the old man, the spirit of the deceased parked in the hall, mourning during the family women (wife, daughter-in-law, married daughter) kneeling in front of the spirit of the door on both sides of the wheatgrass to mourn, a mourner came to cry more than that, crying sporadically until the guest away until the end. The night has a son to watch over the spirit.

Fifth, move the spirit. Remove the spirit of the process, the relatives crying, do not fall on the face of the deceased tears, remove the spirit of the process of umbrella blocking the head.

Sixth, burning sedan chair. Going out the first night 23:00 to 1:00 (Zi Shi), the deceased clothing, papier-maché boys and girls, treasure pots, money tree, modern people also added electrical appliances, etc., burned outside, meaning send off, explore the road.

Seven, the funeral can not go back, go and back to choose a different route.

Eighth, the funeral of the filial son of the white streamers, at intervals facing the helpers kneel down to thank you.

Nine, into the ground, can not cry (into the ground for peace), to circle around the cemetery three times.

Funeral customs have been passed down for thousands of years. Each ethnic group in the world has its own funeral customs. Although the preparation of funeral goods and funeral procedures continue to reduce, but the main content has not changed much, and has been passed down to the present day, the family can not hide, can not leave. Funeral culture is also a part of the Chinese nation, thousands of years of culture and civilization history, it covers Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, the three major sects of thought. In the current situation, funeral customs understand not many people, but, do the line of the white ceremony master of ceremonies is quite a lot of people.