The funeral in the south need to beat gongs and drums, what is this custom?

Then is the preparation of the coffin, the deceased put on a good dress pants shoes, and then put into the coffin, put a good, then you have to go to the Taoist priests, Taoist priests came to the beginning of the superhuman, three days and three nights after the superhuman is complete, can be carried on the mountain into the ground! Dad or Mom, don't worry! Then they immediately took out a circle of firecrackers they had prepared and asked people to set them off, so that the whole village would know who had passed away, and people would come back to help. In my hometown, the general old man passed away will stay at home for at least three days, but also to ask Mr. choose the right day, the old man stay at home must be 24 hours a loved one to guard until the old man sent out, and finally go to the civil affairs department under the account. To pick up, said to pick up more, more blessings. Only then will cover the earth and erect a monument.

Mourning, notify relatives and friends back, then up and down the neighborhood, the whole village, young and old, one by one, and then the next to relatives to the landlord, please water back to purify the body, wear clothes into the coffin, the law into the home, kill pigs up the road, sue the ancestors, the superduke, go out on the mountain, the cage, complete! Usually after three days. Or longer. No more before the funeral. Relatives and women from the same village take turns to keep vigil overnight. The night watchmen from the same village can also be men. The relatives are all women! Then we'll choose a place to share the water! "Sanchao" means three days. The villagers (a small group) have to help every family, and there is nothing to do now, but they have to be there, and the main family prepares a banquet until the funeral.

After the old man passed away, the children the first time to notify some of the most important friends and relatives, and then began to follow the process. Generally until the burial takes four or five days, the specific process is too cumbersome! I will not recount ...... I am from Hunan, we are buried here. After the death of a person is put into the ground, and then the relatives and friends are called over, and at the same time, please Taoist priests do things, we also called Mr. here. Usually, it takes three days to return to the mountain.

The old ox looked up, still smiling, and said, "Don't be sad, the scriptures are from the gods, and I was sent by the gods to help you do good deeds. When I was young I helped you plow and harrow the fields, but now that I'm old and can't do the work, I'm going to do one last good deed for you."