What was the process of China's funeral?

Son, daughter and grandson are in front. In the past, people used to hold coffins, usually walking in front with photos, followed by people carrying coffins, filial sons, daughters and grandchildren. After a while, they turned and kowtowed to the coffin to show their respect for their elders.

The main colors of traditional funerals in China are white and yellow, so they are also called white events, as opposed to red events.

With the belief and economic situation of the deceased, the whole process is often accompanied by related Buddhist, Taoist or Feng Shui ceremonies.

The main process is as follows:

Xiao Di: Wash the body and put on the shroud.

Funeral service: formally inform relatives and friends near and far about the time, circumstances and funeral arrangements of death.

Funeral: relatives and friends come from other places to attend the funeral, bringing gifts, presents, elegiac couplets, wreaths, etc.

Lingering: also known as temporary mourning, the body is parked in the mourning hall for several days, waiting for relatives and friends who come to mourn.

Wake: During the wake, relatives and friends present, especially the younger generation of the deceased, take turns to guard the deceased in the mourning hall and accept condolences from mourners.

Coat: In front of family members, move the deceased into the coffin with a mattress, cover it with a quilt, and nail it to seal the coffin.

Funeral: Send the coffin to the cemetery for burial. The sign of the beginning of the funeral is that the dutiful son will break a clay basin, which is called "throwing the basin".

Burning Seven: After burial, relatives and friends go to the cemetery once every seven days to burn paper money, seven times a day for forty-nine days.

May 7th: On the 35th day in the northern region, traditionally called May 7th, my daughter made a paper-wrapped gourd and a bowl of noodles, commonly known as May 7th unlocking.

Filial piety: According to the Confucian tradition, the dutiful son should stay around his parents' graves for three years (everyone will never leave his parents' arms before he is three years old, which is how many village students are born). During this period, he should avoid socializing, drinking and eating meat, and sharing a room with his husband and wife.

Memorial tablet: Family members offer incense to a memorial tablet with the name of the deceased written on it.

Grave-sweeping: Tomb-Sweeping Day (Jie Zhitui died on this day) relatives and friends repaired and cleaned the cemetery.

Extended data:

Since the Paleolithic Age of primitive society, human beings have produced the concept of soul.

Primitive people believe that people can still interfere with the personnel and wealth of the living when they are dead and their souls are immortal.

Constrained by this concept of immortality of the soul and the differences in cultural traditions and religious beliefs of various countries and nationalities, various funeral customs came into being: some funerals were grand, some were simple and simple, some were full of religious colors, and some were scientific and hygienic.

Geography, religion and social structure all affect the form of funeral, and class identity is the decisive factor.

Take Tibet as an example. Funerals can be divided into four types according to their status: water burial of untouchables, earth burial or celestial burial of medium status, and only nobles can be cremated.

In terms of burial methods, there are various burial forms in the world, such as earth burial, sea burial, cremation, water burial, thick burial, sky burial, cave burial, tree burial, hanging coffin burial, niche burial, food burial and so on.

Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Funeral