What are the main contents of funeral customs?

1, Xiao Yi: Wash the body and put on the shroud. This step should be done as soon as possible, even sometimes before the end of life. Because in a few hours, due to the death of muscle cells, there will be a phenomenon of limb stiffness called rigor mortis, which will affect the wearing of the shroud. Shrouds can't be made of leather, because it is traditionally believed that the dead will be reincarnated as animals.

2. Funeral report: formally inform relatives and friends near and far about the time, circumstances and funeral arrangements of death. There are often strict conditions and order regulations.

3. Mourning: Friends and relatives came from other places to attend the funeral with gifts, presents, elegiac couplets and wreaths.

4, stop the spirit: also known as temporary mourning, the body will be parked in the mourning hall for several days, waiting for relatives and friends who come to mourn; At the same time, it helps to determine death instead of coma and suspended animation. The mourning hall can be a room at home, a temporary shed, or a special room for a funeral home. There are mourning banners, portraits of the dead, food (offerings), incense, candles and paper money in the mourning hall. In addition, when the deceased can't be buried formally for the time being, leaving the coffin in temples and other places for future burial can also be called stopping the spirit.

5. 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. During the whole funeral, the younger generation (called dutiful son/daughter) close to the deceased wore white seamless coarse clothes or jackets, tied with straw ropes or hemp ropes at the waist and sandals at the feet, which was called mourning.

6. Coat: In front of the family, move the deceased into a coffin with a mattress, cover the quilt, and nail the coffin. Wealthy families may use an inner coffin and an outer coffin to place funerary objects.

7. 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". Led by a dutiful son holding a "talisman", a band played and distributed paper money to the cemetery along the way. The burial ceremony was assisted by Feng Shui master.

8. Burning Seven: After burial, relatives and friends go to the cemetery to pay homage to burn paper money every seven days, one * * * seven times * * forty-nine days. There are also similar activities such as evoking souls and burning paper money, which are called "doing seven". The ceremony on the 49th day was called "Breaking Seven", which was the end of the official funeral.

9. May 7th: The 35th day in the northern region is traditionally called May 7th. My daughter makes a paper gourd and puts a bowl of noodles, which is commonly known as the five-seven lock. Folk beliefs say that the dead must be locked somewhere before May 7th, and they must be unlocked, and then they can cross the river with gourds and go to the western paradise.

10, Filial Piety: According to the Confucian tradition, a dutiful son should stay in front of his parents' grave for three years (everyone basically never leaves his parents' arms before he is three years old, which is how many village students are born), and during this period, he should avoid socializing, drinking and eating meat, and sharing a room with his husband and wife.

1 1. memorial tablet: the family sacrificed the memorial tablet with the name of the deceased with incense sticks.

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

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