What are the customs in ancient China?

1, small coffin: purifying and grooming the body and putting on the life jacket. This step should be carried out as early as possible, even sometimes before the breath is broken. Because after a few hours, due to the death of muscle cells, there will be known as stiff limbs stiffness phenomenon, affecting wear life jacket. Leather can't be used for the life jacket, as tradition holds that the deceased will then be reincarnated as an animal.

2. Mourning: Formal notification to friends and relatives near and far of the time of death, circumstances and funeral arrangements. Often there is a strict situation and order prescribed.

3, running funeral: relatives and friends carrying gifts, gifts, couplets, wreaths, etc. from abroad to attend the funeral.

4, stop spirit: also known as the temporary house, the body will be parked in the spirit of a number of days, waiting for friends and relatives to come to the funeral; at the same time, help to determine the death rather than unconsciousness fake death. The spirit hall can be a room in the home, a temporary shack, or a special room in the funeral parlor. Inside the shrine are memorial banners, a statue of the deceased, food offerings for the deceased, incense, candles, paper money, and so on. In addition, in cases where it is not possible to formally bury the deceased for the time being, placing the coffin at a temple or other place to await a future burial can also be referred to as a moratorium.

5, the wake: During the wake, friends and relatives who have been present, especially the deceased's juniors take turns guarding the deceased at the funeral hall and accepting condolences from mourners. Throughout the funeral period, the deceased's close descendants (known as filial sons/ daughters) wear unstitched white linen dresses or coats, with grass or hemp ropes tied around their waists, and grass shoes, known as mourning clothes.

6, the big coffin: in front of the family, the dead will be moved into the coffin with mattresses, covered with quilts, nailed nails to seal the coffin. Wealthy people may use the inner coffin and place the burial goods in two layers of the outer coffin.

7. Funeral and burial: The coffin is taken to the cemetery for burial. The start of the funeral is marked by the breaking of a tile basin by the mourning son, known as the "wrestling basin". The mourning son leads the procession with a "soul-attracting banner", and a band plays and distributes paper money along the way to the cemetery. The burial ceremony is assisted by a Feng Shui master.

8, burn seven: after burial, friends and relatives visit the cemetery every seven days and burn paper money, a *** go seven times *** forty-nine days. There are similar activities such as calling the soul, burning paper money, known as "do seven". The forty-ninth day of the ceremony is called the "break of seven," which is the end of the formal part of the funeral.

9, five seven: the northern region in the thirty-fifth day, traditionally called five seven, by the daughter of a paper gourd, and a bowl of noodles, commonly known as the five seven locks. Folk belief that the deceased in the five seven before the lock in a certain place must, have to unlock the dead, and then the dead sitting gourd across the river river in order to go to the West Elysium.

10, filial piety: according to Confucian tradition, filial son should be guarded around the parents' tomb for three years (everyone before the age of three, basically do not leave their parents' arms, this three years of remembrance of parental grace, a lot of villages are also generated), during the period of time to avoid recreation, drinking and eating meat, couples in the same room, and so on.

11, tablets: family members with incense and candles offerings to write the name of the deceased tablets.

12, Tomb Sweeping: Friends and relatives repair and clean the graveyard during the Ching Ming Festival (when Kai Zhitui died).

The above references? Baidu Encyclopedia - Funeral