Will lifting the coffin affect your luck?

In rural areas there are very few professional coffin bearers, to find a coffin bearer must be the eldest son of the deceased to go kneeling, and the invited generally will not refuse or can not be refused, and lifting the coffin is not to say that to help carry people to the cemetery on the matter, among which there are many taboos. Taboo 1: the rural area was invited when the coffin lifter in the coffin into the ground before the door frame can not touch, rural taboos say that if the coffin lifter to help the door by the window will affect the fortunes of future generations, and even in the lifting of the coffin will be some of the conditions, in order to unnecessary trouble, so lifting the coffin people will abide by this rule. Taboo 2: the deceased's immediate family members can not lift the coffin, the general immediate family will follow the deceased's eldest son, walking behind the coffin bearer, because in the rural area to carry the coffin to stop and go, the rules of the middle of the taboo a lot of, the eldest son kept kneeling down and bowing to thank.

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Taboo 3: the coffin bearer must be married, the rural areas are rumored to be alive for the Yang, the dead for the Yin, unmarried men are too heavy Yang, for fear of rushing the dead yin gas, although it seems to be more superstitious, but more importantly, this traditional rules. Taboo 4: lifting the coffin on the way never coffin on the ground, the coffin in the middle of the ground will affect the offspring of the fortune, but lifting the coffin is a hard work, the weight of the coffin itself plus the wooden bar is really very laborious, if you are really tired can only be placed on a large wooden board or a wooden bench, can not be glued to the soil, if you lift the coffin on the way to the rope suddenly broken can only be buried near the burial or please Mr. buried on the fall on the town of the town things written on the text of the sparse dissolution, because of the rural areas believe that the dead are There is a soul, the rope is broken means that the dead do not want to go, can only town object to resolve or buried nearby. Taboo 5: coffin-bearer's birthdate can't collide with the dead, but this taboo is more difficult to implement in the countryside, you need to read the eight characters of the first, too cumbersome, generally this rule is respected by fewer people. Taboo 6: coffin bearers must be strong, because carrying a coffin is a very hard work, and it can not be a smooth road, in the rugged and muddy road must be balanced, so the selection of coffin bearers are well thought out, and even the height difference between the coffin bearers have to be taken into account, all in order to be able to send the deceased into the cemetery smoothly. These are the taboos and rules of the rural pallbearers, in fact, the customs handed down in rural areas have a certain reason, and now the rural people value is not the customs themselves, but more concerned about these taboos and rules, after all, is handed down from generation to generation, the compliance or to comply.

Author: Dong Yi Shanren Cui

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