Why did you invite a drum team to the funeral?

Mourning, chaozhou people also called mourning, or mourning. The process is like this:

After the mortgagor's death, the eldest son and other relatives put on the rags of the deceased before his death, brought pots and pans to the river or spring, dropped coins to "buy" backwater, and held a bathing ceremony for the deceased. Followed by a haircut, take off your clothes and put on your shroud. Then park the body on the "sleeping stool" on the back or left side of the hall and cover it with a quilt.

After the death of the bell, the sons and daughters-in-law of the deceased immediately lined up according to their generations, each holding a lighted white lantern, bowing down and wailing, and went straight to the Land Temple or the City God Temple to "mourn". "Report" the death of a loved one to his hometown or the city god. After entering the temple, kneeling in front of the temple, the temple wishes were shocked. Every time I get angry, my relatives will kneel once. A symbol of one year old, how old the deceased is and how many times he has to bow down, is called "telling the time". In addition to ringing the bell, the eldest son of the deceased also went to the door of friendly relatives and friends.

This is the ceremony of putting the body in the coffin. A "feeding" ceremony was held before the funeral. The daughter-in-law of the deceased will put a small piece of tofu and a few grains of rice into the mouth of the deceased in turn with chopsticks, which means to repay the kindness of the deceased before his death. Before you die, you must wait for the brothers, sisters and children of the deceased to meet. If the deceased is a woman, you have to wait for her family to meet before putting her in the coffin. This is a farewell ceremony for the dead. Before entering the coffin, put paper money on the bottom of the coffin, then fold five "persimmon flowers" with paper money and put them on it. After the body is put down, a "persimmon flower" will be added to the forehead, navel and toes, and finally the coffin will be covered.

On the third day of the concept of filial piety, a ceremony of filial piety must be held. First, relatives wear hemp Dai Xiao. Ask people in the countryside or at home to rub hemp ropes and give them a "funeral". The purpose of the memorial war is to give the dead an official title and give a blessing to the living. The son shaved his head, wore a hemp crown, wore hemp clothes and tied a hemp rope around his waist; Daughter-in-law wears facial makeup and paper money earrings, each with black armbands, and her grandson wears hemp armbands. At the same time, the mourning hall has also been decorated: white gauze curtains and banners are hung, and a pair of boys and girls are posted in front of the mourning hall to serve the deceased. The dutiful son and daughter-in-law will "please cry" before the spirit in the morning. People with filial piety 100 days can't cut their hair, pull their faces, wear jewelry, and wear red and green. The dutiful son wore rags and a broken bamboo hat to the streets to express his grief for the dead. Filial piety is a formal mourning ceremony for the dead.

Before opening the crane, you should inform your relatives of the date of opening the crane, and be friendly before your death. When opening the crane, the mourners should wear white coats and hand in the "paper instrument" (small cash sealed with white paper) to the door/room Kloc-0/. As soon as he entered the door, the musicians beat gongs and drums, played suona, mourned and cheered, and the master of ceremonies shouted "Cry Xie", so there was a cry in the mourning hall. The hanging curtain in front of the mourning hall slowly opened, and the mourners knelt down five times and kowtowed three times. The dutiful son-in-law kneeling on the left side of the hall and the dutiful son-in-law kneeling on the right side of the hall must accompany them at this time. Then the mourners kowtowed to the left and right respectively. After the ceremony, the master of ceremonies will bring tea and water to the mourners (there is no water in the teahouse, only for drinking tea). After hanging for a long time, the daughters-in-law in the mourning hall became bored, and they often drank tea, chatted and even played cards around the coffin during the funeral period, which made them unprepared. Finally, feast the customers. It was called "eating and cooking" or "eating and serving" in ancient times. Opening is a ceremony for relatives and friends to formally mourn the dead.

After 5735 days of hanging, the married daughter and son-in-law invited monks and nuns to chant, dance and perform various acrobatics in front of the spirit. Some also set up a paper shadow stage outside the door and invited a paper shadow troupe to perform.

The fulcrum is also called "mourning" This is the last stage of the funeral. The coffin was covered with a satin coffin depicting dragons and embroidered phoenixes. Sixteen big men carried coffins, with torches, elegiac couplets and condolence axes in front, dutiful sons, grandchildren and husbands on the left and dutiful sons and daughters on the right. Followed by relatives and friends before death. Shops along the way and people who know or don't know the deceased can set up altars to burn incense and give the deceased three sacrifices, commonly known as "sacrifices". Funeral is mainly to reward mourners afterwards.

When the coffin is carried to the intersection or bridge, filial daughters, daughters-in-law and relatives will kowtow to the deceased, take off their mourning clothes and choose another way out. At this time, the coffin was escorted by the dutiful son to the cemetery for burial. The tomb was selected in advance by the Kanyu people. Once upon a time, people often "stopped coffins for decades" because they could not choose a satisfactory grave, so coffins were often sent to temples temporarily.

After the burial, the undertaker took off his mourning clothes on the spot, and the eldest son lit a big offering in front of the tomb and invited the deceased to go home. Family members must meet them at the door. If the deceased is a father-in-law, the eldest daughter-in-law will offer "five fruit soup" and kneel down and say, "Please ask the father-in-law to drink sweet soup." Burn incense in the morning for the next three years, and then the family can take off their filial piety.

Once upon a time, people who died before the age of 50 were considered not dead, but dead. Their bodies could not be parked in the mourning hall, so they could only stay in the house, let alone hold the above-mentioned grand funeral. So there was the custom of "donating one's life", that is, the eldest son of the deceased offered tea to the elderly at home or in the village, demanding that his life be shortened to make up for the age of the deceased above 5 1. You can also "donate officials." In order to make the deceased get attention in the Western Heaven, relatives can actually buy an official title from the county government and county magistrate, and the official will issue a certificate with a red seal and put it in the "file bag" that the deceased carries with him.

Such a luxurious and complicated funeral is not rich for the Yin family. It is recorded in the official records of Chaozhou in the Qing Dynasty that after the crane was opened, it cost a lot of money to invite drums and troupes to perform at night, hold parties all night and hold banquets during the day. People who lose their homes often can't afford it, so they have to ask relatives and friends to settle down. But the dead parents, in view of social pressure, had to go all out. After liberation, the funeral reform was carried out and a lot of red tape was deleted. Most funerals for the families of the deceased are simple.