What are the customs of the funeral

1. The ceremony for the dead body: It is called the "mourning ceremony" in which the dead body is moved to a bed in the bright room of the main house and spends the last moments of its life under the watchful eyes of its relatives. 2. Mourning Ceremony: Mourning is the first ceremony after the death of a person, and it is used to signal the death of a person to relatives, friends, and village people. 3. Soul inviting and sending ceremony: the soul of a person who dies in another country cannot find his way back. Unless his family members "invoke the soul" for him, so that he can hear the voice of those who are looking forward to him, he will be able to follow the voice to come back. 4. Do 'seven' ceremony: people believe that people know they have died only seven days after death, so to hold a "do seven", every seven days a sacrifice, "seven seven" forty-nine days before the end. This is mainly influenced by Buddhism and Taoism. 5. condolence ceremony: general condolences are carrying gifts to the deceased's clothes and quilts, and in the top with a pin hanging with a brush writing "so-and-so to" the words of the note 6. into the convergence of the ceremony: into the coffin has a "big convergence" and "small convergence" of the points. Small convergence refers to the dead wear clothes, "big coffin" refers to the collection of human coffins, Han Chinese folk commonly known as "return to the big house". 7. mourning ceremony: in the funeral rites, the younger generation to the elders wear mourning is mainly to express filial piety and mourning. This is originally from the Zhou rituals, is a Confucian ritual, later, was extended to become the deceased "sin-free". 8. Mourning rituals: according to superstition, people die in just day, should be selected in the soft day of burial; soft day of death, should be selected in just day of burial, just day, soft day to work with the 9. Wailing rituals: wailing is one of the major features of China's funeral rites and customs. Wailing ceremony throughout the funeral ceremony, the big scene as many as several times. And the funeral of the crying ceremony is the most important. 10. Burial Ceremony: This is the last moment of the deceased's stay in the world, generally very solemn.

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The original grave, burn seven, burn 100 days, burn anniversary, burn the third anniversary of the resolution 1: Since ancient times, Chinese funeral customs have: three days from the day of the funeral of the original grave of the custom, that is: buried in the cemetery need to go to the cemetery, on the beams, set up offerings, incense, step on the yard, burn paper and other programs. (If the urn is stored in the funeral parlor, only offerings, incense and paper will be burned.) 2: the date of death, every seven days to burn paper, burn seven times, over seven halls, *** seven seven, forty-nine days, this is burning seven (also known as: do seven or commit seven). At present, often do seven changed to four times, namely: a seven (replaced by three days of the original grave), three seven, five seven, seven seven, (now only burn the singular, burn big seven). According to funeral customs, burn a seven, seven seven, to the deceased son-based, called: there is a head, there is a tail; three seven, to the deceased daughter-in-law-based; five seven, to the deceased daughter-based. (burn five pots of paper flowers). According to funeral customs, burn seven (do seven). There is a special need to say is to commit seven. What is committed seven? From the date of death to the lunar calendar projection, if the day of seven and the first seven, seventeen, twenty-seven days coincide with these days, it is called a crime seven, such as Sanqi and these days coincide with the three, is a crime Sanqi. It is said that: "the dead do not commit seven, the living have no food," meaning that the crime of seven in favor of the living, but the dead will therefore suffer suffering, so, in this case, the living need for the dead to eliminate disasters and save the lives of the dead, that is, the need to go to the grave for the dead drenching seven. Shanxi, for example, the specific practice is: cut paper man with hemp paper, the number is more than the life of the deceased three, tied to the grain pole, but also cut an umbrella, a ladder, a bridge. These paper people in a circle, tied to the head of the grave, the center of the umbrella, ladder and bridge, and then water pouring with walnuts and jujube funnel to rain paper people, and devoutly read all kinds of reminders of the words of the deceased, such as hiding from the rain, cross the bridge, thunder and so on. 3: burn a hundred days, burn anniversary, burn the significance of the third anniversary: people die in the netherworld, *** there are ten king officials (netherworld of the prosecutor) and the four judges, whose job is: will be the dead inquiry to what they did in life, good good, evil, to be interrogated, *** there are ten king officials, in charge of the ten halls, first of all, we must go through the first seven halls: first Hall Qin Guangming King, the second Hall Chujiang Mingwang, the third Hall Sung Emperor Mingwang, the fourth Hall Wu King Ming, the fifth temple Yanluo emperor, the sixth temple Biancheng Ming Wang, the seventh temple Taishan Ming Wang, children burn seven, hoping that parents in the netherworld can be safe and comfortable, the king of the smooth. Do seven worship Ming Wang, check their lives | "good悪" deeds, forty-nine days after the transfer to the netherworld court after four trials, every ten days for a ten-day period, the transfer of the trial once: a trial, (the first ten days, fifty-nine days) Cui's Judge; second trial, (two ten days, sixty-nine days) Li's Judge; third trial, (three ten days, seventy-nine days) Han's Judge; fourth trial, (four ten days, eighty-nine days) Yang's Judge; fourth trial, (four ten days, eighty-nine days) Yang's Judge. The fourth trial, (forty days, eighty-nine days) Yang's Judge; another ten days is ninety-nine days to burn a hundred days (called short hundred days, long anniversary), and then worship, the eighth temple Pingzheng Mingwang, burn one year to worship, the ninth temple City Mingwang, burn three years to worship, after the wheel of the King of the Mingwang, decide how to reincarnation, transfer to the next life.