What are the basic funeral customs?

Basic funeral customs:

1, direction: loved ones passed away, the need to hold a ceremony to "point the way". In this process, while holding the appropriate activities, so that the deceased that this place is not dust, is to enjoy the blessings.

2,? Funeral Clothing: The deceased usually wear white cloth shirts and blue pants. It is believed that white symbolizes purity and blue is the national color. The cloth needs to be plain, not cotton. Children dress the deceased with their own hands. The deceased's belongings, including clothes and household items, are burned and not left behind.

3, Shutdown: in the folk stopping time, generally not more than three days, and then held in the funeral home memorial and farewell ceremony. But some areas, let the local "Mr. ″, according to the deceased's birthdate, calculate the appropriate day to hold a memorial ceremony.

4, Funeral: In the past, when the funeral, the relatives wearing mourning, hearse on the body feet forward. Now the funeral is different, due to funeral reform, the remains need to be cremated. After cremation, the ashes and broken bones of the deceased into a cloth bag, and finally into the urn, usually the front of the urn facing forward.

5, dead animals : the past custom, the dead, depending on the poor and rich, have to die animal sacrifices, big as pigs and cows, as small as chickens. If the deceased was older, the offering was considered a blessing and could be distributed to relatives. Chickens are often left for the friends and relatives who helped to bring the deceased to the funeral and eat them after the funeral.

6. Combined Burial: A husband and wife are buried together, with the man on the left and the woman on the right, and the opposite is true for the Mongolians. If there are juniors buried together, juniors in the west side, elders in the east side. Part of the region, husband and wife buried together, if one party died first buried, the other party died buried, need to be invited to the urn, meet and worship, and then buried at the same time.

7, facing: in the past, the remains are buried, facing the north-south vertical, and now the urn is facing south and north. There are also some areas in reference to the past custom of the north-south vertical burial, citing the "hundred years of good luck", on behalf of eternal peace.

8, burning : traditional custom, is to burn treasure, yellow paper, paper household goods.

9, mourning: the ancient custom of mourning, and in recent times it has become the festival of seven (festival of seven: refers to the first seven to five seven, or seven seven). At home, they set up a spiritual hall to celebrate the 100th day and the anniversary. During the mourning period, they need to wear vegetarian clothes and eat vegetarian food.