How should the first seven days and five seven days of worship

1, the first seven

It is customary to think of the "first seven" as the seventh day after a person's death. The family should prepare a meal for the deceased, and then they must go back to their homes. The best way to do this is to go to sleep, but if you can't sleep, you should hide under the covers.

2. Five Seven Days

Burning of five seven days is a ritual associated with mourning. It is a way of honoring the dead by burning paper on their graves for 35 days after their death.

The traditional way of burning wuqi in the north: the date of wuqi is announced on the day of the funeral by the respected village elders in charge of the ceremony, and relatives and friends will pay homage to the date of wuqi on their own without further notice. The family gets up early on the day to prepare the banquet and wait for the relatives and friends to arrive.

Relatives and friends to take the gift, it is important that the son-in-law side to organize a beam table of food to take over, people all, put on the mourning clothes worn at the funeral, all the offerings received by the family picked to the grave, the family lined up in rows to cry on the grave to worship, the sons and daughters of daughters-in-law around the grave sprinkled a few handfuls of soil, said to let the deceased rest in peace, to return to their homes to eat the offerings after the end of the meal.

Expanded Information:

Wuzhi is also known as "Zhaizhi" or "Lizhi". The "seven seven" and so on. In the old days, Han Chinese funeral customs, popular in all parts of the country. That is, after the death of a person (or after the funeral), in the "first seven" that is, to set up a spiritual seat, for the wood master, daily cry, morning and evening offerings, every seven days for a Buddhist ceremony, set up a fasting sacrifice, and so on to the "seven seven" forty-nine days in addition to the spirit of the end.

References:

First seven days - Baidu Encyclopedia, Five seasons, Seven days - Baidu Encyclopedia.