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What do rural people pay attention to when they are buried?

1. The most common burial time is within seven seven 49 days after the death of the deceased into the ground for peace called "hot ashes burial"

2. In the deceased one hundred days after the death of the burial as a good period, called "hundred days of burial"

3. For the wake In places where it is customary to bury a deceased loved one on the anniversary of his death, it is called "anniversary burial"

4. Finding an auspicious day for burial is called "auspicious burial"

5. "Dry Burial"

6. Burials during the Ching Ming and Winter Solstice periods are called "Customary Burials. Duanwu Festival, the folk also worship ancestors on this day

8. June 19: Guanyin, the Goddess of Mercy, became a day, the folk have the custom to worship Guanyin to ask for a ferry

9. July 15: Ghosts Festival, the dead on this day can be ferried out of the sea of misery, is the soul of the festival of liberation

10. July 13: the birthday of the Bodhisattva Earth will rescue all those who have done good deeds

11. The first day of October: at this time the cold has appeared, the folk custom of sending cold clothes

12. November 17: this day of sacrifice for the moon to ask Buddha to transcend the meaning of the dead

13. December 23: commonly known as the small year, is the day of sacrifice to welcome the spring

14. At the same time, you can be in the first day of the first month, the first eight, the fifteenth, the nineteenth, the twenty-third, the twenty-ninth and the thirtieth sacrifices

The death of an elderly person in the countryside requires a grand funeral event, in which it is not only to honor the ancestors and express their remembrance of them. It is also to let it rest well, as a way to protect future generations, which is why the funeral is so grand. In the funeral of the burial is very important, the precautions we must know.

First: the burial of the deceased in rural areas to participate in

In rural areas to participate in the funeral or burial, is very solemn and sad. If a pregnant woman or a newborn child participates in this ceremony, her own aura is very weak. It is easy to be "scared", resulting in damage to the health of the body, it is easy to be haunted, so avoid. In addition and the ancestors of the difference of six years or multiples of six years of age at the time of burial to, turn around to avoid, so as not to cause collision.

Second: rural ancestors buried inside the grave

In the countryside to the ancestors buried is the need for several people to put the coffin together, this time the coffin below the soil must be hurried, can not leave footprints or handprints. If left these things, must be smoothed with paper money. Then the burial, in addition to the living person's figure is not to be mapped in the grave, otherwise it will be the dead body pressure, resulting in damage to the physical aspects of the guilty call constantly, it is difficult to cure.

Third: Rural ancestors buried warm pit

In the ancestors buried, must be warmed, but not with the help of sunlight or moonlight, because both the yang and yin are too large, will destroy the qi within the grave, to use paper money or burn paper to warm the kang, to be burned out before burial, the purpose is to let the ground instantly because of the warmth of the air and rise, to protect the coffins, so that the ancestors rest in peace. Also when there is sun, the grave must be covered with a black cloth.

Fourth: the burial of the deceased in rural areas do not look back

In the rural areas to the burial of the deceased, when all the procedures are completed. On the way home, we must not look back, the purpose of doing so is to prevent seeing things that should not see, resulting in spiritual damage, easy to be unclean things "haunting". In addition, when you enter the home, you must wash your hands and look in the mirror. Because the mirror can reflect bad luck and bad luck, to avoid the impact on the living.

Why is the funeral so grand in rural areas, the fundamental reason is not only to mourn the deceased, but also the "face" of the living, the most important thing is to let the ancestors to protect the future generations. This is why many people pay attention to the choice of the grave, each local customs are not the same, but the fundamental reason is the same

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