What do you mean by five clothes?

1, "Five Clothes" is a common kinship in the patriarchal society in ancient China. Among the nine family members, if someone dies, people who are related to him will hold different funerals at different times, wearing different clothes. This kind of funeral sets different mourning standards according to the closeness of different relatives of nine ethnic groups.

"Five clothes" can be divided into five categories, as follows: The first category, named "Deceptive", is the heaviest funeral, generally suitable for children of parents (including stepmother), wearing coarse linen, holding a funeral stick without mending, and wearing sandals for three years. The second category is called Cui Zi, which is divided into four grades: 1. Cui Zi's Staff Period. Sewing coarse cloth, holding a cutting staff, mourning for a year. Applicable to the husband's wife; 2. Cui Zi's supernumerary period. If you don't hold a staff, the rest are the same as above. Applicable to Sun Weizu's parents, nephews as uncle parents, married women as parents and men as brothers; 3. May in Cui Zi. Applicable to great-grandchildren of great-grandparents; 4. March in Cui Zi. Used for great-great grandchildren who are great-great parents. The third category is called great achievements. Wearing cooked linen, white, mourning in September. Suitable for married aunts, married sisters and cousins. Married women are uncles, parents and brothers. The fourth category is called Hong Xiao. Wearing coarse cloth and cooked cloth, the mourning period is May. Suitable for uncles, uncles, uncles and cousins. The fifth category is called hemp. Dressed in cooked linen, the mourning period is March. Suitable for grandparents, in-laws, cousins.

Blood relationship for more than five generations, no longer mourning for it, called clothing, also known as five clothing.

There was a book about etiquette in the Zhou Dynasty, one of which was called The Book of Rites. "Mourning clothes" defines five kinds of clothes for a person's relatives attending a funeral after death, because they are closely related: Cui Zi, Dagong, Hong Xiao and Refuse to Horse. The closer the relationship, the thicker the clothes, the rougher the texture and the longer the mourning period. Among them, the closest person wears it, and it is made of thick linen, like chopping an axe, hence the name. Dachengjiu and Xiaocheng refer to the efforts to sew mourning clothes, which are rougher than small achievements. Hemp is mourning clothes made of cooked linen. Therefore, it is often heard that Pima Dai Xiao, the simpler the marijuana handling mourning, the closer the relationship. As a result, the definition of "five clothes" was given to relatives, and the other five clothes faded out of relatives.

The determination of five clothes among relatives is based on oneself, and it is pushed up for four generations, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, great-grandfather; Push down four generations, sons, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-grandchildren. At the same time, there are relatives of the above relatives, all obedient relatives, also called in-laws. The mother's family is called a foreign relative-a relative. The service system has only one life, including grandparents, uncles, aunts, uncles and cousins. Others are not obedient relatives. Declining relatives refer to father's relatives, big relatives refer to grandfather's relatives, little relatives refer to great-grandfather's relatives, and great-grandfather's relatives refer to maternal relatives. In addition, the relationship between the five clothes determines the five classics, establishes the social management framework, that is, the patriarchal hierarchy, and becomes the superstructure to maintain the social structure.