Funeral culture has "happy mourning", what is happy mourning?

In ancient times, when life expectancy was low, the mourning of an old man who died after 80 years of age was a joyful mourning, and nowadays it may be a hundred years old. In short, the older and older you are, the more you meet the criteria for a happy funeral.

People call the death of a child at a young age mourning, and Confucius has a saying, thirty and standing, forty without confusion, fifty ears, sixty know the fate of heaven, seventy ancient and rare. To eighty that is really high life people, so even if this time to die, that is a happy event.

Then the funeral need not cry more than howling, but to smile, blowing. Because in our country ancient legend, where the person who is qualified for joyful mourning, most of them are extremely good generation. They did a lot of good things in their lives, so they would die without pain. This kind of people usually have a lot of children and grandchildren and are carefree.

Since ancient times, all kinds of rituals have been extremely complicated, and funerals are no exception. The funeral is different from the traditional funeral, the funeral with filial piety, after the burial of the deceased, you can remove the normal clothing. The son or daughter of the deceased can get a haircut within a hundred days, and can marry normally, without any taboo. The mourning is also quite different, the ordinary funeral can only be with white mourning cloth, but the mourning can be with red. In the many people with filial piety, and the most important grandchildren of the cloth, in the grandchildren's generation of red cloth based on, and then add a yellow cloth.

Because it is a happy funeral, many people will take some offerings home, because it is said that eating the offerings of the funeral can prolong life and eliminate disasters. It is also said that the mourning cloth will be stolen and taken home to make clothes for children under the age of 12, so that the children can grow up healthy and strong. Happy mourning standards are actually very high, requiring people to live to eighty years of age and normal death, and to have children and grandchildren, if not, not enough happy mourning.