What does the coffin mean?

What does the coffin mean? In daily life, I believe everyone is no stranger to coffins. Coffins are used to pretend to be dead, and many people often regard coffins as ominous things. Let's take a look at the meaning of coffin and related contents.

What does the coffin mean? 1 coffins, also known as longevity coffins and old houses, are boxes for holding corpses and are generally used for funerals. Coffins can be made of different materials, the most common being wood. There are also coffins made of copper and stone.

China traditionally likes to make coffins from high-quality catalpa and nanmu. Many people regard getting a good coffin after death as their greatest blessing.

Liuzhou, Guangxi, is known as "born in Hangzhou, dressed in Suzhou, ate in Guangzhou and died in Liuzhou" because of its good timber output and high coffin technology.

Nature has created everything, and at the same time, it has endowed everything with life that continues to develop in different forms and forms. The life of all things in the world is hard-won, but we human beings have explained the value of life in a special form. ...

Since ancient times, human beings have left an indelible "theorem" on their own death-although people can not be resurrected after death, they can all die. Of course, this is a superstitious statement. If the "death theorem" is explained in a scientific and objective way, "it is a kind of spiritual desire of human beings-although people cannot be resurrected after death, their spiritual image will always exist in the hearts of others. In order to express this spiritual feeling with tangible nostalgia for the dead, people sort out the dead body, that is, bury it. In order to make the deceased live better in another world, people have prepared gorgeous coffins for the deceased.

The coffin, also known as the old house, is specially designed for the dead, and its workmanship is very fine. First look at its material. Usually due to the limitation of economic conditions, popular coffins are made of pine and cypress. A good and exquisite coffin is made of precious nanmu or natural crystal stone. And its shape is also very strange, with a big front end and a small back end, which is stepped. On its body, the inclined plane of each board used is opposite, and all parts after molding should also reflect the inclined plane of big front and small back. The so-called coffin material is also called inclined cargo material, but both sides and lid are inclined with radians. From the front of the material head, the whole coffin looks like a semicircle.

What is particularly striking is its exterior decoration. On the front of the coffin, there are cranes and deer in the monument hall, and there are two white cranes flying over the glazed tile hall. On both sides of the hall, pines and cypresses are lush. In front of the hall is a fragrant and colorful green grass, and there are stone steps leading to the hall in the middle of the grass, which is very clean and elegant. The whole picture decorated the whole coffin head like a fairyland room, and the whole villa was very quiet. On the top of the wooden head, there are three Chinese characters "Happy Palace". On both sides of the coffin are two Huang Jinlong who chase and tease the sphere. The dragon is surrounded by weapons used by the Eight Immortals, such as Lv Dongbin, also known as the "dark Eight Immortals", as well as guqin, ancient paintings, plum, peach and pomegranate fruit. On the surface of the material, there is also "Shoushan Fuhai". All the pictures on the coffin are fully moved into it by means of powder fixing, bronzing and pigment blending, making the whole coffin solemn and generous, colorful, gorgeous and orderly; The lines are elegant and smooth. After death, a person can be accompanied by so much material, spirit and knowledge, and naturally he can safely embark on the road of death.

What does the coffin mean? What is the origin of the coffin?

China's funeral culture is the most systematic "ceremony" among the six ancient arts. The most direct object of funeral culture is the coffin. In fact, coffins and coffins are not the same thing, just a general term. Then we know that in funeral matters, from coffin to funeral, this is a coherent and the most critical procedure in funeral matters. But do you know the origin of the coffin? What's the difference between folklore and archaeological interpretation? Let's take a look today.

Let's talk about the origin of coffins in folklore, which is generally an episode of Pang Juan's murder of Sun Bin. It is said that Pang Juan and Sun Bin studied the art of war in Guiguzi, and later Pang Juan went down the mountain to become a general of Wei; Later, Wang Wei welcomed Sun Bin to Wei State, and Pang Juan was jealous of Sun Bin's talent, framing Sun Bin for adultery with Qi State, and his kneecap was removed (flogging). Then he wants to do further harm. Sun Bin pretended to be crazy and fled to the border. Wei's pursuers arrived.

It is said that a family came to Sun Bin at this time and asked them to try to send themselves to Qi. So he put Sun Bin in the bedside table, regarded him as a dead man, re-closed the lid and tied the hemp rope. So, a group of people sent Sun Bin out of Wei and escaped Wei Bing's pursuit. This way of lifting sleeping cabinets and tying hemp ropes was later applied to funeral matters. People called this process "mourning" and "mourning".

The legend is over. Obviously, they are all fabricated by later generations and are not credible. The origin of this statement is probably because the pronunciation of "funeral" in Funeral is the same as that of "country" in Sun Bin. To trace the origin of the coffin, we should explain it from the existing archaeological achievements. According to textual research, wooden coffins have appeared on the Longshan cultural site around 2500 BC, which are the same as the current wooden coffins; But at that time, the coffin and the coffin were not the same thing, and the coffin was the outer layer of the coffin.

The use system of coffins was established in the Zhou Dynasty: four coffins were provided for the emperor to be buried; The rest of the titles are graded, three or one; Scholar-officials can't use coffins, but they can use big coffins. This is a related word in the Book of Rites. For Wang people, it was probably a simple coffin or a direct burial. The Book of Changes even says that "the coffin was made by the emperor".

The original intention of the coffin is actually to "cover the body." It can be seen from the ancient ritual system that it is the "coffin" that truly embodies identity, that is, the coffin. The word coffin, because most people are made of wood, is called coffin. The present funeral culture and ritual system have also been simplified in social development; At the same time, due to people's understanding of culture, some processes and things have been changed or added in simplification. For example, cremation initiative, urn, but also put the urn directly in the coffin, so it seems that the coffin has played a "over" role; The urn is a coffin. As for the present funeral system, whether it is good or not is not enough to discuss. Most of them want to end their lives in a "safe place".

What does the coffin mean? What are the types of coffins?

1, pine and cypress coffin:

Some people, limited by economic conditions, mostly use coffins made of pine and cypress.

2, nanmu, rock crystal coffin:

A good and exquisite coffin is made of precious nanmu or natural crystal stone.

3. Millennium Ice Coffin:

The climate in Russia is cold. In some mountain areas, ice and snow do not melt all year round. Some Russian nobles have the custom of being buried in ice coffins. However, in China, there are very few dead people who use ice coffins.

4. The sarcophagus:

The concept of sarcophagus is very broad, including not only the simplest green sarcophagus and white sarcophagus, but also jade sarcophagus and jade sarcophagus. Stone is a very stable substance in nature. Even after weathering, a carved stone tablet can still clearly recognize the handwriting on it for hundreds of years, so many people will use sarcophagus.