What are the customs (not scenery) in Zhuhai? Zhuhai's Funeral Rituals

During the Tang and Song dynasties, due to the influence of Buddhist thought, Zhuhai and neighboring areas like most of the

What are the customs (not scenery) in Zhuhai? Zhuhai's Funeral Rituals

During the Tang and Song dynasties, due to the influence of Buddhist thought, Zhuhai and neighboring areas like most of the prevalence of the second burial, that is, after the death of the body will be buried in the earth, to be rotting flesh and skin, and then collect the bones of the cremation of the ashes into a ceramic urn, and then choose the feng shui precious land for burial. To the Ming Dynasty, people believe in Taoism, the second funeral cremation of the bones into a full set of bones into the soul altar burial, and has been inherited.

Send the end

Republic of China period, people called the funeral "white joy", and the wedding is also very grand, some of the elderly, most of them are prepared to place a pair of life wood at home, and pre-selected life cave, in the old man on his deathbed, the children stayed with them until the old man breathed his last, commonly known as the "send the end". "Sending the end". When the old man is dying, it is necessary to put on his life jacket, life jacket taboo satin fabric, because with the "broken son" homophonic. Life jacket sleeves to cover the old man's palms, to avoid hand exposure, future children and grandchildren have to beg for food. Once the old man died, immediately cover the mirror and image frame with a piece of cloth, take the silverware in the mouth of the deceased, the corpse in the hall, and covered with a white cloth, dipped in water by the eldest son of the deceased in the eyes, nose, mouth scrubbing, the so-called "open light". Afterwards, the priest was invited to place grass lamps and incense burners for the deceased's spiritual position, and to keep the lamps burning and the incense burning. At that time to send people to inform friends and relatives to report the funeral, condolence guests enter the door to the dead a kneeling or bowing to pay tribute to the mourning, the filial son kneeling to the guests to kowtow to return the salute.

Encoffining

Encoffining the mourning son of each holding lighted candles around the coffin for a week, known as "shine money", at this time, the family bawling mournful tears, and the death of loved ones to say goodbye. In some places, after covering the coffin, put a pair of pants on the coffin, by the eldest son or grandson to take it, said "take the coffin", the pants also belong to the person who took all, it is said that this can be in the future to get promoted and rich. Next is the "spirit of peace", filial sons to the dead before the incense, burning paper, in turn to the dead kowtow "gift rice", is a large pot of glutinous rice, by the filial son of a bowl to the spirit of offering, to be out of the spirit of the buried in the grave.

Funeral

General funeral, choose at noon, by the funeral home and friends and relatives wearing mourning to send the funeral, if carrying the coffin is on the life and the end of the person, the adults will bequeath the children towards the bottom of the coffin through the coffin, that is, the children through the coffin will be able to live a long life. Funeral, the owner of the hand holding a cock forward, followed by drums, coffins, friends and relatives, along the way to distribute paper money, meaning to give the deceased some of the cost of travel, open the way to the underworld. Returning home, also distributed all the way to the paper, the so-called soul back to the house. The rich that is, there are ceremonial, monks and nuns or Taoist priests to open the road, the five tribes Ham to ash gold, and come to the funeral.

When the coffin down the hole, the blood of the deceased or the deceased and the people of the Chinese zodiac to stand on the back of the coffin, and move away from the shadow, so that it does not enter the hole. Once buried in the earth that is with the filial son kneeling in front of the cave threw some white mud pills in the burying, said wishing the dead rest in peace, praying for a long and healthy life of the living. At this time, the master throws the rooster to the eldest son or grandson, saying, "Do you want 'Ding' or 'Wealth'?" The person who receives the rooster replies, "I want both." Waiting for the burial of the soil into a blank, will be laid with wine and sweet wine, burn the paper to raise the mourning. Some places in the grave inserted "streamer pole", meaning that the dead and lanterns run to collect food, gold and silver clothes and paper. After the completion of all things, the funeral home to the guests of the day each style of each letter inserted with a needle and wrapped in a section of red thread "Li Shi", as a protection against evil spirits. When the family members of the deceased returned home, but also to burn a pile of paper fires in front of the house, in turn across the fire, to drive away the evil spirits, and in front of the deceased's spirit place to offer three sacrificial offerings and burning paper carts, horses, houses and other offerings. Whenever seven seven days "do Chen", also kill the pig sacrifice, the rich family that is set up to pay tribute to the priests to do the deed, set up a feast of vegetarian treats, extremely mournful honor.

Pick up the gold

A few years after the burial, the deceased's family choose an auspicious date for reburial, easy to remove the rotten coffins, and to tile altar bone re-burial, which is called "pick up the gold" (pick up the bones of the harmonic meaning), the altar of bone is called the "gold tower". Into the bone with white chaff ash hide, built into a human figure, squatting model, skull placed on top of the ash pile, and engraved epitaphs buried together. On the day of reburial, the cemetery craftsmen will write "good luck" and "no taboos" and other red stickers glued to the wall, burning joss sticks and candles and Yuanbao rituals, before work can begin. Monument ceremony is dug by the craftsmen beforehand a good vertical insertion of the monument in the can acupuncture point, the hour came, the tombstone will be erected, so that a few three-star cannons and a string of firecrackers, Mr. Feng Shui open the compass, according to his predetermined pattern line mouth, accurately move the monument correctly before the earth hole to fill in the flat, followed by pomelo leaf water to wash and wipe the monument, wash the inside and outside of the gravesite, and then put the wine pots of wine and fruit on display monument, burning incense and burning Pali worship wish.

WangShan

"WangShan" is a kind of ceremony, and is the most solemn ceremony, this day in front of the grave on the set of offerings, invited the master of the law, and then in the outside of the incineration of the V outside of the four weeks of the paper, the master of the law and take the magic sword to the back of the Shi altar of the gods to brandish, and then some of the duck's head blood and the blood of the crown of the rooster in the back of the altar, burned silk sacrifice, then the master of the law and took the sword to the altar. Burning silk sacrifice, after the master of the face of the grave and stand, read a chip of the scriptures, that is, take the blood of chickens and ducks drop in the prepared WuDu red talisman, and then use the iron sword waving painting a while, the talisman will be pasted on the wall of the grave, divided into the center of the south-east, west, north and south-west of the five parties posted. The master hand holding a torch, fumigate around the grave, and firecrackers. After doing the law, the beginning of the grave ceremony, it is time to raise the relationship with the perpetrators, are sent on the bonus incense and candles, fruit and gold pigs and so on to sacrifice, and the governance of the bonus are pinned on the grave above, while the treatment of some of the tea for the guests, gifts to burnt meat as a reward, or in the ancestral hall, the home of the food feast, known as the blessing of the cup, in order to express gratitude.

The status quo

After the founding of the State Council, the State Council advocated funeral reform, changing customs. In October 1966, the Zhuhai County Government to actively promote cremation, allocated 80,000 yuan Gongbei Hailuoshan near the slope to build a crematorium, the local burials into cremation, so that the burial ceremony from the simple from the inspection. 1993, the Zhuhai Municipal Government invested more than 20 million yuan in the Meixi construction of the "Green Pine Garden" funeral home, and invested more than 16 million yuan to build 12 villages and villages. More than 20 million yuan to build 12 village columbarium, greatly beautifying the environment of Zhuhai.

Zhuhai "worship mountain" custom

Zhuhai Qingming Festival tomb sweeping, commonly known as "worship mountain". On this day, the family went to the cemetery to remove grass and soil, cleaning and repairing, set up offerings, offer to burn paper money, burn a string of firecrackers. According to the custom of fishermen's families, new graves within three years should pay homage to the mountain before Ching Ming every year, and after three years, they will pay homage to the mountain on Ching Ming Day, and the offerings mainly include roasted pig, fresh eggs, raw onions and garlic, cakes and fruits, etc. In the Tangjia area, the family makes offerings before and after Ching Ming. For example, in the Tangjia area, there are also clan-based ancestor worship activities before and after the Qingming Festival. The person in charge of a clan collects all the taxes for the year from the fields left behind by the "Taigong" (the ancestor of the ****tong), and then all the male members of the clan go up to the mountain to worship the grave of the "Taigong", and after worshiping, they distribute packages and cakes, and then set up a banquet for the whole clan after worshiping the god at the ancestral shrine at night, so as to maintain the relationship of the clan. After the worship, they share the bread and cakes, and at night, after paying homage to the god at the ancestral shrine, they hold a banquet and invite the whole clan to enjoy the feast.

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