The dead buried bloated coffin below the four corners of the four copper coins put brother four have what to say?

Coffin, commonly known as longevity wood, such as the life prepared for the death of the aka "longevity wood". Coffin is a person's life of joy, anger, sadness and happiness, busy competing in the total destination, so the world attaches great importance to this thing. As the Beijing saying goes, "If you want to be strong for the rest of your life, you will be satisfied with a good house". "House" is the common name for coffin. The coffin is a very important part of the life of a person, but it is also a very important part of the life of a person.

The coffin material quality varies, the top quality is the wood, generally used for the emperor; followed by the gold nan, used by the feudal lords; the general officials, the rich and powerful with the cedar; the general use of cedar, pine or basswood, willow, and so on.

Coffin maker people called "oblique wood line", which is a mystery, commonly known as "blindfolded ghosts", is not bad at all. To a large extent, to Tsubaki top Yin sinking wood sale; to a small extent, "hanging ghosts", "pulling the drawer" ...... is to make the poor sorry parents hook. Coffin store to buy tree wood has another wonderful method, calculating a few wood, it is necessary to say: "small head, small face, four inches under the foot", anxious to sell trees due to poverty and the people have no way. Calculation of timber square material is: to meet more than seven feet for a section, to multiply the diameter of each section of the small head and small side of the self, is the number of materials obtained. If the wood section is not very round, to count from the distance short, and also to remove the bark. The coffin store to take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune.

Qing Dynasty Beijing coffins can be roughly divided into three ways.

(a) Han material. Commonly known as "brute material", the cover is the thickest. Head to do crescent-shaped, two gangs of the same thickness, the bottom of the special thickening, the proportion of "three, four, five" or "four, five, six". Slightly larger than "three, four, five", and less than "four, five, six", called "three, four, five, put sample". Greater than "four, five, six", said "four, five, six release sample". In the sunken or nanmu is not common people can use. Beijing people like cedar, by thirteen pieces of collocation, cover four, help the bottom of each three, known as "cedar big thirteen round". Cedar coffins have "whole flower" and "half flower" respectively. Before and after revealing cedar heart of the annual cycle of the whole flower; to the big cedar split in half, with thirteen half-open cedar wood is called half-flower. In fact, the flowers are craftsmen with small pieces of wood stuffed, otherwise the cedar wheel on which there is such a revealing pattern. There is also "fat skin material", is to do the big material left over the semi-circular wood, stick stick stick together into a coffin containing people. Han material on the lid there are three small holes called "pin eye", into the coffin after the cover will be cork, but leave more than half of the floating lid, until the "companion accommodation" night, will be nailed into the plug, it is called "under the pins ". After the next pin, generally can not be opened again.

(B) full material. Also known as "gourd material". Coffin gang straight down, the coffin lid to do a flat two slope shape, cover the gap, a few and half of the coffin gang. In front of the lid, there is a wooden gourd shape with a pointed front and a flat back, and the flat back is equal to the top of the lid, which is connected by a joint leaf. When the coffin is in the hall, the gourd stretches forward flat, or folded back to the coffin lid at the time of burial, or for the kongfu to get. Full material cover, bottom, help the same thickness, so only three inches material, three inches five material ....... Full material has no "pin eye", the coffin lid and the coffin gang has a sub-mouth card, the front cover gang connection has a small empty groove, inside the small wooden boards, with iron nails from the outside of the wooden boards stuck in the lid, but also as soon as the companion of the night to remove the iron nails, the board fell half of the groove with the same name, "under the pin", and want to uncover the lid is The board falls half of the groove with the same name "lower pin", want to uncover the cover again is not.

Manchu coffins have another sub-cover, one for the tight, but also for the coffin by the family plus the cover after the cover, so that outsiders can cover the big cover.

(C) line material. And Han material is roughly the same type, just thin small handy, so as to carry out of Beijing, so also known as "South material". Row material body style is small, but most of them are made of high-quality wood.

The coffin is called "into the wood", the deceased will be placed in the coffin, the deceased's grandchildren and other filial relatives are to be on the side, called "pro-visualization of the coffin".

That should be set up before the embalming shed, some due to time constraints, it is too late to set up the shed, the first set up a cloth tent. In short, stop the body, stop the coffin can not be in broad daylight, said to avoid the sun and moon.

The form of coffin varies, there is a coffin in the shed in the coffin, there are in the hall in the coffin. At the same time, there is the so-called "high coffin", "low coffin" points. High coffin will be placed in the coffin "cross wood" (leased from the coffin store bench), more than the Department of rich households, but also have to have Buddhist and Taoist beliefs, said "three feet from the ground that is God". Generally more low coffin, that is, the coffin on the ground.

Mourners first with a large burnt paper package sawdust, the deceased enjoys how many years on how many packages, cushioned in the bottom of the coffin. Then, on top of a layer of water-red cloth, seven small copper coins, as the Big Dipper seven stars (it is said that "the main South Dipper, the main death of the Big Dipper"), known as the "pad back money".

When the coffin, first of all, the deceased tripping wire pulled down, and then by the eldest son or grandson to hold the head, the other children and grandchildren on both sides of the coverlet single mattress a pocket, shouting "Dad (Mom), please move it! The coffin is placed in the coffin in a smooth and steady manner. At this time, you can touch a few coins from under the dead. It is said that this coin to the child to wear on the body can avoid the evil, no disaster, no disease, good to live.

The coffin can also be put in the burial objects, mostly the deceased's favorite things in life, such as tobacco pouches, cigarette pots, walnuts, canes and so on. Then all the empty space are filled with cotton and sawdust paper bags, and will "beat the dog stick" into the cuffs of the dead, if there is no martyrdom, at least in the hands of the dead to rest on a small treasure or a piece of silver dollars, but also put a handkerchief, said the dead can not go empty-handed. Mouth to contain a bead with red thread, the poor family contains a tea bag, which is filial son, called "pro-visualization of the coffin". Women's heads do not comb big head, pull a bun, wear a "Guanyin pocket", insert a nine-link ring (usually by the married daughter to play). Lying on the lotus pillow, the elaborate also have to put the feet of the stirrups, also lotus-shaped. After the body is placed, that is held "open light" ceremony, by the eldest son with chopsticks holding a wet cotton ball, wipe the deceased's eye circles, read under his breath: "net net eye, eye to see the six ways"; and then wipe the deceased's ears, and read: "net net ear, ear to hear in all directions"; and then wipe the deceased's ears, and read: "net net ear, ear to hear in all directions"; and then the deceased's ears, and then the deceased's eyes, ears to hear in all directions". The ears listen to all directions"; then wipe the mouth of the deceased, and recite: "Clean the mouth, the more you eat, the more you have". Finally, from the coverlet torn off a small piece of cloth for the face, and then with a small mirror, turn around and break it. All the filial piety one to visit the coffin, look at the remains, turn around and cry, so-called mourning, said for the final farewell. After that, the bar room people will be "sub cover" inserted, and then the big cover, the big cover has three wooden wedges (can not be used in even numbers), the first nail on one, leaving two, and so on when the funeral hit the spirit and then nailed to death, for fear of not yet rushed back to the relatives asked to visit the remains. In the nail wedge, the eldest son that is kneeling on the ground and shouted: "relatives to avoid nails!" So far, the coffin ceremony is over.