There are black and red coffins in the countryside. What is the difference?

Coffins have three normal colors, black and red and primary colors. Black coffins are the most common, red coffins are the least common, and primary color coffins are the last to see. Only those who have made great achievements and lived long can use red coffins. Black coffins are used by people with relatively normal age and relatively normal death, and the primary colors are used by people who have not yet reached the age of marriage, such as teenagers.

These are normal in most places, but there are some differences in some places. Suppose the red coffin is used to bury people regardless of age. This situation exists somewhere in Guizhou. As long as adults die, red coffins will be used uniformly, including the long-lived elderly. This custom is not accurate in reality, but there are some legends.

Legend has it that the emperor killed a champion by mistake and sent people to the hometown of the champion to investigate and found that the champion had no intention of rebellion. Looking at the poor old mother of the champion, the angel of the emperor knew that he had killed someone by mistake, so he went back and reported to the emperor. The emperor knew that he had done something wrong, and he felt guilty in some ways. At the same time, he held a high-standard funeral for the champion's parents and used a red coffin for burial, which eventually became a local custom. This is just a legend, there is no such thing in reality.

In other places, red coffins are for the elderly over 80 or 90 years old, or for some elderly people with great achievements and status. In some places in Guizhou, regardless of age, they are buried in red coffins. Red represents good luck. What does the red coffin stand for? In fact, it is also a special meaning. Black represents sadness, and the primary color represents that white-haired people send black-haired people.

In most places, coffins are black. In some places, the coffins are red at both ends, while in other places, they are black. These belong to different local customs, but they represent similar meanings. For example, middle-aged people use pure black coffins, middle-aged and elderly people use red coffins surrounded by black when they die, red coffins or dark coffins are used for weddings and funerals of the elderly, and primary color coffins are used for abnormal deaths and unmarried minors. From the use of coffin color, we can roughly analyze the approximate age of the deceased.

Recently, a 9 1 year-old female elder was buried in Luo Zhang. Hearing some stories about coffins in my hometown, I can answer this question.

According to the seniority, I want to ask this elder grandmother to join the work in 195 1 year, and to be a child bride in a large family before joining the work. Because of her husband's cruelty and personality, she was beaten a lot in her early years and was abused to infertility.

Then the land reform team came to the village to save her. She left her husband's home with the team and became an activist of land reform in the commune established at that time. She has never been back to that village or her family. That place gave her childhood and adolescence, leaving too many shadows and pains, as well as physical pains.

The old man had two marriages after he joined the work, both of which died because he could not have children. 1965, a township party Committee in her hometown took a girl a few years old to the unit and said that there were too many children to raise. At that time, she was in her thirties and adopted the child. Since then, mother and daughter have lived together.

Later, I gave my children an urban hukou and sent them to school. Although I have a job, my orphans and widows have suffered a lot. Finally, because of some trivial matters at work, I had a bad feeling with my colleagues and was sent to work in township stations. I worked there for twenty years, during which I married my adopted daughter to a local, my uncle.

The old lady retired soon after her daughter got married and had children. My daughter took her place and went to work in the country. However, the old lady may be used to living alone. Anyway, she didn't live in her daughter's son-in-law's house, and finally returned to the city alone at her insistence.

The old lady who just returned to the city doesn't have a house, so she rents a house from someone else, 2 1 yuan a quarter. At that time, the retirement salary was very small. When there was no money to pay the rent, she gritted her teeth and insisted.

The old lady is probably self-reliant and a little self-enclosed because of her early experience. This is really everything, Dont Ask For Help. Because of relatives, I have seen her occasionally and heard a lot from my family. She is a self-reliant, very particular person, with a regular and meticulous life. It is these regular lives that have been cultivated all the year round that make her have a high-quality life and good health.

Then the government's low-rent housing policy came. The old lady bought a small two-bedroom apartment with her retirement savings, worked all her life and finally got a home. But then she got older and older, and trouble came.

With more and more retirement wages and a small house, her nephew suddenly appeared and came to see the old lady from time to time. Although the old lady said to be a relative, it is ok to take a walk, and she will definitely be buried in her son-in-law's house after a hundred years, the idea of returning to the roots when she is old is getting stronger and stronger, and she has been entangled with her daughter and nephew many times.

Daughter-in-law is generous, saying several times that no matter who organizes the funeral, he will do his daughter-in-law's duty to support it to the end. But after a long time, the old lady also saw the thoughts of her nephews who had never been in contact before, and finally settled down.

In fact, the old lady's daughter has been living with her mother since she retired. For more than ten years, she has been spinning like a top between her home in the country and her home in the city. But the old lady has always been in good health. She doesn't want anyone, even her daughter, to do anything to herself.

My daughter ran back and forth like this until last year's National Day. The old lady said that she had some trouble washing and cooking, and her daughter stayed in the city. After the Spring Festival this year, the old lady finally couldn't get up in bed. My daughter never left her again. Before that, the old lady occasionally cooked by herself.

After being sent to the hospital, the old lady knew that she was going to die and told her daughter, "I'm afraid I won't last long summer (May 5). After I die, you bury me back to your house and burn some paper on holidays. " Subsequently, he died on the fifth day of the summer solstice.

The old lady is strong and delicate all her life. Most of these people live a long life. She was born several months later than Yuan Longping and left eleven days earlier than Yuan. Although there is no achievement of Yuan, he lived tenaciously and conscientiously for 9 1 year within his own ability.

Although retirees were cremated, burial of coffins was not prohibited. Therefore, according to the custom and general practice of the son-in-law's family, the old lady's urn was placed in a coffin made 30 years ago and buried in the mountain forest of the son-in-law's family.

When buried, her son-in-law's peers or some strong laborers of the younger generation are responsible for the burial. When he got off catalpa, the immortal laid the grave, made a divination, and then said, "The coffin is red, and the son-in-law buried his mother-in-law. Is that what you said here? "

The fairy is not local, but it is not far away. It's normal to have different customs in ten miles, so I asked. I was interested in these things and asked a few more questions.

The fairy said that black coffins are usually used. Whether parents or nephews are buried, as long as the descendants of the family deal with the aftermath, they use black coffins. If the son-in-law buries her parents-in-law, use a red coffin, but only on the land where the son-in-law is buried. If the son-in-law is in charge of the funeral at her parents' home and the deceased is buried at her own home, it will be different. Black coffins must be used. Of course, if you are a son-in-law, it is customary to bury your parents according to your son.

This is the folklore I know about the color of coffins. In fact, some customs handed down are constantly changing with the continuous progress of society. Some even need to be abandoned, such as burial and coffins, which should gradually disappear!

Because it is not good-looking, it is not on the picture.

Different colors of coffins represent different meanings. In rural areas, the most common color of coffins is black, red is used in a few cases, and the rarest color is primary color …

Dust to dust, soil to soil, life is only a few decades, no matter rich or poor, can not escape the fate of loess buried for a long time. A hundred years later, that little coffin will be our final "home".

The shape and size of the coffin are similar, the only difference is the color. In the traditional funeral customs in rural areas, coffins of different colors have different meanings, and the only condition that determines the color of coffins is the identity of the deceased.

In our rural area of Hubei, black coffins are the most common at funerals. Black represents a person's "death" and "perfection of merit", which is something to celebrate, so it is called "mourning" by everyone.

Black coffins are used by some elderly people, most of whom died normally at the age of 70-80, and there was no illness or accidental death.

After death, they will be buried in black coffins, and all relatives and friends will come back from all directions to attend the funeral. The funeral scene was very lively and didn't feel sad at all.

In our village, many 70-year-old people will prepare their own affairs in advance, and the most important thing is to order a black coffin for themselves. This is a great wisdom and admirable.

Because they are basically sure that they will lie in the black coffin after their death in the year of destiny, booking the black coffin in advance is a kind of indifference to death, and they also hope that they can stay away from diseases and disasters and walk decently in their lifetime.

Red coffins are rare here, and this color is only used under special circumstances.

1, no children

Some old people have no children for various reasons, such as being single, wandering, and widowed. According to custom, they can only use red coffins after death, not black coffins.

Under normal circumstances, their funerals are arranged by their nephews, son-in-law and other relatives. Because there are no children to "keep filial piety" for the deceased, traditional customs think that this can not be regarded as "complete merit", so for the sake of good luck, the deceased is placed in a red coffin.

2. Long-lived elderly

There is an old man in our village who died in a red coffin. Of course, he is not childless, but because of his long life. His old man passed away at the age of 10 1.

Out of respect for this very old man, and in order to commemorate his longevity, a Bordeaux coffin was specially built for him in the village, representing a supreme honor.

Later, this custom continued. As long as the old people in the village die after the age of 90, they are eligible to use the red coffin. In another case, old people who have made outstanding contributions to the village can use red coffins, but this situation is very rare.

There is also a kind of coffin with primary colors, as the name implies, which is the color of the wood itself and cannot be painted. This coffin is the last thing we want to see, because it represents disaster.

Primary color coffins are the rarest, and many people may not have heard of them, but coffins of this color actually exist in some rural areas. The following two situations require the use of primary color coffins:

1, abnormal death

I've seen primary color coffins with my own eyes. The deceased was a villager in his forties. He accidentally fell from the seventh floor while working on the construction site and died after being rescued. It was an unnatural death, so his family put him in a primary color coffin.

People who use primary color coffins are those who die of disease or accident. Usually these people are not very old and belong to "premature death". Primary colors represent nostalgia and regret for the dead.

2. Not married

Minors and unmarried people also use primary color coffins after death, because they die early and their lives are incomplete. After death, you can't have a normal funeral, you can't use a coffin of normal color, you can only use the primary colors.

There is also a saying that unmarried people can't even be buried in the family cemetery after their death. Personally, I think this practice is debatable, because the deceased is the biggest, and people should be treated equally when they die. Don't make some meaningless rules and regulations.

In traditional funeral customs, coffins of different colors vary greatly. However, due to different local customs, there may be different regulations on the use of coffin color, which cannot be generalized.

With the development and progress of society, many places have banned the traditional funeral method of "burial" and replaced it with "cremation".

In this case, the "coffin" will slowly withdraw from the historical stage, and there will be no color difference!

What's your custom about the color of coffins?

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There are two colors of coffins, and there are differences. Red' (meaning purplish red) is the material of shroud (coffin). Generally, on the fiftieth birthday, the materials are selected, shaped and painted with purple pigment. After that, the coffin of Shouyue Shoufu was painted with purple paint every year, year after year, until it was buried. The black ones are customized at any time and need to be used at any time.

The coffins used by people in their fifties are all black, and the darker they are, the more they are called "funerals" when they die in their eighties and nineties, and the coffins they use are all painted purple. ...

Black is a coffin for men, and red is a coffin for women, which is distinguished by color. Black is for men and red is for women. This is a tradition in the countryside, which has been handed down all the time. This is just a difference. Only color is used to distinguish between men and women, and there is nothing else to say.

Black cabinets are used for normal life, while red cabinets are generally not used for people under 60.

Never seen a red one. Grandma's family makes coffins. They are all black, from Shaodong, Hunan.

Actually, our custom here is that men are black and women are red.

We are all red there.