What ancient people used to make coffins

Coffins could be made of different materials, the most common being wood, usually cypress, pine, nanmu, willow and tung. There are also coffins made of copper and stone.

The coffin, also known as the coffin, square, square of life, old room, four and a half, ten blocks, is a box cabinet that carries human remains, usually used in funerals. The casket containing the remains is called a hearse.

? Chinese tradition favors the manufacture of coffins from high-quality catalpa and nanmu. Many people consider it their greatest fortune to have a good coffin after death.

Coffin in the rural areas of the most practical, almost every farmer will use the coffin after death, the body will be cremated after death for other reasons, but also in the death of their children and grandchildren will be instructed to put their own ashes in the coffin, they like this way of burial to preserve the integrity of the body, the meaning of the far-reaching.

The coffin, also known as the old room, is designed for the dead and is very finely crafted. First of all, look at its materials, usually, generally due to the economic conditions of the limitations of the mass of the coffin with pine, cypress processing and become; good, especially elaborate coffin with very expensive nanmu or natural crystal stone and other fine created. And its appearance is also very peculiar, the front end is large, the back end is small, in the shape of a ladder. In its body, the bevel of each piece of plate used against each other, after the shape of each part should also reflect the front big back small bevel. As the so-called coffin material is also called oblique goods material, the two sides and cover but also oblique in the arc, from the head front, the whole coffin seems to be a half round wood.

What is especially striking is its external decoration. The front of the coffin is painted on the head of the cranes and deer, glazed.

tile hall over the wings flying with two snow-white cranes, the hall on both sides of the pale tufts of thriving pines, cypresses, the hall in front of the fragrant green grass, grass in the middle of the path to the hall of the stone steps, appears very clean and elegant, the whole picture will be the whole coffin head decorated as if the fairyland residence, the whole a Zhuang quiet villa, the head of the material is written on the top of the " On the top of the head of the coffin is written "Anle Palace" three big words will be the head of the picture and the coffin itself is tightly interlocked. Both sides of the coffin were painted with two gold dragons chasing and teasing the treasure beads in the clouds. Around the dragons are painted Lu Dongbin and other weapons used by the Eight Immortals, also known as the "Dark Eight Immortals", as well as guqin, ancient paintings, plum, orchids, chrysanthemums and bamboo, peaches, pomegranates and longevity fruits, and on the surface of the material there is "longevity mountain and the blessing of the sea". All the paintings on the coffin with standing powder, gold and other techniques, as well as the mixing of pigments to fully move the ancient Tang Sancai painting style into its own, so that the entire coffin solemn and generous, color levels, brilliant and orderly; lines flowing smoothly. A person after death can be accompanied by the body so much material, spiritual, and knowledge of the Bo Gu Shi naturally also be able to feel at ease on the road to the Yellow Springs.

The coffin is also commonly known in rural areas as "ten pages of tile", "ten big blocks", generally made of ten pages of wood, but also made of twelve pages of wood, which is commonly known as "twelve yuan". ". Ten pages made of wood, which cover (top cover) for three pages, the bottom (bottom) for three pages, bang (both sides) each two pages, file (before and after) for 5-11 other valuable wood.

The coffin of the Hakka people is also known as Shoumu, old house. All cedar to build, the Hakka people used to put the dead old man in the coffin. Farmers make coffins, usually around 30 years old, we must select the wood to make a good, ready to use after the death. Slang: "30 not pay board (refers to the coffin), see how bold you are". The implication is that when a person reaches middle age, he or she should prepare the wood for his or her birthday, and if he or she is not prepared, he or she will be caught unawares in case there is a long or short life. Therefore, the Hakka people generally have to make a good coffin when they are alive, called "life wood" or "life ware", said to add life and happiness. The production of life wood, the family rich, with four whole wood square to do life, said "four corners", that is, the lid, bottom and side of the board with a whole piece of square material made of coffins, there is a coffin by seven stars connected to the corpse of the board, said the "seven stars board". In addition, there are "hexagonal", "octagonal" life wood, that is, made of 6 or 8 wood. Medium-sized families generally make "ten horns" birthday wood, the choice of wood than "eight horns" is slightly smaller; the average family to do "twelve horns" birthday wood, that is, made of 12 small wooden cylinders than the "ten horns" birthday wood. "Ten horns" square material and a little smaller. After the wood is made, those who are well off will ask the lacquerer to shabu-shabu the oil knee in time, write "Fu" on the top of the big head, "Shou" on the small head in front, and "Fu Ru Dong Hai" on the lid of the coffin with red paper, "longevity than South Mountain". Hakka people's customs, not over the age of death is called "short-lived", generally can not enjoy the coffin burial, can only use a few boards nailed into a coffin, called "fire boards".