The process and steps of memorial service

The process of funeral includes mourning, mourning, wake, wake and funeral.

1. Funeral report: formally notify relatives and friends in distant places of the time, circumstances and funeral arrangements of their death. There are often strict conditions and order regulations.

2. Mourning: Friends and relatives came from other places to attend the funeral with gifts, presents, elegiac couplets and wreaths.

3, stop the spirit: also known as temporary mourning, the body will be parked in the mourning hall for several days, waiting for relatives and friends who come to mourn; At the same time, it helps to determine death instead of coma and suspended animation. The mourning hall can be a room at home, a temporary shed, or a special room for a funeral home. There are mourning banners, portraits of the dead, food (offerings), incense, candles and paper money in the mourning hall.

4. Wake: During the wake, relatives and friends present, especially the younger generation of the deceased, take turns to guard the deceased in the mourning hall and accept condolences from mourners. During the whole funeral, the younger generation (called dutiful son/daughter) close to the deceased wore white seamless coarse clothes or jackets, tied with straw ropes or hemp ropes at the waist and sandals at the feet, which was called mourning.

5. Funeral: Send the coffin to the cemetery for burial. The sign of the beginning of the funeral is that the dutiful son will break a clay basin, which is called "throwing the basin". Led by a dutiful son holding a "talisman", a band played and distributed paper money to the cemetery along the way. The burial ceremony was assisted by Feng Shui master.