What is the funeral of Manchu people like?

Because of its large area, Qi people have official positions. Although they are just a "vest" with only two taels of silver and grain, it is inevitable that there will be some officials who will be officials in mourning. Man in Manchu Banner is dressed in pima Dai Xiao and "four-opening mourning clothes" (pronounced "Qi Er", the so-called robe in ceremony). The small collar button is the same as the gown, except for the left and right openings, and there are two robes with the same openings as the gown before and after. Parents, even ancestors, once waited for their immediate family members to wear "Da Zhuang coarse cloth" robes and spit outside their clothes, which is called "spitting filial piety". No buttons, only cloth, coarse cloth, filial piety. Wearing a small blue cloth hat, only a blue thread hat, without a white hat knot, are all blue cloth boots (later changed to blue cloth shoes), and the shoes are not covered with white cloth.

Filial piety, except mourning, can hardly be seen as a funeral. The mourning clothes of our people are made of "velvet coarse cloth", and only my nephew should wear the coarse cloth robe of Dazhuang when mourning for his uncle. Everything is the same as when his son mourned for his parents, only in the collar. The son uses a white collar and the nephew uses a green cloth collar. Anyone who wears a velvet coarse gown can nail a button ring without tying a strip of cloth. Nephews are uncles and aunts, parents-in-law, parents-in-law, parents-in-law should wear bleached foreign cloth robes, which is the lightest filial piety. But if nephews and uncles and Weng Xu have no respect for their elders in their own homes, they can also wear woolen robes. People who used to wear bleached foreign clothes used to wear wide buttons and copper buttons. The son-in-law offered condolences to her parents-in-law, wearing a blue coat (both silk and silk are acceptable) and a cool belt around her waist, and went to work (i.e. "slapping the child", "showing the silk" and "fanning the cover").

The foreign cloth clothes worn by nephews and son-in-law are all rolled up with blue silk. The only difference between a nephew and a son-in-law is whether there is a jacket or not. In the past, there was no way to send paper flowers to funerals. They were all sent with filial piety. Close relatives send woolen mourning ribbons, while distant relatives or friends send bleached foreign mourning ribbons. So in the early years, when you go to someone's house to mourn, you should wear a mourning robe and not tie your waist. After the funeral, you must use a copper tea tray, send a mourning belt with both hands, and say "exemption from sin". This is called "filial piety". Friends who love mourning robes also send mourning ribbons, and relatives who have been to the funeral have sent them when they die. There are also ways to show filial piety when close relatives and friends are bereaved and rich. There are no certain rules for friends to wear mourning clothes. They only look at their feelings. Among them, the adopted sons are mostly adoptive parents wearing velvet robes.

In recent years, the mourning of Manchu and Mongolian women is particularly rare. There is not much difference between mourning clothes and men, except that mourning clothes have no placket, and mourning clothes are tied around the waist and carried on the back from the shoulders (according to the gender of the deceased, male left and female right).

Women in the State of Qi comb their hair at both ends, so they can be divided into "split braids" and "no split braids", as well as "split braids" and "split braids". The heaviest mourning for a woman is to wear mourning for her husband. When the husband dies, the wife should take off two heads, disassemble the head and dovetail, tie another one, tie it with a piece of green silk, divide it into two strands, braid two braids, and the ends of the braids will be scattered without tying braid rope. Put a white bone square on the handle (copper square is used in the office), which is only three or four inches long. Wrap the braid around the back of your head with your hair, then wrap it around your head with a strong coarse cloth headband and tie it behind your head with a needle. The rest of the tie head is hung behind your back. If it is too long, you can tie it on your belt. This is the so-called "double editing". Daughter-in-law's mourning for Weng Gu is the same, only wearing a braid. You can tie the braid tip with green rope, the left braid of Weng butterfly and the right braid of Gu butterfly. This is called "splitting the head and laying a single braid". The flat square can be made of silver or copper, which is longer (the flat square is filial to the bone, and the silver copper is filial to the short). Nephews and female relatives use two long flat heads and can wear ear-digging spoon jewelry. Earrings are also different: the wife has bare ears, the daughter-in-law wears a blue thread, and the niece can wear a silver ring.

All the people who cut their heads and put down their braids will wait here on the third day. After sending them away, they will comb their braids for them. On the third day, they will put their braids down again. Only the wife will not put down the double braid, only the single braid on the left. The rest will stay until the day of funeral and burial, waiting for a hundred days of mourning (ranging from 60 days to 57 days and 37 days).

Far away daughter-in-law does not make up at the beginning, but still combs two heads, and combs a pigtail according to the left or right (referring to the two ends of hair) of the deceased. The head is made of velvet coarse cloth, and jewelry is worn on the head. In-laws and nephews and daughters-in-law make two double crosses out of bleached foreign cloth and cross them on their heads. They don't wear hoops on their foreheads, Dai Yupei. They can also wrap yellow jewelry with green cloth. My niece doesn't take off her head or braid it, but wraps her head in a cross with woolen cloth and ties it on her forehead to show the difference between braiding hair and foreign cloth. Anyone who has a broken head and pigtails has the obligation to kneel down and even go back to his home to wear mourning after the funeral, according to the custom.

After the middle of Qing Dynasty, Miracle's funeral was all ostentation and extravagance. Although the ceremony was extremely grand, the expression of grief was much thinner than that of Han people. In addition to filial piety, the dutiful son does not pay attention to the replacement of underwear. Filial piety is the loss of mother for three years and father for twenty-seven months. Only wear mourning clothes for 100 days, change to Tsing Yi after 100 days, or even take off your clothes. There is no mourning system of wearing white clothes for one year and gray clothes for another. In particular, married daughters are less filial, just like nieces, and grandchildren don't kneel. This reason is based on the fact that the Qing emperor's office "respects his consorts rather than kisses them".