What are the funeral customs in Henan?

Funeral customs in Henan include urn burial, sky burial, moon burial, urn coffin burial and crying burial.

1. Funeral custom is the end of life custom. Most modern funeral customs can be traced back to distant places, such as the "urn burial" custom popular in the southeast coastal areas. Among the excavated tombs of Yangshao culture, the pottery urn coffin is the earliest burial material widely used by early people.

2. Celestial burial is a traditional way of funeral for Tibetans. After death, the body was taken to a designated place for vultures to swallow. The core of celestial burial is the immortality of the soul and the cycle. Death is only the separation of the immortal soul from the old body, and it is a different transformation in different dimensions.

3. The custom of avoiding burying the moon exists in Henan Province, which is related to surnames. It is said that Zhang, Wang and Li are all surnames. It is forbidden to bury the moon in the twelfth lunar month, and other surnames are forbidden in March and September.

4. urn coffin burial is a form of ancient tombs, with urn and basin as burial tools, which are often used to bury children. There are also adults who use caskets and coffins. Generally, they are fastened together with 2 or 3 large pieces of pottery, which are mostly buried near houses in residential areas or under indoor floors.

Crying spirits are more common in rural areas, and they are used to pin their relatives' entreaties to their deceased parents.

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