What are the traditional Chinese instructions for the death of an elderly person at home?

Traditional Chinese home death of the elderly have funeral clothes, stopping the spirit, funeral and other instructions.

1, funeral clothes: the deceased usually wear blue pants, white cloth shirt. People to white for purity, blue for the national color. Cloth with plain, do not wear cotton. Children reach out to the deceased to dress. The deceased left clothes, household goods, will be burned off, can not be left behind.

2, stopping the spirit: in the folk stopping time is generally no more than three days, in the funeral parlor to hold a memorial ceremony, the deceased to say goodbye, but some regions according to the deceased's birthdate, so that the local "Mr." to choose the appropriate date for the memorial service.

3, funeral: funeral, relatives wearing mourning, the hearse is not the dead head forward, but feet forward. Now with the funeral reform are in accordance with the custom of cremation. After cremation, the ashes of the broken bones into a cloth bag, and then loaded into the altar jar or urn, generally the front of the urn facing forward.

Procedures for Funeral

On the day of the funeral, relatives, friends and neighbors gather at the funeral home to offer and deliver the Dien Yi to show their condolences. The ceremony usually includes a banquet, a steamed bun, a hanging scroll, and a paper banner. The next of kin sends the sacrificial mat. The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what you're doing, and that you have a good idea of what you're doing.

Friends and relatives mostly send hanging scrolls and couplets, which later evolved into a piece of fabric. Ordinary residents send four-color paper gifts, including candles, incense, tin foil, paper, or just paper. After the 1950s, paper gifts were mostly replaced by wreaths. Hanging after the public memorial, the eldest son of the deceased kneeling salute, that is, the back of the coffin big head, with the assistance of the crowd to move the coffin out of the hearth, commonly known as "out of the spirit".