What are the taboos for funerals?

Funeral taboos These taboos vary according to nationality, region or relationship with the deceased.

Avoid cats before spirits.

Before the funeral, the body woke up and avoided the cat, thinking that the cat would touch the body and the deceased would be frightened and suddenly stand up and hug others.

2. Avoid getting a haircut.

When a person dies, all men in his family are not allowed to have their hair cut or shaved for a month to avoid evil spirits. On the one hand, it aims to change the appearance so that the dead can't recognize each other, thus avoiding disaster. In some areas, when the elders die, the younger generation (not other men and women) is filial, thinking that hair is influenced by the death of parents and ancestors, leaving hair as a sign of grief and missing.

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Funeral custom:

1, buried

Burial is the earliest, longest-spreading, most widely used, involving the largest number of ethnic groups and the most common funeral folk custom in China.

2. Cremation

Occurrence time: Neolithic Age, 7000 ~ 8000 years ago, epidemic area: northwest of China.

3. Hanging coffin burial

Concept: An ancient burial custom of placing coffins on cliffs, which was popular in southern China in ancient times. Name: cliff burial, rock burial, immortal burial, box rock and hanging rock.

4. Tree burial

Tree burial is a very old burial method. Its main form is to put the deceased in a tree in the mountains or in the wild and let it weather. Later, some slightly improved methods were to put the late Chen Fang on a special scaffold.

5. Celestial burial

Celestial burial is a traditional way of funeral for ethnic minorities such as Mongolia and Tibet. After death, people take their bodies to designated places for eagles (or other birds and animals) to swallow, thinking that they can take them to heaven. Like burial, water burial and cremation, it is a kind of belief, a way to express the dead, and its essence is a social and cultural phenomenon. Its origin, form, content and the implementation of the ceremony are all influenced by natural geographical environment, business methods, foreign culture and other factors.

6. cliff burial

Cliff burial, also known as hanging coffin burial, is a special burial custom of Puyue people who lived widely in the south of China in ancient times, and is regarded as a great miracle in the history of world globalization. The burial method is to hang the coffin on the mouth wall by using natural stone crevices or artificial wooden stakes, or put the coffin into natural or artificial caves. The burial place for hanging coffins was chosen on the cliff and high rock near the river. Most of the burial tools are boat coffins, which are 2-3 meters long and about half a meter wide. Shaped like a ship, it is divided into three parts: head and tail, and the warehouse is the coffin pivot for placing the body.

7. Second burial

The second burial is the second or more disposal of the body after burial, cremation and wind burial. The Han and Zhuang nationalities in Taiwan Province, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places in the south of China have been popular since ancient times.

8. Modern funeral customs

After liberation, in order to save land and prevent the spread of diseases, the state stipulated that all people except some ethnic minorities should be cremated. After death, people were sent to funeral homes for parking, and the bodies were frozen and preserved naked. In order to prolong the preservation time, the undertaker will make a hole in the foot of the deceased to let all the blood of the deceased flow away.

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