Funeral Customs

1. Showing the way: When a loved one passes away, a ceremony is held to "show the way". In this process, activities are held at the same time to make the deceased think that the place is dust-free and blessed.

2. Mourning clothes: The deceased usually wears a white shirt and blue pants. It is believed that white symbolizes purity and blue is the national color. The cloth needs to be plain, not cotton. Children dress the deceased with their own hands. The relics of the deceased, including clothes, household goods, etc., should be burned away and not left behind.

3. stop the spirit: in folk stop the spirit of time, generally not more than three days, and then held in the funeral home memorial and farewell ceremony. However, in some areas, the local "Mr. ″, according to the deceased's birth date and eight characters, to calculate the appropriate day to hold a memorial ceremony.

4. Funeral: In the past, when the funeral, the relatives wearing mourning, the hearse on the body feet forward. Now the funeral is different, due to funeral reform, the remains need to be cremated. After cremation, the ashes and broken bones of the deceased into a cloth bag, and finally into the urn, usually the front of the urn facing forward.

5. Dead animals: In the past, according to the custom of the dead, depending on the rich and poor, all have to die animal sacrifices, from pigs and cows to chickens. If the deceased was older, the offerings were considered a blessing and could be distributed to relatives. Chickens are often reserved for the friends and relatives who help to bring the deceased to the funeral.

6. Co-burial: The husband and wife are buried together, with the man on the left and the woman on the right, while the Mongolians do the opposite. If there are juniors buried together, juniors in the west side, elders in the east side. Part of the region, husband and wife buried together, if one party died first buried, the other party died buried, need to be invited to the urn, meet and worship, and then buried at the same time.

7. Orientation: In the past, the remains were buried in the earth, facing north and south, and now the urn is facing south and north. There are also some areas with reference to the past custom of the north-south vertical burial, citing the "hundred years of good luck", on behalf of eternal peace.

8. Burning: the traditional custom, is to burn treasure, yellow paper, paper household goods (such as: cars, houses, TVs, air conditioners, etc.);

9. Mourning: ancient filial piety customs, modern more into the sacrifice of the seven (sacrifice of the seven: refers to the first seven to the five seven, or seven seven). At home, they set up a spiritual hall to celebrate the 100th day and the anniversary. During the mourning period, it is necessary to wear vegetarian clothes and eat vegetarian food.