What is the color of the coffin

Traditional Chinese coffins are most often the original color, the color of the wood itself, and are generally used for normal funeral ceremonies, representing the meaning of nature. If the death is unusual, or death by disease, or knife or gunshot wounds, or to give up their own lives to commit suicide, will generally use black coffins, representing the heavy, often such a way to go is the most sudden, so that the family is the most painful and unbearable.

White coffins are for underage teenagers or unmarried women, they are innocent to this world, for some reason left this world, they are ignorant and beautiful, and did not feel the world's evil, human nature is not good, and therefore represents the purity of the white color, made of coffins, wanting to them to come to this world, and clean and clean to leave.

The ancient coffins had five main colors, namely black, log (yellow), white, red and gold. Black coffins were mainly used to bury people who died in wars, premature deaths or suicides; log-colored (yellow) coffins were mainly used to bury ordinary people; white coffins were mainly used to bury men and unmarried women who died prematurely; red coffins were mainly used to bury old people who died in their eighties; and gold coffins were mainly used to bury emperors and generals and rich and noble families. In Xunzi's "Treatise on Rites", there is a saying that "Funeral rites are used to decorate the dead with the living, and to send them off to their deaths in the same way as the living, and the dead in the same way as the living". This also reflects the fact that in ancient times, death was treated as if it were alive. In ancient times, they all pay attention to the ground for peace, that is, after the death of the person will be put into the coffin, and then buried in the soil.