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What are the rules for wearing mourning armbands after the death of an old man?

1, the elderly can wear mourning three days, five days, seven days after death.

2, in accordance with traditional customs is, the old man is generally at home for three days, five days, seven days; and then buried. After the burial of the old man, the mourning cloth can be removed, the mourning cloth needs to be "torn" open, "burned" with fire. The purpose of the fire is to get rid of the "ghosts and spirits" because they are afraid of fire.

3, the traditional custom that, after the birth of a baby three years from the mother's arms, always need parental care, parents died, the son should also be three years, that is, three years in mourning. Mourning three years, filial son can not live at home. He is required to guard his parents' grave. In front of his parents' grave, he builds a small hut, wears mourning clothes, sleeps on a straw mat and pillows bricks and earth, thus expressing his remembrance of his parents.

How long to wear the armband of filial piety:

At least 49 days.

The 49 days is also the time for the deceased to be sent away, and the armband can be removed after the deceased has been sent away. Different places, there will be some deviation in customs, it is best to ask the local elderly better, some places wear mourning is to wear a hundred days or three years.

The armband is not to be discarded, nor can it be given away, or just find a place to burn it, which is too disrespectful to the dead. In accordance with the time to wear, and so on again to pay homage to the haunted time, together with the past burned.

Dying filial piety armband to wear at work:

This still depends on the company, different companies have different rules.

If it is the company has no regulations, you yourself also feel nothing, then you can still wear.

While the words are so, but it is not recommended to wear, after all, work is the place of work, personal things as well as feelings should not be brought to the workplace.

Wearing an armband is also just a formality, as long as one's heart is there.