2019-06-01
24Burial
In the old days, burial was prevalent and burial was cumbersome. When a person dies, he must report his bereavement to his relatives and wipe the ashes box, face-lift and change clothes for the deceased. Next day, monks and Taoists are invited to stand up, recite sutras, send to the West, burn bedwood, and later generations wear filial piety shirts to accompany the night watchman. On the third day, the monk Tao continued to recite sutras as a Taoist venue. Relatives and friends offered condolences to the funeral, entered the funeral, and transformed into a vault. The quality of coffins varies according to the economic conditions. Poor families only use thin coffins, while large government and business households prepare Nanyang urn boxes.
After the thick coffin is filled with corpses, Nanyang ashes box is usually placed at home for three years and then buried. To choose a cemetery, one must look at geomantic omen. Tombs are divided into earthen tombs, dolomite burials (when coffins are buried, they are surrounded by ripe lime to be dry), brick pits and stone pits. After many years of burial, the descendants dig up the earth and break the coffin, pick up the skeleton, put it into the urn, and then re-bury it easily. It is called bone collection, or bone accumulation. Nowadays cremation is prevalent and burial is extinct.
Cremation
In the mid-Qing Dynasty, the county had promoted bone-picking cremation, and the ashes were stored in black bottles, which was interrupted by the opposition of local gentry. Cremation was initiated in the mid-1960s and will be fully implemented in 1972. After cremation, the ashes are brought back by the family to be deposited, or placed, or buried. From 1966 onwards, forced memorials have replaced outmoded red tape. Participants wrapped their arms in black yarn. Wear plain flowers on your chest. The ceremony was held by the unit or family where the deceased lived.
Procedures usually include playing mourning music, silence, reading out the names of the participants and wreaths, mourning speeches, talking with relatives and friends, and a week's detachment from the body. After the ceremony, the body was cremated.
Funeral - commonly known as funeral. The coffin of ordinary people is covered with a red quilt or felt. The poor family lost two people, called "single dragon bars". The coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin There are four or eight people carrying the coffin, up to 16 people, known as the "broad-minded balance bar". Before the coffin goes on the road, the bereaved family invites the person who has the position to "theme", first add a dot on the word "king" of the God's title, and then use black dots to form the word "master", the ceremony is quite complicated. After the theme is finished, the coffin is lifted up and the coffin is carried out. Outside the door, the filial son must kneel down and drink three cups. The deacon shouts, "Biao - Bian!" The crying stops abruptly and the Bian Bian speaks.
Baiyue Township, Yinxian County, used to be a legendary poem: "The sunrise is a little red in the east, the coffin is placed in the main road; four relatives and eight relatives vomit (call) to bring together, and their relatives and daughters send their sons and daughters to the end of their lives." "Life is empty and death is empty, survival is like a dream; life is a hundred flowers spring, death is yellow leaves fall autumn wind" and so on. Afterwards, he shouted, "Open shoulders, fire guns!" Hundreds of guns and gun battles were fired, cymbals and Gaowen were called "lead guns". When carrying the coffin on the road, the big clans mostly take "Fangxiang" or "Kailu Shen" as the lead, two big lanterns, arranged double-sided "guide pads" to write "soul returning home" and "soul returning home" respectively. There are rules for beating gongs at funerals. The gongs are evenly beaten 9 times, followed by gongs 4 times. They are collectively called "Thirteen Records of gongs". One of them carried a small lantern, set off a small artillery battle, and divided it into "paper money on the road". Subsequently, some people took paper and tied it into maidservant-like boys and girls and other underworld objects. The son-in-law holds God's title and sits in the "soul sedan chair". Then there is the "like pavilion", which hangs from the pavilion. After that, coffins, filial children, filial grandchildren, filial nephews, etc. wore sacrificial clothes and wore filial piety. They held two feet of "funeral baton" by hand. They bowed themselves in the filial tent, while others did not, and followed the practice of the coffin. After the funeral of relatives. When the coffin crosses the bridge, the dutiful son kneels down and greets it first. He also calls out "Crossing the bridge!" and waits for the coffin to pass before he sets out. On the way, when relatives and friends worship, called "road sacrifice", they rest to receive sacrifices and thank their dutiful sons. These are the customs of the past, but with the progress of society, these are also changing. Now they are all using urn boxes.
