2. Mourning: The deceased usually wears white shirts and blue pants. People think that white symbolizes purity and blue is the quintessence of Chinese culture. The cloth should be plain, not cotton-padded clothes. The children dressed the dead themselves. The relics of the deceased, including clothes and daily necessities, should be burned and cannot be left behind.
3, stop the spirit: in folk time, generally no more than 3 days, and then hold a memorial and farewell ceremony in the funeral home. However, in some areas, local gentlemen are allowed to calculate the appropriate day to hold a memorial service according to the date of birth of the deceased.
4. Funeral: In the past, when attending funerals, relatives wore hemp Dai Xiao and the body of the hearse stood forward. Funeral is different now, because of the funeral reform, the remains need to be cremated. After cremation, put the ashes and broken bones of the deceased into a cloth bag, and finally put them into an urn, which is usually facing up.
5. Dead animals: In the past customs, people who died, according to the difference between the rich and the poor, all died, from pigs and cows to chickens. If the deceased is older, the offering is regarded as a blessing and can be distributed to relatives. Sacrificial chickens are mostly reserved for relatives and friends who help to send the spirits to the funeral, and they will come back to eat after the funeral.
6. Joint burial: The emphasis on joint burial of husband and wife is that men are on the left, women are on the right, and Mongolians are the opposite. If there is a younger generation buried together, the younger generation is in the west and the elders are in the east. In some areas, when one spouse dies and the other spouse is buried after death, the urn should be taken out, and then buried at the same time.
7. Orientation: In the past, when the body was buried, the orientation was vertical from north to south. Now the urn faces south and north. Some areas also refer to the custom of vertical burial in the north and south in the past, citing "a hundred years of harmony" to represent eternal peace.
8. Burning: The traditional custom is to burn gold ingots, yellow paper and daily necessities.
9. Mourning: In ancient times, the custom of keeping filial piety was changed to sacrifice Tanabata in modern times. Set up a mourning hall at home to celebrate the centenary. During the mourning period, you need to wear plain clothes and eat vegetarian food.