In Beijing before, there were bars and coffin shops in charge of funeral affairs, but it was different before. The bar is mainly responsible for all kinds of sacrificial funeral activities at the funeral, and the coffin shop is mainly responsible for coffins, paper money, incense sticks and other items. When ordinary people die, they buy a thin coffin and burn some paper money, so the coffin shop is better than the bar room, but it doesn't make much money. Bars generally only accept funerals of rich people or dignitaries. After all, only the rich can afford many people to carry coffins and hold funerals.
In its heyday, there were countless sheds in old Beijing, and there were more than a dozen famous sheds. Among them, the store named Li Yong Barracks House is the largest, and almost all stores accept funerals of rich and powerful families. If the coffin is lifted to less than 16 people, it will not be taken. It is the porter who carries the coffin. The number of porters required for each funeral is not necessarily determined by the customer, ranging from 8 to 120. Generally, only emperors are qualified to carry coffins with a scale of more than 80 people, and only these officials and monopolists with a scale of less than 80 people can afford it.
Because rich people don't die every day, porters don't need it every day, and generally they don't just work in shacks and go wherever they have jobs. So when they are not working, they all have other jobs and live their own lives. When there is work, the bartender will be called together by the bartender's room to carry the coffin together. That's why it happened, right? Not for three years, for three years? Statement. The specific reasons are as follows:
The first point: China people are proud of their face and like grand funerals, so they are willing to spend money.
China people have a particularly funny phenomenon, that is, no matter whether they have been filial to the elderly before, after the death of the elderly, as long as they have a little ability, they will make a fuss about the funeral of the elderly, for fear that others will not know that he is holding a funeral. Because most of these people think that no matter how good you are to your parents before your death, you are locked in the house every day, and outsiders can't see it at all. However, after death, we buried our parents in a beautiful way, and everyone could see it. With such propaganda, who can not know who has a dutiful son and invite dozens of porters to carry the coffins of parents and relatives to the grave? Therefore, although there is no business in the bar room every day, as long as the business is big, it will definitely make money.
The second point: the bartender is a technical job, and the bartender's room should be well maintained.
Those who can afford the funeral of dozens of porters will definitely have no shortage of money at home and think that the more money they spend, the better the funeral will be. So under normal circumstances, the bartender will beat these people to death, and will never treat the bartender badly. After all, bartenders can get high salaries because they really have real skills. The whole funeral ceremony can be held accurately, the steps can be consistent, and the order is forbidden. Even if a bowl of water is put on the coffin, they can keep the water from shaking for half a minute. There will never be a rude phenomenon that boys carrying coffins shake coffins from side to side or even show them to others. So we should give them high wages.
The third point: because the main family is not fixed, it is difficult to recruit people next time if the salary is low.
Because not everyone can learn to carry coffins, it takes years of experience, and most people don't want to do it because it is unlucky. So there are not many people in this industry, but they are all talents. Bartenders don't want to smash their signboards. Of course, they don't want to offend such technicians. They even want to give them more money so that they can be invited when they have a job next time, so as not to be stood up by them or deliberately make mistakes at the funeral, which will ruin the reputation of the bartender.
It is also for these reasons that bartenders generally have no job without a job, but they can make a lot of money by taking a single job. However, with the development of the times, the current bar room business has been deserted or changed, and it has become a funeral home or funeral team. And most of them are cremated, or pulling coffins by car. Now they don't need porters. What kind of sadness do they have? Not for three years, for three years? The day.