Ordinary people's coffins are covered with red quilt covers or red felt strips. When the poor family went out for a funeral, two people carried it out and called it "Lone Dragon Bar." The coffins of the rich family are covered with coffins (there are coffins in the coffin shop), and there are "single cranes flying in the sky", "five cranes flying in the sky" and "pearl dragons" (called "glass rods"). The dragon head extends forward and the dragon tail appears behind. There are 4 people carrying coffins and 8 people carrying coffins, up to 16 people, which is called "generous balance bar".
2, do seven
From the date of the death of the deceased, a commemorative soup and rice is made every seven days, which is called "making seven", in which the first seven, five seven and seven seven are big seven, and some are single-day big seven. On May 7th, the son-in-law said that the deceased was "returning to Taiwan" and that he would not eat his hometown meal.
By July 7th, it was called "Breaking Seven". On July 49, if the seventh, seventeenth and twenty-seventh days are heavy, it is called "heavy seven" and must be supplemented once, and it will be extended to the centenary, anniversary and even the third anniversary.
3. celebrate your birthday.
It is to celebrate the birthday of my dead parents. Since I was fifty years old, I have celebrated my birthday every ten days. Shoutang Chen Su-se, Yin Shou-yan said "write ten songs" and stopped at the age of 100.
4, evocation
If you die in a foreign land, or in "unexpected trouble", there is no bone to return. Family members put on clothes, put them on bamboo poles, look at the sky and offer sacrifices, which is called "evocation". Some people also make "cenotaph".
5. Mourning
Undertaker was marked as walking towards the road with an umbrella upside down without talking to anyone. When he arrived at the reported home, he would put down the umbrella handle outside the door to express bad news, tell him the brief situation and leave on the day of his death. In some places in China, when undertaker leaves, he will smash a bowl or a tile at the gate, which means "nothing is wrong".