The Miao dead were buried. Adults died and were buried in coffins, while underage children died and were buried in wooden boxes. When the old man dies normally, he should burn "gas money" and fire three guns at the same time, commonly known as "starting gun" Take a bath by boiling water with peach leaves or calamus, put on a shroud, go to the willow bed, and then enter the coffin. ?

2. Are you awake?

The coffin was placed in the center of the mourning hall and the whole family mourned. Dai Xiao Palmer posted the words "When the event is important" at the gate. In the evening, the Taoist priest was invited to "play around the coffin" to recite the scriptures and stop for three to seven days before going up the mountain for burial. ?

3. Choose a date?

Some people choose "auspicious day" to see where there are no taboos before they help the coffin to the ground. When the coffin goes up the mountain, the deceased's uncle's house will find an old man, wrapped in white cloth with twenty or thirty feet and holding a straw handle to lead the way. Filial sons and grandsons will also head Dai Xiao handkerchiefs, hold incense paper and leave paper money. They will whine without detours, climb mountains, wade in water and even trample crops. ?

4. buried?

After the coffin entered the grave, the dutiful son dug it three times with a hoe, and even called the dead three times, and then everyone began to bury it. Undertaker will all call back to Xiao Jia's house. There is a bowl of rice soaked in water outside Xiao Jia's house. Everyone will eat 1000 tablets, put them in his mouth and blow them away before entering the house. People who die abnormally, old and young, can't stay in the morgue. Most people don't choose a day, they are buried with death, and the funeral is hasty. ?

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Reception etiquette of Miao funeral;

On that day, relatives and friends came one after another. Especially when my uncle (or aunt) comes to pay homage, the filial family should lay a bamboo mat on one side of the intersection, which is triangular, put three grass balls, put three extinguished firewood in the middle of the grass balls, put three glasses of wine next to it, and have a pair of bamboo sticks and divination, so please wait for an eloquent housekeeper. My uncle (or aunt) also invited a leader to speak for them.

Before the guests and their party came to the bamboo mat, they poured wine for each guest in advance, and then the speaker invited by the host Hakka used a song metaphor to ask if the bamboo stick divination was ready. The flight attendants answered them one by one in the same way. The spokesman picked up a bamboo stick for divination, sang three glasses of wine to the deceased and his three generations of ancestors, kicked off firewood in three directions, and the guests entered the mourning hall crying.

Xiao Jia knelt in front of the hall to meet him and helped the guests enter the hall together. The housekeeper arranged one in advance for the host and guest of the filial family to stay. If the deceased's son-in-law brings cows, pigs and sheep to pay homage, he should find the person in charge himself and make it clear one by one before accepting it. He should also ask the steward's permission to attend the memorial ceremony. Some people even have to get permission for their daughters and son-in-law to cry.

Hunan Provincial People's Government-Miao Funeral Customs