Funeral

The old tradition of Han heavy burial elaborate funeral, and mixed with a lot of superstitious practices. Hans has always been popular coffin burial, funeral solemn, sub-burial, funeral, burial in three stages.

Burial, tdress is to give bodies . People before beginning to give the deceased died encoffining Evocation, bath. In small and large burial burial burial steps. Is a small body wrapped in burial clothes quilt, usually with cloth, wealthy people with silk, and some royal jade clothing. Funeral coffin is put into the body. Coffin called "coffin" Male coffin inscribed with "shou" character, female coffin inscribed with "Fu", while others are engraved with "Gods" in the words of co-writing body. Put rice in a small burial Shihai dead mouth, rich people with bi, beads, etc., the royal family including jade, is modern with a silver dollar, are called "meal with." Funeral burial, often with some of the items that most people have clothes and daily necessities and other items were, prosperous people, and many royal funerary items and valuables.

Funeral is encoffining bier in the funeral house after the stop, funeral of different lengths, ranging from 3 to as many as 30 days were determined mainly by the funeral. Ancient times, coffin, buried at 3 months to up to 7 months. Han Chinese tradition, parents died, children will attend funerals, otherwise lack of filial piety. And pay homage to the deceased family and friends mourn the future, called "condole" or "condolences." Funeral thereof to mourning. Ancient Chinese mourning cut bad points, Qi Cui, great service, minor merits, woven hemp five, known as the "five", with thick, made of fine linen of different, according to the different affinities of different wear mourning, known as the " Pimadaixiao. " Modern and more to do with white mourning. Xing Xiongpei modern urban typically white, wearing black armbands arm.

Burial, the dead body is buried, the coffin was buried. Buried, often before the old customs to see feng shui, choosing the cemetery, called "select auspicious." Also known as funeral mourners. Funeral procession, the ancient Han Chinese general is "dutiful son" in the former Zhi Fu, Wan bier were dirge. Elegy to the past, the modern evolution of the funeral. Elegiac couplet written word or friends funeral procession pull to close, modern and developed into flowers circle wreath wrote elegiac couplet.

Ancient custom of human sacrificial victims (mainly close relatives, Elegance and valet, who committed suicide still remains to the Qing Dynasty), gradually replaced by glazed pottery, to modern portrait with burial Zeyi paper offerings.

After the funeral, has done seven off seven hundred days, the annual memorial service, etc., and sent to return ancestral tablets which people from the funeral rites of conversion of the "spirituality", "ancestral spirits" of the ritual .

In addition, the Han Chinese as well as "bury" the custom is to bury the body will die foreign land of origin.

During the funeral, relatives of the deceased to wear mourning, in the hall wake. Ancient Chinese ritual, blood into mourning by the degree of kinship with the deceased is divided into five, etc., in modern Chinese, there are "five" is the word that the proximity of blood relationship. Xiao taking white cloth made, which Western nations the custom of wearing a white dress to do different. Qing dynasty, a British first came to China, met the team that everyone wear white funeral clothes, which looked painful but sad, I feel very strange. In ancient times, when the funeral dirge was sang, Jin Tao during his lifetime the great poet wrote for himself, "Elegy poem" Three. Later in the elegiac couplet, harness hanging scroll is from the ancient elegy evolved.

Funeral size and position of the deceased as closely related to the feudal society of people of different status and identity of the funeral, there are stringent requirements. Nobility and the rich of the homely to large-scale funeral to show off their power. "Dream of Red Mansions" written in the dead Ningguo qing, the value used in thousands of ounces of silver coffin, by two, three hundred and Shang Daoshi the Scriptures, the funeral procession, the team, "mighty, the pressure to Yinshan general." The food and clothing for poor people with at least Shangqie reach, naturally mention "heavy burial burial" of the. Sometimes only with a mat wrapped about the body, hastily buried.

Elders died, children and grandchildren to keep at home, twenty-seven months, during which stop the communication and entertainment, the officials must leave home to mourning, to express condolences on Respecting, called "mourning."