Mourning is a Chinese character, pinyin sāng fú, which refers to clothes worn to mourn the dead. In ancient China, plain clothes (plain clothes, Su Shang, Su Shu, etc. ) Since the Zhou Dynasty, they are all white and have five clothes.

That is to say, according to the mourning period, workmanship and cycle length, it can be divided into five grades: defeated, Cui Zi, Dacheng, Xiaocheng and numb. The top one is for heavy mourning. It is made of the thickest raw linen, and the edges are not sewn. Put it on your chest at the funeral; Men must also use a funeral bun (a bun is a funeral belt), commonly known as Pima Dai Xiao.

Citation interpretation

1. mourning.

"Enemy of Zhou Li Tianguan": "No mourning clothes or murder weapons can enter the palace." Song Gaocheng's "The Origin of Events, the System of Good and Bad Codes and Mourning": "If the three kings make mourning, they will decline, starting from the third generation." The first act of Chen's Song of the Wind: "Mingyu, take mourning clothes! Let me mourn for the emperor first. "

"Yili" mourning eleven: mourning: cutting clothes, squatting, sticks, twisted belts, crowns and ropes, squatting. Mourning: Cut coarse hemp into dresses, make hemp bands with coarse hemp, make mourning sticks with black bamboo, and weave twisted bands with black hemp. Six liters of cloth is used as the mourning crown, hemp is used as the crown belt, and straw is woven into straw sandals.

2. Refers to the mourning period or mourning period.

Jin Panyue's Yang Zhongwu: "Mourn at the same time, save for the moon." Ba Jin's Autumn Me: "They said that my mourning period will expire in a few months."