Funeral customs have been circulating for thousands of years. Every nation in the world has its own funeral customs. Although the preparation of funeral supplies and funeral procedures have been simplified, the main contents have not changed much, and have been passed down to this day, and every household can't hide. Funeral culture is also a part of thousands of years' history of Chinese culture and civilization, which contains the thoughts of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. As far as the present situation is concerned, there are not many people who know the funeral customs, but there are many people who act as masters of ceremonies for white affairs. Some emcees have more or less irregularities in the process of dealing with funerals. If you ask one or two questions, why? It doesn't make sense. Therefore, to standardize is to ask a few why? Can tell the truth and basis, most people can accept it, in order to improve the connotation of funeral culture. 1. mortuary ceremony: He was moved to the coffin bed in the first room and spent the last moment of his life under the protection of his relatives. This is called "quite mourning". 2. Funeral ceremony: Funeral ceremony can be said to be the first ceremony after death. It tells relatives, friends and villagers the news of someone's death through signals. 3. Soul-evocation ceremony: the soul of a guest who died in a foreign land could not find the way home. Only when his family "evokes the soul" for him and lets him hear that the enterprise expects his voice can he follow the voice. 4. Performing the "Seven-Day Rite": People think that people don't know that they are dead until seven days after death, so they should hold the "Seven-Day Rite" and offer sacrifices every seven days. The "July 7th" will not end until forty-nine days later. This is mainly influenced by Buddhism and Taoism. 5. Mourning ceremony: Generally, mourners carry clothes and quilts for the deceased, and hang a note with the words "so-and-so" on it with a pin. 6. Funeral ceremony: Funeral can be divided into "big funeral" and "small funeral". Small fold refers to dressing the dead, "gown" refers to the coffin of the body receiver, and Han people commonly call it "Da Gui Wu". 7. Funeral: In the funeral, the younger generation wears mourning clothes for the elders mainly to express filial piety and mourning. This was originally from Zhou Li, a Confucian ritual system. Later, it was extended to "exemption from punishment" for the deceased. 8. Funeral Ceremony: According to superstition, people who died on the first day of the month should be buried on soft days; If you die in Rouri, you must choose to be buried in Gangri, and Gangri and Rouri should cooperate well. 9. Mourning ceremony: Mourning is a major feature of funeral customs in China. The mourning ceremony runs through the funeral ceremony and there are many big scenes. The mourning ceremony at the funeral is the most important. 10. burial ceremony: this is the last moment for the deceased to stay in the world, and it is usually very serious. Analysis of the original grave, burning for seven days, burning for one hundred days, burning for the first anniversary and burning for the third anniversary 1: The funeral custom in China since ancient times is: the custom of going to the original grave for three days from the funeral day, that is, people buried in the cemetery need to go to the cemetery to beam, place offerings, burn incense, step on the yard and burn paper. The urn is stored in the funeral home, where only offerings, incense and burning paper are placed. 2. From the date of death, people burn paper once every seven days, seven times, seven classes and forty-nine days, which is called burning seven (also called seven). At present, it is often changed to four times, namely: 17 (changed to three-day original grave), 37, 57, 77 (now only the odd number is burned, and the big seven is burned). According to the funeral custom, it was burned on July 17, 1977, mainly by the son of the deceased, and it was called: a head and a tail; Sanqi, mainly the daughter-in-law of the deceased; Five or seven, mainly the daughters of the deceased. (Burn five pots of paper flowers). According to the funeral custom, burn seven (do seven). 3. Significance of Hundred Days Burning, Anniversary Burning and Third Anniversary Burning: After a person dies in the underworld, * * there are ten Wang Guan (prosecutors of the underworld) and four judges. Their duties are: to ask the deceased and interrogate good and evil according to what he did before his death. * * * There are ten Wang Guan, who are in charge of the ten halls, and must pass through the first seven halls. Seven times to pay homage to Ming Wang, and check his deeds of | "kindness" before his death. Forty-nine days later, he was transferred to the Cao Yin court for the fourth trial, with the first trial every ten days, and the trial was transferred once: the first trial, (the first ten days, the fifty-ninth day) Judge Cui Shi; In the second instance, (20th, 69th) Judge Li; Third trial, (30 days, 79th day) Judge Han; The fourth trial, (lent, 89 days) Judge Yang; In another ten days, it will be 99 days, burning for a hundred days (called short hundred days, long anniversary), and then worshiping. The eighth hall will be the first anniversary of the Ming Dynasty, and the ninth hall will be the third anniversary of the Ming Dynasty. After the Ming dynasty, it is necessary to decide how to be reborn and how to be reincarnated. Funeral custom 2 There are many red tape in folk funeral, and local customs are gradually deduced. In the old society, funeral was divided into three stages: funeral, memorial service and membership: 1. Funeral. When the deceased died, his family clothed him with a shroud. After death, relatives burned "inverted stickers" on the kang, which was painful. Generally, the deceased entered the coffin on the same day, which is called "burial". The coffin is covered with a layer of hay (cereal grass) and sprinkled with money, copper coins or earth money, which is called "carrying money" and then covered with bedding. The deceased was lying on his back, with money in his mouth, two white-flour steamed buns in his sleeves, and smoking pots, jade bracelets, agates and other things that the deceased loved before his death in the coffin. If the coffin is not ready, you need to stop and bury it every day. After the funeral, the dutiful son wore hemp and twisted hemp, sent funeral reports to relatives and friends, and set up a mourning hall in a shed, where relatives and friends burned paper and incense. There is a sacrificial table in front of the spirit for rice, steamed bread, fruit, cakes and so on. There is a rice bowl in front of the coffin, which contains small rice, a pair of chopsticks and some Achnatherum splendens sticks tied with cotton balls. There is a clay pot under the coffin table to hold paper ashes. 2. Pay tribute. (1) Hanging by hanging, also called mourning, starts three days before the funeral. Hanging elegiac couplets in front of the spirit, there is a "disaster shape" in the gate, which reads the name and date of birth and death of the deceased. White couplets are posted on the door, and "old paper" is hung on the door, also called "paper hanging". Relatives and friends of the deceased burned paper and incense in front of the coffin. Men were filial to their daughters and cried. Relatives and friends sent fruit bowls, three fresh rice or jiaozi. Drummers were invited two days before the funeral, and some monks and Taoists were invited to set up Dojo to recite scriptures. 2 send the road, also known as the guide road. One or two nights before the funeral, several people led the way with torches, drummers played in front, and the dutiful son was helped to walk while crying, passing through Zhongweiji Village, burning paper and incense in front of Wudao Temple, and then returning by the way. (3) Ciling. If you send the road two nights before the funeral, say goodbye the night before the funeral; If you see the road off the night before the funeral, you have to say goodbye that night. The dutiful son and daughter knelt on both sides of the coffin, and relatives and friends went to burn incense in front of the coffin. They knelt down and wept bitterly. Filial sons and daughters should accompany the pain. 3. hair cited, that is, mourning. Generally, there are funerals in five or seven days, and there are funerals in nine days. At dawn the day before the funeral, the relatives of the deceased bid farewell to the body, and the carpenter sealed the coffin and moved it to inform the deceased to leave home. At the funeral, the eldest son of the deceased carried the coffin with a rope, which was called "lifting the big head". The other filial sons held funeral sticks in turn, and the filial daughter went to the door to cry after the coffin. The coffin is placed on the lifting device, and the coffin is covered with a coffin lid. The dutiful son knelt in front of the coffin in turn, the eldest son threw a clay pot and carried the coffin, and the drummer played music and carried the coffin to the cemetery. The dutiful son wept bitterly and scattered paper money along the way. The harem rides with the coffin. Before and after the coffin went down to the grave, the dutiful son shoveled the earth and buried the coffin. Within three days after the funeral, the dutiful son went to the cemetery every afternoon to "check the pulp", also known as "point the pulp water". Every seven days after the funeral is a memorial day, and the day of death has seven days. Relatives of the deceased will mourn for a long time before dawn on May 7th and July 7th. Don't shave your head within a hundred days, don't do festive things within three years, and don't post couplets on holidays. If the deceased dies young, or unmarried men and women die, they must be buried in coffins on the same day and buried next to wild graves or family graves. When you die in a foreign country, the coffin can't enter the hospital. Set up a shed outside the village and set up a mourning hall before the funeral. After the death of the poor, the funeral was simple, and even those without coffins were buried with kang mats.