Although I have lived in the countryside since I was a child, I don't know much about some rural customs. I just come here year after year and feel used to it. Every time I lie in bed and want to sleep in the east and sleep in the west, there is always an idea in my mind: why do people die not in the east or west, but at home, with their heads in the south and their feet in the north, but buried in the mountains? For this reason, Meihua also specially asked the old people in the village, and Meihua came here below.
First, in our countryside, as long as someone in the family dies, we must burn incense. At that time, we will see the deceased lying in the main room with his head facing south and his feet facing north. Every time our department asks, is this method of lying reasonable? The old people say that this is afraid of people coming back to life, that is, pretending to be dead. People used to pretend to be dead when they died, but if they pretended to be dead, they rushed to the right door, which would scare the oncoming people. Of course, medical skills are developed now, and it is rare to come back to life after death, but I think it is convenient to stop and support, because the small tables are at the door, leaning against my head. If it is not good to put a small table under your feet in the south, it is not convenient to put people who come to worship in the innermost place to kowtow and incense, so we all stop here in the south.
Second, when the mountain was buried, it was not cremated, but put in a coffin. It is true that most of the dead have their heads in the north and their feet in the south, but this is not fixed. Our hometown belongs to the mountainous area. When choosing a burial place, we usually choose the sunny slope facing south, and most of the tombs face south. In the past, when burying wooden coffins, the head should naturally be in a high-lying place and the feet should be in a low-lying place, so as to be safe. We can't keep our heads down all the time, so we usually bury them with our heads facing north and our feet facing south.
Thirdly, the direction of the head is not fixed, depending on the choice of cemetery and burial method. (1) Not all cemeteries choose to sit on the hillside facing south, and some choose the western hillside facing east, so they can only choose to face west or east. (2) One more thing, Meihua's hometown has been cremated for many years. When people die, they all turn into a pile of ashes. Although buried in the mountains, they can't tell where their feet are. As long as their children bury their ancestors according to local customs, they can be regarded as fulfilling their responsibilities as children.
Meihua has always believed that when a person dies, it's like the light goes out, and there's no way to know what you say. The most important thing is that parents should do their duty and honor their parents when they are alive. It is also a filial act to hold a funeral according to local rules and ceremonies after their parents die.
There is no such thing here. Our rule here is: the head is at the inner end and the feet are at the outer end. That is, the head is inward and the feet are outward.
Why do you want your head facing inward and your feet facing outward?
According to the old man, the deceased ancestors also had the ability to "shelter" their descendants. The purpose of "head facing inward and feet facing outward" is to facilitate the dead ancestors to "stand up and go out" and then "protect" future generations.
However, in Khufu's view, this statement is full of superstition and has no scientific basis. Let the deceased ancestors "shelter" future generations from wishful thinking.
Some people say that people are dead, but the soul is still there. First of all, no one can see what the soul looks like; Secondly, even if there is a soul, what is its means of "sheltering" future generations? Who can make it clear? This is clearly an idealism and a "fantasy" of human beings. So this statement is not reliable.
But whether it's reliable or not, it's also good to set a "rule", which can make it easier for people to deal with the affairs of their deceased ancestors. After all, Fiona Fang has rules. But we can't make this rule so mysterious
As for the problem of "the head of the deceased is north and the foot is south", khufu has some doubts. If it is an east-west tomb, how to deal with the matter of "the head of the deceased is north and the foot is south"? Don't you choose a grave? What if you really can't find the north and south graves? -this is khufu don't understand.
But in a word, both our custom here-"head facing inward, feet facing outward" and your local custom-"head facing north, feet facing south" are feudal superstitions. Textual research has no scientific basis. So it doesn't make any sense. Therefore, this question does not need to "get to the bottom", but "get to the bottom".
To sum up, our funeral rules here and yours are superstitious rules. It doesn't make any sense. This should be an "established" custom. As a modern person, we just need to do the funeral according to this custom. There is really no need to find out the principle of this custom and compare it with this principle.
Let's sort it out briefly. Generally, after a person dies, he stays at home first. The funeral home is mainly the first house, which is what we call going home. If the north room is the main room, the male head faces east and the female head faces west. The deceased is big, so we should wait for the spirit in the main room.
If it is burial, then the husband must first look at the eight characters of the deceased, and then determine the location of the burial of the deceased in combination with geography. The so-called four-stem, eight-dimensional and twenty-four directions. Generally speaking, there are few meridional directions and one direction, namely due east, due west, due south and due north.
With decades of experience, I haven't dared to see the meridian due south and due north. Most of them infer the direction according to the age of the deceased and geography, such as dry mountain direction, dry mountain direction, mountain direction and mountain direction.
The way of yin and yang is very complicated. Most gentlemen are afraid to give you some acupuncture points, and they are all half a word short, hurting people and hurting themselves. In fact, as long as you are right, there is nothing.
So I think whatever it is, it's all psychological, especially the funeral. Master Yin and Yang promised not to speak ill of you. If you say yes, you will be relaxed, you will have no burden all your life, everything will be fine, and you will be rich and happy. If it is not good, I will worry about stress all my life and think about it all day. If I'm stressed, something will definitely happen.
As long as you are clear-headed and don't do immoral things, as long as your elders are filial in the world, it's better than being buried after death. That is, parents are safe for their children, parents are uneasy and children are in trouble.
I am a farmer, I am in the countryside, and I care about the beautiful life of our farmers.
In rural funerals, the orientation of the deceased is determined by the height of the terrain, rather than the absolute head north and feet south.
Like a living person, when sleeping, the head or upper body should be higher and the legs and feet should be lower, so that the posture is comfortable and comfortable. If your head is low and your feet are high, you will hang upside down. Who can stand it? The topography of China is basically low in the east and high in the west, low in the south and high in the north. Therefore, when burying the elderly, most of them are from the north to the south, or from the west to the east, from the northwest to the southeast. If you build a grave on the back or west of the mountain, you should face south with your feet facing north, or face east with your feet facing west.
When determining the direction of the cemetery, we should find the highest place to make a pillow in the direction of the head, and the lower platform to make a pedal in the direction of the footsteps. In other words, the head is high and the feet are low, which is the best tomb direction.
In rural funeral, the head of the deceased faces north and the feet face south, which is based on the basic concept of Feng Shui, but it is not static, mainly depending on the terrain.
In the past, rural people were basically buried in wooden coffins. People should stop breathing after they die. When he stops breathing, his head faces south and his feet face north. In other words, the deceased should stop breathing in the middle, with his feet facing the position of the north window and his head facing the position of the south gate. This is mainly to prevent fraudulent corpse. It used to be said that if a cat and other small animals passed by the body after death, they would pick it up by electrostatic induction and jump forward. If the head is facing north, the body will jump in the direction of the door after standing up. If the head is facing north, it will be fine, because the north is a wall.
But when people die and are buried, they usually face north with their feet facing south. Why is this happening? Because of the choice of acupoints, they are generally chosen in places with high northwest and low south, so that the cold wind blowing from Siberia in winter is blocked by mountains, so as to achieve the purpose of hiding the phoenix and gathering the gas. According to geomantic omen, the mountain is in charge of people's wealth, and the ancestral grave is backed by green hills and faces the river, so that future generations will prosper and the financial resources will roll in. When a wooden coffin is buried, people lie face up, their heads are high and their feet are low, so that they can be stable and can't be controlled upside down like that? It is based on this basic concept of geomantic omen that when the deceased is buried, his head usually faces north and his feet face south.
However, where the head faces depends mainly on the choice of the cemetery. Because not all places are high in the north and low in the south, if the cemetery is on the east slope of the mountain, you can only choose to face west and east; If the cemetery is on the west slope of the mountain, you can only choose to face east and west. And if you have to choose the northern slope of the mountain, you must face the southern foot and face the north. Of course, if it is a plain area, Zhaoshan is the main choice. The cemetery pays attention to the distant green hills, that is, in front of the cemetery, with water on one side and green hills on the other. This mountain is called Zhaoshan. Then, when buried in the plain, the feet of the deceased should face Zhaoshan, and the head should be in the opposite position of Zhaoshan. If there is no mountain, there is water in front of the grave and there is no water behind it. The victim should have his feet facing the water.
However, after cremation, people become a pile of ashes after death. Even if they are buried according to the custom, they can no longer tell where their feet are. But because the urn is not square, it is generally rectangular. So when buried, the rectangle should be placed along the mountain, but the bottom of the tomb is still flat. In this way, after the death of both husband and wife, the two urns can be placed side by side.
However, to put it bluntly, people die like lights, where there is no medicine and care. The only child, for the deceased ancestors, held a respectful and solemn funeral according to the rules and ceremonies, which is also the way to be human.
Q: After the death of the rural elderly, why should they be buried with their heads facing north and their feet facing south? What's the point?
There is a saying that "the sky is high in the northwest and the ground is low in the southeast", and there is also a stress on "riding the waves on the pillow". Let alone burial, even if the mourning hall is a corpse, it is exquisite, but the location is not the same everywhere.
In rural customs around the country, people pay special attention to the exquisite and taboo of funeral. One is to bid farewell to the dead and let them leave with peace of mind. The other is to reassure the family. The third is to show it to future generations. The fourth is to show it to the living. In addition to choosing to dig a gold well, the angle and orientation of holding and burying a corpse should also be cautious, paying attention to "head facing north and feet facing south". Does that make sense?
Bo believes that in rural funeral, each has its own customs, which are based on the greatest concept of the deceased, which is unreasonable.
First, the mourning hall is quite dead. Tell me the location.
The layout of farmhouse music is different from that of commercial housing. Commercial houses in cities have living rooms and restaurants, while houses in rural areas have halls. The hall is different from the living room, and has the functions of living room and dining room. After someone dies, some places will set up a mourning hall in the ancestral hall, and some places will set up a mourning hall in the hall. The main room is the main room. The deceased enters the coffin and the coffin is placed in the main room.
There are many ways to put coffins. No matter how you sit in the main hall, your head is facing the purlin and your feet are facing outside the hall, which is quite lifeless. On the thorn tree side, because the Taoist priest was asked to turn over, the coffin was not in the middle of the hall, but was placed on the right side of the hall door according to the above direction, and the altar and the coffin put by the Taoist priest were all in the hall.
Second, the burial location is very important.
The direction of burial in different places is different, not necessarily from north to south, from east to west, from southeast to southwest, from northeast to southwest. In some places, the direction is determined by looking through the almanac according to the time of falling. Of course, positioning is not easy to determine. Those who should sit in the east cannot sit in the west, and those who should sit in the west cannot sit in the east. Mass burial is not in keeping with etiquette.
As for the saying that the head is north and the foot is south, there are several old people who say it.
1, similar to the Yangzhai sitting north facing south, the cemetery also has its head resting north and its feet facing south. In fact, the head and feet of the coffin are just the opposite of the head and tail of the grave. The coffin head is at the end of the grave, and the coffin tail is at the grave (that is, in the direction of the tombstone). When going to the grave, there are tributes in front to facilitate the deceased to receive incense and tributes.
2. Pay attention to the low head and feet in the graveyard, so that when it rains, the rain can flow away and will not accumulate in the grave. In some areas, the north is backed by mountains, so you can sit facing south.
3. Up north and down south, people's head is facing, in the upper part of the body, so the head is facing north, while the feet are facing down, just opposite to the head, so the feet are facing south.
In fact, the direction of the cemetery must be determined according to the terrain. In many areas, there is no distinction between east, west, north and south. Only when the head leans against the green mountains and rivers, the direction chosen according to the shape of the mountains and rivers is no longer the head north and the foot south.
Originally, people died like lights, but in rural areas, farmers regarded the funeral of the deceased as a major event in life, and everything was carried out according to the rules handed down from the older generation.
In rural areas, especially after the death of the elderly at home, a grand funeral will be held to show respect and memory for the elderly.
Before cremation, people were carried into coffins and buried underground after death. It should be regardless of the country, and probably the whole world is following suit.
When someone dies in the northern rural areas, a mourning hall must be set up first. Because the deceased is the largest, the mourning hall is placed in the main hall of the family. For example, our house in the north faces south, so the deceased is placed in the middle of the house with his head facing south and his feet facing north.
The reason for doing this should be to prevent relatives and friends who go to worship from kowtowing and hitting their feet or other places. There is another saying: the old people said that there was a kind of corpse change in the past, and the corpse changed to jump upright. If this happens, give the corpse keeper time to escape while jumping to the north wall.
The mourning hall is usually set up for two days, and then carried to the cemetery for burial. For example, in the northern countryside, there are several hills here in our hometown that are special graves. Choose the front of the mountain when burying. The so-called front, refers to the village as the center of the Napo Mountain facing, the south of Beishan as the front, the east of Xishan as the front, and the west of Dongshan as the front.
So when the coffin was buried, it was placed according to the terrain. For example, the deceased was buried in Xishan, the deceased should be buried in the east, and Dongshan should be buried in the east. Only Beishan is the head and foot in the title, which is placed at the entrance of the tomb. But if you look closely, the tomb entrance of Beishan in the countryside is not facing south, but slightly inclined, basically facing east, so the head and feet of the deceased will definitely not be due north.
It is said that in the past, rich people asked Feng Shui masters to help them find a good cemetery before they were born, and they will ask Feng Shui masters again after they die, and ask Feng Shui masters to follow the arrangement of the deceased's birthday.
Now cremation is carried out, and the ashes are packed in boxes and brought back by relatives and buried in the mountains. There is no difference in the direction of the head and feet.
Nowadays, many old people are also very relaxed, saying that they can be happy when they are alive and it doesn't matter if they are dead, but this custom has been handed down from generation to generation.
This statement is incomplete, mainly according to the orientation of the house, or which door is often taken before and after the house. Therefore, this statement is a kind of, to make the best use of the situation!
For more agricultural breeding knowledge and planting techniques, please pay attention to Sannongtang Guangxun, and invite you to pay attention and discuss the knowledge of agriculture, countryside and farmers together.
In the countryside, old people will tell us that we can't sleep with our heads facing south and our feet facing north. Therefore, when we were young, we were never beaten by our parents. Every time we think about it, we can't help asking the old people why they can't sleep in this position. The old man said that this posture is for the dead to sleep like this, and the living can't sleep like this. There are still so many claims about the original sleeping position, and it is quite normal for rural people to die. Every second, someone may die, and every second, a life will fall to the ground, so these are also the laws of human survival. So in rural areas, almost all elderly people will die because of age or disease, so why? Anything to say?
I was a little confused by the subject's question. In our house in the north, the deceased is in the middle of the house, with his head facing south and his feet facing north. Is the custom of difficulty different? However, in our hometown in the north, there is indeed a method of mortuary, but it is the practice of ethnic minorities. As for us Han people, we are almost head south and feet north. If an old man dies in the countryside, if he is related to us or has relatives, then we will go to the funeral, so the people who died at this time will not be cremated. When we walk to the door of the mourning hall, we will kowtow to the deceased and express our condolences and respect for the deceased. Therefore, if a person who died in the past meets some animals in the mourning hall, the body may rise, which is what we often say. Then if this appears, it will be very terrible, so if the head is facing north, it will not scare people.
Another point is that, generally speaking, because the deceased was looking for a gentleman to see Feng Shui before his death, this Feng Shui is the place where the deceased was buried. The main direction of the head, north and south is the direction in which the dead are buried. When there was no cremation before, when the deceased was put into the coffin, he also lay in the direction of the coffin. Generally, the front of the coffin is big and the back is small, so the body of the deceased is just in the direction of the head, north and south. When buried, it is also placed in this direction, especially in some areas, and the location of the cemetery is almost more in the north-south direction. Of course, this is also based on the direction of the cemetery. But for some people, it is good for future generations to say north-south burial after death, so things are not well placed. So what do you think made them stay in the north-south direction with the dead?
The direction of the graves of the dead varies from place to place. Everyone in the north is located by the terrain. The highland is the direction of the head and the lowland is the direction of the foot. The coffin is balanced left and right, and the big head is slightly higher.
Like the famous Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang, the Mausoleum is erected in the north-south direction of "leaning on Mount Li and pushing the Weihe River". Mount Li, with its head facing south and its feet facing the Weihe River in the north, is high in the south and low in the north. From the perspective of geomantic omen, the geographical geomantic omen of Qin Shihuang's mausoleum is a must.
The more backward we are now, the bigger the place is. In some places, Mr. Feng Shui will be invited to see acupoints, and fantasy will be beneficial to the prosperity of future generations. However, cremation and miniature tombs advocated at present completely blur the sense of direction, and most of them are unified and standardized by the collective.
It is a rational choice in the new era to change customs and bury the dead by cremation. The morphological model with Fenzhuo as the memorial center can be transferred to our hearts in the future, recorded in writing, become history and passed on to future generations. In addition, the grave is only a temporary form of the body of the deceased.