1. Funeral
Ordinary people cover their coffins with red quilts or red felt strips. When a poor family went to mourn, two people carried it out and called it "Dulong Gang". The coffins of wealthy families are covered with coffins (Qianqi shop has 贳). There are "lone crane facing the sky", "five cranes facing the sky", and "zhulong" (called "glass" pole) coffin cover, with the dragon's head extending forward and the dragon's tail behind. now. There are 4, 8, or as many as 16 people carrying the coffin, which is called "generous balance bar".
2. Doing seven
Starting from the day of death, we make memorial soup and rice every seven days, which is called "doing seven", among which the first seven, five seven and seven seven are Daqi, there is also a Daqi that is done on an odd basis. Wuqi said that the deceased was at "Wangxiang Terrace" and that he would not eat food from his hometown, but his son-in-law would pay homage to him.
When it reaches Qiqi, it is called "Duanqi". During the forty-nine days of "Qiqi", if the seventh, seventeenth, and twenty-seventh day overlap, it is called "Chongqi" and must be done again until the 100th day, the anniversary, and the third anniversary.
3. Do Yin Shou
That is to do longevity for your deceased father and mother, and also do birthdays every tenth year from the age of fifty. The longevity hall is decorated with plain colors, and the longevity banquet of Yin Shou is called "making ten heads", which lasts until one hundred years old.
4. Soul-calling
If someone died in a foreign land or died of an "unexpected disaster", and there was no body to return to, the family would make a human figure with clothing and decorations, place it on a bamboo pole, shake it, and offer sacrifices in the distance. , called "soul calling". There are also those who make "clothing tombs".
5. Reporting a funeral
The sign of reporting a funeral is to hold an umbrella upside down and walk with your head down, without talking to anyone on the way. When you arrive at the home where you want to report, put the umbrella handle down on the door In addition, as a sign of bad news, he was informed of the brief situation and the date of burial and left immediately. In some places in the countryside, as soon as the mourner leaves, a bowl or a tile is smashed at the gate, which means "all diseases will disappear".