Funeral custom in Fujian

A set of unwritten rules of folk funeral in Fuzhou's early years has continued until now, and has been gradually innovated and simplified, but traces have been found.

At funerals, the folk proverb "Do it in July, burn it in August" is always said at first, which means that when a person dies, it is called 1749 every seven days. Seven monks and nuns were hired in the temple to chant Buddhist scriptures. Every morning and evening, they had to set up a table in front of the spirit to sing and eat, and ordered 7749 days of Tahang soup instead of beating dogs in the middle for 49 days. During this period, the paper burning room burned gold and silver boxes. Sixty days (60 days) after the 77 "Festival Burning Ceremony", burn paper ducks? Rich? Burning products for a hundred days will wait until the anniversary of 100 (that is, enough), and it will be "three-oriented" (two years). Except for clothes, it is a combination of two years and three years, and the implementation of "removing clothes and mourning" can completely change the service life of Kyrgyzstan as usual.

In the early funerals, there were many stereotypes: Ding was formally sued for funeral in his hometown, and Chen invited him after all the funerals were restored. "3" Funeral can't attend banquets and entertainment, husband and wife live in different rooms, and families can't have children, otherwise they will be punished and condemned. Folk, although there are not so many restrictions, but immersed in grief can not get married, do not like to participate in anniversary celebrations. If you get married, you can arrange it on 100. This is called "filial piety". Local administrative officials also have filial piety, such as ordering mourning after burning, which was promulgated by Emperor Xianfeng. In fact, in the "three modernizations", the significance of mourning for missing relatives has gradually faded, from 60 to 65 years, from 77 to 60 years of 438+000 days, from the centenary to three years, gradually extended, but gradually forgotten. Last year's anniversary.

Secondly, after the death of the man's parents, he should be immersed in grief. In ancient times, the so-called Long Fu Temple said that Soliton's mother died. He said that she was sad and her parents died. He said that she was an orphan. Immersed in grief, a cynic in Fuzhou called "I really like this orphan, that's what I mean."

Life, Su Fatie (obituary) and the formal enterprise "curtain" people were killed, claiming to be "unfilial man Doi Sutie" and the obituary written at the end of the curtain: "The relatives of unfilial men are waiting around, relying on the policy of putting into service, and immediately following the instructions of the ceremony." Mourning calls for service. In the morning, a new day usually begins in the first seven months, which is called "filial piety". Before going to filial piety, the man went to have a haircut and shave, or waited until the last 7 o'clock. He is wearing linen, a hemp hat, sandals on his feet and a rope around his waist. There are two cotton balls hanging from the marijuana hat. According to folklore, the function of these two cotton balls is to stick their high tails on their ears during the funeral, take a fancy to ridicule and scold, and pretend not to hear when they say bad things. If this is not elegant. Long Fu Temple hangs on the left, and on the right after mother's death. Both parents are dead. According to the folk custom, men and women hung their tails high on the right and went to the funeral armed to the teeth. "Filial piety stick, stick three feet long, paste Bai Xu. Filial son molybdenum steel, rods, non-staple food mother died with bamboo poles. This is the so-called "mother Cai strikes (dad) and mother Zhu strikes (mom). "

The above comes from the old saying of filial piety. Whether it is the best filial piety for dead parents to do this, even if they are alive, is another matter. These things have been simplified a lot in Fuzhou Customs, but they are still preserved in the suburbs. Many of them support heavy burial, great events, extravagance and waste, and some even oppose funerals that are heavily in debt and pollute social atmosphere. These old customs do not meet the requirements of the times in the construction and reform of socialist spiritual civilization.