When the lives of the elderly are in danger, the immediate family members will stay around them and listen to their last words until their relatives die, which is called "dying" in customs. It is a great event to die. To die for the elderly means that they have done their last filial piety. It is often a great regret in people's lives not to die for the elderly. When the old man is dying, his family will move him from the bedroom to the yard and lay a temporary wooden bed. Some of this bed is unloaded with temporary wooden doors because of the folk custom that people die in bed. The soul will be hung on the bed and cannot cross over.
In some places, whether you die on a wooden bed is regarded as whether your children meet the standards of filial piety. If the old man swallows in bed, the children will often be criticized. If there are elders on the deceased, they will not be sent to the main hall after death. In many places, after death, family members will burn paper money, which is called "burning paper". In some places, it is clear that it is called "burning paper upside down." After a person dies, his family should wail for the dead. When he is not dead, he can't cry. After death, the family will inform the nearest relatives as soon as possible. The person who was notified was the first to help. They will help clean up the body, change the shroud and put them in the living room.
In the evening, people will be arranged to watch vigils, usually the elders at home are responsible for coordination, playing cards and mahjong, from dark to the next day. In the evening, people will come to mourn, kneeling at the door with toilet paper, and their families will salute them and burn the paper. The next day, the lingpeng should be built, the door should be pasted with white paper, the roof should be thrown with pillows before death, and the eldest son should be clothed with hemp and Dai Xiao, wear mourning clothes and send food to the temple. Then burn paper at the intersection. On this day, coordination arrangements will be made, and relatives will be responsible for accounting, washing dishes, serving dishes and carrying coffins. "The immediate family members of the deceased (sons and nephews, etc.) will buy funeral supplies, invite helpers for lunch at noon, and those who carry coffins will dig graves in the afternoon. Funeral bands go home at night and perform after dinner, usually until after ten o'clock, and most of them are simply playing.
Late at night, or early in the morning, the body is cremated, followed by funeral bands, scattered paper money, crossing the bridge and setting off firecrackers. Cremation in the morning, put the ashes in the coffin, and the whole family knelt down. Please count the time of going in and out of the coffin, usually in the morning, and then put a funeral notice on the wall, indicating the date of death, the time of funeral and what kind of people need to be avoided during the funeral. At that time, the coffin will be nailed (some words will be said when nailing the coffin, similar to spells), and the whole family will kneel down and listen to sad music. When they arrived at the cemetery, everyone took off their bereaved clothes, grabbed a handful of mud, threw it on the coffin, crossed the grave and threw it into the grave. Then don't walk back home.