Chapter 112: Funeral Ceremony
(Continued from above, review in previous chapter)
After Qin Yufan brought Qin's father's urn back to the Qin family, he temporarily placed his father's urn in the mourning hall. Subsequently, he hurriedly organized his father's funeral.
On the day of Qin's father's funeral, all the relatives of Qin Yufan's family arrived at Qin's house on time to prepare to participate in Qin's father's funeral.
Because Qin's father was a very heavy friend in his life, at the funeral scene of Qin's father today, not only his relatives in his hometown rushed to the present on time, but also the relatives of Qin's mother's family also rushed to the scene after hearing the letter. Participating in Qin's father's funeral is here.
Not only that, but even Qin Yufan's grandmother, who was eighty and three years old, also rushed to attend Qin's father's funeral after hearing the letter.
Qin Yufan has formed a deep relationship with her grandmother since she was a child. When the two sisters were still children, because Qin's father and mother both had their own jobs, (note: Qin's mother worked in a garment factory at the time) both took flawless care of their children. So the two of them entrusted the two Qin Yufan sisters to their mother-in-law, and she took care of the lives of the two sisters. Therefore, Qin Yufan and her grandmother formed a deep relationship.
Qin Yufan's maternal grandmother is an authentic country woman. I am eighty and three years old this year. Due to the influence of the old society's bad habit of binding feet, it is very difficult to move. Be that as it may, but her body. But it's healthy. Don't look at this old woman who is 83 years old, and her teeth have already fallen out. But she is not deaf or blind. Sometimes, when you walk, you don't need to be helped, and your body can be strong!
Because of the deep affection she has formed since she was a child, Qin Yufan treats her grandmothers, not to mention how filial she is! Whenever she encounters her grandmother's birthday or New Year's holidays, she will take her grandmother into her home early and live there for some time.
Sister Qin Yufan's childhood, most of which was spent at her grandmother's house. When the two sisters were young, whenever they had summer vacations or winter vacations, the two sisters spent most of their time at her grandmother's house.
Due to the relatively superior family situation, Qin Yufan's uncles and aunts treated the two of them, nieces from the city, and they also looked at them differently. The two sisters are in their home and receive special "preferential treatment" every day. Several of her cousins are also very "loving" to the two sisters. If anything happens, let the two sisters first. The two sisters entered their home as casually as if they were in and out of their own home.
Due to poor health, Qin Yufan's two uncles and aunts originally did not plan to let the old lady attend Qin's father's funeral. The old lady had no choice but to attend her son-in-law's funeral. In desperation, Qin Yufan's uncle had no choice but to let his youngest daughter, supporting the old lady, also come to participate in Qin's father's funeral.
These people, after receiving the notice from Qin Yufan's family. Early this morning, they all rushed to Qin's house early.
After 12 noon, Qin Yufan's relatives and friends basically arrived at Qin's house on time.
After seeing that all the relatives and friends of the Qin family had basically arrived, with the host's order, Qin's father's funeral slowly began.
After the funeral began, first of all, the female relatives of the Qin family, led by the band, cleaned the cemetery for Qin's father. Then, the male relatives of the Qin family, under the leadership of the band, invited back the ancestral spiritual position of the Qin family.
After the "spirit" was over, they began to pay homage to Qin's father's spiritual position, and then began to bring the gifts of their relatives back to Qin's father's spirit in order.
Due to the fact that the Qin family has more relatives. The ritual began at 11 a.m. and continued until after five o'clock in the afternoon, when it gradually came to an end.
Chapter 6, Section 3 Funeral Ceremony
That night, the courtyard of the Qin family was even more lively. Watching the lively crowds almost the entire alleyway is crowded.
In the alley not far from the gate of the Qin family, dozens of cars are neatly parked in the shape of "one". These cars put the already very narrow aisles, and the race is tightly blocked. Only a small passage was left for pedestrians.
Next to these cars, a dozen little urchins are playing with the cars and laughing beside them.
Due to the narrow lanes, the Qin family originally planned to show movies in the lanes, but they were forced to move to the street outside the lanes. At this time, the street was already crowded with people watching movies. These people have blocked the whole street. All the passing cars, after coming here, saw that the vehicles were really impassable, so they had to turn around again and take a detour.
After passing through the crowded streets and entering the laneway, he came to the gate of Qin Yufan's house.
I saw that in the center of the gate of the Qin family, there was a paper flower cut out of hemp paper. On the walls on both sides of the gate, there is a white and black paper couplet. The upper part of the elegiac couplet reads: Go first before the ambition is prepared, and the lower couplet reads: The children and grandchildren who hate the children and grandchildren are full of tears. The banner reads: Forever.
On both sides of the gate, less than a meter away from the gate, hang two "dragon lanterns" made of cloth. Inside the dragon lantern is a string of colorful lanterns, which are shining one after another.
On the left and right sides of the gate of the Qin family, dozens of wreaths of different sizes were placed on each side.
At the top of the list is a large wreath. The wreath was a wreath collectively presented by Qin's father's unit during his lifetime. Behind this large wreath, there are dozens of wreaths that are slightly smaller than it. They are wreaths laid by Liu Jianguo, the general manager of Qin Yufan's unit, and several other leaders.
Behind these wreaths are also wreaths offered by the two sisters Qin Yufan and Chen Yongfu. On the right side of the gate are some wreaths laid by relatives of the Qin family and relatives of Qin's father in his hometown in Henan.
In addition, behind these wreaths are also wreaths presented by some of Qin's father's former friends and friends, as well as some wreaths offered by relatives of the Qin family.
On either side of these wreaths hangs a slip of paper made of white paper, on which are written some simple couplets and the names and units of the dedicators. Around these wreaths, there were several crowds of people watching the excitement. One by one, they were all looking at the wreaths, commenting on their heads.
After entering the gate of the Qin family, I saw a lively scene. I saw that the entire courtyard of the Qin family was full of people watching the excitement. In the center of the crowd, there were more than a dozen entertainers. One by one, they were shaking their heads, tearing their voices and singing "sit in the stall". Among them, there are not only the Qin dialect that we Shaanxi people love to listen to, but also the Henan Henan opera that Henan people like to listen to.
These crowds of people watching the excitement almost filled the entire courtyard of the Qin family. Some of them, because they couldn't see the play inside, stood on chairs and tables and watched the play.
After passing through the lively crowd, I came to the door of the upper room of the Qin family, and on the right side of the door of the upper room of the Qin family, there was the place where the mourning hall of Qin's father was parked.
In the innermost part of Qin's father's mourning hall, Qin's father's coffin was parked, and a quilt was placed on top of the coffin. On the lid of the coffin, near the front of the coffin, there is an oil lamp. The faint flame on the oil lamp was swaying gently in the breeze.
The two ends of the coffin were covered with wheat straw, and on the wheat straw, Qin Yufan and Qin Yunan sisters were wearing heavy filial piety, and one knelt on the wheat straw to guard the "spirit" for their father. There were also several women kneeling beside the two of them, and they were also crying Father Qin. The whole mourning shed was full of weeping.
Outside Qin's father's coffin, there was a cloth curtain. Outside the curtain is Qin's father's "mourning hall". The mourning hall enshrines the spiritual seat of Qin's father. In the center of the mourning hall is a black and white portrait of Qin's father, which is more than a foot long. On the portrait, Qin's father had a smile on his face, and he looked particularly amiable. The frame is surrounded by "black gauze".
In front of the statue, there is a "tribute" to Qin's father. There were a lot of things in the "tribute", and only a few were also arrested.
On both sides of the "tribute", there are two delicate small "incense burners" on the left and right, and there are more than a dozen incense sticks in each of the "incense burners". Green smoke is rising from the "incense". The entire incense burner is surrounded by green smoke, giving people a mysterious atmosphere. It's like entering a fairyland.
At the very end of the table, there was a large candle on the left and right, and the flame on the candle was gently swaying with the breeze. Around the "mourning hall", there is a circle of colored lanterns. It is shining brightly and shining.
In front of the "mourning hall", Chen Yongfu and some of the main relatives of the Qin family were forming a circle to offer "tribute" to Qin's father. On the opposite side of the "mourning hall", a group of drummers are shaking their heads and blowing music. Next to them, a middle-aged man with a video camera, was filming all these phenomena in the room.
Not far from the "mourning hall", there are several tables side by side. There were several people around the table, and they were playing "mahjong". Beside a few of them, there were several people watching the excitement. These few people, while looking at the cards, are doing "counselors" to the people who play cards.
Next to the other tables, some people were drinking tea and smoking cigarettes. Some people were talking "gossip" from ear to ear, and some were still sitting there blowing nonsense.
All in all, the atmosphere in the entire Qin family's compound was both lively and a little chaotic.
The cries, laughter, the sound of the band, and the noise of the guests in the entire courtyard set off the entire Qin family compound to be very lively.
It was not until after midnight that the lively atmosphere in the courtyard and outside gradually quieted down, and after seeing that it was already midnight, everyone began to pack up their things and wait for the funeral to proceed the next morning.
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