In order to avoid committing "heavy mourning", the coffin was suspended for another seven days.

Filial piety is worn by the virtuous grandson, the filial piety of the woman and the daughter-in-law are three and four at dusk, and the filial piety belongs to the day and night vigil, the day and night sacrifices, and the night is accompanied by the night. Every morning and evening, they will offer wine and food before the spirits, so that the deceased may be full of food and drink in the grave. The sacrifice strives to be "full of beards and tails, with heads and tails, and with scales on the belts" to show wholehearted devotion to the dead spirits. There can only be eight kinds of sacrifices, or six kinds of sacrifices, five kinds of "rebellious fetus", four kinds of "called flowers", the descendants of the ancestors are very disrespectful, the dead soul will blame, and the calamity will fall. At least when future generations really encounter disasters, and then ask for protection from their ancestors, the ancestral spirits will not answer.

People are inherently dead, and in the face of death, or even sudden and unnatural death, the clan will not be in a hurry, because there is already a complete set of complex funeral rites, waiting for the living to operate and implement, to step on the footprints of the ancestors, step by step, to follow the rules left by the ancestors, to do the same. The implementation and participants are like a show, focusing on the various procedures and details of the ceremony, and it is required to do it exactly in the traditional way, accurately and without distortion. Funeral rituals are mysterious and complex, sacred and sacred, not only have many taboos, but also have many hidden rules in between, and any violation of these rituals is regarded as "mourning". Those who commit mourning and deceive the gods are also regarded as taboos for the living. The people believe that if they follow the tradition, they can satisfy the dead and the souls of the dead can be at peace, and only then will they be blessed by their ancestors in the underworld, and if they violate the tradition, the living cannot rest assured, and the dead cannot rest assured, and disasters will befall them.

The brothers of the Xie family naturally spared no effort, unwilling to be left behind, and did not dare to invite disasters. Ask the funeral team to play funeral music, play funeral drums, sing funeral songs, dance funeral dances, and recite the "Twelve Prescriptions" scripture.

Three nights before the funeral, the monks in the temple were invited to come to the water and land dojo and recite the Lotus Sutra. As the saying goes, monks lead to heaven, and Taoist priests lead to hell, so ask monks to do Dharma and chant scriptures to alleviate the sins of the dead and promote the souls of the dead to ascend to heaven as soon as possible. Buddhism believes that after death, a person cannot be reborn immediately, except for those who have committed the most heinous sins and immediately go to hell, and those who have completed meritorious deeds and deeds immediately ascend to heaven. Unreincarnated spirits are not ghosts, but are called "bardo bodies" and usually last for forty-nine days. During this period, if the filial piety can ask the monks to do Buddhist work for him, the deceased can be reborn in a better way. According to folk legends, if a person has done too much evil in his life and is destined to give birth to animals in the next life, when he dies, if his relatives do great Buddhist things for him, hear the monks chanting, know the truth of the Dharma, repent at the moment, and resolve to be good, he may be exempted from being an animal and be reborn as a human being.

Every time you recite a sutra, you have to burn a pot of paper money. When the deceased goes to the "ghost realm" to report, they need travel expenses and gifts, so they need to burn paper money quickly, provide enough "funds" for the deceased, and quickly sacrifice wine and food, add meals to the deceased, eat some nutritious products, and replenish physical energy. The "ghost realm" not only dominates the blessing and prayer life of all kinds of people in the human world, but also gives retribution to the good and evil in life, complaining about the wronged, suffering the guilty, paying off the debt, and paying the life of the indebted. When the soul goes to the "ghost realm", it will be interrogated by the king of Hades and judges, and the good will be sent to heaven or the "ghost capital", and the good will be reborn as a human in the next life, and the bad will be reincarnated as a human in the next life, and the bad will be reincarnated as an animal in the next life. Moreover, the judges of the underworld often create unjust, false and wrongful cases, and must give gifts through the back door of the monk, and if they give "gifts", the bad ones can be judged as good, and if the good ones do not give "gifts", they will be judged as bad.

The night before the funeral, it was especially grand. The whole family never sleeps, and the tears of the family do not dry.

The monk set up an incense case, made an offering for fasting, painted Zhang Gongde, hung a list of texts, and worshiped the Samadhi and the fifteenth confession. The monk wears a lotus crown on his head, square boots on his feet, a dark robe and pants, a crimson monk's robe, a solemn expression, babbling while singing and dancing, knocking and beating, jumping and jumping, holding a "soul-attracting flag" in his hand, making a gesture of attraction, and exceeding the deceased. There are words in the mouth, and the song of the opening road is sung: the soul is terrible, you go home early, the road is long, you can go, the mountain is dangerous, you are not afraid. I borrow boats for you on the river, I hold torches for you in the dark, I send you food and clothing in hunger and cold, I serve you tea under the scorching sun, you have to get up when you fall, you have to ask for directions when you get lost, don't be greedy for gold and jade beauties, don't answer after a thousand calls, the poor are only good in their hometowns, and their fathers are worried about their children. The soul is back, Fu Wei is still feasting!

At the time of the fifth watch, take the "lookout platform". A chair is set up on the table, and the chair is draped over the deceased's former clothes, covered with an umbrella. The eldest daughter-in-law opened the gate and shouted three times in a row: Xie Qingquan is back! The biological daughter carried a white lantern with the eight characters of the deceased's birthday, and cried and howled along the river port of the village, in the streets and alleys, in front of the house, and behind the house, and shouted her father's name: Xie Qingquan is back! The monk took off the sticker of the birthday from the lantern and put it on the chair on the deceased's shirt in the hope that the soul of the deceased would return to the clothes.

The monk shook the copper bell in his hand, beat the cymbals and recited the scriptures, and then used a black cloth to put one end of the chair on the clothes of the deceased, and the other end was straightened by the others, and arranged into a "Nai River Bridge". The eldest son and eldest daughter-in-law stood on both sides, one stretched out one hand to hold the spirit card, the other filial sons carried the clothes together, and the other relatives pulled the "Nai He Bridge" cloth. The spirit tablet and the clothes of the soul slowly move on the "Nai River Bridge", and the person holding the umbrella stands beside him, constantly turning the umbrella while following the footsteps, symbolizing the deceased crossing the "Nai River Bridge". Every time he moves a foot, the monk will use the horns of the ox to occupy the auspicious "sue", throw it on the ground, if it is a holy message, then continue to move forward, if it is a yin sue, it will say that the bridge god will not let the dead cross the river, and tell his descendants to kneel down and plead, and relatives burn paper money to give gifts.

When Xie Qingquan crossed the "Nai He Bridge", there were frequent accidents, which was not smooth. First, the spirit card was turned over, and when I started again, the shoe fell off again.

Zhang Zhibang cried loudly: My brother, the blessed people are born in June, and the unblessed people die in June, my brother, the blessed dead walk on the bridge, and the unblessed dead fall off the bridge, brother, you are really miserable to the end!

Children and grandchildren kneel, whether it is a criminal accusation, burning paper money, or a negative accusation.

The monk said: I'm afraid that the undead have something to do, and I don't feel at ease, so I refuse to cross the "Nai River Bridge".

Gong Magpie cried: Before the blessed person dies his husband, and after the unblessed person dies his husband, are you not at ease with my future life?

It's a confession.

Xie Xiong cried: Daddy, didn't you see me give birth to a cub with your own eyes?

It's still a confession.

Xie Han cried: Daddy, are you worried about Xie Bitao's future, Daddy, I must regard it as a given, raise her as an adult, and cultivate her to become a talent, you can rest assured!

This is the proclamation.

The undead crossed the "Nai River Bridge" and drank the "Wang Po Soup", and the monk guided the deceased to recognize the route that the ancestors should take: everyone will die, don't be greedy for the things before death, don't want to go home again, only the West is the homeland of peace, go happily, there are lonely souls and wild ghosts on the road, you don't stay, sing and laugh and go, all the way to the community where the ancestors lived, where is the happiest belonging, hop and jump to join, the ancestors are waiting for you!

In the early morning of the next day, the spirit sacrifice was initiated. At that time, the ceremonial students presided over the public sacrifice ceremony, the piccolo, the flute played "small music", the monks led the singing of the verses, while singing and walking and tapping, filial piety, filial piety, guests, relatives, bowed down and followed, around the coffin to mourn, take the figure-8 route. After a paragraph, the mourning gong sounded nine times, and the suona played "big music". The cycle begins again and again, ending with the eldest filial son reciting the sacrificial text.

Before the funeral, the relatives knelt in front of the mourning hall, the eldest nephew held a paper umbrella, the eldest grandson held a spirit card, the second nephew played a soul-attracting flag, the second son Xie Han held three incense sticks, the eldest son Xie Wen placed a mourning pot for burning paper in front of the spirit at his feet, and the eldest daughter-in-law held the "flame food" jar. As soon as the auspicious time arrived, the master of ceremonies shouted: "Wear linen and bring filial piety!" Then command: Light up the lamps in each room! Prepare grain and rice! Clean the prison soil! Move the bench to the front! Mr. Yin and Yang come forward!

Everyone is in place. At this time, Mr. Yin and Yang recited a mantra and waved an axe to cut down the clear water bowl placed on the left side of the door of the mourning hall, and even a willow branch and a mulberry branch placed horizontally on the mouth of the bowl, which was called "beheading". At the same time, the master of ceremonies shouted: Today's good day is auspicious, beheading the funeral, and the filial son mourns.

The relatives of the five costumes wore mourning clothes and cried in grief. The people carrying the coffin rushed in at the sound, four on the left and four on the right, standing separately, holding the bottom of the coffin in their hands. Filial son and daughter-in-law, hand in hand, walked around the coffin three times, and walked three times upside down, commonly known as "round wood".

As soon as the coffin was opened, the spirit was driven, and the eldest son Xie Wen lifted the mourning tile basin over his head, and broke it all at once, shattered and peaceful, and the more it was broken, the more auspicious it became.

The ancestors made the law, and the mourning basin could only be broken by the eldest son, and the eldest son was not present, and the eldest grandson could fall, and the other sons could not be touched. The soul-attracting banner at the funeral can only be beaten by the eldest son, the father dies with his left hand, and the mother dies with his right hand. If the eldest son dies before his parents, the second son has no right to carry the flag, and the great-grandson of the eldest family will carry it.

Other children and grandchildren dressed in heavy filial piety, when they heard the sound of the tile pot, immediately knelt on both sides of the gate, five to seven people on each side, with a long white cloth on their heads, so that the coffin was carried from the white cloth, commonly known as "taking the gold and silver bridge", and the deceased could go to heaven through the gold and silver bridge. The coffin crossed the bridge, and the kneeling filial piety was busy and lined up in the funeral procession to send the funeral.

The "Eight Immortals" who carried the coffin carried the coffin to the venue at the gate, and began to cover the red quilt in the midst of the drummers playing mourning music and relatives and friends burning incense. In the nine rings of the gong, the filial sons are holding the "mourning stick", the filial piety is mopping the floor, beating barefoot, kneeling and bowing to the deceased three times, holding the coffin and touching the bar around the coffin and crying, crossing the coffin, praying for the inheritance of the essence of the deceased and the protection of the deceased. The filial daughters knelt beside them with their hands on the trays, and placed eight packs of cigarettes, eight towels, and eight pairs of rubber shoes. Filial sons and daughters bow down to the bearer in the order of eldest and youngest, and let the bearer take a copy each.

On the occasion of the carrying, a person is specially held a plate of white rice, while shouting the direction of the gossip, while sprinkling "coffin rice" on the front and back of the coffin, and the filial son and daughter-in-law hold the placket, which is called "collecting wealth and spending rice", which will bless the whole family with good luck, and Tian Ding will prosper in the grain. Filial piety can only be watched by the sidelines, or take over to the brothers, because the daughter has married outside and belongs to other families, "collection" is "stealing money", and it will "make money" to outsiders.

After the bar, the eldest son played the spirit flag, the eldest grandson held the spirit card, and the eldest daughter-in-law held the flame food can, walking in the front, followed by opening the mountain gong to scatter the money, and scattering a handful of paper money when playing the gong. Again, the drummers. Then there are those who carry sacrificial banners, couplets, and wreaths. Then came those who carried the table and the bench. The filial daughter and daughter-in-law held the coffin and wept. Relatives and friends followed the coffin to send each other, relatives and daughters returned to the intersection of the road, and they were not allowed to follow to the cemetery to "step on feng shui" and "dip in blessings".

On the first day of the funeral, the well digger had to go up to the grave mountain to dig a coffin. First ask Mr. Yin and Yang to look at the feng shui of the mountain, set the direction, avoid the direction of Tai Sui, worship the mountain god, the earth immortal, but also draw Tai Sui, insert it in the direction where it is, and select the direction to drive wooden stakes before and after the ground of the tomb. Before breaking the ground, it is necessary to worship the soil and open the mountain, and the chief filial son burns incense and lights candles to carry out the "opening ceremony", which is to dig three times with a hoe within the scope of driving a wooden stake, and then the hoe is pushed to the back of the head, and then stand away to dig the grave of the well. After the well is dug, the painted Tai Sui is burned.

At the time of the funeral, because the coffin was made of wet wood, it slowly dried and slowly came out of the cracks, not only dripping black water at the bottom, but also leaking lime. When the grave was carried halfway to the torn belly, it was tied with hemp rope and the rope was tightened with a wooden stick, and then it was carried up to the grave mountain.

Before the burial, the prepared rape stalks and sesame stalks are evenly spread at the bottom of the grave, and paper money is placed on them, and then the eldest filial son lights the fire and burns it, and at the same time recites the mantra: drive away the insects and ants, drive out the underworld to eat the turf, and the dragon settles down, and congratulates the son and grandson. Commonly known as "warm nest", rape stalks, sesame stalks once burned, it will split and crackle, legend has it that this is a symbol of the future descendants of the sound of the sound, prosperity and prosperity of the good omen, the louder the more auspicious. When the fire is finished, the filial son jumps into the grave to extinguish the spark, then sweeps up the ashes, and then sprinkles them on the coffin when the tomb is sealed.

Before raising the bar, the barman tied a big rooster to the head of the coffin for the deceased to report the dawn in the underworld. This rooster also doubles as a sacrifice to the tomb. The man killed the rooster, drained the blood and sacrificed the four corners of the well, the four corners of the coffin, and then put the rooster at the bottom of the well and let it flutter its wings and die. It is said that where the rooster dies at the bottom of the well, it is an omen of which filial son, the first boss, the first small, the second on the left in the middle, and the third on the right.

The rooster at the bottom of Xie Qingquan's well was lying on its back with its head up. Xie Wen went down the well and wanted to bring it out, but he didn't expect to catch it, it could still struggle, and fell under the well.

The barman said: The boss, the boss, just ignore the middle. The old man was eccentric when he was alive, and he was still eccentric when he died.

Xie Ying said: The father hurts the eldest son, the mother hurts the late cub, and the few in the middle, no one has always hurt it, so he can only hurt himself.

After the filial daughter-in-law prayed in front of the coffin, she would hold the soil of the grave, run home in her arms, and scatter the soil under the pig pen, chicken coop, and bed, which is called "fortune", saying that in this way she will be blessed by the dead and the family will be prosperous smoothly. After that, the filial daughter-in-law hurriedly went to the kitchen to eat a few bites of rice, which is called "Jinbao", which is also auspicious.

Guns are fired at the time of burial. The coffin fell into the hole, and the relatives grabbed the soil and threw it on the back of the coffin to make a "soil addition" ceremony. Burial seals, into the soil for peace, the tomb is the first to set up the tomb door, put a clay pot in the door, put an oil lamp in the jar, called "ever-bright lamp". Then make sacrifices, light incense, set off firecrackers, and pay tribute to the dead. Finally, go around the grave for three weeks, so that the ghost does not chase after him, turns around and goes home, and cannot look back on the way, so as to avoid the dead soul running out of the tomb and following the relatives back, and in the future, it will be frightening at home, or worship, disturbing the room, and even causing misfortune and disaster to the living.

When he returned home, the eldest son Xie Wen took the bereaved relatives to thank the guests, first thanking the drummers, then the guests, and finally thanking the helpers.

After the resignation, the spirit card is placed in the "spirit house", and even the gold and silver tower, paper carts and horses, paper clothes boxes, paper electrical appliances, paper bags and other underworld objects are burned in the open field. After burning, take off the filial piety clothes, which is called "removal of clothes".

Then there is the "sprinkling sweep", which believes that when the deceased is angry, there is a wound and death gas that permeates the house, and it is afraid that its "evil spirit" will hinder the living, and it is necessary to use spells to expel it. The family members are led by the monk to go around the house again, first burn a piece of green tile in the stove, then call a bucket of water, clip out the red-hot tiles and put them into the bucket, "squeak" sound, a stream of water vapor rushes straight up, the monk holds a cypress branch, the water in the bucket is swayed in all directions, the other hand raises the sword to wave it, and the mouth makes a sound of "he" and "ha" from time to time, and then a person holds a woodcutter to do the action of slashing, which means that the house is scattered and the wandering soul is driven out, and then the lintel of each inner house is pasted with a town "charm" cut with yellow mounting paper, and it is covered with " The Seal of Master XX" to prevent filth from entering the house again and endangering family members.

Because Yuan Qiuhua is pregnant, neither the small funeral nor the large burial can participate, nor can she go to the grave to worship the grave. If the taboo is violated, the spirit of the deceased may "pounce" on the fetus, causing the pregnant woman to have a difficult birth. When she was enlightened, she was "jealous" of pigs, and she couldn't hear the sound of gongs and drums, so she hid far away. Even if she is a materialist and does not believe in ghosts and gods, she can usually worship ghosts and gods and stay away, but there are funerals at home, taboos and hidden rules between funeral rituals, and she can't "commit mourning" at will. Three times the filial daughter-in-law had the opportunity to perform crying skills for everyone to see, she was exempted. Moreover, every time she knelt down, there were always people who laid cotton bales and straw on her knees, knelt for a while, and some people pulled her up and motioned to sit down next to the coffin to rest.

During the whole funeral period, they used a variety of expressions and tones, trying their best to express their grief and grief, and at the same time they were carefully shaping the glorious image of filial piety to men and women, in order to obtain the blessing and forgiveness of the deceased, and begging for blessings with paying, such as Xie Wen taking the lead everywhere, suffering losses in everything, cutting meat to make sores, and enduring feces to make up for it, such as Xie Xiong's east hand to take the west hand, borrow money to fill the façade, and treat the bacon to his in-laws, which has been intentional for a long time. Especially those who have had festive and disrespectful behaviors towards the deceased in the past, such as Xie Ying grabbing the ground with his head, crying with all his grief, and worshipping him, such as Xie Jiayan who is sick with grief, dry muscles and black face, and thin as firewood, and hopes to make up for his mistakes through hard performance, so as to eliminate his inner uneasiness and reverse the unfavorable evaluation of ordinary spectators before.

As the saying goes, when a person dies like a lamp goes out, he will never wake up again, and the theory that he will become a god and manifest a spirit, a ghost will be reincarnated, and a bad ghost will be a good ghost is pure nonsense. After death, sacrifices, chanting and doing the Tao, in addition to extravagance and waste of money, and endlessly tossing the energy of relatives, for the ignorant and unconscious deceased, "enjoyment" is meaningless, he no longer needs the help of his living relatives, nor can he help future generations, but is reduced to a prop. For the living, worship is like a ritual, the sacrifices are rich, the ritual time is slow, the spirit and body are directly tortured, the snake is painted and the ground is a prison, self-righteousness and self-consolation, all are empty illusions, and there is no benefit to the family and society.

The funeral is different from the treatment, after the funeral is completed, there is a gift money can be divided, the money made in advance must be deducted from the gift money, and the unused money must be returned. Xie Xiong received a refund of 1,000, a deduction of 3,000, a gift of 2,000, and then 3,000 from his relatives and friends.

Xiao Lin had a few thousand cash on hand and said that she would go to the city to open a store. So, her family moved to the city again.