Chapter 274: Burial Customs
Qin Feng fell into deep thought at this moment. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Didn't immediately look at the corpses in the coffin.
Qin Feng's divine sense could perceive it.
In this coffin, there are only some common dead and evil qi, which is no different from ordinary coffins.
Therefore, there are no such problems as corpse transformation.
The situation in front of him had already been understood, but Qin Feng was even more puzzled in his heart.
Why does an ordinary coffin use the 'Nine Nail Sealing Technique'?
You must know that the nine-nail coffin sealing technique is not an ordinary coffin sealing ceremony.
Qin Feng looked at the coffin in front of him.
I know in my heart that after death, no matter who it is, it is necessary to go through the "burial ceremony", and the "burial ceremony" is also called the "coffin ceremony", which is called the "big burial" in ancient times, which means to move the dead body into the coffin.
At the time of burial, the son of the deceased is to carry the body into the coffin.
In folk customs, it is important to wrap the head of the deceased with a red cloth, and then the eldest son holds the head.
Then four or six people carry the body, and the feet go out of the house first.
Outside the house, a blanket is used to shade the sun or an umbrella, which is known in the feng shui world as "not seeing the sky".
When entering the coffin, the deceased's feet should be advanced and then laid flat inside the coffin.
It turned out that the cuffs and trousers of the deceased were tied with linen and hems, and they had to be untied at this time.
In some places, a whip is placed in the right hand of the male deceased, and steamed buns are placed in the left hand, and steamed buns are placed on both hands of the female deceased. The whip is called "dog whip", and the steamed bun is called "dog dry food".
After the deceased is out of breath, he should be bound with a white cloth, and after the burial, the white cloth will be taken out and given to the children and grandchildren to girdle their waists, which is called "leaving offspring".
The head of the deceased should be pillow with a special concave hollow pillow, painted with patterns of the sun and moon, mountains and rivers, and flowers, and the pillow is filled with incense sticks and grains. The deceased was covered with seven pieces of silver leaf, and finally covered from head to toe with a seven-foot red cloth, which was prepared by the married daughter, commonly known as the "shop girl".
After the deceased is covered, some daily necessities and beloved things of the deceased should be placed in the coffin, but it is absolutely forbidden to put woolen fabrics and fur products, such as blankets, felts, leather mattresses, fur shoes, etc. The folk believe that if you commit this taboo, you will "become an animal with hair, and be reborn by mistake". In addition to sprinkling some grains and paper money, the Wuzhai area also pays attention to placing some donkey hoof nails and pig iron pieces in the coffin. It is best to use ploughshare fragments for pig iron sheets, which means "entering the soil to open the way".
After the burial is completed, the coffin lid is obliquely covered on the coffin, leaving a gap. After the final inspection by the relatives of the deceased, the coffin is closed at night or at the time chosen by Mr. Yin and Yang.
Cover the coffin, also known as the "coffin" metaphor, family members, relatives and friends gather to remove the mask or paper on the face of the deceased, and bid farewell to the deceased. If the deceased is a woman, the nephew or family members of the deceased should also be asked to inspect the dress and cover to see if there are any objections. Then the coffin was officially covered with wedges, and family members, relatives and friends knelt down to say goodbye.
Before closing the coffin, the red cloth covered by the deceased should be pulled down from the feet to reveal his face, and then the red cloth should be torn off and the wooden lock should be quickly closed, that is, the mortise and tenon between the coffin lid and the coffin body.
Seven nails were used on one side of the coffin, and a small piece of torn red cloth was placed on each nail.
When the coffin was nailed, the whole family avoided crying, and only the son of the deceased had to stand next to the coffin and shout "hide the nails".
Neighbors and friends who participate in the coffin are required to wear red cloth strips, and the person who nails the coffin is given a reward, which is called "happy money".
After the coffin is covered, in the area of Qin County, the children of the deceased have to pat the coffin several times, commonly known as "waking up".
The children of the deceased are to make a "pout" offering before the spirit, and then the people who participate in the burial will share the food, indicating that they will never be separated from the deceased.
In the middle of the night on the second day of the funeral, paper horses, carts, incense burners, tin foil and paper figures should be prepared, and the children of the deceased should be sent to the crossroads where the funeral must pass in the future to be burned to see off the deceased, commonly known as "sending the soul".
On the third night of the deceased's death, after the family bowed at the City God Temple and the Land Temple, one of the deceased's daughters would carry a soup jar and secretly grope for the pouring of the deceased, and call the deceased. In addition, there is a substitute for agreeing, where three calls and three responses, and then crying out of the temple gate to go home.
Round-trip to deliberately detour far, after returning home crying and burning paper, called "burning road paper". In other places, after someone in the family dies, or three nights, or five nights, or seven nights, the family members have to go to the City God Temple to cry and call their relatives back, commonly known as "calling the night".
That's basically the whole process of the ceremony.
The folk coffin is basically seven nails.
But the coffin in this ancient tomb is nine nails.
And it was sealed using a secret technique that had been lost in the feng shui world.
The nine-nail coffin sealing technique is very special, and it has been lost for thousands of years in the feng shui world.
Three hundred years ago, there were still people using this kind of secret technique, which is not normal in itself.
Combined with the situation in this ancient tomb, five special soul beads, five burial dragon tombs.
This ancient tomb is full of weirdness.
"There is no problem with the corpse, it is the corpse of an ordinary person. Qin Feng looked at the coffin, touched and sensed the bones, and judged in his heart.
"But this coffin ......"
Immediately after, Qin Feng noticed the strangeness of this coffin.
Generally speaking, the coffins used for burial are mainly wooden coffins.
The wood is hard cypress and camphor as the superior, followed by pine, catalpa, acacia and so on, and willow is the most general.
The folk pay attention to it, no matter what kind of wood, cypress wood must be used on the baffle in front of the coffin, and at least one must be inlaid with one.
The plate is thick and large, the thickest is six inches, and the five (five inches and five minutes) are all superior, and so on, the bottom, cover, and side are called "single widths" for the whole piece, and a number of pieces are called "X blocks" respectively by the number of pieces they have pieced.
The whole coffin is rectangular, high in front and low in the back, wide in front and narrow in the back.
The coffin is painted on the outside, and there are several colors of black, purple, red, and yellow.
Even the customs of some places are divided in great detail.
For the deceased who are less than fifty years old, the coffin is painted with vermilion lacquer and is called a "red coffin".
Those over the age of 50 are mostly painted with golden yellow, which is called "golden coffin". The outside of the coffin generally has a painted pattern, and the high-quality wood is based on the natural color of wood, and it is painted with plain and polished lacquer, which looks brilliant. The pattern is generally a hundred longevity map, four seasons map, twenty-four filial piety picture or "ten thousand characters continue to be headed". The front of the coffin is painted with a moire lotus platform, and it is written "XX of the Soul".
The small head paints incense and incense, and in some places paints cabbage. On the front of some coffins, auspicious sentences such as "Blessing is like the East Sea" and "Sound and Appearance are like in".
The inside of the coffin is coated with rosin or pasted with wheat paper, which means "gold into the cabinet" and "legacy descendants". The coffin is also pasted with sun, moon, and Beidou patterns cut out of gold and silver paper. In Pinglu, Yanbei, Qixian and other places, a lining plate with seven holes is attached to the bottom of the coffin, which is called "Seven Star Partition", indicating that the deceased "drove the crane immortal and entered the western sky".