The structure of the Shiyu Rite is relatively simple, it mainly describes the following links and steps, the furnishings of the sacrifices in the funeral palace, and the placement of the host and guests; Welcome the corpse and treat the corpse, feast the corpse of the gods; The first host sacrificed the corpse, the housewife sacrificed the corpse twice, and the elder among the guests sacrificed the corpse three times; The wisher reported the end of the ceremony and bid farewell to the corpse and the guests.

(The corpse here refers to the living person who was sacrificed in place of the deceased, not to the deceased himself.)

Some people attribute the "Shiyu Ceremony" to a funeral, but now the "Shiyu Ceremony" is not only a continuation and extension of the funeral ceremony, but also the beginning of the sacrifice, and has the dual meaning of both funeral and sacrifice.

The Shiyu rite is also a fierce rite among the five rites.

The ritual of the Shiyu festival is to sacrifice one pig, and the left half of the pig is placed on the west side outside the dormitory gate to cook, facing east.

To the south of the stove where the pig is boiled is the stove for cooking fish and the stove for cooking dried meat, with the north taking the first place.

The stove for making millet rice is set up under the east wall, facing west.

The water washer is set up on the southwest side of the west step, the water for washing is placed on the west side of the washer, and the bamboo grate for the contents is on the east side of the washer.

The wine bottle is located in the east corner of the room, facing the door, and the sweet wine is 1 甒 (u), and the wine is 1 甒, a total of 2 甒, and the location is that the sweet wine is on the west side, and the wine is on the east side of the sweet wine.

The mouth of the sake bottle is covered with a coarse cloth of Ma Ge, and a spoon is placed on top of it, with the handle facing south.

A table and reed mats are set up under the west wall of the hall.

Cut the white thatch in 5-inch lengths and bundle them together.

It is then placed in a bamboo basket and placed on the west side of the southwest corner of the hall.

Then set up 1 bean each of sauerkraut and meat sauce, on the east side of the west pillar, the meat sauce on the west side, the sauerkraut on the east side of the meat sauce, and on the east side of the sauerkraut, a soup bowl (xing) is displayed.

On the east side of the bean, there are two beans for the mourner to enter the wine, and on the east side of the bean, there are two beans for the housewife to the corpse and 2 for the wisher, and the two beans and the four beans are each in a row, with the north as the first.

Set up a sheng millet and a sheng millet two tun between the east and west two steps, the dun of sheng millet is west, the dun of sheng ji is east, take the west as the first, and the reed mat is cushioned below.

Place the handwashing and watering utensils (yi) in a dish with the spit facing south, and set it on the south side of the west steps, and place the bamboo utensils containing the towel on the east side of the plate.

Place 3 tripods on the west side outside the dormitory door, the front of the tripod faces north, and the north is the first.

Then a pole to lift the tripod and a towel to cover the tripod were set up, and a utensil containing a dagger was set up in the west wing, that is, the west side of the hall on the west side of the door.

The barbecue is located on the inside of the west wing, with the upper end of the barbecue on the north side and the lower end on the south side.

The mourners and many of their brothers wore funeral robes, and the guests and deacons wore hanging robes, and they were all seated outside the door, the same as the morning and evening weeping seats.

The woman and her brother-in-law wore mourning clothes and took their seats in the hall, which was the same as the morning and evening weeping.

The funeral blessing wears free clothes, arranges the kudzu and kudzu belts, and then spreads the mat in the room, the front of the mat faces east, and the table is placed on the west side of the mat; Then he walked down the main hall and went out with the sect to the east, and took his place on the west side of the gate, taking the south as the first place.

The sect told the mourner that everything was ready, and that he should perform the ritual of Yu sacrifice.

The mourner then thanked the guests, as he did when he wept morning and night, and then the mourner and his brothers wept at the door, and the woman wept with them.

The mourning lord is seated on the west steps of the hall facing east, and the masters and brothers and guests are seated on the west side of the hall facing east, as opposed to the morning and evening weeping.

After the funeral is entered, take your seat on the left to the north, and the sect will take your seat in front of the west steps to the north.

After the mourner washes his hands, he ascends to the main hall, takes out the white thatch from the west hall, walks down the main hall, and washes it; Then ascend to the main hall, enter the chamber, and place the white thatch on the seat in front of the desk, from west to east, with the west as the first place; Then he walked down the main hall and cleaned the wine; He went up to the main hall again and told the people to stop weeping.

The mourner leaned his mourning rod against the west wall and entered the chamber to stand facing west.

The mourning attendant walked into the main hall and stood to the west on the left side of the mourner.

One by one, the deacons offered two beans with sauerkraut and meat sauce, the beans with sauerkraut and the beans with sauerkraut on the south side, and the beans with meat sauce on the north side of the beans with sauerkraut.

After washing their hands, those who help the eaters and the deacons go out to carry the tripod, and the elder who assists the priest is on the left.

After entering the door, the front is facing east, and it is displayed in front of the west steps, with the north as the first place.

The dagger of the sheng dagger followed the tripod into and was set up on the east side of the tripod.

The axirator on the left draws the pole of the tripod in his left hand, takes off the towel covering the tripod and places it on the north side of the tripod, adds the pole that lifts the tripod on top of the scarf, and then holds the dagger and helps the eater and the helper on the right to use the dagger to lift the animal from the tripod and place it on the utensil.

After that, the acolyte on the left retreats to the guest's seat.

Take the utensils of the pig and enter, and set them on the east side of the bean; Enter with a figurine containing fish and set it up on the east side of the figurine, and enter with a figurine with dried meat and set it on the north side of the figurine.

The deacon who helped the sacrifice set up two tuns to the south of the figurines, the tun of millet to the south of the utensils of the pigs, and the tun of the millet to the south of the utensils of the fish and the east of the tun of the millet of the millet to the south.

Set up a soup utensil on the south side of the beans.

The man who helped them to eat went into the chamber and stood on the west side of the chamber.

Help the sacrificial deacon remove the empty ding.

The celebrant poured sweet wine and ordered the one who helped to eat to open the dongai.

The person who helped the feeding agreed, opened the tun, placed it on his back on the south side of the tun, and returned to his place on the west side of the chamber.

The celebrant sets up a wine bowl with sweet wine and returns to the original position to the left of the mourner on the south side of the bowl containing the soup.

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