The host of the funeral entered the house and sat down on the east side of the corpse bed. The brothers and cousins of the funeral host all stood behind the funeral host facing west. (The host of the funeral, in ancient funerals, the eldest son of the deceased was regarded as the mourner; If there is no eldest son, the eldest grandson shall be used. The wife and concubine of the deceased sat facing east and west of the bed, and the relatives of the deceased, such as the deceased's father, brothers, aunts, and sisters, were in the inner room. One by one, the women sat outdoors facing north, and the men stood facing north under the hall.

The king sent his condolences and asked to remove the veil. The mourner greeted him outside the dormitory, and did not cry when he saw the guests; The mourner went through the door and stood on the right side to the north. The mourners entered the door, walked up the west staircase to the main hall, and stood eastward. The mourner enters the atrium, and the mourners convey the king's order to the mourner. The mourner wept, prostrated his head, patted his chest and wept. The mourning guests came out, and the mourners went outside the gate to pay their respects.

The king sent someone to present the clothes (qīn) and to remove the curtain. The etiquette of the mourner to greet the person who was presented by the king is the same as the etiquette of the person who is sent by the king to pay his respects. The person who gave the garment took the collar in his left hand and his waist in his right hand, and entered the main hall to convey the king's orders. The etiquette of the mourner bowing to the giver of the garment is the same as the etiquette sent by the king to mourn the person in the past. The giver entered, put the coat over the body, and walked out the door.

The mourning lord bows and sends off, and the etiquette is the same as the person who sent the monarch to mourn before, only those who come to mourn on the order of the monarch, the mourning lord comes out to greet and send off, and climbs and walks down the west steps to the main hall. So thank the guests, and if there is a doctor to condole, thank them one by one. Take your seat at the foot of the steps, face east, and don't pause to clap your chest and cry. Although the doctor did not give a speech, he had to invite him into the room.

Relatives who have made great contributions to give clothes and clothes do not need to send someone to pass on the order to the mourner, and directly display the clothes in the room. When the brothers give their clothes, they must send someone to the inner room to tell the mourner. The mourner determined the place in the inner chamber, then bowed down and placed the garment on the bed on the east side of the body. Friends give clothes and clothes to bring in in personally.

The mourner bowed and laid out his clothes as before. The mourner retreated, just weeping. Ariji removed his clothes, took the collar with his left hand, and held his waist with his right hand, and took the clothes back to the room.

According to the identity of the deceased, write an inscription for him. If you don't have a title, use one piece of black cloth 1 foot long and 3 inches wide, and one piece of red cloth 2 feet long and 3 inches wide, and connect them. Then write an inscription on the connected part, called "a certain family and a certain coffin". Use a 3-foot-long bamboo pole as a flagpole and place it under the eaves on the west steps.

The Dian, who was in charge of the field, dug a grave between the two steps, and the grave was on the west side of the steps; Build a stove under the west wall, and the stove mouth faces east. Wash the new basins, plates, and bottles, and the footless tun and earthen jars with clean water, and place them under the west steps.

Display the clothes in the room with the collar facing west, from south to north, not in two rows. Close-fitting garments with curtains of cloth. The bun is made of mulberry wood, 4 inches long, and is wrapped around the center of the bun to hold the hair. The cloth towel that was set up to cover the body in the mouth of the deceased was not drilled. The silk wrapped around the head was 2 feet wide and 5 feet long, and the ends were torn to tie knots. Stuff the ears with new silk cotton. When masking one's face, use a black cloth on the outside and a red cloth on the inside, 1 foot 2 inches square; Fill the inside and outside of the garment with wadding and tie a knot.

The handshake should be made of black cloth, orange cloth inside, 1 foot 2 inches long, 5 inches wide, and the middle hand holding part is 1 inch square, which is also filled with wadding and knotted. The hook string is made of jade, and the string is played with two silk cotton finger sleeves, which are also knotted. When setting a corpse, the length and hands are aligned; Cover your lower body with a red cloth until you cover both feet. The deceased wore three sets of clothes that he had worn before his death: pure clothes and light yellow clothes, white cloth clothes and plain clothes, and black clothes with red trim. Black belt, red yellow leather socks, bamboo wat (hù) board.

If it's summer, wear white kudzu sandals; If it's winter, wear white leather shoes. The laces, the headdress of the shoes, and the perimeter of the shoes are made of black cloth, and the laces are tied at the heel of the shoes. The clothes given by many other relatives and cousins are displayed in the room and are not used.

Put 3 shells in a bamboo bowl, 1 bean of rice in a bamboo basket, 1 shampoo made of coarse kudzu cloth and 2 bath towels in a bamboo bowl, a comb in a basket, and clothes worn after bathing in a box. Many of the above objects are displayed under the west wall, arranged from south to north.

The steward draws water from the well, does not untie the well rope, and haunts it in his hands. Xia Zhu faced south and washed rice in a pot in the hall. The steward climbed the steps, did not go up to the main hall, and took the rice water from Xia Zhu, and boiled the utensils on the stove made of clods of earth. Xia Zhu also put the rice in the unfooted Dun and placed it on the north side of the bamboo vessel that held the shells. If the king gives a soldier ice to cool the corpse, he can use the corpse plate to hold it. The deceased's retainers walked into the room and washed the deceased's hair with the rice water boiled by the steward.

The mourner and many brothers went outdoors to stand north, waiting. So the attendants of the deceased washed and combed the deceased's hair, and wiped it clean with a towel; He also used a bath towel to wash the body of the corpse and wiped it clean with a bath towel. Throw the washed water, as well as combs, bath towels, and bathrobes, into the grave pit dug by the Dianians. Then, as in the past, trim its nails, hair, beard, etc. Then tie your hair in a bun, insert a hairpipe (jī), and put on close-fitting underwear. After that, the master enters the room and takes his place.

The priest placed the clothes of the send-off in turn: pure clothes light yellow, white cloth plain clothes, and black clothes with red trim. The master went out of the room, bare his left arm, and put his left sleeve in the strap under his right armpit. Wash your hands in the basin, wash the shells, and carry them into the room. The ruler would wash the spoon of the horn and put it on the rice of the unfooted dun, and take the unfooted dun and follow the master in. Shang Zhu took the towel and followed him into the room, removed the pillow on the north side of the window, laid out the cloth towel, removed the sacrificial spoon, took the shell from the master's hand, and placed it on the west side of the corpse.