Section 353 Shiyu Rites

On the first day of each month, the boy holds a broom in his left hand, the end of the broom is facing upwards, and follows the people who have left the house to enter the house.

Before setting up a new foundation, remove the bed, take away the bedding mat, clean the room, and sweep the sundries and dust to the southeast corner of the room; The mat is laid out as in the previous setting.

After the laying of the throne was completed, the boy who swept the floor took a broom with the end drooping, and followed the person with the candle to the east of the door.

The usual offerings are: morning and evening food, fresh fruits, hot water for washing hair, etc., and the furnishings are the same as those before the deceased's death.

On the first day of each month and when the food is sacrificed, the sacrifice should be set up in the main bed, not in the swallow bed.

Before the burial of the divination, the tomb people first asked if there was any other place to be buried.

On the day of the burial, tell the housewife first: Ji; Housewives weep, and all women weep; When the housewives went up to the main hall, they stopped weeping.

At dawn on the day of the funeral, there was no crying indoors and outdoors, and the bed and coffin-carrying tools were set up on the east side of the west steps.

Set up a burial seat in the two temples of Zu You, first set up a burial position in your temple, which is the same as the small burial time, and then go out of the funeral.

After the pilgrimage to the temple, the weight is set on the west side of the gate, facing east.

The coffin was carried into the temple and walked up the west steps to the main hall.

Place the coffin between the two pillars.

Set up the foundation under the west steps, facing east, with the north as the first place.

The mourner walked up to the main hall and stood on the east side of the coffin, facing west.

Many of the masters took their places on the east side, and the women followed the mourners up to the main hall, facing east.

When the person who set up the place goes up to the main hall, the man cries and claps his chest, and when the person who sets the foundation walks down the main hall, the woman cries and pats her chest and cries.

The person with the candle enters the temple before the coffin enters, and after going up to the main hall, he stands on the south side of the pillar on the east side to the west. Those who enter the temple after entering the coffin stand on the east side of the west steps under the hall to the north.

The mourner walked down the main hall and took his seat at the foot of the east staircase.

Then the old one was removed, and a new one was set up, and the person who had removed the place was taken up the west steps up the main hall and down the main hall, and when he walked up to the main hall, the man wept and patted his chest and wept; As she walked down the main hall, the woman wept and patted her breast, as before.

The people of the congratulatory and the deacon remove the funeral and walk down the main hall first, and the person with the towel and the seat follows the procession, and then walks down the main hall behind, and the person who carries the coffin also walks down the main hall, and the men and women of the hall follow the coffin and walk down the main hall, all the same as when they walk out of the funeral palace, and then begin to make offerings at the ancestral temple.

pull the trestle cart that the deceased rode into the ancestral temple; The front of the cart was covered with deerskin, the shield quiver, the leather bridle flag and the leather bikini were carried on the wagon, and the tassel bridle (pèi) and the shell-decorated horse loat were suspended from the crossbar in front of the wagon.

Then the car that the deceased used to go to court day and night before his death and usually enter and exit was pulled into the ancestral temple, and the car was loaded with the court clothes used by the deceased in the past.

Finally, the car that the deceased was riding in before his death was pulled into the ancestral temple, and the car was carrying a coat and a hat.

The coffin is loaded on the locomotive, and the congratulatory and deacons hold the ancestral shrine at the west end of the house, and stand to the south, with the east as the first place.

After the coffin is tied on the locomotive, it comes down and sets up a laying mat next to the front of the locomotive, and spreads the mat on the west side of the locomotive.

Behind the funeral mat is covered with a cloth cloth, the coffin is decorated, and the wooden frame above the coffin is peeled and flattened.

The mat is filled with ears of thatch, plus some ginger and zeeland.

The reed bales are made of 3-foot-long reeds.

There are 3 bamboo baskets made of straw, 1 millet and 1 millet, 1 wheat, and the millet wheat is soaked in water.

At the beginning of the journey, the ride turns outward, but does not change position.

There are 2 people in the front, left, left, front, right, and right in the front, and 4 people next to each person.

There is no fixed amount of treasures that are given by guests.

All dim sum for setting up the foundation does not need to be fried.

Only the king's order can bring the coffin to a halt on the road, and other circumstances can be ignored.

Wait for the car to go to the cemetery, and stop on the east side of the cemetery with the front facing north, and take the east first.

The locomotive travels to the tomb, takes out the leather clothes and court clothes loaded by the carriageway carriage (gǎo), and places them in the locomotive.

When you come back from the burial, you don't have to drive the car back quickly.

The monarch came to the funeral ceremony in person, and if something happened, he did not have to wait for the laying of the throne, and the coffin would come out after the lid was added; If you don't arrive until the coffin is covered because you didn't make it to yourself, you have to wait until the laying of the coffin is completed.

After the coffin was put in place, the guests went out, and the people and craftsmen put the locomotive between the east and west steps of the ancestral temple.

The wisher is on the south side of the mourner, next to the front wheel of the locomotive, and sets up the ancestral memorial, taking the north as the first place, and covering it with a towel.

The bow and arrows for the burial should be new, but the workmanship does not have to be elaborate, the ends of the bow are decorated with bone horns, and the bow can be opened, but not arrows.

There are tools for the bow, and on them are the strings and arrows made by Webb.

There is a bow garment made of silk cloth, which contains four arrows, such arrows are made of bone arrows and have short feathers.

Then attach the 4 arrows that are connected to the archery, and the weight of the front and back of the arrows is evenly balanced, and it is also a short feather.

(14) Shi Yu Rite "Shi Yu Rite" tells the story of the requiem ceremony held when the priest returned to the funeral palace after burying his parents.

Yu means An, and An is to calm the nerves.

Therefore, if the "Funeral Rite" and the "Evening Ceremony" are intended to send the body on the road, then the "Funeral Rite" is intended to welcome the return of God.

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