"Jiujiao, can you help me investigate this matter? I don't want my grandfather to go through this after he dies. ”

I was full of embarrassment, and God knows I always wanted to figure out what was going on, but it was so easy.

I want to say it clearly, but looking at Jiang Yifeng's face full of expectations, I can't extinguish his expectations.

In the end, I had to accept it first.

"Actually, I've been investigating this matter as well, so you can rest assured that it will come out one day."

Seeing this, Jiang Yifeng could only nod, and after that, neither of us spoke, so we lay down and went to our respective businesses.

For nearly half the night, I could hear Jiang Yifeng's constant churning, and I knew that he should be thinking about his grandfather's affairs and couldn't sleep.

I still feel a little guilty about this, maybe I shouldn't have mentioned it.

It took me a long time at night to fall asleep in a daze.

When we got up the next day, we both tacitly agreed not to mention this matter, but after eating, Jiang Yifeng asked me to take him to the Misty Forest to have a look.

I understood that his feelings were very complicated right now, and although I knew that even if I took him there, I would not make any progress, but in order to fulfill his wishes, I did not refuse.

When he came to the Misty Forest, Jiang Yifeng's emotions became very excited, and he wanted to go in, but I stopped him.

"The fog here is bigger, it's easy to get lost, so it's better not to get in easily."

"If you want to investigate the situation, don't you just go in and explore? What's the use of just staying outside here? ”

I was speechless by his words.

But in comparison, I am much more rational than him, and I know that it is only a waste of time to go now, and there is a risk of losing my troops.

It's better to wait until the day when you really have the ability to go in and explore.

"Don't be too anxious, not only will we not have any clues when we go in now, there is a high chance that something will go wrong."

"You don't want to have an accident before you find any clues, right?"

Jiang Yifeng finally calmed down after listening to my words, but there was only helplessness in his eyes.

"Jiujiao, please, you must find a way to go in and investigate as soon as possible."

I nodded, and to comfort him, I told him everything I had experienced when I came in.

After that, the two of us went home.

After returning home, Jiang Yifeng went to talk to his grandmother and Minmin, and I also returned to the room by myself.

The funeral scripture that my grandfather gave me is still in my arms! Naturally, I want to learn it as soon as possible.

Turning over the scriptures, every page records about the funeral, I first read it in general, and after I put it down, I was slowly shocked.

Because I really didn't expect that there was so much history in the field of funeral.

And there will be different progress in different periods.

As early as the primitive society, because the understanding of human beings at that time was relatively shallow, they developed a religious consciousness and began to believe in the immortality of the soul.

In the beginning, there was no talk of burial after death.

However, after the idea of the immortality of the soul began, there began to be various rituals and the practice of burying the dead.

It is recorded in the "General Dictionary", "In the ancient times, there were regulations in the funeral, and the ancient funeral personnel must wear thick clothes and be placed in the coffin, which cannot be sealed or erected, and the time of the funeral is permanent, and relatives can come and bow at any time." “

In the Banpo period, in the tombstones, the buried deceased began to face west, indicating that the deceased would go to the Western Heavenly Elysium.

For this religious belief, the reverence for the dead continued until the emergence of a matriarchal society.

By the time of the three dynasties of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, funeral rites had begun to develop systematically, and there were certain procedural steps.

It can be seen from the ball guard that the funeral ceremony at that time was in its most primitive state.

For example, the mortuary is now three days old, and ceremonies such as entering the coffin began at that time.

By the time of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the funeral rites were already very close to modernization, and it can be said that they had become a template.

At the time of Jean's death, a ritual was held in which various relatives and family members climbed on the roof of the house to the north to summon the spirits of the deceased, which was called "retribution" at that time, which is now called the conjuring of spirits.

After the funeral, there is crying, and tears represent the pain and sorrow of relatives for the deceased, but now it has developed somewhat superficially.

There is even a kind of special work for crying and mourning, but they are not showing their own grief, but showing themselves in disguise, or filial piety, or financial resources.

When the depression is over, it is time to cleanse the dead.

And when purifying, it is also very particular.

Cleansing is the so-called bathing and changing clothes, after all, when a person dies, he must leave cleanly.

When bathing, the deceased should first be helped to take off his clothes, then use a basin to fetch water, scoop the water from the deceased's head and pour it down to the body, and then wipe the body with a special towel.

And wiping the body of the deceased is usually done by the deceased's closest person.

If the deceased had only one child, this would be easy to say, but if it was more than a child, the problem would have come.

Because it is said that this purification is the last thing that can be done for the deceased, and whoever does it, the deceased will take shelter for him.

So usually every child and grandchild wants to do it, and some even fight for it.

When this happens, the most embarrassing person is the main one.

Eventually, a solution emerged.

It's up to the person who has something to decide, and this usually offends other people as well.

Finally, a smart man came up with a way to decide with a stream of water and a towel.

The principal first asked each child to stand in different positions, and he rotated the towel in the basin several times in the middle, then let go, and finally let the towel come to see who the towel was aimed at.

This is to let God make his own decision, and after getting the result, everyone has no opinion.

And after purification, we must begin to hold the ritual of "gathering", which is what we call burial.

The meaning is very simple, it is to change the clothes of the deceased and enter the museum.

After the deceased is buried, he is not buried immediately, but stays in the mourning hall for a period of time.

Usually the length of stay varies, but the most common is three days.

After three days, the coffin is carried to the place of burial and buried, that is, the funeral.

The funeral process of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period can be said to be the prototype of the current funeral process, which basically evolved at that time.