Chapter 376: Mourning
It was not yet dark, and the people of the town had already pulled a cart of black yarn and filial piety cloth over.
They also helped Chen Mingliang set up a funeral team and sent capable and experienced personnel to take charge of the process.
Everyone in the family is here this time, uncle, sister-in-law, mother, and younger brother.
Chen Mingliang asked Ren Jing to accompany his grandmother, and he went out to see his grandfather.
At this time, the grandfather had already been buried, and the local custom was that the coffin could not be opened again.
In order to leave Chen Mingliang to pay respects to his remains, the elders of the village did not cover it, but placed the coffin lid diagonally on the coffin.
It's darker inside, and it's the grandfather's appearance that faintly, so I can't see the old man's dying appearance too clearly, but his departure can't be considered an accident, it was expected a few years ago.
Grandpa's body is much worse than grandma, the more fierce the man, the more fragile he is, and the boxing champion Ali has become demented.
The elderly are generally sad in winter and spring, and the word "boil" is often used here.
Spring is blooming, which means that another year has passed.
The first night was the uncle's vigil, and they knew that Chen Mingliang still had a lot of entertainment to do during the day the next day, and they couldn't lose etiquette.
The people who came to help also left one after another, and in the second half of the night, Chen Mingliang took Ren Jing home to rest.
Grandpa died, and Chen Mingliang couldn't say whether he was sad or not, because he should say that he was a little sad.
He slept all night and woke up early the next day, but there were still people who were earlier than him.
The village's branch has already come, and it is the fifth uncle of the village who has come, and he is discussing the funeral matters with the people in the town.
"Bright came just in time, I have something to discuss with you."
"Uncle, you say."
"It is said that the state is very strict now, all of them are cremated, you have a special situation here, I know when I am old, people still want to keep a bone for themselves when they are old, I wonder if it is to say hello, and directly let the town give a cremation note out, and this matter is over."
Chen Mingliang didn't say no, cremation strips can be bought.
"Let me ask my grandmother, I don't know much about this, I respect her wishes."
Grandma came over.
"Fifth uncle, I'm in charge of this matter, let's give him a spark. We didn't make any contribution while we were alive, we can't let people poke our backbones when we die, we can't bury the road when we die, and we bury the pit when we die. It's all at this time, I won't leave a handle for my children and grandchildren, it's the same when I die, I don't want bones, Premier Zhou can be scattered into the river, at least we still have a small jar to live in, not bad. ”
When the sky was a little warmer, the fifth uncle arranged for a few strong young men in the village to prepare to pull the coffin to the crematorium.
Grandma approached Grandpa, but she didn't cry or speak, her expression was a little sad, and after looking at it for a while, she asked people to close the cover and drag it away.
The fifth uncle and the funeral team commanded the young men who had nothing to do to clean up the yard again, and the jujube trees in the yard were hung with black yarn, and along the road to the entrance of the village, the whole road was hung with black yarn, which can be regarded as guiding the guests who came to mourn not to get lost. x
In the afternoon, the suona group began to play, and the team was very large, with two pairs of gongs, three suona, and six sheng.
Sure enough, in different circumstances, the birds and the phoenix are also full of sadness.
Chen Mingliang could tell that there were at least six mistakes, and the rhythm change and ventilation method were also wrong, but he had no intention of correcting them.
Chen Mingliang is like a marionette, under the guidance of the five uncles and ancestors, he first went to the ancestral hall to kowtow, burn incense, and then went to the ancestral tomb to choose the burial place of his grandfather.
At this time, you still have to use the Luoyang shovel to test. Because although this is the ancestral tomb of the Chen family, and it has a history of hundreds of years, I don't know why, there are other people's graves here from time to time.
Historically, Feng Shui gentlemen have used the same set of theories, and as a result, the treasure land they chose is the same as the Feng Shui treasure land chosen by others many years ago.
The problem is that it has been five or six hundred years since their Chen family moved from the big locust tree in Shanxi, and theoretically it is estimated that the old tomb in the past was at least from the Tang and Song dynasties.
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This cemetery, I don't know which family belonged to at the beginning, and it disappeared into the war and history.
Just look at the stone horses, stone sheep, stone monkeys, and broken stone statues of civil and military generals that were smashed and thrown into the river during the movement, and you know that this land once had a glorious history. (The first launch, the domain name (remember _ three < three ^ small" said (net) W, ω, ω@.x, 彡, 彡, x'¥[email protected], o-м text) < more ¥ new / speed ¥ degree the most & 駃 = 0
Later, there were people in their village who made a fortune by visiting the undeveloped area of the ancestral tomb, but they were caught later.
When Chen Mingliang kowtowed on the cemetery, he was still thinking about whether to come to an archaeological excavation, but if he thought about it, he couldn't dig his ancestral grave no matter how much he excavated.
Later in the afternoon, Grandpa's ashes had already been brought back, along with the coffin.
From today onwards, the people involved in the funeral have already begun to take care of the meal, and the meal is still very rich.
This meal will be eaten earlier, and if it starts after dark, it will soon begin to officially mourn filial piety.
The condolence custom in Yunyang is divided into two parts, the night before were all local people from the village, one family and one family came; The next morning, relatives and friends from all sides came.
Chen Mingliang and his uncle led the way, each with a team of close filial sons and grandsons, each with a willow tree new mourning stick, kneeling on both sides of the condolence passage to thank the guests for coming.
In the cold winter, there are a lot of charcoal fires in the yard, but it should be cold or cold.
Fortunately, there are not many people in this village, and the program ended quickly.
Chen Mingliang thanked these people who came to help, not to mention that the cigarettes were well prepared.
The money for the funeral materials has been paid by Ren Jing.
There is no good smoke in Dongshan, the general has a pen, and the Confucian Mansion of Taishan has a hard door.
"General Tianyuan" is already the most expensive and high-grade, and there doesn't seem to be the Ninety-Five Respect for Zhou Jiugeng's leadership here.
The scene of the second day was really grand, because the county guest house was already full of people the night before, all of whom were celebrities from the capital, which was rarely seen in normal times.
The focus of mourning is really not who is dead, but who is still alive.
Let's just say that these people who came to mourn, are they really here to pay tribute to and commemorate the old man Chen's pig killing technique when he was young, it is impossible, it is not because of Chen Mingming's relationship.
However, no matter how many people Chen Mingliang came, he didn't have time to receive them, and Ren Jing also cried and mourned with Zhang Chunhua, the little sister-in-law and several other aunts.
The reception of friends was handed over to Chen Dongfang and Peng Jing.
Everyone didn't eat, some brought gift money, Chen Mingliang asked people to remember the number, and then the gift money was returned in its original form, people came with their hearts, Chen Mingliang was not bad for money.
There were so many people who came, most of them didn't eat, and they went back immediately after the condolences were finished. x www.x m.x
Burning boys and girls, burning flower palanquins and flower houses, and then there is a very important ritual of breaking pots.
This ritual was very important, and in the rural feudal clans, it was able to establish the relationship of property inheritance.
In feudal times, property could not be taken away by daughters, and if the deceased only had daughters and no sons, then his property after his death, including the house, would be inherited by his nephew.
Traditionally, the person who throws the pot can only be the eldest son or eldest grandson of the deceased, and when the eldest son is gone, the second son is also not eligible, and the eldest grandson will carry it out.
Anyway, they are all very close people, if the deceased has no children and grandchildren, and the nephew has to break the basin.
This ritual will bring the person who threw the pot closer to the deceased, and the deceased's daughter will be received by the person who broke the pot when she returns to her mother's home.
To put it mildly, in feudal society, if Chen Mingliang threw this pot, he could prevent his grandmother and uncle from spending any of his grandfather's property.
Therefore, it is almost impossible for the feudal family to compete for property, so they can only get a little property while their father is alive and divide it early.
The father is dead, the eldest brother is not there, and the nephew's young situation is even more terrible, the family will make a register and take over the property, and the concubine will have nothing