Chapter 115 The Tragic Story of the Director (6)
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Several neighbors lifted and lowered the gate panel of Dong Yong's grandfather, Dong Sanmu, and it was easy to enter Dong Sanmu's house.
After these neighbors entered Dong Yong's grandfather Dong Sanmu's house, they lifted the quilt covered by Dong Sanmu and saw that Dong Sanmu was already rocky and heavenly (rocky bones are a dialect, rocky bones are the time when people have died for a while, and the corpse has become hard, like the meaning of rock bones).
Dong Yong's grandfather, Dong Sanmu, is already hard.
What's next?
It's simple, casual, find a place, dig a pit, and then throw the body of Dong Yong's grandfather Dong Sanmu into it, and then cover it with mud, and you're done?
Surely that won't work?
Because Dong Yong's grandfather Dong Sanmu is a person who has a descendant, that is, Dong Yong's father's director, Dong Sanmu can also have a god tablet on the altar of the ancestral hall of the Dong family where Dong Sanmu is located.
According to the rules of ancient times, the original descendants can only have a god tablet on the altar of the ancestral hall of the family after death.
However, in the same way, after death, a person who can have a god card on the altar of the ancestral hall of the family where he is located cannot be buried so-so.
Scenery funeral?
The scenery of the funeral means that the funeral is very luxurious.
It is not only relatives and friends who come to attend the funeral, but sometimes even pedestrians on the road are dragged over to attend the funeral. Because the funeral is attended by a very, very large number of people, the cost is relatively large. Therefore, in ancient times, ordinary people had nothing to do with the scenery of the funeral.
However, as a person who can have a god tablet on the altar of the ancestral hall of the family where he is located after death, a coffin is always a must, right?
The coffin, also known as the Shou Coffin, the old house, four and a half pieces, and the Shou Fang, is an empty box containing the dead body, which is usually used in funerals. The coffin containing the dead body is called a coffin. Coffins can be made of different materials, the most common being wood. There are also coffins made of copper and stone.
Since the beginning of the ancient millennium, human beings have left an indelible "theorem" for their own death -- although people cannot be resurrected after death, they can all return to heaven, of course, this is a superstitious statement, if the "theorem" of returning to heaven is explained by scientific objective terms, it is a kind of people's spiritual wish -- although people are not resurrected from death, but his spiritual image will always exist in the hearts of others. In order to express this feeling of the heart as a tangible nostalgia for the deceased, the body of the deceased is placed, that is, buried. In order to make the deceased live a better life in another world, people prepared gorgeous coffins for the deceased.
China's traditional love to make coffins with high-quality catalpa wood, nanmu and so on. Many people are blessed to have a good coffin after death. Coffins are most practical in the countryside, almost every farmer will use a coffin to hold the corpse after death, and some people will be cremated after death for other reasons, but they will also order their children and grandchildren to put their ashes in the coffin before death, they all like this way of burial, in order to preserve the integrity of the corpse, the meaning is far-reaching.
The coffin is also commonly known as "ten pages of tiles" and "ten pieces" in the countryside, which is generally made of ten pages of wood, but also made of twelve pages of wood, which is commonly known as "twelve yuan". Ten pages of wood, of which the cover (top cover) is three pages, the bottom (bottom) is three pages, the state (two sides) is two pages each, and the file (front and back) is 5-11 other precious woods.
The Hakka people in our country [Hakka is a folk line or "ethnic group" of the Han nationality. Generally speaking, the Hakka ethnic system is a folk line formed by the Han people who migrated south from the end of the Qin Dynasty to the beginning of the Song Dynasty and merged with the Baiyue ethnic groups in the border areas of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi, such as She, Yao, Nanyue, and Minyue. The main cultural characteristics of Hakka culture inherit the orthodox Han culture, and also mix with Baiyue culture, and then form the unique charm of Hakka culture in Lingnan culture. Therefore, the term "Hakka" is a title for a Han ethnic group and a cultural concept. Because the Hakka people believe in diligence and thrift, pay attention to knowledge and education, and live in various parts of the Hakka world without forgetting their roots, they often have the reputation of Oriental Jews. The "guest" in Mandarin is called "Renke" in Hakka, and when translated into Mandarin, it will be confused with visiting guests, so it is called "Hakka". The name of "Hakka" originated from a large-scale ethnic group fighting in Guangdong in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and was given to the Hakka by the Siyi people who called themselves "Siyi people" in the Jiangmen area (then known as Siyi) in western Guangdong (western Guangdong) at that time. The term "Hakka" was later widely known due to Luo Xianglin's Hakka doctrine, and gradually became the name of the ethnic group, and many people began to accept it happily and call themselves Hakka. [citation needed]. But some people don't like this term, because in Huizhou, Heyuan, Xingmei and other places in Guangdong, there are many generations of Hakka ancestors who have lived in this land for generations, and these Hakka ancestors came to Guangdong no later than the other two ethnic groups in Guangdong. In the part of Taiwan, the Qing Dynasty and the Japanese Occupation era were distinguished by Guangdong ancestors and Fujian ancestors, and the Fujian Hakka people were included in the "Fujian nationality". The coffin is also called Shoumu, the old house. It is made of all cedar wood, and the Hakka people use it to decorate the old man who has passed away. Farmers make coffins, generally around the age of 30, they have to select wood to make and prepare for use after death. Slang cloud: "Thirty pay the board (referring to the coffin), look at you so bold". The implication is that when people reach middle age, they have to prepare for Shoumu, and they are not prepared, for fear that they will be caught off guard if there are three long and two short. Therefore, the Hakka people generally have to make a coffin when they are alive, called "Shoumu" or "Shou Qi", which means that they will be blessed with longevity. When making longevity wood, the family is rich, with 4 whole wood squares to make longevity vessels, called "four corners", that is, the cover plate, the bottom plate and the side plate are made of the whole square material, and there is a corpse lifting board connected by 7 stars in the coffin, called "seven star plates". In addition, there are "hexagonal" and "octagonal" longevity wood, which are made of 6 or 8 pieces of wood. Medium-sized people generally make "ten corners" longevity wood, and the wood selected is slightly smaller than that of "eight corners"; ordinary people make "twelve corners" longevity wood, that is, it is made of 12 small wooden tubes, which is slightly smaller than the "ten corners" square material. After Shoumu is done, those with good family background will ask the lacquer workers to wash the oil knees in time, the top of the big head is written "Fu", the front end of the small head is written "Shou", and the coffin cover is written on red paper "Fu is like the East China Sea" and "Shoubi Nanshan". The custom of the Hakka people, those who die without passing the sixtieth nail are called "short-lived", and generally cannot enjoy the coffin burial, and can only use a few wooden boards to nail into a coffin-shaped, called "fire board".
However, Dong Yong's grandfather, Dong Sanmu, did not expect that he would meet the king of Hades so soon (that is, death, the king of Hades is "Yama", and the king of Yama is the lord of the underworld in folklore, in charge of human life, death and reincarnation. In ancient Chinese folk beliefs, people should report to the underworld after death and be judged by the king of Hades. ), did not leave a coffin for himself (that is, Dong Sanmu) at all.
What to do?
Dong Yong's father, the director, was still a three-year-old doll at that time, could the director find a coffin for his father, Dong Yong's grandfather, Dong Sanmu?
How can it be?
In the end, it was Dong Yong's own family, the Dong family, and the Dong family held a family meeting for the funeral of Dong Yong's grandfather, Dong Sanmu.
Dong Yong's own family, the Dong family, the Dong family, held a family meeting for the funeral of Dong Yong's grandfather Dong Sanmu, and decided to sell the house of Dong Yong's grandfather Dong Sanmu. Part of the money obtained was used to buy a coffin for Dong Sanmu to put Dong Sanmu's body in, and part of it was used as the expenses for Dong Sanmu's funeral, of course, it does not mean that Dong Yong, who attended the funeral, needs to be paid by the Dong family, but the food is always ...... There is also a part of the child support paid by Dong Sanmu's son, that is, Dong Yong's father, to a brother of Dong Sanmu, after all, Dong Sanmu's brother is not one, if you completely ask which of Dong Sanmu's brothers to bear the living expenses of the director alone, it is also a little bad, isn't it?
So, just like that, Dong Yong's grandfather Dong Sanmu went into the ground for peace,
Dong Yong's grandfather, Dong Sanmu, became a person who could have a god tablet on the altar of the ancestral hall of the family where he was located after death.
What about Dong Yong's father?
Dong Yong's father, the director, became a complete proletariat.