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Costoms of Traditional Chinese Funeral

The main colors of Chinese traditional funeral are the white and yellow, so it is also known as white matter, Relatived to red things (wedding). According to the economic situation and the deceased's beliefs, The whole process often associated with the Buddhist, Taoist, or feng shui ceremony.

The main processes:
1. Small burial:
Body purification as cosmetic, wearing a shroud. This step should be as soon as possible, and sometimes carried out before the expire. Because in a few hours, due to muscle cell death, there will be stiff as rigor mortis of the limbs, which effects to wear a shroud. Shroud can not be cortex, because the traditional view that the deceased will be reincarnated into animals so.
2. Obituary notice:
Inform relatives and friends far and near to the time of death, circumstances and funeral arrangements. Often have strict provisions of the situation and order.
3. Funeral arrangements:
Relatives and friends bring gifts, elegiac couplet, wreaths, etc. from the field to attend the funeral.
4. Keep a coffin in a temporary shelter before burial:
The body would be parked in mourning for several days , waiting for relatives and friends coming to attend funerals.
Also help to determine the death of suspended animation, not a coma. Mourning can be the family room, temporary ride system Ling Peng, funeral private room. Memorial hall would always be equipped with banners, portraits of the dead, worship of the deceased food (offerings), incense, candles, paper money.In addition, in the case of the time being can not be a formal burial of the deceased, coffin would be placed at temples and other places, waiting for the next buried, also known as keep a coffin in a temporary shelter before burial.
5. Wake for :
During the period of keep a coffin in a temporary shelter before burial, the presence of relatives and friends, juniors need to take turns guarding the dead man in the hall, accept the condolences of those funerals. Throughout the funeral, the deceased close juniors (known as filial sons / Daughters) should wear non-slit side dress or gown of white burlap, waist line rope or hemp rope, put on straw sandals, called the mourning.
6.Funeral:
Presence of family members, the deceased will be moved into coffin covered with mattress, quilt cover, sealed coffin with nails.　
7. Funeral and burial:
The coffin would be sent to the cemetery to bury. The beginning of funeral is marked with filial son broke a Wapen, known as the "fall Bowls". Burial with feng shui master to help.
8. 7 days
After the burial, friends and relatives would visit the cemetery every seven days, and burning paper money, a total of 49 days total to seven times. 49th day ceremony called "off 7", as part of the official end of the funeral.
9. Mourning:
According to Confucian tradition, filial son should guard around the tomb of the parents for three years, period to avoid the entertainment, drinking carnivore husband and wife the same room, etc.
10. Tablets:
Family worship with incense offerings name written on the tablets of the deceased.
11. Clean Grave:
Friends and relatives clean cemeteries during the festival repair.