Doing seven is also called fasting seven, managing seven, burning seven, doing seven, doing one day and July seven. The old funeral customs of the Han nationality are very popular all over the country. That is, after death (or after the funeral), a coffin seat is set up from the "first seven days" for the wood owner to cry and worship every day, and sacrifice in the morning and evening. Buddhist ceremonies were held every seven days, and fasting ceremonies were held, which ended on the 49th day of July 7th.

There are many specific etiquette during the period of "doing seven", which are practiced everywhere. In Guangzhou, the fifth seven days of the old funeral custom must be returned by married women, and the cost of this day is entirely borne by married women. If the deceased has no married woman, it will be done by a married niece or grandniece. The first seven days, the last seven days and the last seven days after death are called "Big Seven". There is a custom of "walking seven times" in this day's memorial service, that is to say, in this day's memorial service, the married daughter and daughter-in-law each carry lanterns and race like kites in the prescribed ceremony to get the first one to run home, commonly known as "fighting for heroes", thinking that the soul of the deceased can protect well-being. Because people think that although people are dead, the soul still has feelings like the living.

Doing seven is usually presided over by a son-in-law. In Zhejiang, there are different ways to hold the Seventh National Congress. In Hangzhou, the son-in-law will hold the "May 7th" and in Lin 'an and Ningbo, the son-in-law will hold the "June 7th". On the night before May 7th, "Home Watch" was popular in many places. Legend has it that the deceased didn't know he was dead until that day; You will board the "homecoming observatory" in the underworld, overlook the dead family and meet relatives and friends. Hangzhou people are used to putting the clothes of the dead on the stage, wearing masks and holding umbrellas. In Suzhou area, at five o'clock this day, the children opened the west gate and shouted three times in a row: "Come back!" " "Then he wept bitterly in front of Ling, and at the same time brought the food and wine prepared in advance, and offered a glass of wine, which was called the" Night Banquet of the Five Watches ". This ceremony is called "Calling Five Watches". After dawn, the mourners asked the store to tie up a house with floral paper in advance. Doors, windows, halls, courtyards, well stoves, etc. Very complete. After giving a look, burn it with a torch. It is said that this will give the deceased a room to live in the underworld. This is the so-called "Hua". Now, paper appliances are incinerated to the dead, so that the dead can live a "modern" life in the underworld. On the 49 th, it will "break seven." After seven days' rest, there is a period of mourning, and bereavement is very important. Relatives and friends participate in the "breaking seven" etiquette activities. On the day of "Breaking Seven", Taoist priests and monks were invited to do Dojo, which was euphemistically called "keeping peace". Because this time it is to pray for the living. After singing, the children took off their mourning clothes and put on their uniforms.

In some ethnic groups in southern China, there is also the custom of "entertaining corpses" on Tanabata. Tujia people hold a grand wake every 12 days during the coffin deduction. Young men and women in this village and other villages gather behind the houses where their loved ones have lost, playing, singing and dancing for the funeral, so as to make love and choose partners. Funeral dance, also known as "relieving anxiety" and "beating gongs and drums", is a national dance invented by Ba people, the ancestors of Tujia people, more than 2000 years ago. Later, Tujia children were passed down from generation to generation and have been passed down to this day. After death, especially on the first night after the death of the elders for a hundred years, this kind of funeral dance activity began when the family members were lost. One of them invited a singer to lead with gongs and drums, and the other two helped, singing and dancing around the coffin for several nights. The purpose of funeral dance is to alleviate the grief and melancholy of the family members of the deceased, so as to achieve the purpose of mourning without sadness and injury without pain. ..