Shi Niang shared her stories, life and death, etiquette and customs in the funeral industry over the years, hoping to take everyone to understand the old customs with new thinking.

"Seeing your own funeral, being a servant with courtesy" is a sentence we will see in the obituary. This sentence means that when an elder in the family dies, when all the ceremonies and procedures are completed, the younger generation will wear different grades of filial piety according to their own blood order.

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Apart from mourning, mourning and filial piety, filial piety is an important part of the whole funeral ceremony, and it is the basis for identifying the generations of family members and planning the funeral sacrifice process. Traditional filial piety clothes are divided into hemp, hemp, blue, yellow and red, commonly known as five clothes. Different generations have different materials, colors and styles, married, unmarried, married, widowed or widowed.

Even in the era of modern and refined funeral etiquette, when all funeral affairs can be handed over to etiquette companies, families who adhere to the tradition and sew their own mourning clothes will occasionally meet in Central and South China.

In addition to traditional mourning clothes, more and more mourners in modern times choose to wear black robes instead of traditional mourning clothes, and this proportion is higher in the north. The origin of black robe originated from Buddhist culture. The advantage of traditional mourning clothes is the integrity of generations, while the advantage of black robes is uniformity, without gender and class differences. All families are equal, but they can only be roughly distinguished according to the word filial piety worn on their arms, and the identity of generations of families is weak.