Do seven, every seven days after death, do seven times, called "do seven." Make a drink offering with seven sacrificial plates. In case of the seventh, seventeenth and twenty-seventh day of the lunar calendar, it is called "bumping into seven" and doing seven at midnight one day in advance. The seventh day after death is called "the first seven days". Traditionally, the dead will die on this day, and the undead will return to the house to mourn. Therefore, after midnight, they will mourn and offer sacrifices until noon, and then ask the Taoist priest to recite the scriptures, enlighten the spirit and hold a confession.
The first seven, China people's funeral custom, is based on the time of the deceased's death, plus the date and hour calculated by heavenly stems and earthly branches, but everyone used to think that "the first seven" refers to the seventh day after death. It is generally believed that the soul of the deceased will go home in the first seven days. Family members should prepare a meal for the dead before their souls come back, and then they must avoid it. The best way is to sleep. If you can't sleep, you should hide under the bed. If the soul of the deceased sees his family, it will make him miss and affect his reincarnation. It is also said that when you go home on the seventh day, your family should burn a ladder-like thing at home and let your soul follow this ladder to heaven.
"Looking up" means that at midnight on the sixth day after the death of the deceased, that is, in the early morning of the seventh day, the family held a crying ceremony. Burn the "first seven" during the day, and then sacrifice once every seven days until the "July 7".
"17th", that is, seven days after death, the funeral home held a grand ceremony, set up coffins, offered firewood to its owners, burned incense, burned paper boxes and cymbals, and invited monks and Taoist priests to chant Buddhist scriptures as a testimony.
On February 27th, the ceremony was simple. On this day, the family prepared wine, served soup and rice as a souvenir, burned paper and invited Taoist priests to chant Buddhist scriptures.
"Sanqi", also known as "Sanqi", this night, the dutiful sons lit incense, shouted the name or title of the deceased at the fork in the road, or went to the grave to burn incense to take the deceased home and set wine at home.
April 7th is a simple ceremony. On this day, family members prepare wine, offer soup and rice, and burn paper to pay homage.
"May 7th", in July 7th, May 7th ceremony is particularly heavy. On this day, mourners held a memorial ceremony, burned paper, and asked monks and Taoist priests to set off the flame. Relatives and friends also bring paper money, tin foil ingots (or cash) to help sacrifice, and have a banquet at the funeral. Some burn people with paper, and there are pavilions with built-in tin foil ingots; There are Jinshan and Yinshan, and the mountains are dotted with flowers, birds and animals. During the ceremony, these documents were taken to the grave for incineration. Some married daughters choose to go back to their parents' homes to pay homage.
The "first seven" is handled by the son.
"Erqi" is Xiaoqi,
"Sanqi" is the responsibility of marrying a daughter.
"47" is also a small seven.
"May 7th" is a sacrifice for the married granddaughter.
"June 7" is also a small seven.
"July 7th", also known as "Full Seven" or "Round Seven", was handled by the son from beginning to end, and his merits were satisfactory.
Due to the busy industrial and commercial work, modern people sometimes shorten 7749 days to 24 days. For example, the way is "the first seven days" and "the last seven days", and every other day is "the seventh day", which is 24 days. During the mourning period, there is no sacrifice before the mourning, and there is no worship when the ancestors die. Except for those who take July 49 as the last seven days, those who are not alive on July 49 are called "the deceased", and there are usually only six days from July 27, so the last seven days are actually the 43rd day. In other words, the first seven days are the seventh day after death, that is, from 23: 00 on the sixth day to 1: 00 on the seventh day, that is, "the first of six days and seven days."
According to the funeral custom, the significance of burning for seven days, one hundred days, the anniversary of burning and the third anniversary of burning: after a person dies in the underworld, there are ten Wang Guan (prosecutors of the underworld) and four judges, whose duties are: to question the deceased and interrogate the good, evil and evil, and there are ten Wang Guan.
Seven times to pay homage to Ming Wang, and check his deeds of | "kindness" before his death. Forty-nine days later, he was transferred to the Cao Yin court for the fourth trial, with the first trial every ten days, and the trial was transferred once: the first trial, (the first ten days, the fifty-ninth day) Judge Cui Shi; In the second instance, (20th, 69th) Judge Li; Third trial, (30 days, 79th day) Judge Han; The fourth trial, (lent, 89 days) Judge Yang; In another ten days, it will be 99 days, burning for a hundred days (called short hundred days, long anniversary), and then worship. The eighth hall will be the first anniversary of the Ming Dynasty, and the ninth hall will be the third anniversary of the Ming Dynasty. After the Ming dynasty, it is necessary to decide how to be reborn and how to be reincarnated.