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