The custom of choosing a funeral date.

In the old society, the custom of avoiding "heavy mourning" was widely circulated among the people. According to local customs in Zhejiang, "heavy mourning" refers to the date of birth of the deceased, which is the same as the time of death of the deceased. Commonly known as "no bright moon". In this case, special funerals are usually held in the third and fifth watch and carried to the suburbs. You can't cry without hemp. You have to wait seven days before you call your relatives and friends, and then you can make up for the funeral. However, in Taiwan Province Province, "heavy mourning" refers to some kind of funeral anniversary. As the saying goes, when one day he was buried, he made a heavy loss, that is, he lost his loved ones and died again. The local mourning days are: 1 month 1 day, February 2, March 5, April 3, May 4, June 1 day, July 4 ... 1 February1day, and so on. If you have to be buried on the day of heavy mourning because of special things, you must take some rituals. Spell words are generally the book "Six Geng Tian Punishment" in the first month, March, June, September and December; In February, the book "Six Died in Heaven"; April book "Six People in Heaven Prison"; July book "Liu Jia Tianfu"; In August, he wrote Liu Yide and so on. However, the rules of writing words every month are not very strict, and there are also phenomena of writing words in series. But in general, it is only an analogy of such words.

Ethnic minorities have something in common with the Han nationality in the belief of choosing a day for funeral. The Koreans, Hezhe and Manchu in Northeast China all choose to have a funeral on a single day, but not on two days. It is said that a two-day funeral means that two people will die. "Lemo people" should not work at sunrise and rest at sunset, nor should they mourn at sunrise, otherwise it would be unlucky. Jingpo people in Yunnan believe that when choosing the funeral date, the animals that will enter the cave are the most auspicious, and it is best to belong to the dragon, snake and mouse for three days, and the rest of the days should be avoided. The Dong people in Guizhou are most afraid of "going to Japan". Miao people in Wujiao Township, Taijiang County are most taboo in mourning. In some ethnic areas of Guangxi, it is taboo to make the promise of "heavy mourning". If Bai people have a heavy funeral, they must hang a red silk horse in nave, or hang a chicken upside down on the coffin, make a small coffin with bamboo shoots, send the small coffin with dead chicken out of the hole dug on the threshold, and then bury it on the road to break it. As for the Ba people in Milin County, Tibet, the date of the funeral is decided by the ceremony of the wizard killing the chicken to see the divination, and the direction of the lines on the chicken liver indicates good or bad luck. In addition, in some ethnic areas close to the Han nationality, the date is determined by the divination ceremony of Mr. Yin and Yang.