During the wake, in order to mourn the dead and comfort people, mourners will invite singers to sing songs of filial piety, and some singers will come uninvited. Most singers are amateurs. They will sing all kinds of filial piety songs, and some will improvise according to the age, gender and family situation of the deceased. One person sings, there is a duet, there is a lead singer, and everyone continues to sing or chorus. The instruments that accompany the funeral songs are drums and gongs, or they are sung while knocking, or they are sung for a while and then knocked a certain number of times, such as three glasses of water and sparrows.
The day of the morgue. The indoor mourning hall has been decorated, and the outdoor courtyard is lit with incense paper and set off firecrackers. The singer started with gongs and drums, talking about the decoration of mourning hall and filial piety to men and women? Filial piety? The children at the wake could not help crying.
During the wake, filial sons and daughters should go out to receive relatives, friends and neighbors who come to mourn. As soon as undertaker entered the mourning hall, the singer sang the filial piety. In-laws have their filial songs, and friends have their filial songs. If there are in-laws' filial piety songs:
In-laws are like silkworms,
I have been diligent and thrifty all my life.
I have suffered a lot for my son and daughter,
In order to accumulate this meager wealth,
Just say you live a happy and long life,
Who knew you were dead,
...
You have a pair of good children,
You can also smile in Jiuquan.
It's getting late, and the hall is brightly lit inside and outside. The funeral hosted singers and relatives who came to mourn. Shortly after dinner, the singer continued to cry, such as "I miss my parents in December" and "I died in the West". Relatives and friends also sing filial piety classics, such as Twenty-four Filial Pieties and Twelve Sages. In the middle of the night, the leader walked clockwise around the coffin, and the dutiful son held incense in the back and named it? Turn incense? . During the singer's intermission, the funeral home entertained the singer with refreshments and moistened his throat with sugar water. At dawn, the singer slowly walked out of the mourning hall and went outside to sing? Return to the sun? Song. At the time of Ling Fa, the singer sang Ling Ge again, and the dutiful son kowtowed afterwards. ? The body can't see the sky, and the coffin can't be covered? Before sealing the coffin, filial piety and close relatives should take a look at the face of the deceased, that is? Resign? Then seal the coffin.
The funeral was held the next morning. The coffin was carried with a wooden pole, and the front and back of the wooden pole were engraved with a dragon's head and a dragon's tail. Did the singer sing? Brother Qilong? The dutiful son and daughter walked in front with the white fiber tied to the coffin, and all relatives and friends saw him off at the back. On the way to the funeral, singers beat gongs and drums to clear the way, sing mountains, trees and water. Cheer someone up with a prayer song.
Amid the sound of gongs and drums and firecrackers, the filial piety song sang all the way to the graveyard and dispersed first when buried? Whole grains? , dutiful son hence Five Blessingg, planting soil, giving thanks.
Mourning song is a ritual song that has been circulating for a long time in southern Shaanxi. The tune is sad and changeable, and its content ranges from advice when most is unpleasant to feudal superstition. With the development of spiritual civilization construction, cremation is advocated and funeral songs have new contents.