● Try not to visit relatives and friends during the mourning period to show respect for others.
● Stay away from the entertainment venues during the mourning period, and give a blessing to the ancestors.
● Within 100 days, it is recommended not to participate in weddings, funerals and celebrations of relatives and friends.
There are many taboos in the traditional funeral, so please treat all things with a sense of rational respect. The taboos always remind us of respect and respect, and all things are cautious.
1. To participate in the funeral, you must remember to remember the meaning of the memory, behave properly, and carefully express your mourning for the ancestors. It is a pity to avoid saying to the photo of the deceased that this girl is so beautiful, and so on.
2, the ancestors respect, avoid talking and chatting in the ceremony, the performance is not solemn.
3. In the funeral parlor, do not enter other ancestors' mourning halls without permission.
4, participate in the memorial ceremonial dress should be simple and solemn, avoid spending colorful or bright and beautiful!
5, the attitude of participating in the funeral must be solemn, not a smile!
6. It is recommended that the answer sheet (white bag) be singular, such as 1100, 2100...
7. When you leave, you should never say goodbye to your family. Friends who meet at the funeral will not say goodbye to each other (Taiwan folklore is unlucky).
8, to say go to the bathroom or toilet, avoid talking to the dressing room (room), because the dressing room is a place to help the makeup of the living.
9. If there are personal taboos, you can bring a red envelope with you in the funeral, with some rice and salt in the bag, rice and salt have the function of removing cockroaches; you can also bring wormwood to avoid evil, and then discard it on your way home.
10. After attending the funeral, you can go to the lively places and go home again, so you can avoid bringing bad things back!
11. After taking the towel in the funeral, you should wash it with water or use it after sun exposure.
12, before going home, you can use wormwood and hibiscus to soak your body.
13. Women who are pregnant should avoid attending the funeral. If they need to participate, they can tie the red silk thread at the waist (the family uses red cloth) to ensure the fetus is safe.
Taboos in daily life due to "similarity laws"
1 Avoid wearing clothes.
2. Avoid wearing white or black or blue clothing: they are a kind of clothing during the mourning period, so they are usually dressed cautiously.
3. Avoid wearing a white cap or wrapping it with a pure white towel.
4. Women should avoid the use of pure white, green, yellow, black or four linen colors for hair accessories.
5. Avoid sleeping in the hall and facing the outside: Because of the stoppage, the posture inside the corner of the corner indicates that he is leaving.
6. Usually avoid tearing the curtain paper: only the funeral will tear off.
7. Double door to the door, avoid halfway through the hall door: half of the door to the funeral home.
8. Avoid using the bamboo broom to sweep the hall: Use the bamboo broom to sweep the hall. After moving out of the hall, use it to remove the suffocating gas.
9. When sweeping the ground, avoid sweeping from inside the house to the outside of the house: After moving out of the hall on the next day, sweep out from inside the house and say, "Sweeping out the suffocating gas."
10. Avoid eating bamboo chopsticks directly into the rice when eating: This is the practice of worshipping the feet of the dead.
11. Avoid giving people rice cakes; only the home of the funeral, the relatives and friends will send him rice cakes during the Chinese New Year.
12. Avoid giving people a string of salty scorpions; general gifts are in bulk, only in the home of the funeral, friends and relatives will send him a string of salty dragonflies during the Dragon Boat Festival. 14 bogey to give people a towel; funeral home thank you friend for the use of towels.
13. Do not use the white peony salt porridge to treat guests with joys; all used for funeral.
14. Avoid using black sugar to cook noodles to eat: brown sugar boiled noodles, commonly known as "black-faced line", for the funeral pullover of the filial piety to eat evil.
15. Avoid saying "holding rice": It is a proper noun for funeral.
16. Avoid folding the envelope and avoiding the use of all-white envelopes: they are all used by the scandal, which may cause misunderstanding.
17. Avoid using odd bowls to swear by God: happy events do not need to use a single number, happy to be paired.
18. Sacrifice daily burning incense to avoid using two musk: the common case of funeral avoids the use of singular numbers, but most areas use two musk for the new burned incense.
19. The festival of ancestral ancestors burned silver paper to avoid using small silver: small silver is used for people's first-time burnt foot money, seven, one hundred days, tombs and other ghosts with lower gods.
20. Avoid the shed and open-air treats: All the happy guests are shackled, only in the funeral, everything will be open to eat in the open air (the current situation has many scaffolding), and it is easy to cause misunderstanding.
Taboos in daily life due to "contact laws"
1. When you are on the road, look at the dead body next to the road.
2. Avoid children's paintings of other people's spirits, mourning halls, and graves with fingers: fear of disrespect and other taboos.
Traditional customs and taboos during the mourning period
1. The ancient tradition can not sit and eat during the mourning, and the funeral at home is not to mourn the tea, do not want to sit, eat and have a group of people, so no. (This is more than the current situation)
2. During the mourning period, it is generally within 49 days. Do not wear filial piety to other people's homes. It is so rude.
3. Avoiding the activities of laughter and entertainment during the mourning period, has expressed the recollection of the ancestors.
4. Someone in the family is going to die, and you should put red paper on the door of the neighbor's house.
5. The lights in the home hall can not be closed sooner or later, and the incense and candle of the hall are uninterrupted. At night, the hall should pay attention to the safety of the incense stick.
6. In the home of the church, clean water should be placed at the entrance for use when hanging away from relatives and friends.
7. After the outing, you can prepare a candy cookie for the neighbors who affix the red paper, and ask the Taoist master to do the ritual. Please forgive me for expressing the harassment during the mourning period.
8. During the period of less than the following year (after 49 days), if you want to participate in the wedding of relatives and friends, you must properly seek the other party's answer, so as not to be tabooed by relatives and friends.
9. During the mourning period, you cannot enter the temple to pay homage.
10. During the mourning period, you can't make jokes or say that you have a bad luck.
11. Before the year (within one year), it is necessary to prepare for the first day of the festival in advance of the important annual festival, for the survivors. Because the survivors have not yet written their ancestral tablets, they cannot spend the holidays with their ancestors.
12. If you have to go to your relatives or friends to visit or go abroad, you must ask your relatives and friends for permission or send the filial piety to the mourning hall.
13. If there is a service in the home, the gods should be covered with red paper to honor them.
14. Change the fruit every day. 不~ You can't put pineapple, guava, banana and tomato 唷~, the bunch of fruit needs to be split (for example, grapes...).
15. During the mourning period, the immediate family members do not have a haircut or shave.
16. The relatives and friends of the foreign family are still in the cemetery after they have sent the filial piety to the cemetery.
17. To mourn relatives and friends, do not look back according to custom, but also say "goodbye". You can't say "re-meeting" if you are lost.
