Shroud sleeves should be long, and short sleeves are forbidden to show hands. Otherwise, is there any basis for future children and grandchildren to beg?
Taoism believes that death is only the beginning. The human body is just a shell. What lives in this body is the soul. When a person dies, it just means that the soul has left the body and gone to another world. This world is a spiritual world.
The shroud is just a form, just a symbol, just to let others know a fact clearly-death. Funeral is like a farewell ceremony, which is the last memory of those of us who are still living in this world for someone who is about to go to another world.
It's a shroud, not a bag! Because "Bao" means "offspring", which means that the dead can't take it away when they go to another world!
When people die, they should wash their bodies and put on new clean clothes, that is, shroud.
In southern Fujian, when dressing the dead, the relatives of the old people have to try it on symbolically first. After trying it on, weigh it with a scale, instead of weighing it, and say in front of people, "This was bought by future generations with money." Show filial piety of children and grandchildren.
The texture and style of shroud are clothes that only rich people such as the rich can wear in ancient China. People wear shroud after death, hoping that the dead will be blessed or reincarnated in the underworld.
Shrouds are cotton-padded clothes, because it is said that people are ghosts after death, and ghosts live in the underworld. When it was dark and windy, they put on cotton-padded clothes for the dead, and then provided food, hoping that the dead could eat and wear warm clothes in the underworld.
The folk funeral custom of Han nationality is to dress the dead, burn incense and offer offerings, choose an auspicious day to be buried, and do July 7th. According to folklore, within 77***49 days, the soul of the dead will come back, and after 49 days, he will drink ecstasy soup and get a new life.
China's traditional funeral culture is very particular about death. When the patient's life is dying, relatives should take off his clothes and put on new clothes inside and outside; Otherwise, it will be "naked", and relatives will feel very sorry and guilty.
Before the patient takes his last breath, his relatives will move him to the coffin bed in the main room to guard him through the last moment of his life. This is called mourning.
On his deathbed, the deceased must wear a shroud. In the customs of the Han nationality in the north, they wear white shirts and underwear, black cotton trousers and a black robe outside. The whole suit can't have buttons, it must be tied with a belt. This means "bandage", indicating that there are successors. It is considered auspicious for future generations to wear a black hat with ruffles on the head of the deceased and sew a knot made of red cloth on the top of the hat to drive away evil spirits.