What does it mean to not come out or bury eight people?

The so-called "seven don't come out and eight don't bury" is a custom. There will be no funeral or burial on the seventh, eighth, seventeenth and eighteenth days of the lunar month.

This is a common custom in the round city.

When a patient is about to die, relatives standing by him should seize the opportunity to close his eyes and mouth to prevent bleeding from the seven orifices. After the patient has died, wipe his body with warm water quickly and put on his shroud while it is still hot. The intention is to let it go cleanly. To honor the deceased is to "take matters into consideration".

After putting on the shroud, the deceased can be carried to the thatched bed in the main room, with his head resting on adobe and his face covered with a face cloth (face coverings are not allowed in Shangzhuang and Fengdian areas). If there is a high hall on the deceased, it cannot be paved with tall grass, but a low stool (front and rear water valleys can lift the deceased onto the table). It is carried to the thatched bed, the offering table and offerings are placed, the ever-burning lamps and incense are lit, the old basin is placed, and the memorial paper is burned. During the mourning period, a symbolic meal is served to the deceased before each meal.

After everything is ready, you cannot mourn (cry) for the time being. First, ask the parents to ask the Feng Shui master to read the date: Chakou pays attention to the date and avoids crying. Do not bury the seventh day, the eighth day, the fifth day, the fourteenth day, and the eighth day. The 23rd is the death day of the lunar month. No one can be buried on these days in the lunar calendar. It also depends on whether it is a serious mourning or serious mourning. If the death is a heavy mourning on the day of death, a small, palm-sized coffin needs to be placed next to the coffin. Only after selecting a date can relevant funeral activities be carried out.

Yucheng Village belongs to Beianle Township, Wu'an City, Hebei Province. It is located at the junction of Shahe City, Yongnian County and Wu'an City. It has convenient transportation. Wuxin Road x206 passes through the jurisdiction, and it is between Wanshan River and Masiang River. In this period, the east of the village is relatively low-lying, while the north, south and west are higher.

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About Dahuaishu Immigration

During the Ming Dynasty, some of the ancestors of the village’s families migrated from other places.

Historical records show that from the early years of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty to the fifteenth year of Yongle, the Communist Party of China organized 8 large-scale immigration activities, involving 882 surnames in more than 490 counties and cities in 18 provinces.

Hongdong County is the most populous county in southern Shanxi and is responsible for the main task of immigration. The immigration regulations of the Ming Dynasty were that one person would be allowed in a family of four, two would be allowed in a family of six, and three would be allowed in a family of eight.

Local officials were handling immigration procedures for people under a large locust tree at Guangji Temple in Hongdong County. The forced immigrants dragged their children, old and young, and reluctantly left their hometown. In order to let the children always remember their hometown, if they can find their hometown one day, I will tell them that we all came out from the old stork's nest in the big locust tree.

Who is an immigrant from the ancient Sophora japonica tree? Take off your little toe to check the nail shape. If the ancestor of someone with two little toenails comes from the big Sophora japonica tree in Hongdong, Shanxi, this is not nonsense. It has been proven by scholars. Well, from Shanxi and Shaanxi through the Central Plains to the southeast, the migration direction during the Ming Dynasty coincided with the distribution of the petaloid people to a certain extent.

Meal card data source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Yucheng