Why do rural funerals put cocks on coffins? Why do rural funerals need to recruit chickens?

In rural areas, roosters are placed on coffins at funerals, which are found in most areas, and customs vary from place to place. These are rural folk customs and belong to the local "stress". But it may not be popular in the city and will not be adopted.

When choosing an auspicious day for burial, the Yin-Yang master should set an auspicious day according to the actual situation of the host family and the birthday of the deceased. After the auspicious day is determined, it will be based on the detailed rules of' three funerals, heavy mourning and repetition' in ancient books. Check one by one. If it is an auspicious day to commit three funerals or heavy mourning, in order to control the three funerals or heavy mourning, when the spirit comes out, a white rooster will be placed on the coffin (also called moving the coffin, that is, moving the coffin from indoor to outdoor), and the main filial piety (eldest son) will tie the rooster and put it on the coffin to go out together; Others only put the rooster on the coffin without the escort of the owner; After the coffin was carried to the cemetery, the rooster was released when it was buried at the scheduled auspicious time. It means that the evil spirit has been resolved. Now it seems that with the progress of the times, although that practice has a strong superstitious color, most people still continue to use it to express their spiritual comfort!

It is said that many people don't want to die and have a lot of attachment to the world. However, when his life ends, he will be haunted by the little devil sent by the king of hell. In desperation, I have to say goodbye to this world and go to another world. However, when I leave this world, I will have a lot of disappointment and nostalgia. Therefore, although my body has lost all kinds of functions, my soul will still wander in my familiar home. This will bring a lot of inconvenience to your family's life. In order to urge one's soul to follow the body to the grave, people thought of a way to guide the soul with a rooster.

Why do you have to use a rooster to guide your soul? In fact, the rooster is the only bird with "yin and yang" in folklore, which can "communicate with yang" and "communicate with yin". When night comes, the rooster will return home early to bid farewell to the "yang world" and return to the "yin world" life; When the sun is about to come out, the rooster will return to the Yang world from the Yin world and use its loud cry to "inform" those ghosts who are still wandering in the Yang world to return to the Yin world quickly to avoid being killed by the Yang spirit. It is precisely because the rooster has the ability to "take all yin and yang" in folklore that the rooster is regarded as a "soul-inducing chicken" by the people.

It is said that many people don't want to die, and they will have a lot of attachment to the world. However, when his life ends, he will be haunted by the little devil sent by the king of hell. In desperation, I have to say goodbye to this world and go to another world. However, when I leave this world, I will have a lot of disappointment and nostalgia. Therefore, although my body has lost all kinds of functions, my soul will still wander in my familiar home. This will bring a lot of inconvenience to your family's life. In order to urge one's soul to follow the body to the grave, people thought of a way to guide the soul with a rooster.