Coffins in rural areas are all big at one end and small at the other. Is there any explanation?
The coffin is specially designed for the deceased, which means promotion and wealth. People commemorate the deceased in the form of burying the deceased, so there is a design of the coffin, and the two ends of the coffin are large. Is there anything particular about a small design? Why is it designed like this?
The sizes of ordinary coffins are relatively fixed. After a death, the coffin does not need to be tailor-made like making clothes. Ancient measurements referred to different lengths than they do today, and have varied throughout history. One meter is now equal to three feet, and the "chi" in "Seven Feet Man" is the length in ancient times, so "seven feet three and a half inches" in carpenter's jargon is probably about five feet three now
Modern Coffins
Thus, carpenters now say the size of a coffin is five feet three inches long. Don't think that five feet three is less than one meter eight. However, under normal circumstances, no matter how big you are, you can fit into a five foot three coffin. There is also the saying "five feet three, the sky is full". Thinking about it, this is probably because when a person reaches the end of his life, the oil dries up, the cells die and the organs shrink, resulting in a decrease in height. Of course, the sizes of coffins are not the same. For example, the coffins used by big people and those who died young may have to be customized. In addition, the customs in some areas are different, so the importance of coffins will naturally be different.
The design of the coffin should mainly consider the following factors: Design that conforms to the human body
As we all know, the human upper body is generally wider, while the lower body is smaller. Some, so considering the issue of placing the remains, we will choose to place the upper body on the side of the coffin with the larger head, and the lower body on the side of the coffin with the smaller head. The size of the two ends of the coffin also represents the direction of yin and yang. Easy to tell the direction
When burying, people pay great attention to Feng Shui and timing, and the direction of the big head of the coffin also represents Feng Shui. Generally speaking, when we are buried, our upper body should be placed in the north position and the lower body in the south position. According to what most of us know about "sitting north and facing south", when we worship our ancestors, we need to kneel in the south to worship our ancestors. And if the two ends of the coffin are the same, since we cannot open the coffin and look inside, it will be difficult to tell which direction the ancestor's upper body is facing. Therefore, the size of the two ends of the coffin is different, which can also make it easier for us to tell which direction the ancestor's upper body is facing. Yin-Yang Metaphysics
The large and small parts at both ends of the coffin represent yin and yang. In ancient Chinese culture, it represents the objective laws of nature, facilitates the movement of all things, and is the basic law for human beings to understand things. The concept of yin and yang originated from the ancient Chinese people's view of nature. The ancients observed various opposing but connected natural phenomena in nature, such as heaven and earth, sun and moon, day and night, cold and heat, men and women, up and down, etc., and then used philosophical thinking methods Summarize the concept of "yin and yang". Therefore, placing the deceased in a coffin with one yin and one yang means that the deceased is in the yin and yang world, and also in the heaven and earth after death.
Summary
Therefore, it is very particular to have one end of the coffin big and one small. From the placement of the body to the Feng Shui metaphysics, there are also many things to pay attention to. After all, the deceased is bigger, but the specific coffin The style depends on the body of the deceased.