When the rural elderly are in good health, let their families make coffins. Why?

Old people in rural areas had poor living conditions when they were young. There are few coffin shops in rural areas, and even if there are, there is not much inventory. Even the county has a coffin shop. If several old people die at the same time, the coffin shop has insufficient inventory. If there is no ready-made coffin, it will take several days to make it, and it will cost more money to catch it. The specifications and decorations of coffins vary widely. For example, coffin plates are three inches thick, four inches thick, five inches thick and other specifications, and the exterior of coffin plates, sculptors and paint colors are all particular. There was no anti-corrosion technology at that time. In summer, the smell comes out before the coffin is ready. No one can predict when he will die. If he is afraid that he can't buy a coffin then, he can only do it in advance.

Generally speaking, finished coffins will be placed in unimportant rooms such as wooden sheds to avoid hitting the gods. However, some old people actually put coffins in their bedrooms, which sounds scary. That's because these old people believe in the concept of "collecting footprints" and they have special considerations. Some people have had this experience. Sleeping in the bedroom at night, I was awakened by the sound, and I heard footsteps in the dining room and living room at home, and sometimes I heard someone flipping the chopsticks. Many rural elderly people think that this is the soul of a dying person and go to the place where he used to go to "collect footprints".

The person who "collects footprints" will go to places frequented by relatives and friends, and even find the dishes and chopsticks he used when he was a guest.

The last stop of "collecting souls" is the coffin used for this person's funeral.

If the coffin is made in advance, it will open and make a sound when collecting footprints. This sound will wake up the sleeping old man, and the old man will see a soul that looks exactly like himself. At this time, the old man knew that his birthday was only three days away. So he can call relatives and friends to say goodbye first, then explain his own affairs, and finally take a shower and change clothes, waiting for death. Why do some people wait until they die before telling their own stories? This is actually very helpless.

Many old people's children are unfilial and try their best to calculate their money. Some old people can't resist sweet talk and distribute their savings to their children early. However, these unfilial children cheated the old man out of his money and stopped supporting him. The old man can only die tragically from poverty and illness, and no one knows when he died.

However, many times, the old man left in a hurry and died without telling his children. This is normal in remote mountain villages without hospitals and doctors.

Many people have buried their predecessors under the floor, in the interlayer of the wall and dug up their belongings in the backyard. Unfortunately, the old man's life savings were not given to his unfilial children, but he still loved him deeply. Old people don't want to spend all their savings before they die, and they don't want their children to get an inheritance after they die. This is a bit tangled. If only they knew when they would die. Some old people believe in taking footprints, so they do so, thinking that they can know when they will die. Actually, it doesn't matter. Save the unfilial children from arguing over who pays for the coffin and what grade of coffin to buy. We don't think coffins are expensive now, but in the past, there were many scenes where we couldn't afford coffins and sold ourselves to bury our parents. Sometimes, in order to save money for coffins, there really is a mat and two door panels, so they are hastily buried. If you make the coffin in advance, you can avoid what the unfilial son did and make the neighbors laugh.