In our Chinese countryside there are many proverbs handed down by the elderly, each sentence is the summary and wisdom of the ancestors, and more and more widely used in our daily life, in fact, there are many such proverbs in the countryside to reflect the local humanistic customs, such as now people often say "before the mulberry, after not planting willows, the courtyard does not plant ghosts clapping hands."
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"Before not planting mulberry" meaning is the best to understand, because "mulberry" means the same as "mourning", for our Chinese, the most taboo is death, the reason why it is emphasized not to be planted in front of their own door, there is also a certain reason, after all, no one wants to open the door to "mourning", so there is this taboo.
The phrase "do not plant willows after" has a long history, the ancients believed in ghosts and gods were once popular, often used to drive away ghosts and ward off evil spirits, and the jade bottle in the hands of Guanyin Master is a willow branch, and the soul flag and weeping stick used in the white thing are all made of willow branches, and the back of the house is shady, so this saying "do not plant willows after the back" is widely spread in ancient times.
"Do not plant ghosts in the courtyard to clap their hands" This sentence refers to the poplar trees in the courtyard, because the sound of poplar leaves under the wind blowing is like clapping hands, if it is at night, the sound brushing, it is called "ghost clapping", it is inevitable to make people shudder, so these still need to pay attention.
Chinese is very cautious about funerals, and some rules in the funeral do not dare to exceed the rules, such as "the first seven".
Folk saying that people have three souls and seven spirits, one soul in one year after death, one soul in seven days, three years of soul exhaustion, and seven full of courage, so they have to pass
"Seven" and three years. There is another saying that the deceased from the date of death, in
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Every seven days, Yama had to interrogate the undead, so the "Seven Periods" were also known as "Seven Plagues".
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Men are afraid of the first seven, women are afraid of the last seven, those who commit this will suffer in Hades, three seven hit seven daughters, five seven hit seven sons, four seven hit seven is the most fierce, unfavorable to children.
So what is the current saying that "the dead do not commit seven crimes, and the living do not pay attention to them"?
"Seven" is a peculiar number, for example, in Buddhism there are "seven steps of Buddha's action", "victory and creation of seven levels of floating slaughter", etc., so for the old man in the family died, the Buddhist scriptures say that after the death of the person, the soul is separated from the body (the soul at this time is very special, the Buddhist scriptures call it the "bardo body", the size is like a five- or six-year-old child), according to the karmic pull of the pre-life, wandering around, every seventh day will be comatose, until seven seven forty-nine days after reincarnation.
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In the countryside, if there is an old man in the family who dies, it is generally necessary to burn "the first seven, three seven, five seven, seven seven" For the "seven", the "seven" burned by the old man is like this, if the "seven" burned by the old man dies overlaps with the multiple of the lunar calendar "seven" or "seven", which means "fan seven", which is unlucky.
Then, when the bardo body is in a coma, if there is the blessing of the Dharma bodhisattva or the protection of other forces (so the folk have to "do seven"), they can get through, which is the true principle of "dead people do not commit seven". It's not that it can't be committed, but it's more dangerous.
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The meaning of "living people ignoring them" means that if they can't hit seven, they must let their descendants go to someone else's house to ask for food, that is, rice. Then it's going to be a hundred. Or go to the family of wan, or go to the temple to want, of course, each place is handed down differently, some places say "the predecessors do not collide, the posterity is not prosperous", and some places are called "the dead do not commit seven, the living have no food" and so on, so each place will have different customs and habits, these traditions you can ask your local elders.
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Now with the slow change of the times and the passage of time, the customs and habits of many places have disappeared, so whether it is now or in the future, when people are "old", chanting Amitabha Buddha can help the deceased and the living.
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