Rural funeral customs, people do at least seven days of white happy things, otherwise no one will come to the funeral!
In the countryside, if the family is old, there is a reason why the monk should be invited to the whole dojo for at least seven days.
For during these seven days, the head of the house would set up ten to twenty tables every day, and eat for seven days in a row, for a total of seventy to one hundred and forty tables, and invite the neighbors and relatives to come and eat.
At the same time, the entire dojo will be completed one by one to express mourning for the elderly, and the cost is about 100,000.
Why? In fact, there is an important factor, because it is a "burial", you must ask your neighbors to help carry it into the cemetery, if you don't do a table, no one will carry it.
Some people may say, then carry it yourself! If you carry it yourself, you will be scolded by no one and be beaten up! In the countryside, this is the greatest filial piety! Future generations will be unlucky!
Moreover, even if you carry it yourself, there will be people who are not accustomed to it, block the road and do not let go, saying that this road does not welcome the contrarian! Conflict, anything can happen!
Is there a way to change this custom? Yes! That is, cremation instead of burial, or the body is donated to the state, then there is no trouble with burial, and the urn does not need to be carried by eight people.
However, such families will still be laughed at behind their backs!
A more radical approach is to get out of this impoverished landscape.
