After a person dies, future generations, family members, and relatives must wear filial piety for them. This filial piety is exquisite. Filial piety cloth is generally a white cloth that is one foot wide. Filial piety is divided into internal filial piety and external filial piety. Inner filial piety is the filial piety worn by the younger generations in the family, and the length is seven feet and two inches, which is the long filial piety. The outer filial piety is the filial piety hidden by the descendants of the family and the descendants of the relatives, and the length is five feet and one inch. People know inside and out at a glance.
The main family of the mourner generally prepares a filial piety for the descendants in the family. After receiving the news, the people in the house should go to the filial piety house to burn incense and pray on the note. Whether it is an elder, a peer, or a junior, those who wear filial piety must bow their heads to the people at home, and those who come to pay their respects must return the salute. If it is a junior in the family, the Zhikesi and the main family must issue filial piety cloth to them, wrap the filial piety cloth around the incense case, and put it on the head of the junior, and the person who receives the filial piety must immediately kneel down, burn the incense on paper, and then wear the filial piety before leaving.
If you forget whose filial piety is forgotten, that person must "fight for filial piety," not for a few feet of white cloth, but for the sake of "fighting" for the "name" of "filial piety." It is said that after the death of people in some parts of Yimian County, there were often "filial piety" incidents. Therefore, some people who should wear filial piety did not rush back at the prescribed time, and the main family must leave filial piety cloth for them. If the person has not arrived at the scene before the deceased is buried, the lord will tear open a small opening at the end of the filial piety cloth and hand it over to the person at a later date.
According to the old rule, filial piety among the immediate family members of the deceased should be worn on the head for a hundred days, regardless of spring, summer, autumn or winter. In the Daba Mountains in Hanzhong, in some places, people use white cloth to make veils to keep their heads cold in winter, but not Dai Xiaoxiao. This may be an extension and variation of the traditional filial piety custom and function.
Before the dead are buried, all the filial piety wearers, filial piety is to be draped on the back, called filial piety. After the deceased is buried, filial piety is to be coiled on the head and called pan filial piety. After that, for the third day of fusan, the seventh burn, the birthday of death, the hundred-day festival, and the three anniversary festivals, all those who wear filial piety must participate in the sacrifice activities.
The filial piety cloth after the service cannot be used casually. Filial cloth can be used to make cage cloth inside steamers, but it can also be used to make pillows, quilts, tops, and the like. But it is absolutely impossible to make clothes such as pants, pants, shoes and socks, because people think that this is a great disrespect to the dead. In some places in Bashan, when the third anniversary is removed, the filial cloth is burned. (The image originates from the Internet, if there is infringement contact, delete it)