Coffins are cabinets that carry human remains, and coffins have many names, such as old houses, shou coffins, ten large blocks, four and a half pieces, and so on.
There are many kinds of coffin manufacturing materials, the more common ones are cypress, pine, nan wood, etc., it is worth mentioning that in addition to the copper coffin, sarcophagus, etc., the status of the general ancient times is different, and the materials used for the coffin are also different.
Generally, the people who make coffins are carpenters, the ancients called the coffin shop a shou wood shop, the carpenter's work has big work, there is fine work, and there is also rough work, and the general rough work refers to making coffins for people.
In addition, there is a kind of carpenter is only to make coffins, this kind of people generally open coffin shops, some people like to call them coffin makers, of course, the word coffin maker is only modern, there is no specific name in ancient times, such people are more rules, if it is a carpenter who does any work, for the coffin, there are relatively not so many rules.
People generally think that it is not easy to be a carpenter, if it is a carpenter who makes a coffin, it is not easy on the one hand, he must be cautious when he does his work, because making coffins is for the deceased, the ancients are more superstitious, and they are more cautious when doing things.
In the past, many people would have a coffin in their homes, and many people may think that it is very unlucky and scary to keep a coffin at home, but in fact, it was normal to have a coffin in the family before.
Exquisite people will also put wood chips in the coffin, and some areas believe that this means promotion and wealth, and if the elderly are old, but the children do not prepare the coffin, it will be considered filial piety.
Generally only coffin makers, they also have their own set of rules, some people's coffins they do not do, no matter how much money the other party gives will not agree.
The first is their own coffin, and it is reasonable to say that craftsmen such as carpenters will carefully build a good object for themselves, but they will never make it for themselves.
They feel that when the time comes, generally such people start to do this line of work when they are young, and they will not think about doing it for themselves, even if they think of it, there are still rules and regulations.
It is an unwritten rule that carpenters do not make coffins for themselves, and since ancient times, the specific rules that appeared cannot be traced, and in ancient times people thought that carpenters of high character would never make coffins for themselves.
The coffin of the wicked, the ancients believed that some evil people do many evil deeds, they do not deserve to have a coffin, after death in the underground should also be punished, should not be buried in the ground, if you make a coffin for him, you may be punished, if you make a coffin for the most evil person, it will also affect your own Yangshou.
In fact, according to the ancient rules, the children who died prematurely will not use the coffin, and after the ancient children get a certain age crown, they are considered to be adults.
In addition, those who died prematurely could not enter the ancestral graves, and the rules were like this in ancient times, so no one would find a carpenter to make them coffins.
If there really were a wicked person or a family member of a dying child who came to the carpenter to make a coffin, no matter how much money the other party gave, the carpenter would never do it.
Of course, then again, this rule is not so absolute, after all, the other party comes to make the coffin, and the carpenter can not always ask the other party what kind of person the user of the coffin is. In fact, not only do there are rules for making coffins, but there are actually more rules for carrying coffins.