Why do people wear shrouds after death?

Why did the deceased wear a shroud?

The problem of decomposing corpses. The body inside the coffin will decompose over time, will leak liquid, and may leak through the coffin. In order to prevent leakage, in addition to putting water-absorbing things such as plant ash and straw paper in the coffin, it is also necessary to wear more clothes to absorb water.

Religious beliefs. Taoism believes that death is just the beginning. The human body is just a shell.

And what dwells inside this shell is the soul. When a person dies, it means that the soul leaves the body and goes to another world. And that world is the spirit world.

The shroud is just a form, just a symbol, just so that others can clearly recognize a fact - death.

It's a sense of ritual. The family wants the deceased to walk decently, so they will change into a clean shroud.

It is one of the funeral customs that have been passed down in our country from ancient times to the present, in order to make the deceased blind, to show respect for the deceased and miss the deceased. Secondly, most of the shrouds are made of cotton, and then cotton can absorb materials and protect the corpse.

This is to let the deceased be able to enjoy the scenery after he leaves, and let him leave with dignity, which is the last bit of filial piety that the living can do to the deceased.

It's because I want them to have good clothes after they die, and I also want them to keep them warm, but that's just a kind of hope for people.

This is the custom of the people. This custom has been passed down for many years, so people don't change it easily.

The reason why people wear longevity clothes after death is so that those who have passed away can walk more decently, and so that they can not endure the cold in heaven.

It is for good luck, because this is a custom left over from ancient times, and they believe that only by wearing longevity clothes can they be valued by Lord Yama.

This makes the dead more dignified, and it is a rule that has been passed down for a long time.

It is customary in China that when a person dies, he washes his body and then puts on new and clean clothes, that is, he wears a shroud. In southern Fujian, when wearing a shroud for the dead, the relatives of the elderly should first try it on. After trying it on, use a scale without a weighing hammer to weigh it and say it in front of people:

This is what the children and grandchildren bought with money. It shows the filial piety of the children and grandchildren. The shrouds worn by the dead are usually odd numbers, with a difference of two between the top and the bottom, such as seven on the top and five or nine on the bottom seven, at most eleven and nine under the nine, that is, eleven tops and nine pairs of pants (women can use skirts instead of pants).

Those who died young, that is, those who died before the age of 50, were generally only allowed to wear three. The older the deceased, the more he can wear it, indicating that he or she is blessed and long-lived. Why did the old man wear so many clothes when he died?

This is because, in the past, people always died in a coffin first, and the coffin often had to be parked at home for some time. In general, the older the deceased is, the longer the parking time becomes. Some of them could not be buried for a while because the cemetery was not chosen, and they have been kept at home for several years.

This inevitably leads to a problem, the body inside the coffin will decompose over time, will leak liquid, and may leak through the coffin. In order to prevent leakage, in addition to putting water-absorbing things such as plant ash and straw paper in the coffin village, it is also necessary to wear more clothes to absorb water. The internal organs of the human body are in the upper body, and when they decay, there is more water than the lower body, so the upper body should wear more than the lower body.

The deceased are usually buried soon after death, so they can wear less clothing. Later generations have inherited each other and have been used for a long time. Nowadays, the so-called shroud, or the original Ming Dynasty ordinary people usually wear clothes and pants, and later because the Qing Dynasty rulers did not let the Han people wear the Ming Dynasty clothing, people had to change their original habits.

It is said that someone asked Qing ** to "change life and death unchanged". That is, when he was alive, he wore the clothes of the Qing Dynasty, and when he died, he wore the clothes of the Ming Dynasty. Qing ** saw that the people had a strong demand, so they had to agree to come down, so the Ming Dynasty clothing became the dead man's shroud, and later although the Qing ** was overthrown, the custom of taking Ming Dynasty clothes as shrouds has been handed down.

Most of them are embroidered with five bats holding longevity patterns. The color of the shroud is generally blue and brown, and for young women it is red, pink or green onion. In addition, it is also equipped with a futon, usually paved with yellow, covered with white (meaning paved with gold and silver), and the quilt is often embroidered with "eight immortals".

A few villages still use this kind of shroud, but most of the rural and urban customs have changed, and the deceased is generally dressed in neat and clean daily life clothes for funerals, and it is customary to still call it shroud.