Why is the ancestral house lit after the death of a person?

Updated on society 2024-07-17
42 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-12

    Because I think that the soul of a person is still nearby when he just dies, and the lights are turned on so that he can find a home, and he will not become a lonely ghost, is it okay Many professionals on our side will answer your questions, and my username is that we can search directly on tan.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-11

    China has always had a custom of the first seven, which means that on the seventh day after death, people will become ghosts and go home to have a look, and the lights are turned on at night for the first seven nights so that the ghosts can find their homes and not get lost, which is a way for people to comfort their loved ones.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-10

    It is believed that a person will return home on the seventh day after death, which is the first seven. Turn on the lights in the house to show the way to the dead in case their loved ones can't find their home.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-09

    The first seven is a kind of folk funeral custom, which means that the soul of a person will return home on the seventh day after death, so it is called the first seven, and the family should prepare some meals for the soul of the deceased on this day. Let him be able to eat and drink to his heart's content, and then burn a ladder-like thing for the deceased, so that the deceased can climb up the ladder after eating, ascend to heaven, and be reincarnated.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-08

    On the seventh day after death, the ghost has to go home, but the ghost cannot see the sun, so he can only go home at night, and he can only have a lamp to guide the ghost.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-07

    In the people, because of the death of their relatives, they went to the underworld. It is said that if the deceased is full of attachment to the yang world, then he will come to the earth on the seventh day, so the relatives will turn on the lights for one night on the seventh day to show the way home and let the soul go home!

  7. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    Legend has it that on the seventh day after death, the spirits of the dead will go home to see their loved ones, so in order for the spirits to find their homes smoothly, the family members will turn on the lights for the spirits of the dead for a night.

  8. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    It is said that a person must return home on the seventh day after death, because the ghost cannot see the sun, so he can only return at night; Since it is too dark at night, loved ones will turn on the lights for the night.

  9. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    The first seven means that the ghost cannot see the light and can only go home at night, so turning on the lights for a night can show the way for the ghost and make it easier to find the way home.

  10. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    It is a folk custom that a person is said to return to his home on the seventh day after his death, and the lights in the house are left on for one night to make it easier for him to find his home.

  11. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    The first seven days after a person's death become the "first seven", and the last day of the first seven is also the legendary "soul night", on this day the deceased will return to the sun to see the family for the last time, and if they see that the family is good, they will leave with peace of mind. So the lights will be on at home for a night.

  12. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    There is a saying that the first seven allow the soul of the deceased to find its way home, eat the meal prepared by the family and then go on the road.

  13. Anonymous users2024-01-31

    This idea left since ancient times says that after a person dies, he will go home seven days after he goes home to see that he is dead, and the yin and yang are separated, so the house lights up a night to welcome the deceased home.

  14. Anonymous users2024-01-30

    This is a local custom. Just ask the old people in the family!

  15. Anonymous users2024-01-29

    There is no Amitabha Buddha in the south, and there is no Guanyin Bodhisattva in the south.

  16. Anonymous users2024-01-28

    It does sound a little scary, but if the lights don't go out, it may be that there are no coins, and this may also be the old man's reluctance to leave.

  17. Anonymous users2024-01-27

    Because it is believed that the soul of a person is still nearby when he dies, and the light is turned on so that he can find a home, and he will not become a lonely ghost.

  18. Anonymous users2024-01-26

    My father has passed away, and it is just in time for the Spring Festival, so there must be a light on in the room where my father's coffin is kept. It seems that he is worried that his father, Black Bronwinter, will be lonely. Maybe it's a superstitious statement.

  19. Anonymous users2024-01-25

    During the Chinese New Year, everyone's home is decorated with lights. And on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, the house was full of lights. This is the rule left to us by our ancestors.

    It bodes well for us to be prosperous in the coming year. If there are elderly people who have passed away in the family, although the family can not dress up with lanterns and keep filial piety for the elderly, it should also be brightly lit to illuminate the direction of our progress, indicating a good start in the coming year.

  20. Anonymous users2024-01-24

    This is not necessarily, it depends on your local customs, some places may have this custom, but we haven't seen it there.

  21. Anonymous users2024-01-23

    This depends on your local customs, and we can't stick couplets on our side.

  22. Anonymous users2024-01-22

    Unnecessary! From an idealistic point of view. No red class!

  23. Anonymous users2024-01-21

    Whether anyone dies on our side or not, turn on the lights.

  24. Anonymous users2024-01-20

    We don't have what you said, I don't know.

  25. Anonymous users2024-01-19

    It should be the first seven, and the first seven are the ones who want to turn on the lights.

    The first seven are going home.

    Turned on the lights to find your way home.

  26. Anonymous users2024-01-18

    According to the customs and habits of your hometown, you can do whatever you want.

  27. Anonymous users2024-01-17

    I've never heard of such a statement, so I don't think so.

  28. Anonymous users2024-01-16

    The bull-headed horse will take the deceased back from the chimney and go the wrong way? Do you think you need to turn on the lights?

  29. Anonymous users2024-01-15

    After the person dies, a lamp is placed under the coffin. This lamp is the one that illuminates their way to Huangquan. Afraid that they will not be able to see it, this is a kind of longing for the living to the deceased.

    In fact, can it really illuminate that way? Nobody knows. I just wish he would suffer a little less over there.

    Therefore, people should be happy when they are alive, cherish the present, life is short.

  30. Anonymous users2024-01-14

    As we all know, before the dead are buried, an oil lamp will be lit under the coffin, which is called the Everlasting Lamp, which is intended to guide the soul of the dead to the direction of the underworld, so the Everlasting Lamp is also called the "Soul Attracting Lamp", because it is to illuminate the way, so during the mourning period, the lamp has not been extinguished. Moreover, the son or grandson of the deceased of the person who lights the lamp means that future generations will be blessed and prosperous. People are lighting ever-bright lanterns to illuminate Huangquan Road and guide them out of their homes and towards Huangquan.

    Don't be surprised that this custom is practiced everywhere.

  31. Anonymous users2024-01-13

    According to the customs and superstitions of the Chinese, after death, people have to cross the Nai He Bridge, ** black lights blind, afraid that the dead will not see the road, so they should light a lamp under the coffin of the spiritual hall, so this lamp is called "bridge light".

  32. Anonymous users2024-01-12

    It was because he was afraid that he would not be able to see on the road, so he had to light a lamp so that he could brighten up on the way to hell, so when a person died, his family would immediately light a candle at his feet, and that was the reason.

  33. Anonymous users2024-01-11

    Lighting a lamp is an extremely common thing, and the lamp I lit was not an ordinary lamp, it was specially lit for ...... deadEveryone knows that before the dead are buried, an oil lamp is lit under the coffin, which is called the Everlasting Lamp, which is intended to guide the soul of the dead to the underworld. Of course, all this was ordered by my grandfather, who told me that I was called the 'Lamp Boy'. At first, I didn't understand, but then I was a little afraid of the dead, because every time I lit the lamp, I had to get under the coffin, and if you think about it, I lit the lamp below, and there was a dead man lying on the top of my head, so it was strange if I wasn't afraid.

    It wasn't until later that I learned that there was another way to light this lantern. It is said that the accumulation of yin virtue! The lamp guides the ghost to the underworld for reincarnation, and the person who lights the lamp will naturally get a trace of the so-called yin virtue, that is, the ghost's gratitude to you.

  34. Anonymous users2024-01-10

    These are customs, even if a person dies, regardless of him, there is nothing to do in the open air, this is a matter of morality, it is a custom to put lights on,

  35. Anonymous users2024-01-09

    Consume your oxygen and prevent bacteria from multiplying and surviving.

  36. Anonymous users2024-01-08

    Why put a lamp under the coffin of the dead. I think it's a lost light. When the man died, he put the man in a coffin.

    And then at the head of the coffin. Put a lamp. Belongs to Zeus, etc.

    Before a person is buried, this lamp must be found day and night. Someone must be buried. The coffin was carried away and the person was buried, so that the lamp could be taken.

    Withdraw. I think it should be like this. It's just a light.

    Either way. After the water dies, it is like this, and it is necessary to have this light and light. If it weren't for this decorative lamp, it might be.

    No family, relatives and friends, no one? No one gave him Zhao Shizeng's, if he had family and friends. There must be this lamp.

  37. Anonymous users2024-01-07

    My grandmother just passed away a few days ago, and our side of Fushun, Liaoning Province sent lamps the next day, burning cattle and horses, but now the environment is managed, and it is not allowed to burn, so relatives and friends come to incense, and then go to the restaurant to eat. But at night my father came home, when the lights were turned on, the lights were not on, after the funeral, I found that it was very coincidental that after the day of the lamp delivery, my uncle (my grandmother's eldest son), my uncle (my grandmother's youngest son), my father (my grandmother's second son), the lights at home were broken, and the lights in the house my grandmother rented were also broken. Then I went to the hospital, and I died the next day in the hospital, and I went to the round grave tomorrow, and the first seven have not yet arrived.

    So I can't find anything like that either. By the way, my aunt's house light is fine, I am just an aunt, and my grandmother lived in my aunt's house for a few months before moving into a rented house. From moving out to dying, it was only 2 or 3 days, which was too coincidental, and I felt that ** was wrong, but I couldn't say it.

    Particularly confused.

  38. Anonymous users2024-01-06

    It's just a coincidence. Don't overthink it.

    Do things in peace, don't make yourself nervous.

  39. Anonymous users2024-01-05

    My father-in-law was hospitalized, and the living room light at home was broken, and I bought the new lamp back, and before I had time to install it, my father-in-law passed away, and just after the burial, the bad light at home was on again.

  40. Anonymous users2024-01-04

    I can't explain it, I've encountered it a few times.

  41. Anonymous users2024-01-03

    The ancients believed that a person should return home for a visit within three days of death, so the children waited in the mourning hall until his soul returned. Relatives and friends are with them every night until the body is buried in the coffin. Until now, the wake is when relatives gather together to mourn the deceased and express their remembrance.

    There is a part of the vigil called the mortuary. Mortuary means that the coffin is not nailed, and the coffin lid is not tightly covered, leaving a gap equal to the length of the deceased's head.

    The reason for mortuaries is that because medical technology was not developed in ancient times, it is difficult to determine whether a person is really dead or fake. Many situations are likely to be suspended animation, ancient wars were frequent, there were excessive blood shocks, and some people were due to some diseases, such as decreased heartbeat and pulse rate, weak breathing that could not be felt, stiff hands and feet, etc. The mortuary is an opportunity for relatives to wait for the resurrection of the deceased.

    There is also a phenomenon in the morgue, that is, the relatives of the deceased will lower their heads, which is ostensibly a way to express sadness, and another reason is to observe whether there is something dripping out under the coffin, if the deceased is incontinent, it means that the deceased is still metabolizing, that is suspended animation; The other is that the blood dripping out, and the family members observe the color of the blood to determine whether the deceased is a fake death, which has its own set of standards.

    Some foreigners did not have a similar ritual until modern funerals. The avenue of the Chinese is invisible!

  42. Anonymous users2024-01-02

    Folk customs believe that after death, the soul will run around, but it may not be able to find home, and it needs to be guided by lighting. Therefore, the main task of the vigil is to watch the lamp, which cannot be blown out by the wind, and it is called the lantern, and it is to prevent cats, dogs or other animals from biting and damaging the body. The vigil is this function.

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