Why is China's funeral commemorated with "7"?

In recent years, although people's material life has improved to a certain extent, some incredible phenomena have appeared in the changes of social customs in both urban and rural areas-some extinct old customs, habits and traditions have come back one after another, and some activities with feudal superstition are prevalent, especially weddings and funerals. Weddings and funerals are a big deal, with invitations and funerals. The business between Mr. Feng Shui and fortune tellers is booming. When someone dies at home, they also hold banquets, invite Taoist priests to practice, invite trumpeters to brag, and invite the mourners to cry and sing lamentations. Some families "keep pace with the times", that is, they held a very grand farewell ceremony with the breath of modern life, and then turned to the old custom to hold a funeral, which lasted for a week; Young people who get married ask for a bride price of 10 thousand or 20 thousand from the moment they get engaged, and they also come up with a heavy dowry when they get married. They want the elderly to buy high-end furniture and luxury houses, and they threaten not to get married too late now, and they don't keep their word. Wedding banquets, banquets for relatives and friends, even for half a month. Some people say that it is impossible to get married now, and even the dead can't afford to die. Not only the parties have this kind of sigh, but also relatives and friends. Everyone should give gifts when doing things. "Human feelings" have become a heavy economic burden for many families. Some families earn as much as 4000-5000 yuan a year, accounting for half of the salary. People call "wedding invitations" red tickets. Throughout, there are three kinds of people who do great things. One is to "concentrate on making money", that is, to generate income. Most of these people are politicians and powerful people, who use weddings and funerals as a means to make money and use their deterrence to make money. Did you find that some cadres' parents died young, and now they recognize michel platini's godmother, and after michel platini's godmother died, they gave michel platini's godmother a big funeral. The second category is the echo category. It is a "cost recovery type". Psychologically, these people don't like to do big things, but they are afraid of being planted when they see other people's weddings and funerals. They also pay attention to many members and pay a certain fee. They can't lose money, so they take this opportunity to post to those who have followed the members or will follow them to recover the cost, so they are also doing great things. The third category, for the swollen face to fill the fat class. Most of them are ordinary people. They have no conditions to do it themselves, and they know that it will cost money and lose money. But others made a mountain out of a molehill for fear of being laughed at and looked down upon for not doing it, and finally lost some money and admitted that they had a stomachache. The formation of this unhealthy trend has its social background, that is, (1) social material wealth has increased, and economic development has made some families have an economic foundation; (2) The development of catering industry provides convenience for service providers; (3) Some cadres in society take the lead in organizing weddings, funerals and weddings, and the masses follow the shadow of cadres, instead of being ashamed, they are proud, and the social moral evaluation is unbalanced; (4) Comparison prevails. This kind of atmosphere runs counter to the socialist moral fashion we have established, and everyone deeply feels and suffers from it. Weddings and funerals are the legacy of feudalism and decadence. This old feudal habit will not automatically withdraw from the historical stage, but it will hinder the development of social productive forces and the construction of socialist spiritual civilization. It often forms an invisible force, which binds and controls people's thoughts and behaviors under the cloak of old rules, customs and human feelings, like a magic net covering our heads. We advocate doing everything diligently. Diligence is the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation, and China people have always held the view that "frugality is the cause of success and extravagance is the cause of failure". Diligence and thrift require people to arrange their expenses reasonably, be simple and frugal, cherish their wealth, cherish their own labor achievements, and at the same time cherish the labor achievements of others and oppose extravagance and waste. Economy is the lifeblood of the family, and frugality is directly related to the happiness of the family. Diligence is not only the economic law of a family, but also the moral code to maintain family development and deal with family relations, which plays an important role in promoting the progress and continuous prosperity of socialist civilization. We should vigorously advocate frugal weddings and funerals, make new weddings and funerals simple, vigorously carry forward the new trend of socialist civilization, strive to popularize scientific and cultural knowledge, raise the awareness of cadres and the masses on the dangers of weddings and funerals, and replace the old customs with healthy and civilized new styles. To handle weddings and funerals diligently, we should educate and guide the broad masses of cadres and people to advocate the concept of civilized consumption, never blindly compare with others, pursue high consumption in weddings and funerals, and gradually guide people to increase the proportion of spiritual consumption, such as traveling to get married, buying books, planting memorial forests for newlyweds and so on. Weddings and funerals should be simple, guided by education and consciously acted by the masses; On the other hand, we should give full play to the strength of all walks of life. First, the leading cadres and party member, who were elected by * * * *, should take the lead in handling weddings and funerals diligently, consciously resist weddings and funerals, and consciously persuade relatives and friends not to make a fuss, and never participate in or support those who make a fuss. Cadres at all levels should educate the masses to put their limited manpower, material resources and financial resources into meaningful activities. Those who arrange weddings and funerals should give spiritual gifts, moral gifts and not material gifts. We should give full play to the role of the Red and White Council. The Red and White Council should strive to improve the organization, improve the rules and regulations, and make mandatory provisions on the scope of entertaining relatives and friends and the scale of setting tables and seats, so that there is no room for activities in red and white affairs. Mourning, chanting, doing Dojo, attracting souls, hiring boys and girls and other activities with feudal superstition should be stopped. We should gradually promote the civilized way of handling weddings and funerals. For example, funerals, funerals are replaced by body farewell, and sorrows and sorrows are not blown.