A funeral procession in Guizhou carried the coffin down the mountain, because the road was frozen and it slipped all the way down the hillside. What are the taboos for carrying coffins in rural areas?

It is inevitable that people live, live, die and die. The birth of life begins with the crying of babies, and the passage of life is finally drowned at the moment when they stop breathing. The state encourages cremation in places where conditions permit, but does not enforce it. Up to now, many places still retain the old tradition of burying the dead, so most of them adopt the method of burial, because burial can completely preserve the remains of the dead and is considered by the older generation as a kind of respect for the dead.

In rural areas, there are many customs and taboos, which may not have a good scientific basis, but these customs and taboos have been handed down. There is also a saying about carrying coffins.

1. The person carrying the coffin can't be the immediate family members of the deceased, because the immediate family members have to help the spirits by the coffin or lead the way in front of the coffin for mourning activities. In some special rural areas, the immediate family members need to kneel down after passing a certain number of steps on the way to carry the coffin, and repeat this action repeatedly until they reach the cemetery.

People who carry coffins can't hedge with the dead. In ancient China, it was generally calculated for fortune tellers or geomancers to pay attention to whether birthdays coincided or collided. According to the date and time of birth of the coffin bearer and the date and time of birth of the deceased, it is calculated whether there is a collision between their eight characters, thus determining whether this person can carry the coffin. However, it is very difficult to implement this idea in rural areas, and rural people do not pay much attention to it.

The person who carries the coffin must be married. It is said that the unmarried male sun is easy to suppress the yin of the dead. So the person carrying the coffin must be married.

On the way to lift the coffin, the coffin can't land.

This has certain requirements for the physical strength of the coffin bearer. The weight of the coffin, plus the body of the deceased, cannot be ignored. If there are rough roads, the requirements for physical strength will be even greater. Therefore, there are two solutions to this problem. One is to prepare two groups of coffin bearers in advance and take turns to carry them. The second is to prepare two long stools. When the physical strength is exhausted, the coffin will temporarily rest on two benches. Perhaps cremation will gradually replace burial in the future due to policy or environmental factors, but burial is still practiced in some rural areas.