What does Dai Xiao mean?

Dai Xiao is a folk funeral custom: when an old man dies, his descendants wear hemp Dai Xiao.

Dai Xiao, pronounced as dài xiào, should wear a linen straw hat in Dai Xiao; Filial piety (including daughter-in-law) covers coarse cloth; Other relatives are all wrapped in white cloth (some clothes are covered with black gauze).

Example:? We talked about his inner revolution before, when he was still mourning his father Dai Xiao.

Extended data

The Three Kingdoms, the Jin Dynasty, the Southern and Northern Dynasties established the five-clothing system for the first time.

According to the difference of blood relationship, five different mourning clothes are stipulated, and the service system can be divided into three categories, namely, cutting down, Cui Zi, Dagong, Hong Xiao, and retting. The length of mourning period, the thickness of mourning clothes and the production are different.

According to the regulations, the closer the blood relationship, the heavier the service; The thinner the blood relationship, the lighter the service. At funerals, people in China avoid wearing gorgeous clothes, and their families will wear filial piety, which is called filial piety. The colors of mourning are white, black, blue and green.

The son, daughter-in-law and daughter have the closest relationship, so they should wear cotton white underwear. Dai Xiao wore a mourning dress at the top of his sleeve. If the deceased is male, wear it on the left sleeve, and the female wears it on the right sleeve.