Manchu fortune telling _ Manchu divination

Prepare materials

Prepare materials. When the old man is in his fifties, his children go up the mountain to chop wood for him, usually pine nuts (Korean pine). Please ask the carpenter to prepare two Tatar purses (coffins), commonly known as "flag materials". Most cities don't prepare materials. Go directly to the coffin shop to buy it after death.

Funeral and burial ceremony

Funeral ceremony, early Manchu paid attention to funeral. When the dead at home are dying, it is easier to change clothes, commonly known as "wearing a shroud." The coffin bed is placed in front of Nankang, with its head facing west and feet facing east. At the time of dying, the whole family is not allowed to cry, waiting quietly for the old man to die quietly. After death, cover your face with white cloth (paper) and tie your feet with white thread. This is called a trip wire (opened when buried), and it also allows the deceased to hold two coins in both hands, indicating that there is money to spend after death. It is also necessary to trample a rooster to death by hand and put it in front of the head of the deceased, which is called "inverted chicken". At this time, everyone began to cry, crying soundly. The content of crying is all the advantages and benefits of the deceased before his death. This is called "crying nine times". Manchu elders died, and their children wore white mourning shirts. Filial piety shirts are usually taken off after seven days, put on and burn paper in front of the grave after a hundred days, and then take off.

Hanging cloth strip

Hanging cloth banners, when the old man died, he first set up a seven-meter-long wooden pole in the southwest of the yard, and hung a big red cloth banner on the top of the wooden pole, commonly known as the "evocation banner". Once the cloth was hung, relatives and friends would come in an endless stream. After kowtowing before the spirit, men left and women right, respectively, until the night. Close relatives and friends will also take turns to "vigil" in front of the coffin. People who "watch" can't sleep, so they gather around the fire to keep warm when it's cold. When you are bereaved, you should prepare wine and food for the night watchman.

Knock sb.

The funeral was held on an auspicious day. Put the coffin under the south window, paste paper in the coffin, and then spread the screened soil on the bottom floor, with a layer of yellow paper and seven copper coins on it. This is called "carrying money". When the body is carried out of the house, it is not allowed to die in the sun, nor is it allowed to carry the dead out of the house, because the door was left by the living and the dead are forbidden to pass. So at the entrance, build a shed with a cover. The body is carried out from the window, the eldest son raises his head, and the other sons put their feet in the coffin. This is called a funeral.

Put the coffin in a place temporarily before burial or cremation.

Stop, stop according to the family's economic situation. Stop breathing when people die, from 17, 37, 57, 77. In well-off families, the death of elders can last for 7749 days, and funerals can be held at any time after the death of difficult families. In recent years, people usually stop for three days, divided into primary and primary. Even if three hands die at night and three hands die at night, the funeral and burial are carried out at the same time. When the spirit stops, the "dutiful son" cannot leave the spirit shed and wake up day and night.

Funeral and burial

Funeral, Manchu funeral must choose a single day, saying that double-day mourning means the death of two people, which is unlucky. Early that morning, people were sent to their ancestral graves to "dig wells". People with other surnames first took out the shovel and put it aside for burial. Then we all dug down together, and stopped digging when we dug to a depth of two feet and eight inches. Coffins are called "funerals". At the beginning of the funeral, the cloth coffin should be taken down from the wooden pole first, and the dutiful son or grandson walks in front of the coffin with the cloth coffin as the guide. After waking up, I smashed the basin, blew the horn, and red cloth banners led the way, followed by various paper objects (paper men, paper horses, etc. ), throwing paper money while walking. When you arrive at the cemetery, first place two short logs horizontally on the ground and put down the pivot on the short logs. After that, everyone began to snatch and tear the cloth. Because there were so many people, everyone should get a piece as a gift, so it was torn to pieces. Hunting dogs and bows and arrows preserved before death should also be incinerated in the fire, and the ashes should be buried at the front foot of the spirit body.