In our local area, we put the coffin on a special wooden frame. There are iron rings at the four corners of the frame, and two people carry a barbell on each corner, just like two people carry things at ordinary times. There is an iron hook in the middle of the barbell, which is hooked on the iron ring at the corner of the wooden frame. There are 8 people in each class, and no stopovers are allowed. When the coffin bearer is tired, he will change shifts.
We have been carried by 16 people since ancient times, and we have never heard of or seen eight people carrying them. Now people don't have to carry it. There are special vehicles to pull. Even if it is buried, the coffin is put directly into the grave by car.
16 people are wrangling, leaving only one leader and one substitute. A * * * is eighteen people. Find someone to fight, and everyone has to take their dutiful son. If anyone doesn't go, something will happen to his family in the future. If you really can't go, find someone yourself, even if you spend money to find someone! In addition, beggars can eat five meals at the victim's house, bury people and carry them out the day before, eat one at noon, eat one at night and get up early the next day. After dinner, he was divided into two classes. Eight people went to dig graves in the fields, and the other half helped at home. After digging the hole, put the shovel head up on the soil around the shovel hole, and then there will be a person watching the grave. This person is not in the system. These people went back to the victim's house for their fourth meal, and then woke up in the afternoon. The buried people came back to listen to the gunshots of the victim's house and went there for dinner as soon as the gunshots rang. The last meal was meat, and the dutiful son kowtowed to every table. These two days, the victim gave everyone four packs of cigarettes, but it was really tiring to wrangle. I carried the coffin several times, and the people in that corner were in pain. Although there are four people in a corner, they are biased towards that one, which has something to do with size. Fortunately, it is a hearse now, which saves a lot of effort. It's true that when I was 20 years old, I was crushed to walk three miles. ! !
In Yunnan, it is usually carried by eight people. Traveling 16 people are two classes. In the past, people gave 1.6 yuan money called sandals money, but now I don't know.
8 to 16 people.
Everyone has to go through birth and death. With the introduction of many regulations in the city, there are fewer and fewer traditional funeral forms in the city. On the contrary, many traditional things, especially funeral things, have been preserved in rural areas, that is, those who have changed the least and used the most traditions have not changed much since history, most of them have been handed down from Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and a few have been changed by later generations.
There are many links in the funeral, and each link is very complicated. Young people nowadays actually don't know much. Basically, middle-aged and elderly people know those procedures and rules. Young people rarely come into contact with this, especially now that young people have gone out to work, and they don't know about the death of an old man in the village, let alone go home. Only their closest relatives will come back.
Those who stay are middle-aged and elderly people. I wonder how many people know these traditional things after these middle-aged and elderly people disappear. Carrying the coffin out of the house is also called a funeral, which is a very grand link. A normal funeral is actually graded. In ancient times, the hierarchy was very strict. Most ordinary people can only enjoy four strokes and eight lifts, which means they are safe and sound. Usually, they are divided into two groups with eight people in each group.
This is a relatively normal coffin carrying, but many times due to some natural environment reasons, after all, burial is always in a place with good feng shui, but not all places are easy to walk, sometimes even on the top of the mountain or halfway up the mountain, the road is steep and rugged, and it is difficult to walk, let alone carry coffins. This situation will be given special treatment, which can increase the main elevator and increase the number of people.
What is a side lift? In fact, some people share the burden of carrying coffins on some difficult sections. When encountering difficult sections, they can even change from 8 people to 16 people or even 24 people. The number of people carrying coffins must not be odd, but even, just like wearing a shroud. Pants and clothes must add up to an even number, and coffin bearers are not allowed to be odd numbers, but even numbers.
The person who carries the coffin must marry an adult male with offspring, and unmarried people without offspring cannot carry it. Of course, some places may not have this rule, and unmarried people without offspring cannot carry coffins. Usually, the team carrying coffins is even. In addition to two groups of coffin bearers, there are four people carrying wooden stools and two people carrying a stool to put the coffin on the way. The coffin can't touch the ground until it reaches its destination.
Another rule of the coffin bearer is that birthdates' genus meets the requirements, and he can't compare with the dead. This is usually read by Mr. Feng Shui, and is arranged by someone who is in charge of the elderly. Four strokes and eight lifts are the most common lifting methods. Too few coffins are too heavy to lift, and too many dead people can't stand it. It is most appropriate to be on the safe side. Of course, there are also some places that adopt the method of eight poles and sixteen people. Only one. That is, the number of people is even before and after, generally 8 people or 16 people, and 24 people with special status. The ancient royal family was different, with 3672 people. Four ordinary people, eight people 16 people are normal.
In the countryside of Xiangtan County, there are generally 16 people in the Shuanglong sedan chair, and 32 people are invited by the rich. At least 200 yuan is alone.
This coffin carriage is different from place to place, all kinds. I may have brought it twenty times. During that time, I also saw it all white when I was a child. All white means that all mountains have filial piety. Moreover, I carried the coffin and shouted songs all the way, and I could hear from a distance whether the deceased was a man or a woman. This is not much to say. I took part in carrying coffins, divided into four people, eight people and sixteen people. In the past, eight old people usually carried coffins, with ropes tied in front of the coffins and ropes tied behind the coffins. There are four people in front, one in the back and one in the back, which adds up to eight people. In mountainous areas, it is usually clamped with clips, just like bags in the past. There are two big logs with coffins, and the rope is about 30 meters long. Tie the coffin. If you know how to tie a rope, you can tie it into a word, Shouzi. This kind of clip is usually carried by sixteen people, the first eight and the last eight. Many people pull ropes up the mountain. Because the slope is steep, it is difficult to climb it empty-handed. That's how my grandmother was carried up the mountain when she died. There is a kind of dragon shoulder. There should be a dragon shoulder with a head and a tail in the early afternoon, but there are many components, all made by blacksmiths. This kind of dragon shoulder is generally more practical in small hills. The first eight people, the last eight people, there is a dial spirit, said seventeen people. The width of this coffin-carrying road can be spread out, and the narrow road can be completed in one sentence. I only recited this kind of dragon after the reform, and I recited it three times, all of which were used by people in their eighties. Four people carry the coffin. Generally, the deceased are relatively young, but they are particularly old, regardless of age.
The custom of burying coffins in rural areas (we call it carrying coffins there) is different.
Where do we carry the coffin from home, put it on the coffin cover shelf, and wait until the ceremony is over, then press the shelf (hijab) on the coffin cover, with four people at each corner and sixteen people carrying the coffin, all the way to the cemetery. If anyone needs a rest, talk while walking.
In the sixties, eight people carried the coffin, but later people changed it to sixteen people.