It is said that Confucius was very sad when he learned of his mother's death and immediately fell into a coma. After waking up, I grabbed a piece of linen as a headscarf, a white coat as a dress and a hemp rope tied with bamboo slips as a belt. After returning home, Confucius was so sad and weak that everyone handed him a willow as a crutch.

People are surprised to see Confucius' clothes. At this time, an old man explained that Confucius wore linen Dai Xiao to show his pure filial piety to his mother. The willow in his hand is a sad stick, indicating that he has no support after his parents died. As a result, people followed Kong's example, wearing linen, wearing a head and holding a funeral stick at their mother's funeral.

Pima Dai Xiao system

Pima Dai Xiao relates to the mourning system in the traditional culture of China. During the Three Kingdoms, the Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the five-clothing system was established for the first time, and five different mourning clothes were stipulated according to the distance between relatives and friends. The mourning system can be divided into three categories, namely, withering, Cui Zi, Dagong, Hong Xiao and refusing horses. The length of the mourning period, the thickness of the mourning clothes and the production are all 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.