Chapter 2308 (2 more
people say, "If you know how to cry in mourning, you will cry until everyone is heartbroken. If you don't know how to cry in mourning, you will only hear the wailing.") Crying in mourning is also an art. If you know how to cry, you can make thousands of people mourn. If you can cry, you are crying in vain.
With the development of the times, due to the living environment and narrow houses of people in big cities, funerals cannot be held at home. People are sent to funeral parlors as soon as they pass away. Some even hold a farewell ceremony for relatives, and some even have a farewell ceremony. Forget about it and just cremate it directly.
Funerals in big cities have no sense of ceremony and do not reflect the sense of awe of life and death.
Most elderly people in rural areas do not like to go to cities, especially places where burials have always been done. If they do not have to When going to the city, the elderly will definitely not go to the big city. They pay attention to settling down in peace, and they also pay more attention to "ending their lives in the right place." The "
right place" in the end of life does not refer to the bedroom, but to the main room of the old-style house, that is, the main room.
There is a difference between the main room and the current living room. The living room in modern buildings can be on one side or on the central axis of the house. The main room must be on the central axis of a house and is the frontmost part, that is, on the central axis. The big room with the door open.
In the old tradition, when a person dies, the coffin must be placed in the main room. Depending on the direction of the house, the male is on the left and the female is on the right. The male coffin is on the left and the female coffin is on the right. If it is a house facing north and south , that is, male east and female west.
In the traditional consciousness of the elderly, if a person dies in his own home and can rest in the main room, it means he has passed away. Like in rural customs, people who die outside cannot be transported home to rest, so they are not called End of life.
Therefore, what the elderly in rural areas look forward to most is to die at home and be able to take care of their funeral affairs at home. If the elderly at home is seriously ill and may die, the family will transport the elderly home as soon as possible. There will be no rescue even if they know it
. The old people who want to be transported home to die, not only their own relatives will not say that their children are unfilial, but even others will not say anything. After all, the customs are there. Everyone wants to close their eyes at home, hoping to have descendants to mourn them at the end. Be like a lonely ghost who died outside.
It is a traditional custom to stop in the main hall, and it is also a traditional custom to hold a wake and mourn.
When an old man in the countryside passes away, if the children at home do not mourn, they will definitely be stabbed in the spine and cast aside. Even if they cannot cry, they will still have to wail for a while.
Therefore, when some elderly people are unkind and treat their children badly, and their children feel cold and cannot cry, they have no choice but to use chili water or cool oil or garlic paste on the eyes to stimulate the spring glands and make the eyes shed tears.
Of course, if an old man who was unkind and unethical, causing his children to be heartbroken, died, their children would not be able to cry, and the public would be sharp-eyed and would not criticize them harshly. After all, tradition says that fathers are kind and sons are filial, and parents are unkind. How can we make our children willing to be filial?
The Le family's aunt died young, and even her younger brother never saw her. Now that she can go home and stop, Yueqing and the Le family girls have the greatest respect for her. If no one in the Le family mourns, no one in the village will either. Poke in the spine.
However, everyone did not expect that the Lejia girl cried and cried truly.
When other people cry in mourning, some are real, some are fake, and only a few people feel sad from the heart. Not only do they cry heartbrokenly, but they also make onlookers feel the same.
The girl from the Le family burst into tears when she was mourning. She expressed her love and curses at the same time. Every word she said in her cry was so clear that people could hear her clearly.
She held the coffin there and wept bitterly. When she cried so deeply, everyone who heard it felt sad and shed tears and sighed sadly. When she cursed, the crowd was indignant. When she talked about the loss of her daughter, she was like a mother bird losing its young. She cried day and night. Her cry was like The cuckoo cries for blood, and the sound is tears. Grandma Zhou, Grandma Zhou Man, and other villagers of the older generation felt the most and also cried.
The women of the older generation were familiar with Chen Hongying, but now things have changed, their hearts are sad, and their tears are uncontrollable.
When some middle-aged women hear grief, they think of their parents or children, and are moved to tears.
Not to mention the elderly women in Plum Village, most of the men in Plum Village were also heartbroken. When Lehong Chen Hongying lost her daughter, she almost went crazy. She lost shape in just a few days, and they were shocked to see her.
Zhou Qiufeng cried while trying to persuade her elders, and Sister-in-law Zhao and others also tried to persuade them with tears in their eyes.
When the girl from the Le family cried and complained that her uncle's relatives came back to see her off, Chen Xin, Chen Jie and his wife threw themselves in front of the coffin and called "cousin". The late truth was revealed, and they cried out that they had lost contact with their relatives back home because they had gone to other places and were obstructed by villains. They did not know the pain their aunts, cousins, and cousins had suffered.
The Chen brothers don't know much about crying, but their daughters-in-law do. The girls from Xiangnan Province are very eloquent and can speak well. They are girls from ethnic minorities, and their funeral and wedding customs are similar to those in Jiudao.
Le Ya's uncle's relatives started to cry, and Zhou Qiufeng went over to persuade her. They cried while trying to persuade her, and then they all cried together about the misfortune of their cousin/sister, and scolded the villain for obstructing and harming others.
There was crying for a while, and the women of the Zhou family also went over to cry with her.
Others hurriedly persuaded them, seeing that the cries and lamentations over there had formed a resonance and could not stop for a while. Cheng Wu pushed his arms through his arms and beat the drums so densely that the sound was as loud as raindrops.
When the sound of the drum subsided, Zhang Laosan began to sing.
Zhang Laosan's first song was a lament for family affection in an elegant tone, telling that he was deeply nurturing by his parents. He originally wanted to grow up and succeed in order to repay his parents' kindness, but his luck was not in his favor, and he encountered villains at a young age, and his soul was destroyed. The mourning in a foreign land has left white hair and black hair from now on. The parents miss their children in their dreams, and the children miss their relatives together in the underworld. The parents cry heartbrokenly for their daughters, and the children shed tears for their parents.
Zhang Laosan sang in the local dialect, with rhyme and rhythm, which made the listeners cry and the listeners sad.
The singer sang, and Sister-in-law Zhao and others helped the old people such as Lejia girl and Grandma Zhou to sit aside, and brought wet towels to wipe their faces.
Leshan wiped her sister's tears with her little hands, and there were two tears in her eyes.
Zhang Laosan sang to an emotional point, and Grandma Zhou, Grandma Zhou Man, Aunt Pa, Grandma Zhang San and others burst into tears again, and sang one or two sentences together while crying.
Zhou Qiufeng, Zhou Wei, Sister-in-law Zhao and others tried to persuade the old man, but they cried again and again.
Grandpa Zhang San's first song made almost all the women present cry. Le Yun felt moved in her heart, hugged her brother and kowtowed three times, then kowtowed to the drummer and several masters, and to the masters. Kowtow and give a big salute to the singer sitting on the ground.
For four years, the Chen family saw their cousins kowtow to each other, and they followed their example, kowtowing to the teacher's team and the singers.
The Zhou brothers and sisters, Chen Xiaozhu and Chen Xiaohe also went to kowtow to express their gratitude.
Don’t blame others for being polite, especially when doing white things. No matter what the matter is, kowtow is the right thing to do. If you do something wrong and make the other party unhappy, kowtow a few times to ensure that the other party’s anger will disappear; if you want
to To express gratitude, there is no need to say more, just kowtow, people will understand.
Yue Yun, who was born and raised in Plum Village, understands the mystery, so she doesn’t say anything and just kowtows!
She kowtows willingly, without hesitation, hard and sincerely, and every time she kowtows, her forehead touches the ground.
No one inside or outside the hall was unmoved.
The Lejia girl has a noble status and is a wealthy person that ordinary people can't dream of. She still abides by the customs and rules of her hometown when she returns to her hometown. She kowtows without any ambiguity. If she kowtows truly, it is a real ringing of the head.
With her sincerity, who can sing without heart?
The singer was flattered, moved and politely helped the Le family siblings and a group of little cubs up one by one, telling them not to be polite.
The singer said there was no need to be polite, but Le Yun was not careless at all. She went around in a circle and kowtowed to everyone. She hugged her younger brother and led a group of followers to sit aside. When Grandpa Zhang San finished singing a song, he hugged his younger brother again. Go and kowtow.
Zhang Laosan sang the first song, followed by the second one, expressing her sorrow in the tone of Lejia's grandma. Although it was not as touching as Zhang Laosan's song, it was still sad to hear.
Le Yun hugged her younger brother and went to kowtow again. The Chen family has been meticulous for four years. When her cousin kowtowed, they kowtowed. The
people in the hall sang four songs. The village drum was suspended and a team of teachers played music and sang. People started singing.
No matter who sang, after every song, Le Yun would hold her brother and kowtow to thank her. Whenever someone offered incense to her aunt, she would express her gratitude.
Each singer sang a song. It was almost eleven o'clock. Village Chief Zhou set off a bunch of firecrackers and announced that the mourning was suspended. The person in charge of the hall carried dozens of large woven bags from the warehouse and distributed them to the people sitting with him. snack.
Little kids are willing to wait just for snacks.
The host gave out snacks, and the children were the happiest. They all found a place to sit and prepared bags with snacks. They were truly prepared.
Classmate Le invited the handsome man Lan San to go shopping in the county town, and the amount of snacks collected was considerable. She originally expected that if the food was not finished in the evening, she would pack the rest and give a snack to each family of those who helped with the work.
Because of sufficient preparation, even if there are nearly a thousand people, each snack is enough to share. Some snacks with slightly smaller portions are distributed in smaller quantities per person. For example, a kind of wife cake, if there are few people, one person can share two snacks. Or three, if there are many people, change it to one per person.
Children’s favorite chili strips, hot dogs, and Lux bars are all available.
When the children got their favorite spicy strips, eight out of ten immediately tore off the seal and gnawed on one. The ones that were so spicy they still couldn't put it down and ate them with gusto.
Lan San, the handyman, was like a brick, moving it wherever needed. He also helped distribute snacks. He didn't understand why he had to purchase so many snacks at first, until after the meal, the men, women and children who had not come to Lejia for dinner also came. At a glance They were all covered in black heads, and I had to sigh with emotion at the foresight of the little Loli.
Also because Lan San and Mr. Li cleared out the ready-to-eat snack stocks in two supermarkets, and also swept out the stocks of several store assistants. The amount of snacks was staggering, and it only took two hours to get the snacks.
There were many types and quantities of snacks. Everyone got a big bag of food, including four bottles/box of bottled milk and small bottled milk, two cans of eight-treasure porridge, four packs of instant noodles, bags of plums, and instant snacks. Dried fish, etc., as well as hot dogs, the bags are heavy on your hands.
After the snacks were distributed, the children who came to play at Lejia lost their excitement and were tired of people, so they went home in groups.
Most of the parents of children are on the same side as their children. When the cubs go home, the adults will naturally go home too.
As a result, waves of men, women, old and young, each holding a snack bag, left Lejia one after another, and the crowd dispersed like a tide.
Villagers from several neighboring villages further away also left in groups.
Before they went home, they sent a representative to talk to Village Chief Zhou, saying that they would have to come later to take Leya up the mountain tomorrow, or that they might not be able to come to take Leya out tomorrow because of something else.
This means that if you don’t come to Lejia for breakfast tomorrow/or you won’t come tomorrow, don’t include them, otherwise the kitchen staff will include them when making the budget and cook many extra tables of breakfast/lunch, that is, Tiring people also costs food.
Village Chief Zhou wrote down the villages one by one that specifically said they would not come to Lejia for dinner tomorrow morning.
Representatives from the township hospital and school also said goodbye to Village Chief Zhou when the villagers had dispersed. They also specifically said that due to work reasons, they probably would not be able to send Leya up the mountain tomorrow, and they expressed their deep apologies.
Village Chief Zhou thanked him and made a memo.
As the villagers dispersed, only a few people stayed at Le's house to stay up late. Tables were set up in the kitchen for midnight dinner. When the diners sat down, there were a total of twenty-eight tables. Some of them had to sell livestock and were waiting for Liu. Lu and others went to their house to kill pigs and also stayed to eat.
The women who had eaten dinner at midnight helped clear the tables. Some young and middle-aged people from several families knew that Brother Zhou, Liu Lu, and others were going to kill pigs and buy chickens and geese. Those with cars drove or followed them to help.
Village Chief Zhou noted down the names of people who were willing to help. People who are willing to help are kind-hearted people, and the owner cannot neglect them. They have to give a thank-you gift after finishing the work.
The people who went shopping on a starry night set off. The women washed the dishes and sorted out the uneaten dishes. After their work was done, some people went home to relax for a while, and some stayed to accompany Le family members to watch the funeral.
Generally speaking, teachers don't stay up late, but the teachers who came to Lejia didn't even go to rest, but stayed with their masters all night.
There were many singers accompanying the host's family at the vigil, and they sat at five tables. After eating and resting for nearly an hour, Cheng Wu beat the drum, and the singers started the night of singing filial songs.
They will be contracted for the second half of the night, which means they will sing songs in the middle of the night to prevent the mourning hall from being left alone.
Leshan was still growing, so it was not advisable to stay up late. Leyun touched her younger brother's sleeping point, hugged him, and took her cousins to kowtow to the singers. Then she handed her younger brother to Mr. Yi and sent him to the south. Sleeping on the third floor.
The four little brothers of the Chen family, including Chen Xiaozhu, Chen Xiaohe, Zhou Tianhong, Zhou Tianlan, and Cao Qingyue, also refused to go to bed and followed them the whole time.
Cao Bingyue was still a child, and Le Yun also clicked on her sleeping point, and Cao Qingyue sent her to sleep at Grandma Zhou's house. Grandma Cao, Grandma Zhang San and other elderly people were all staying at Le's house to stay up all night.
Naturally, Mr. Yi and Mr. Yan didn't go to bed. They were chatting with their masters in the main room of the North Tower of Lejia.
Le Yun went to the temporary large kitchen in the backyard and the kitchen in the south building and took a look. She took tools and dismantled the window of the refrigerator room in the north building facing the backyard. She climbed into the refrigerator room through the window and moved 30 boxes of ingredients to the kitchen in the south building for later use.
She was moving things. Zhou Qiufeng and her cousins were packing some things in the warehouse. Le's father and cousins were guarding the mourning hall. When a singer sang a song, the three of them went to kowtow to express their gratitude.
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