"I want to place the professor in accordance with the funeral customs of our Miao people." The leader said: "You can also be considered his friends. The professor has no children. I hope you can see him off together."
Tang Sancheng and Bai Yi looked at each other. The two of them were old enough to be Professor He's grandfather. The leader actually asked them to be "filial sons and dutiful daughters"? They both complained secretly. Tang Sancheng gave Bai Yi an elbow.
He asked in a low voice: "What should I do? Agree or not?"
"We will definitely give Professor He a ride." Bai Yi agreed.
"Well, I'll ask people to prepare the coffin and the filial piety hall, and ask you two to help me." The leader then asked, "I wonder what your names are?"
"My name is Tang Sancheng, and this is..." Tang Sancheng spoke quickly, and the answer came out immediately. Bai Yi interrupted Tang Sancheng: "My surname is Liu, Liu Feng." He lied, Bai Yi lied again,
Tang Sancheng looked at him doubtfully, and Bai Yi asked calmly: "I wonder what the leader's name is?"
"My name is Fu Wu." Fu Wu said: "We Miao people divide death into two categories: normal death and abnormal death. When the life is over, a young and middle-aged good person is called a normal death and is buried in a wooden coffin; a violent death is a birth death.
, death due to leprosy, death by drowning, death by hanging, etc. are called abnormal deaths, and are cremated or cremated before being buried. In areas with family cemeteries, only those who died normally can enter the public cemetery, and those who died abnormally cannot enter the family cemetery.
Cemetery interment.”
"Then what is Professor He called this?" Tang Sancheng asked.
"The professor died without illness or pain. Of course he died normally. Just like my aunt, he will be buried in a wooden coffin." Fu Wu said: "You two, please come to my house to discuss the details of the funeral. Let's go.
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Fu Wu's home is the first one on the mountainside. Compared with Fu Min's stilted building, it is slightly smaller. Fu Min's stilted building is larger than the leader's, which shows the important status of the coffin keeper in the Miao village.
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As soon as he entered the door, Tang Sancheng saw a little girl squatting on the ground, burying something. When he saw someone coming, he stood up alertly: "Abba, you are back."
"Xiaoying, there are guests, you go out and play by yourself."
The girl named Xiaoying is very handsome, but she is about thirteen years old. She is already very graceful and has a look of fuyu between her eyebrows. Bai Yi glanced at the place where Xiaoying was squatting just now and felt a thump in his heart. Xiaoying just now
What was buried should be a jar for raising gu! He had seen the same jar buried by Fu Yu before. There were pictures of insects, spiders, centipedes and the like on the jar. The first time Bai Yi saw it, he felt creepy because
The decorations on it look like they are alive, and when you touch them, you feel like you are touching a living thing.
In this way, this little girl named Xiaoying is the current Gu Girl. Sure enough, Gu girls are passed down from generation to generation. First it was Fu Min, then Fu Yu, and now it is the turn of this girl named Xiaoying. That little girl
Ying was very lively: "Abba, then I'm going to go play with my brother!"
Brother! Bai Yi's heart moved: "Chief, do you have a son and a daughter?"
"Yes, there is also a son who is naughty and has gone to who knows where." Fu Wu told Xiaoying: "Xiaoying, go and find your brother."
"Oh." The little girl agreed and ran outside without forgetting to turn around and smile playfully. This innocence made Tang Sancheng laugh out loud: "What a spirited little girl."