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Chapter 118 Ceremony

Wang Anan and his younger sister made origami. During this period, the younger sister's boyfriend also came down from upstairs to help burn the paper.

In the evening, the coffin dropping ceremony was held on time, which was probably required by time, but Wang An'an didn't know much about it.

At about nine o'clock, the coffin was coming, and I don't know if it was delivered by the funeral director or directly from the store where I bought it.

The grown-ups never explain these things to the younger generation, they always say that you are still young, don't care about these things.

The woman who presided over the affairs began to light a large handful of incense sticks, one for everyone, but women who are menstruating are not allowed to take it.

I don't know the reason, but there are many folk theories. Some say that women's bodies are very yin at this time, and some say that girls are weak during special periods and are not suitable to appear on such occasions.

Wang Anan took an incense stick from the mother-in-law, and followed the crowd to the road to meet the coffin. The coffin-bearers were carrying the coffin, and another person was holding an empty urn.

The presiding general affairs held incense in his hand and shouted, "Here comes the coffin, money comes, people come, see officials and get rich (see coffin and get rich)."

When everyone in the crowd saw the coffin, they took the incense and walked slowly back to the little uncle's house. The coffin followed and stopped at the door of the house.

The mother-in-law in charge quickly called the little aunt over, "This one wants the daughter-in-law to shout twice at the door! Just like before, shout twice more!"

So the little aunt, dressed in linen and filial piety and holding incense, stood at the door and shouted: "Here comes the coffin, money comes!..." She greeted the coffin like this until it was placed in the hall.

At this time, the mother-in-law took back people's incense one by one again, pinching them tightly together to avoid burning too fast.

The coffin is placed in the lobby, which is the prelude to the coffin-dropping ceremony. Of course, coffin-dropping ceremonies may vary across the country.

Some will call a team that specializes in funeral ceremonies and hold a small memorial service, while others will not.

Obviously, this is a typical example. Although there is no professional team, the ceremony in Wang Anan's hometown is not simple.

After the coffin and the deceased were placed side by side, the general affairs officer began to tell some simple life stories about the little grandmother, and the close relatives would cry silently when they heard some touching words.

The moment the nephew and nephew put the corpse into the coffin, for some reason, it was just a very simple operation, but it made Wang An'an's eyes blush. The momentary feeling was quite subtle.

The little grandma is not young anymore, and it can be regarded as a happy funeral, but there are some things that I know and the feeling of telling it from others is very different.

Then, put yellow paper, the clothes of the deceased in the coffin, and cover with a quilt.

Just like that, there was still a lot of space inside the coffin. I thought it would be empty, but in the end, there were still a lot of quilts in the plastic bag placed on the side of the chair.

It turned out that these quilts were bought by the grandma's nephews for funerals.

The general manager stuffed these quilts into the coffin and shouted, "One quilt for son Pan Dazhu, one quilt for nephew Pan Suichang, one quilt for niece Pan Guiyue..."

There are not only three quilts. After all, there are four nieces. Since Wang Anan's mother, Ms. Pan, belongs to the niece category, Pan's mother also bought a quilt.

After putting this thick stack of quilts in, the next step is to build the coffin.

I have to say that closing the coffin is also a sad operation.

Closing the coffin means that they will never see each other again, so there are still sobbing sounds around Wang Anan.

After the coffin was built, it had to be sealed. In fact, a long time ago, Wang Anan vaguely remembered the use of nails, but now the way of life has changed a lot, and these rituals have been simplified a lot.

The extra-wide transparent glue is used to seal the coffin three times horizontally, and the joints are sealed three times, not much.

These are jointly operated by the middle-aged men in the village commanded by the general affairs.

After doing all this, the coffin dropping ceremony is coming to an end, and the last step of worship is short of it.

After setting up the table again, the old lady took the handful of unburned incense and distributed it out one by one, kneeling down to offer the incense.

The coffin dropping ceremony is over.

This is a very complicated ceremony, and the inner meaning may not be able to be studied, but these forms have survived.

Wang Anan really wanted to take a camera and preserve these ancient rituals in the countryside in the form of photos.

But if I really took a picture here with a camera, Ms. Pan might chase me with a poker and beat me up.

After finishing these things, the women who were busy at my uncle's house invited everyone to have some supper together.

There are two steamers full of steamed buns and one steamer of green dumplings, steaming hot just out of the pan.

I heard from Pan's mother that these steamed buns were made by the women together, while the green dumplings were brought by different families.

The main reason is that Pan's mother also brought dozens of them, so she told Wang An'an.

"Sister, do you want instant noodles?" At this moment, my sister came over and whispered in Wang Anan's ear.

"Isn't there something to eat?" Wang Anan was a little puzzled.

"Isn't that instant noodles more delicious~ I only have three boxes of instant noodles left, one for you and one for me. Just now I saw brother Yuanyuan also came, so I will reward him with a box." The younger sister directly ignored her boyfriend... …

"Didn't your boyfriend also eat?"

"I told him to go to bed, don't eat before going to bed." Then he ran to the kitchen, rummaged through several cabinets, and took out three boxes of instant noodles.

Wang Anan took the kettle and started to boil water.

After a while, Wang Anan, his brother and sister sat at the round table and started eating instant noodles.

Instant noodles smell delicious, but they don't have much taste after eating.

But it was really late at this point, and everyone was hungry, and the three of them chattered one after another.

"Ha~"

Wang An'an finished his instant noodles and drank two mouthfuls of soup.

After that, the three of them sat there and continued to fold ingots, and chatted for a while.

After chatting, I found out that Yuanyuan's younger brother is now a freshman in Ningbo, Zhejiang, but it's not too close, more than three hours.

At this time, Pan's mother called Wang An'an outside.

"An'an, go back."

"Ah? Oh, here I come~"

I thought I was going to stay overnight with my sister, but since Pan's mother told me to go back, it meant that there was no need to stay overnight tonight.

In Pan's mother's words, "Just come early tomorrow."

But the next morning was very early, and I had to be sent to the crematorium for cremation.

Now, there is a queue everywhere, even the cremation of corpses.

So Wang Anan went home and washed up and lay down directly, "Sign in at 996, it's not 12 o'clock yet, is it?"

996: "Reply to the host, there are still 24 minutes before 2:[-].

Sign in successfully, experience +3, congratulations to the host for getting the health pill x3. "

"That's really a card check-in. Can this health-enhancing pill prevent you from getting sick? How to use it? Do you eat it directly?"

996: "Healthy pills can only make people who take them stronger on the basis of their own bodies, and cannot prevent illness. But generally speaking, people with strong bodies have better immunity, so just take it directly"

"That's great too! I have to figure out how to feed them tomorrow..."

After thinking about it, he fell asleep.

As a result, the next morning, Wang Anan didn't go to the crematorium at all.

The reason Pan's mother gave was, "There is no need for so many people to go to the crematorium. A few people in the family are enough. Why do children join in the fun?"