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Family members thus take shifts to watch over a relative on their deathbed. [12] It is common to place a white banner over the door of the household to signify that a death has occurred. Families will usually gather to carry out funeral rituals, in order both to show respect for the dead and to strengthen the bonds of the kin group.
The firstborn son of each family (in a form of primogeniture) inherits the original jokbo (as opposed to the copies) and continues the genealogy and family line. It was often used in pre-modern (i.e., post-Joseon period) Korea as proof of being of the yangban class, since family names were conferred only to the aristocratic class until late ...
Traditionally, a family will burn spirit money (joss paper) and paper replicas of material goods such as cars, homes, phones, and paper servants. This action usually happens during the Qingming festival. [20] In Chinese culture, it is believed that people still need all of those things in the afterlife.
A more dangerous practice -- which Chinese authorities are trying to end, involves burning fake money and incense. Two forest rangers died in a large blaze initially started by these rituals.
Joss paper burning is usually the last performed act in Chinese deity or ancestor worship ceremonies. The papers may also be folded and stacked into elaborate pagodas or lotuses . In Taoist rituals, the practice of offering joss paper to deities or ancestors is an essential part of the worship.
Tikki Tikki Tembo is set in ancient China and invents a fictitious ancient Chinese custom whereby parents honor their first-born sons with long, elaborate names that everyone is obliged to say completely – no nicknames, no shortening of any kind – while second-born sons are typically given short, unimportant names.
Family members expect to be addressed by the correct term that indicated their relationship to the person communicating with them. [6] Whenever wills clashed, it was expected, and even legally enforced, [4] that the will of the superior family member would prevail over the will of a junior family member. [3] In the Chinese kinship system:
The Book of Burial (Chinese: t 葬 書, s 葬 书, p Zàngshū) was a 4th or 5th-century AD work by the Eastern Jin period Taoist mystic Guo Pu.. The work was a commentary on the now-lost Classic of Burial (t 葬經, s 葬经); [1] as it survived and transmitted the classic's teachings, the Book of Burial's principles relating the flow of qi to the appropriateness of a tomb's location were ...