Salar funeral customs

When the Salar people were seriously ill, their relatives and friends would come to visit them with gifts such as tea and sugar. If you do something that is unfair to others in ordinary times, such as backbiting, slandering, wronged, default, etc., the patient and the visitor must gain each other's forgiveness. When the patient is in critical condition, all kinds of noises are prohibited. Except for close relatives and blood, no one is allowed to enter the ward. Only those who understand the teachings will sit next to the patient. After the patient "calls" dead, the family members will close their eyes, close their chin, straighten their hair, and follow their hands and feet, and then place the body on the public cadaver, and the family members will weep around the body.

At the same time, people were sent to inform relatives and friends near and far and the imam of the village mosque. After arriving at the funeral home, they mourned the mournful owner and carried out a mournful "cry", which is called "Yasyagra" in Salar. The content is all about remembering the dead, telling how hard the dead were to manage the family when they were alive, how to treat people and things, how to serve others and win everyone's respect, etc.

As for the funeral of the Salar people, because the Salar people believe in Islam, their funerals are generally carried out in accordance with Islamic regulations. It is customary to burials quickly and all people are buried in the ground without using coffins. As soon as the person died, the mosque immediately notified the young people in the village to go to the cemetery to dig graves. The size of the graves varies from person to person. The graves for adults are about 2 meters deep, while those for children are shallower. The length is slightly longer than the body length of the deceased and about 0.8 meters wide. The direction of the tomb is north-south, and a hole must be dug on the west side of the bottom to provide a place for placing the remains of the dead. The Salans believed that digging graves was a good act. If you dig too many graves, you will not be punished after your death.

If her parents pass away, the married daughter will have to deliver about 300 kilograms of grain and a sheep within three days. If he married more daughters, he would take turns cooking wheat kernels on the first seven, seventh, and seventh days of the deceased's death. If there is no daughter, the son will cook it. At the time of burial, the money and goods distributed to the funeral participants shall be borne by the son. If there are more sons, the expenses shall be shared. If there is only one son, the son shall bear all of them.

Before carrying the dead out of their homes, the dead must be bathed. Those who bathe the dead are generally people with high religious taste. Purify the body of the dead, the Salar word "Sutut" catches water). The bathing method is: from head to toe, from right to left, covering the body, wrapped in a white cloth (from knees to navel), and the bathing action should be carried out under a cloth sheet. After washing and drying, sprinkle with red flowers or musk, and then wrap the body with a white cloth. This is "Chuankefan".

The adult "Kefan" cloth needs about thirty feet, three pieces for men and five pieces for women. The vest on the inside is small, revealing the arms and the head on the head to expose the knees; the middle layer runs from the base of the cheek (bottom of the chin) to the ankles, and does not expose the rest except the head and feet; the outer layer should wrap the whole body, and the woman has a head cover and a belt. After wearing the "Kefan", the dead were placed in a special wooden box for the remains, covered with a thread blanket, and were carried by more than a dozen young people to a mosque or cemetery for a funeral ceremony. Funeral ceremonies cannot be carried out at noon or after sunset, and are generally held during Islamic morning and afternoon ceremonies.

When you bury the dead, you have to turn to "Fittile". "Fittil" is a bag of money wrapped in a towel that was distributed to the people. Islam stipulates that when a man reaches the age of 12 and a woman reaches the age of 9, he is considered an adult and must fulfill his Lord's orders. Until his death, a fine must be paid for the main order that is not completed during the period. If you miss a week, you will have to pay three kilograms and six taels of wheat. If you can't afford to pay the entire fine, you can wrap the fine for one year in cloth bags and distribute it to the elderly, imam, or Manla sitting around in the cemetery.

The method is: the family of the deceased sincerely gave a bag of money to one person, and the person who should receive the money sincerely accepted it, and then sincerely gave it back to the family of the deceased, so that it was transferred from one person to another, and it was transferred to 38 people. If a person who received the money no longer returns the money to the family of the deceased when transferring to "Fittile", the family cannot ask for it because the money was given in sincerity. But this is just an imaginary thing, and no such thing has ever been heard of in the Salar area.

After the funeral ceremony, the dead began to be buried. Two or three high-character people went down the grave and put the dead people wrapped in white cloth into the side hole. The dead people's head faced north, feet faced south, and face faced west. Then they sealed the side hole with adobe. After the people inside came up, the young people around them quickly filled the soil and finally piled it into a grave bag. After that, the imam began to read the Koran. Within a day or two after the death of the deceased, cooking was generally not cooked in the deceased's home."Kong Musan" and "Agnai" took turns delivering meals. They automatically came to the deceased's home to help cut trees, chop firewood, pound wheat, place large pots, slaughter sheep and boil meat, etc., prepare for the aftermath of the deceased's family and reduce the burden and grief of the deceased's family.

On the third day after the burial of the dead, the dead man cooked rice and fried it in oil at home. Generally, after the morning ceremony, he invited all the worshippers in the mosque to his home for dinner. He intended to use this method to "save" the dead and pray that God can alleviate the punishment of the dead. On the third day after the death of the deceased, the seventh day after that (called the first seventh day), the seventh day after that (called the seventh day), the seventh day after that (called the seventh day), and on the 40th day, the 100th day, and the anniversary of the death, wheat kernel rice will be cooked and the whole village will be invited to eat it.

After burying the dead, male family members usually go to the cemetery every morning to recite scriptures. Pray that the deceased will be forgiven by God for their crimes in his lifetime. This kind of chanting starts at five times a day, and then gradually reduces the number, but the total time will last for three to four months, or even about half a year. From then on, they changed to chanting scriptures every Friday morning.