Mongolian terrible funeral customs
Each ethnic group has its own cultural customs, so weddings and funerals have different rituals. There is a terrible funeral custom among the Mongolian people. Let's go and see what is special about Mongolian customs.
The Mongolian people are now mainly distributed in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and the rest are distributed in Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang and other provinces. The Mongolian people call themselves "Mongolia". It means "eternal fire". Also call it the "horse-back nation". Its burial customs are also very different from other ethnic groups.
Mongolian tribes have had the customs of wild burials, earth burials, water burials, and cremation since ancient times. After the four sons of tribes migrated to present-day Duerbert Grassland, they had the custom of wild burials during funeral ceremonies for hundreds of years. The most suitable place for wild burial is a raised table-shaped slope with flat front and back against slopes and hills. The lama first recited the Sutra of Resurrection, then drew a circular burial ground with a horn of a sheep's horn, then used black and white stones to circle a circle, dug a shallow pit, and then put the grains and nine treasures (gold, silver, copper, iron, pearls, agate, coral, amber, emerald) into small bags or small jars and buried them in the pit.
Choose a good time for the funeral, wrap the naked body in the robe of the deceased and carry it on the horse.(Mongolian herdsmen in the Gobi Grassland of this flag also use camels to carry the body and bury it in the wild.) After arriving at the wild burial site, the deceased is tied to a man and let the body lie on its right side on the ground, with his right hand resting under his head, and his left hand resting on his left crotch; if the deceased is tied to a woman, the body is placed in the opposite direction, and the wild burial will end.
The mourner carried the cadaver robe out on the saddle of a horse or camel and brought it back. Animals carrying corpses must be released into the wild for 49 days before they can be used. Women do not attend wild burials and funerals, and men do everything according to the rules. After the funeral attendant comes back, people, animals, objects, etc. must pass through the two piles of fires lit first, intended to disinfect with sacred fire, and their hands must be rubbed with white wine before entering the yurt.
The families of the deceased then put out milk food and pasta food to entertain the mourners. The Mongolian people of the four sons tribe also have the custom of observing the anniversary of the death. During the anniversary, they do not kill animals or eat meat, and mainly eat vegetarian food and milk food. There is also the custom of observing filial piety. The period of filial piety varies, which is roughly divided into 49 days, 100 days, half a year and 1 year. During the mourning period, the top of the hat is tied with blue cloth. During the mourning period, no hair is cut, no beard is shaved, no relatives and friends are not greeted when they meet. They only ask about the safety of the livestock to express their condolences for the dead.
If the deceased died of an infectious disease during his lifetime, he would have to dig holes and bury them in remote wilderness far away from living and grazing. The dead body would have to be wrapped tightly in a robe, sprayed with white wine, and buried. Places where the dead are buried must be banned from grazing for one to several months. The custom of wild burials among the Mongolian people of the Sizi Tribe has been in use for a long time. In modern times, due to the increase in population, the increase in pasture utilization area, and the decrease in various scavengers and beasts, the backward custom of wild burials was not adopted.
According to the old customs of the four sons tribe, cremation was originally used for aristocrats, living buddha, lamas and other officials. For example, a valley on Duhei Stone Cliff of Cao Wenwen in our flag is the crematorium of the Wangye Family of the Sisi Tribe, and the remains are still there today. The cremation ceremony depends on the identity and status of the deceased. Generally, after the patient dies, the body is wrapped in white cloth, wrapped with five-color threads, and placed on a cremation table built with firewood and sheep bricks for ignition. Those with prominent status must be poured with butter to support combustion to show honor.
The ashes of eminent monks and living buddha are placed in the white towers built. Most laity families send them to Wutai Mountain or place them in caves. There is also the custom of burying the ashes in the place of birth of the deceased. Cremation has been widely used in modern times in the four sons tribes.
The Mongolian people have their own customs and traditions, and when faced with the dead, they adopt their own methods of dealing with them. Although the Mongolian funeral customs are different from ours, it is precisely because of the diversity of cultures that the world is richer and more three-dimensional.