11 Taboos in Funerals.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.

1. Funeral attendees

Funeral attendees only wear black and white, avoid clothing that is flamboyant, flashy, revealing, does not laugh or speak loudly, making noisy jokes. Elderly people, pregnant women, children or those who have been bitten by rabies abstain from attending burial, burial and burial because they can catch cold air from dead bodies and become sick. For families with the elderly, young children, and pregnant women living near the family having funerals, they must set up a coal furnace to burn grapefruit peels and to remove the gas.

2. Avoid letting dogs and cats jump over dead bodies

"  When the body has not been placed in the coffin, relatives often have to send each other to keep watch day and night to show their grief. Besides, this care is to prevent dogs and cats from jumping over dead bodies, avoiding the phenomenon of ghosts entering. (That is, the dead rose to arrest him).

3. When crouching, avoid tears falling

Do not allow tears to fall while performing rituals, because children and grandchildren will have difficulty doing business, so those who recite cannot cry. Witnesses, no matter how compassionate they feel for the deceased, must stand a long distance away to avoid the tears dripping onto the body.

4. Abstain from moving fast when carrying coffin

Folk have the custom of keeping dead dead bodies still, so it is necessary to be gentle and careful when carrying coffins. Even those who carry the spirit must deliberately go very slowly to show their attachment to the deceased.

5. Do not turn around when leaving

After lowering the acupuncture point of the deceased, those who bring the funeral when leaving should absolutely avoid turning their heads.

6. Abstain from getting married, getting married while mourning parents

Mourning, abstaining from a wife or husband during the family mourning period is to show respect and mourn for the deceased. The time to mourning according to old beliefs is 3 years. But today, abstinence is no longer as thorough as it used to be. Some families may get married and marry their children after the first death anniversary.

7. When buried

When burying the dead, abstain from using the clothes or belongings of the survivor for the deceased because this means that the deceased has taken away a portion of the living, causing the living to be silly or forgetful. At the same time, the living also abstain from lying in bed, wear excess clothes, and use leftovers left by the dead.

8. Abstain from direct sunlight during burial

Usually, families often see the date and time for burial (to the sand). The burial is always done at night to avoid sunlight because there are many cases where the body is still intact after many years, if allowed to shine sunlight, the body will immediately rot and shrink.

9. The coffin does not use willow wood

According to folk beliefs, the coffin used willow wood. Because the willow has no seeds, fear that in the next life there will be no successor. The best material to make a coffin is pine or cypress.

10. Select a funeral date and burial location

Usually, Vietnamese families have to check the date, time and location of the burial to avoid the unfortunate happenings. The location of the grave, good or bad, can affect its offspring. Here are some taboos when choosing a burial location: Do not be buried where there is a large rock. Do not bury in sandy and fast flowing areas. Do not bury in canals and desolate places. Do not bury on the top of a mountain alone. Do not bury around temples, pagodas or temples. Do not bury near the prison. Do not bury in chaotic hills. Do not bury where the landscape is melancholy. Do not bury in wet or unstable terrain.

11. Other notes

For those who hanged themselves: Relatives had to cut off the rope without removing the cord because that would stop the injustice and avoid death.

For the dead on the street, drowning: Relatives of the dead have to hold funerals at the place of death or set up a shack in the field to perform the ceremony, abstain from taking the body home because the air is not conducive to business and living. of the people in the house.

When children die before parents: Parents abstain from mourning because their children die first, which is adversity, filial piety, causing a lot of pain. Parents may grieve and faint on the way to bring ghosts, affecting their lives so they have to do so to ease their sadness and avoid mourning.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.12/9/2020.