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In the old days, people defined five classes of mourning: Great tang (3 years), Co Annual (1 year), Great Gong (9 months), Small Gong (5 months) ... Today, this custom has been greatly reduced. Funeral clothes are usually made of corduroy (mosquito net) or white eight-color fabric. You should ask the Box Camp for help, the price is about 20,000-25,000 VND / set. Looking at the funeral outfit, outsiders can distinguish who is the biological son, son-in-law, daughter-in-law ... of the dead.

+ Honorable sons and grandchildren: Clothes, pants, straw hats, banana strings, belt belts and funeral sticks (to mourn the father use bamboo sticks, to mourn the mother to use the cane). Particularly, some Catholic families do not use straws and sticks.

+ Daughter, daughter-in-law: Coat, pants, headscarf.

+ Son-in-law: pants, head scarf.

+ Grandchildren, foreign: white towel head with blue and red dots to distinguish.

+ Great great-grandchildren: yellow scarf tied up.

Currently, depending on each person's circumstances, the mourning time usually lasts about one year, 100 days, 49 days, or right after opening the code.

There is a frequently asked question: In a case where a child dies before his or her parents, should the parents mourn the child?

According to "Tho mai Gia ceremony", to mourning is an expression of gratitude, showing mercy between the deceased and the survivor. Thus, not only relatives but also outsiders who come to the shrine should also wear funeral bands. Parents can mourn their children, grandparents can mourn their children.

However, according to the Northern conception "Father is immortal" (father does not bow to me) and descendants who die before their parents are adversity, being filial, children have not reported filial piety to their parents and have escaped their debt. Therefore, not only parents not to mourn their children, but on the contrary, they also have to wrap a white mourning ring on the head. Parents sometimes, because they are so sad, have fainted to the side of their child's grave, so parents sometimes do not bring their children to mourning.

Today, people often apply the following method: Parents do not mourn their children but still light incense. mother later (when parents died) in time to coffin at home. I think it is a reasonable job. END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.12/9/2020.