Ancient American funerals. What are the customs?

1, the United States was founded in 1776. Traditionally, the modern history of the world began with the British bourgeois revolution in 1640, so there was no America in ancient times, and there was no funeral custom in ancient America.

2. After Columbus and others discovered the New World, colonists from Britain, France, the Netherlands, Spain and other countries immigrated in large numbers, driving local aborigines to "reservations" in the west to make room for them. At this time, the United States was still a British colony. After the victory of the War of Independence, the federal government, the United States, was established.

As the native Americans are Indians and their ancestors are British colonies, we will briefly introduce the funeral customs of these two nations.

4. After someone dies, it is usually arranged by a mortician who specializes in funeral industry. Of course, some people are used to arranging the whole process of funeral by themselves. The form of funeral varies according to the situation of the deceased and their families. Many people in Britain have religious beliefs and Britain is also a religious country, so religious funerals are more common. Generally speaking, funerals are held in local churches. Of course, there are also relatives and friends of the deceased who are very clear and want to respect the wishes of the deceased before his death. Many details of this situation were planned by the family of the deceased. In the funeral ceremony held in the church, the church priest usually greets the coffin at the gate, and then the mourners walk into the church. At the same time, the priest will read some chapters of the Bible as a welcoming ceremony, and after the ceremony, he may sing a hymn for the dead. Then some symbols that can symbolize the dead will be placed on or next to the coffin. Then, they will read aloud the chapters and sermons in the Bible. The content is mostly about God and life, Christianity is related to eternal life after death, and praying that God is with all mourners. Finally, the priest prayed that the dead could get God's love and mercy.

The prayer is:

We now bury his/her body in the ground.

Soil to soil, dust to dust, dust to dust.

In the assured hope of resurrection to eternal life.

After the funeral, mourners attending the funeral may have dinner at the home of the deceased. This is a time to encourage each other and fill the gap left by death. It can also make many people feel more deeply that their relatives and friends around them are still in this world, cherish each other more and have closer relations. Finally, let me briefly talk about the information about mourning clothes. Everyone knows that western funerals usually wear black or dark clothes. Clothing of this color is solemn and solemn, which can express grief for the dead.

The method of burying the dead in India is very distinctive. Ordinary people are simply buried after death, but tribal chiefs are particularly respected after death. They put the chief's body in the temple. The temple is very special in shape, and its lower part is supported by thick wooden stakes. It is drafty on all sides and has no walls. There are several skins on the ground for the priests guarding the temple to rest. The upper floor is used to place the remains. All the dead chiefs were put in the same temple one after another. Only one side of the temple is open, and exquisite bamboo curtains are hung on three sides and the roof. Next to the body, there is a lifelike puppet as the guardian of the chief. Indians also ingeniously invented a method to prevent the remains from rotting. They skinned the dead, oiled them and dried them. Then they scrape off the meat, wrap the bones in leather, and finally wrap the original skin. After this treatment, the remains look intact.