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In dyes it ancient, the ritual of funeral ceremony was a lot more complex than today. When someone would die, one put him some sons of silk in the mouth to see if it breathed again. As in a lot of other ancient cultures, one conducted the recall of the soul, then to the bath and to the clothing of the body. One put food in its coffin or a piece of jade (that was supposed to protect the body of the decomposition). If the deceased was someone important, one buried it with its jewelry and precious objects.

The deceased's family came to collect itself and some Buddhist priests were invited to pray for the deceased's soul. The ceremony was long in prayers and laments, and complex in its progress, in particular if the deceased was a notable. Once the finished ceremony, the deceased's body was entérré and rejoingnait the god of soil.

Quarantes new days after the death, a funeral shelf was placed on the family's altar, that could make the mourning then. The mourning was characterized by the port of a shirt made of linen or in white hemp (the white is the color of the death dyes some).

Today, funeral ceremony simplified themselves considerably and were the opportunity to organize some banquets with the family and the friends. Besides, the Chinese government encourages the population has incinerate its deaths. In sign of mourning the family and the near carry more today of the colors beige or ecru, although the white remained present. It is of coputume to burn false tickets, ingots of gold, watches, etc. for the dead because one believes that there is a life after the death and that the deceased will need these objects.

The 4 of the month of April, at the time of the feast of the deaths (Festival of Qingming..), the Chinese of the farming regions come to honor the tombs of their forebears and make explode of the firecrackers and burn some tickets. If the ritual dimmed, today's Chinese remain nevertheless deeply respectful towards the memory of their deceased and their forebears.