This is a funeral ceremony of Chinese tradition in Ketapang West Borneo when my friend’s dad Tuti died. The picture in the left is her father was in the coffin. If in common people used a shroud, Buddhist wears clothes such as shirt, trouser or dress according the family then covered by red slip cover and the “money” for people who died (the brown paper as the man hold on at the picture) on the face. In the coffin there is money, tea leaves (to keep the smell of the corpse).
People at the picture are the family of the corpse and they are holding the incenses to pray in front of the coffin. On the table there are photo, two candles in the left and the right side, fruits, pork, chicken.
The children of the corpse are in front of line that wears white clothes, white headband, and white ‘bracelet’. The other person who wears blue headband is the family of the corpse.
The picture above was the burial process in the hill. There are so many people from family or neighbor came to see the burial. The location of the burial is basically to the clan. Each clan was has a criterion by virtue of the foundation where they were. The corpse is from Lay clan so, he was buried among other graves that with Lay clan.
This is the process to put the coffin into the grave. At the picture there is a man who holds the bamboo. The person who can hold this bamboo is the son-in-law of the corpse.
After the burial process was finished, the tradition is to get small change or green peal and rice. The meaning of this tradition is that symbolize wealth and prosperity for anyone who get that things. More and more people get that things, the belief are they will get fortune and blessing for everything
by: friscka br manurung
source : Tuti Marinus Laylani
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