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Funeral and mourning ceremony of the family, mourning of the month of Muharram,

Funeral and family mourning ceremony
In carrying out the funeral ceremony, a very regular cooperation is common among the people of the region, which is summarized as follows: At first, after hearing the news of a person's death, the local people quickly come to the house of the deceased person, if the person was poor in the past, Secretly, they collect an amount around the first day of the ceremony and prepare the needs of the mourning assembly. Then the funeral ceremony takes place. In this way, a tray full of broken sugar covered with a black cloth is carried in front of the deceased, which is known as "Verjanaz". This sugar is distributed among people during funerals. After that, the people go to the house of the deceased and eat the prepared food.

In the meantime, reception of the people who participated in the funeral ceremony is done privately and with high quality under the name of "Almaq Halalit". The next day, the deceased person's family, with the invitation of Rish Safidan and their relatives, hold a meeting in Salah Lashmaq. In this meeting, a decision is made regarding the manner of holding the mourning ceremony: the sacrifice is made based on the number of guests.The flour needed to make bread is collected from the houses and sent to the mourner's house. If the ceremony is held on Thursday and is accompanied by dinner, and if it is held on Friday, the Umrah guests who have come from far away will be divided before arriving and they will be tied up in the so-called place. For example, every five families are determined to be the owner of a certain joq in the village, and it is the responsibility of the overseer to take the joq's horse and place him in his house as soon as the joq arrives. A day before the party, local Quran reciters gather at the deceased person's house, these people are obliged to finish reading one volume of the Holy Quran, whatever the fate may be, they will receive a full reception.On the day of the party everyone who eats leaves the assembly, because if on Friday afternoon someone has been a guest in one's house in the past, they must remain there until Sunday. After Saturday, the sons and daughters of the person who died and got married leave the house outside the house after obtaining permission, but the reception and hospitality of the guests, who are informed after the ceremony, continues until the 40th day, and the guests are fed regularly. It is ready at home. In addition, on the day of the guests' presence, each of them presents a sum of money as "Yas" to the elders of the Majlis, which is given to the mourner after collecting it. The time for the next ceremony is a few days before the 40th. On this day, by bringing some colored cloths, the relatives organize a meeting called "Qara Achmaq", in this way, they take off the black clothes of the mourner and cover him with colored clothes. After that, the mourner prepares some cloth and goes to the house of each of his friends and acquaintances.

The 40th day is usually celebrated by choosing Thursday or Friday, and in this custom, guests are given lunch or dinner, and this is done by prior invitation. The last stage of the mourning ceremony is visiting the person's family in the past on the first Eid that comes after the passing of the deceased person, friends and acquaintances from his house and family pray. In this way, the mourning ceremony ends.

Muharram mourning
Two days before the beginning of the month of Muharram, they put black flags on the mosques and spend the nights in the mosques beating their chests and chanting. In the nights of Tasu'a and Ashura - especially in Zanjan city - groups of breast-beaters perform breast-beating in the streets. In rural areas, before Ashura day, all the villagers collect donations and give charity. On the day of Ashura, they carry the green flag, which is the sign of five fingers, in different neighborhoods, and if there is an imamzadeh near the village, they go there. Otherwise, they gather in the village cemetery and return to the local mosque after breast-feeding. On the night of Ashura, some women with bare feet go to different neighborhoods with flowers on their heads and then return to mosques. On the day of Ashura, women tie their headscarves or charqad to al-Alam to fulfill their needs, or they sacrifice a sheep in front of al-Alam and mourning bands. On the third day of Imam, the people of the village of "Dram" separate cloths from the flags and keep them for the next year. On the third day of the Imam, the residents of Zanjan city symbolically display the events of the Ashura caravan and the prisoners of Karbala in the city. 

In this show, while some children are tied up and some are walking in front of the convoy, they are harassed by a person in red. One of the customs of mourning groups - which is no longer common - was the custom of "locking". Those who had nazz and their needs were met, locked themselves during Muharram. A week before the start of Muharram, they used to massage the area around their chest with ash to gradually numb that area. Then they would insert a spear into their skin and secure them with a lock They did not open these locks until the 12th day of Muharram. On that day, the imam of the local mosque removed the spears from their bodies. The machete tradition was also common until a few years ago. On the 40th day of the Imam, the mourning ceremony begins with breaststroke, and at the end of the ceremony, those who are Hosseini invite the whole place to take off their clothes and treat them with tea and dates. Most of the regions consider the month of Safar as a bad month and believe that whoever fights in this month will continue to fight until the end of the lunar year.

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