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 MOURNING APPAREL. 331 The Shangjoo does not bow in worship, but he weeps and wails ; while each occupies his proper place. The Shangjoo, during this period, occupies the meanest room, in the poorest section of the servants' quarters, outside the second gate, where he does nothing bat weep and wail. Chungfoo or Complete Mourning. The poor simply change the cord binding the hair to white,, and use their ordinary clothing after the third day ; the wealthy after seven sevens (forty-nine days) pasa For mourning robe, twenty-five feet of white cotton are used, tied with a sash of same material A white cotton cap, lined with paper, with a white cotton knot on the crown ; the garment over the loins is also of white cotton, without buttoua Grandsons, who mourn for one year, may wear a finer material. The mourner has a staff of wood, or millet stalk, covered with paper. The son has a staff of bamboo, and the grandson of the Wootoong * tree ; a rope of hemp, long and stout, from the waist, to trail along the ground; a cap string, also of hemp: the straw hat must be squara Women also wear white in mourning. A straw mat is laid on the path before the house. Mourning garments are provided for the servants also. Next day after Dcdien, the fourth after death, all the five generations, wearing their proper mourning apparel, enter the room in the early morning ; and each person, standing in his proper place, weeps and wails ; then an offering of food &c. is made to deceased. The son, grandson &a go to the oldest living representative of the family, and kneeling before him, weep and wail ; the women do likewise before the oldest female member of the family. The sons of the family now first eat food,'!' and that of the coarsest^ when mourning is assumed. The early morning of winter. fThis, however, must signify that they now, for the first time, take a regular meal, for it is the fourth day since the death.
 * The Moeocoeca Sinensis (Williams). The fall of its leaf indicates the approacli