ABSTRACT
When the coffin is brought, the body is c.urried out of the death chamber, and the grass is thrown away. A pail of fresh water, infused with pummeloe leaves for the ritual ablution, is brought and left to stand where death occurred, draped with a new pair of trousers with a blue waist band. The Hakka word for trousers "fu" is a homonym for the sound of "luck".
