需停尸一七日乃至三七日
“The body must be kept for seven days, or up to twenty-one days.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“the soul has not yet fully departed from the body.”
需 停尸一七日 乃至 三七日
“The body must be kept for seven days, or up to twenty-one days.”
若是乱动遗体
“If the remains are handled carelessly,”
“You cannot examine the body right now without violating sacred religious laws.”
In Chinese Buddhist and folk traditions, the soul takes intervals of seven days to transition, during which disturbing the corpse is believed to disrupt reincarnation.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to keep a corpse unburied before the funeral
A formal term related to traditional funerary rituals where the deceased lies in repose.
and even; or even
A formal conjunction used in written or elevated spoken style to indicate an upper threshold or extension.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“she has been dead for fourteen hours.”
“His body must remain there.”
“You don't have to practice every day.”
“Nickname Wa Zai. He was also an influencer. Time of death within the last ten hours.”
“can only be maintained for half an hour by using this method.”
“Time of death was the early Xu hour, the night before last.”