Notes on Earthwork from Folk Art Collections

In this world, are living people respected? Or is the dead most important? Whenever a person is laid to rest and the coffin is sealed, seventeen rivets must be nailed to the coffin lid. Moreover, these rivets need to be cut from bitter bamboo for ten years before they can be completed. Now, if I want to open the coffin and see the real owner in the coffin, I need special tools, which are also the coffin hooking contracts passed down from my ancestors. Nine times out of ten in life, there is suffering, and the remaining one is suffering. "Squeak!" Finally, I pried the last willow rivet loose...