On the eighth day of the old man's death, his relatives put fruit offerings and food in the house where the old man left, and spread grass and wood ashes on the ground.
Don't say it's feudal superstition, in fact, I haven't believed in these things, but these two things that happened in my own family made me believe it.
My father died in 1995, and it was probably on the fourth night of my father's death that my sleeping mother heard the sound of a glass breaking on the living room table, and she was awakened and came to the living room to see a cup broken on the table.
When I got home, my mom said it must have been your dad who came back that day, and I said it couldn't be, maybe the cup was not of good quality, it should be broken, I really didn't believe it.
In 2015, my father-in-law passed away again, it seems that on the night of the 5th day, not the 6th day, my mother-in-law and sister-in-law were at home, and the ** at home suddenly rang, and the sister-in-law picked up** to answer, there was no sound in it, and they didn't take it seriously, thinking that someone had made a mistake**.
After a while, the TV in the living room suddenly turned on by itself, they felt a little strange, after a while, turned off the TV, turned off the light in the living room, and were about to go to sleep, who would have thought that the light in the living room suddenly turned on again, they felt that this must not be an accidental situation, they said that it must be the father-in-law who came back, and after seven days, everything returned to normal.
Thinking about these two things, I think that after a person dies, maybe the spirit will still exist within 7 days.