Keeping the coffin in the home was in hopes that people could adjust themselves, so that the living would have sufficient strength to rely on when commemorating the dead, only burying the body after emotions had stabilized. The tradition of seven seven-day periods also has this function.
停棺家中，就是希望人們調整自己情緒，讓生者懷念死者時，可有精神憑藉，等情緒安穩再行下葬；再者像七七四十九天的「做七」，也是和「殯」有相同的作用。