The keynote for funeral and memorial service is spiritual eternity and continuation of life after death. This is also the main theme of Chinese folk art works on the subject. Death at old age is a normal course of rife referred to as "passing away" or "return to heaven", which means back to mother's body of the universe. Wedding and funeral are "red and white happy events" in Chinese culture.
 By social customs, steamed bread for funeral and memorial service is the "old bread." It is the same dome shaped universe as the one for birth, but without the red bean inside. The elimination of the multiplication symbol reflects the philosophical comprehension that life comes from the universe through birth, and goes back through death.