Japanese traditional culture

  Today, I introduce a custom when you go to someone's funeral.
You scatter salt on your body before you enter your home.
The meaning of this act is that you purify your body by
doing so.
  The mourner need to prepare salt packed in a package for the
attendants. When people die, we usually do two different kinds of
funeral. Otsuya and Osousiki(funeral).
  I  can not translate otsuya because the custom is unique
in Japanese culture.
  In Japanese culture, salt is used to purify something.
  For example, you can see Sumo wrestlers scatter salt
at the sumo wrestling ring before the battle.
  That has the meaning of purifying the ring before the battle.
  Sumo is a Japanese national sport. And sumo used to connected
with religious thing in early age.