1882, Robert K. Douglas, China, with Map, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, p. 294:The encoffinment takes place on the third day after death, in the presence of the assembled family.
2002, Linda Woodhead et al., Religions in the Modern World: Traditions and Transformations, ISBN 9780203398494, p. 109:In rites of encoffinment, burial and commemoration, all human beings are treated as ghosts.
