With white flowers covering their broken hearts, teary-eyed family members bid goodbye Sunday to a Brooklyn woman and her four children who were butchered last month by a jealous relative.
Qiaozhen Li, 37, was laid to rest with her kids — William, 1, Kevin, 5, Amy, 7, and Linda, 9 — after a ceremony at Ralph Aievoli and Son funeral home in Sunset Park.
The youngest children shared a single casket, while one of the older girls was laid to rest with her beloved pink school backpack tucked into her coffin beside her.
The two-hour service was conducted primarily in Chinese, but no translation was needed to read the pain etched on the face of the grieving father and husband, Yi Lin Zhuo, whose cousin is accused of taking his entire family away from him.
As the four coffins bearing victims’ nameplates were borne out of the funeral home, Zhuo’s face was drawn with grief as he held a long yellow candle and a family portrait.
A single black ribbon adorned the top of the picture’s frame.
As the caskets passed, Zhuo leaned on people standing close to him, as if too weak to stand without support.
The reception area was filled with white floral wreaths and arrangements, and mourners wore white chrysanthemums on their lapels.
Others tossed stacks of square paper sheets into a lit fireplace — a custom symbolizing the wish for a safe trip to the afterlife.
A table placed in front of the open caskets displayed offerings such as fruits and wine.
Among the some 100 mourners was a representative from Linda’s school, PS 105.
“Your loss is our loss,” she said in English. “Your children are our children.”
Authorities say Mingdong Chen, 25, used a butcher knife to slash all five victims, decapitating two of the children, including baby William, in their house on Oct. 26.
Chen had been taken in by his cousin because he had nowhere to stay. He soon grew envious of his relatives’ happy life, however, and allegedly repaid their kindness with the merciless attack.
Zhuo returned to the apartment from work that night and found the bodies.
Chen was quickly arrested and is awaiting trial on murder charges. Sources said he grew jealous because the beautiful family “had too much,’’ police sources have said.
“Everyone here is doing better than me,” the suspect told cops in his confession, police said.
The slaughter erupted after Li screamed at the accused killer for hitting one of her children, according to one account obtained by The Post.
The frightened mom tried in vain to call her husband and other relatives in the area before finally contacting her mother-in-law in China.
“He is coming with the knife,” were her last words on the phone before the line went dead, a housemate of Li’s sister-in-law told The Post.
After the Queens funeral services, the bodies were placed in hearses for a drive to graveside services at Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens in Iselin, NJ.
Additional reporting by Jamie Schram