Is funeral custom traditional culture or dross?

Funeral activities from death to burial were collectively called "funerals" in ancient times. The ancients said that death has many names. There are generational differences before death, and the names of deaths are different, and the grades are obvious. These various appellations reflect people's various understandings of death in different times and classes. After death, you should tell the public the bad news. In the process of mourning, Chinese medicine mourned, and some mourners in later generations often made servants and handmaids cry for help, and even paid outsiders or beggars to cry for them. People who cry have no feelings for the deceased, and cry insincerely, just to fulfill their obligations to their masters or to get money. They often take part in accidental amusement, but they look sad and make a fool of themselves, which is quite criticized by the world.

The ancients attached great importance to the choice of burial place, and formed a set of superstitious theories and methods. They are proficient in this way and are called "Mr. Feng Shui" by the people. The so-called "Feng Shui" is actually the common name of ancient physiognomy. The ancients were superstitious. Every time you build something, you should look at the nearby landscape environment and mountains and rivers before you start work, and see if it can get "wind" and "water", so as to choose good luck and avoid evil. Until today, this phenomenon still exists. Modern cemeteries have also increased in price because of the so-called good feng shui! But superstitious people will still spend a lot of money, just hoping to find a good resting place. Not only for their own good, but also to protect future generations.

Burying the dead is an important part of funeral activities. Coupled with the influence of foreign culture, there are many ways to bury the dead. In addition to the most common burial in ancient times, cremation, water burial, tree burial, celestial burial, hanging coffin burial, urn coffin burial, limb-bending burial, secondary burial, amputation burial and so on are all popular.

The burial of the deceased does not mean the end of the funeral activities, and family members and relatives have to mourn for the deceased. However, in the process of mourning, some prison officials often live an ascetic life and express the so-called "filial piety" in various extreme ways of self-abuse and suppression of human nature.

In a sense, funeral is the epitome of human society and the concentrated expression of national culture. As an important part of China's traditional culture, the information contained in funeral customs in ancient society is incomparable with other etiquette customs. but

Thick burial makes a lot of social wealth abandoned underground, which has caused a heavy burden to the country and people. If this trend does not change, "the country is poor and the people are few, and the criminal and political chaos" will inevitably lead to serious consequences of the country being weak and the people poor and social unrest.