Rural people are superstitious and believe that good feng shui will bless future generations. However, because it used to be a rural area, the management of the cemetery was relatively loose. Graves built in rural areas in many places have many problems.
For example, when I went to the Central Plains before, I saw the endless wheat fields for the first time, which was a green scene. I grew up in the mountains, and my heart is full of joy, which is what local farmers and friends hope to harvest. Therefore, I wanted my colleague to take a picture of me, but I didn't get it.
Because almost every wheat field has a small mound, the locals told me that these small mounds are actually cemeteries, and you can't take photos of graves when taking pictures.
It is also the first time for me to see local farmers building graves in their own fields. Aren't they afraid that this land will become someone else's land after the second land contract? Or how about building a cemetery instead of growing food on your own land?
My hometown is a coastal mountainous area, and there are also problems in building graves.
Although our local farmers won't build graves on farmland, they still build them on hillsides. These hillsides, some of which are orchards of local farmers, pay high prices to compensate young crops bought from them.
Rural people in mountainous areas like luxury tombs, and some farmers will spend tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or even millions to build them. This is a serious waste of resources, not only those fields, but also those useless high-priced marble. You can't spend money like this.
For the improvement of rural graves in different places, I have the following suggestions: it is really abnormal for the deceased to compete with the living for land. Building a fertile land is a serious waste of limited land area.
At present, the country requires that places that can be cremated must be cremated, although farmers have complied. However, farmers in some places will put urns in coffins for burial.
What's the point of this behavior? Aren't porcelain urns more durable than wooden coffins? An urn is only tens of centimeters big, and a coffin is about 2 meters wide. If buried underground, it will occupy more area.
Therefore, I suggest that the ashes be buried deeper directly, which covers a small area. Let's not build a small grave, but plant evergreen trees and pine and cypress trees directly where the ashes are buried, so that future generations can worship under the trees when they want to sweep the grave.
This method is also excellent. Is it not the worship of the grave bag and the worship of the tree?
Sincerity is the spirit, whether it is a grave bag or a tree, it is only a superficial form. If you are afraid that the roots will affect the growth of crops, you can set up a stone tablet at will, whether it is a stone tablet, a grave bag or a tree, it will not affect the sacrifice.
Those rural residents in mountainous areas have built luxurious graves and asked others to open them, so farmers will feel emotional. Our local managers are asking to remove those big stones, but the graves can't be moved, but we should do a good job of greening.
In other words, your grave can be built on a hillside, but you must ensure that the place where your grave is located is not pressed by big stones that can affect the growth of plants. You can also plant some trees or turf on the grave.
To sum up, it is understandable that some people in rural areas resist flat graves. This kind of person likes to look at superficial forms. In fact, it is impossible to build yourself a grave with a higher atmosphere than the house you live in. The size of the tomb is superficial, and it is absurd to say that the tomb has good feng shui and will bless future generations. Can your geomantic omen be compared with the former imperial tomb or the powerful family at that time?
And the result? Good feng shui alone blessed their descendants? There is an old saying in the countryside that you are rich but not three, which is the reason. With the changes of the times, the improvement of tombs can be carried out in a more land-saving way, and it is not necessary to build them more heroically.
In my personal opinion, the perfection of rural graves should be based on the condition of not affecting the living, and there is no need to get another coffin on the urn to occupy the field. There is no need to get a grave bag, set up a simple stone tablet and plant trees, which will not affect your ancestor worship.