Introduction
After more than 2,000 years of feudal dynasty rule in China, feudal concepts have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. If the New Culture Movement was the beginning of liberating the minds of the Chinese people, then the Revolution of 1911 was a milestone in emancipating the minds. After the founding of New China, the thinking of the Chinese people had undergone great changes. However, in the hearts of Chinese people, some concepts are still difficult to change, such as the need to "lay in peace" after death.
China believes in Buddhism. Buddhism believes that people will enter reincarnation after death. If they do many good deeds and accumulate virtues in their lives, they will be buried in peace after death. In their next life, they will be reborn in a good family and have enough food and clothing throughout their lives. After death, one's bones will be crushed and ashes thrown away, and one will never be reincarnated. However, with the development of science, it has been proven that the theories of ghosts and gods are nonsense. The traditional burial method will greatly waste land resources, so the country began to promote cremation, which is in line with the traditional Chinese concept of "rest in peace". It goes against the grain and is similar to "crushing the bones and scattering the ashes", so this burial method is very laborious to implement in China. But this situation is beginning to have a breakthrough, because "cremation" is outdated or will be eliminated? The new method is environmentally friendly and pollution-free. So has this new method been implemented in Wuhan, Hubei?
1. Burial
The most original and mainstream burial method in China is burial, which has a great relationship with our country's belief in Buddhism. In ancient times, people were very particular about the place of burial after death. They usually asked a Feng Shui master to choose a Feng Shui treasure place that suits them based on their birth date and horoscope. People believe that the better the feng shui of the place where the tomb is located and the more burials there are, the better the life will be in the next life. This is true for ordinary families, let alone the homes of emperors. In ancient times, emperors would build cemeteries for themselves since they ascended the throne. The geographical locations of the cemeteries of ancient emperors were all Feng Shui treasures, and the cemeteries were all beautifully built so that they could be buried together with their burial objects.
There are also many kinds of funerary objects. People believe that these funerary objects will accompany them in reincarnation. Therefore, when they die, they often leave last words instructing their children to bury themselves and their beloved things together. . The burial objects of ordinary people are only gold, silver and jewelry at most, but the burial objects of the emperor's family are not just gold, silver and jewelry.
Before the Qin Dynasty, it was popular for princes and emperors from various countries to bury living people with them, hoping to bring these people to the next life to continue to serve them. After Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms, he also wanted someone to continue to serve him after his reincarnation, but he felt that it would be too cruel to bury a living person, so he ordered pottery figurines made according to real people to be buried with him. "The war in the six kingdoms was wiped out. There is no more fighting in the world. When the underworld heard that there was a king, he gathered a hundred thousand soldiers before he died." This describes Qin Shihuang and his terracotta warriors and horses.
From the selection of tomb sites to the selection of funerary objects, the ancients were striving for excellence in these matters and could not be careless in the slightest. This tradition lasted for thousands of years, and it was not until the founding of New China that the country vigorously promoted cremation and gradually abolished it. , but this does not affect the deep-rootedness of these traditional concepts in the hearts of the Chinese people. 2. Cremation
After the founding of New China, the country began to promote cremation and abolished burial. Cremation can not only save a lot of manpower and material resources, but also save land resources. The ashes left after the cremation are also given to the family members to take back, so that future generations can worship during the holidays. Cremation is much more convenient than burial in every aspect, but cremation is generally not accepted in China. People would rather be buried in the ground and rot after death than accept more advanced cremation. However, since the state explicitly prohibits burial, cremation is still the most mainstream burial method in China. Perhaps the reason why cremation is rejected by the Chinese people is that the method of cremation can easily trigger the deep-rooted traditional concepts in the hearts of the Chinese people. They believe that cremation is the same as the "crushing of bones and raising ashes" in ancient times.
3. Ice burial
Nowadays, the problem of cremation not being accepted has been solved, because a new burial method has quietly emerged, that is, ice burial. The so-called ice burial is to put the corpse into liquid nitrogen at nearly minus 200 degrees, so that the corpse is instantly frozen, and then the corpse is shattered using ultrasonic waves. This new burial method is undoubtedly the most advanced and environmentally friendly method at present. Unlike burial, which wastes a lot of land resources, it is also unlike cremation, which produces a large amount of carbon dioxide gas and contributes to global climate warming.
At present, this new burial method has been tried and implemented in Wuhan. I think this new burial method should be more easily accepted by the Chinese people than cremation. After all, with the continuous progress of society, people's acceptance of new things has also increased. Getting higher and higher.
Conclusion
"Falling red is not a heartless thing, it turns into spring mud to protect flowers." There are no ghosts and gods in the world, and no matter what burial method you choose, it will not affect death at all. Then it returns to nature like a flower, nourishing all things. No matter what burial method is used, it is the best burial method as long as it can save resources for future generations.