Burial and cremation are just different funeral customs, but the history of burial can be traced back to primitive society, and the Han nationality has a history of burial for thousands of years. It is difficult to completely abandon the concept that burial is filial piety. Cremation was originally a way for Hindus and Buddhists to dispose of corpses. As for the ashes left after the body is burned, there are different ways to deal with them. Some people throw them into the water, bury them underground and even launch them into space.
Undoubtedly, there are many cremation points, and it only takes one temperature to reach 870-980? C's stove can completely disintegrate the body of the deceased. This is why cremation has been advocated all over the world since the 1920s. For example, cremation can effectively save land resources, and the current cremation rate in China has reached about 53%. I believe many people don't know. In fact, in some places during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, some people have followed the custom of cremation. Is it an example? Tang Wen or Mozi? It is recorded in "Sacrifice and Burial" and other materials.
What is the process of cremation?
In fact, the stove specially used for cremating corpses has also improved in technology. For example, before the early1960s, the main fuels of cremators were coke and coal, while modern cremators usually used diesel and gas. In addition, there is now a special control system that can be used to detect and adjust the real-time situation of the cremator. Under normal circumstances, as long as epidemic prevention is not considered, the remains of the deceased will not be cremated collectively, and each cremator can only cremate one body at a time.
Perhaps people who don't know sparks will have such a doubt, that is, why a person weighing more than 100 kg has few ashes left after cremation. This is actually because the temperature in the cremation furnace can be as high as thousands of degrees Celsius, and a large amount of gas and heat generated in this process is far enough to make all soft tissues and most organs of the human body be oxidized and broken.
Therefore, when a corpse sparks, it is mainly calcium phosphate and secondary minerals, which are essentially fragments of dry bones. If we want to compare the mass of this substance with that of the corpse, then children can account for about 2.5% of the body mass, while adults can account for about 3.5% of the total mass. Of course, because different people have subtle differences in body structure, the quality of dry bone fragments mainly depends on the weight of human bones, so this ratio will show a certain gap between individuals.
Why not advocate the custom of burial?
There were not only one-time burials in ancient times, but also two or even many burials. At the peak of heavy burial, there are many extravagant sacrificial objects buried with the dead, such as the well-known Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang. The time from burial to thin burial is probably Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. Burial has always been regarded as the ultimate and inevitable ownership of the dead. The body is buried in the ground, and the soul can ascend to heaven without it. And those funerary objects are the good wishes of the deceased to live a good life in another world.
People who have experienced the funeral of their loved ones should have realized it, from? The coffin contains the body? Arrive? Dig a grave? As well as funerals, funerals, wakes, funerals and funerals on July 49, burial is actually a funeral custom with particularly complicated etiquette. However, traditional ideas still have a great influence on many people. Some people think that only this way of burial can reflect their position in front of them, for example, building a grand tombstone before their death. Therefore, the implementation of cremation still has insurmountable obstacles in many people's minds.
However, not everyone knows that burial customs such as burial actually have an impact on the environment. At least, it is an indisputable fact that formaldehyde and mercury in antiseptic solution will cause groundwater pollution. Moreover, land resources are scarce, and burial covers a large area, including coffins, which are also recognized as one of the environmental pollution sources. Even the radioactive isotopes existing before the death of the deceased will cause environmental pollution, which is why more and more countries advocate cremation as a funeral custom.
Funeral customs are not just cremation and burial.
To put it simply, there are obvious ethnic differences in funeral customs, which have been circulating for thousands of years. After simplification, it still does not affect that it is called an important part of national culture. Burial is one of the funeral customs with the longest circulation, the earliest generation and the widest use. Cremation, also known as modern burial custom, can not only effectively save land, but also prevent the spread of special diseases, which is why many places expressly stipulate that the deceased must be cremated.
But the types of funeral are not only cremation and burial, but also several other main types, such as hanging coffin burial (coffin on cliff) popular in some areas of the south in ancient times, and ancient tree burial (also known as? Wind burial? ), mainly popular in the celestial burial of Tibetans and other ethnic minorities (birds will eat the bodies clean at designated places), cliff burial, which is regarded as a miracle in the history of world globalization (popular among Puyue ethnic groups), and the second burial of bodies decomposed many times (some rural areas in Fujian, Guangxi and other places still retain this custom).