Unmarried women in ancient times could not enter the ancestral graves after their death, so where should they be buried?

Funeral custom is an important part of national culture. Unmarried women are usually buried with other men who died young through ghost marriage. Because I don't want to see them alone in the spiritual world. Even now, ghost marriage is very popular among the people. Or buried as an orphan's grave, such as Yan Lipin, a famous Henan Opera player, who was unmarried at the age of 75. A solitary grave buried in Dengfeng, far from the ancestral grave, can only look at the mother from a distance.

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Yin marriage, also known as ghost marriage, bone match, ghost marriage, ghost match and so on. , is a folk custom. Parents want to marry their children who have died after their engagement or before their engagement out of love. Yin marriage is divided into dead and dead and dead and living. It used to be thought that solitary graves in ancestral graves would affect the prosperity of future generations, so a yin wedding was held for the deceased.

In the past, people were generally superstitious about the so-called "geomantic omen" in cemeteries, believing that the appearance of isolated graves would affect the prosperity of future generations of family houses. At that time, some "Mr. Feng Shui" (called "Feng Shui" in ancient times) strongly encouraged this kind of yin marriage in order to earn more money. Yin marriage mostly occurs in aristocratic or rich families, and poor families rarely engage in such activities.

Before the Han Dynasty, there were yin marriages. Yin marriage is forbidden because it consumes social manpower and material resources and is meaningless. "Zhou Li" said: "It is forbidden to move and bury, and it is forbidden to marry and mourn." However, this trend has not been eliminated, and even some of it is directly manifested in the rulers. For example, when Cao Chong, Cao Cao's favorite son, died at the age of thirteen, Cao Cao hired the dead Miss Zhen as Cao Chong's wife and buried her with him.