My father passed away ten years ago and was placed for 7 days according to rural customs for relatives and friends to pay tribute. Later, the Fengshui master watched the day of the funeral. At 7 a.m., I was sent to the funeral home by the funeral car in the village. My sisters and a group of relatives sent him to the fire entrance. The cremator pushed him into the stove. After a while, thick smoke came out of the furnace. My father really ascended to heaven!
At that time, according to the county funeral reform plan, all dead public officials must be cremated and only after obtaining cremation certificates are given 24 months' salary and funeral expenses. In my mind, if a dead person can be put in a coffin and buried in the ground, let himself rot, and finally a pile of bones are left behind, at least you can imagine the appearance of your relatives. If you plant an cypress tree next to the grave, then it seems that the soul of your relatives will coexist with the heaven and earth, and perceive the world with us. But in the end, the funeral home only gave only a pack of ashes, and went to the urn sales office to buy a decent urn, and then put his father's ashes in. When I returned home, according to rural customs, I placed the ashes on my head, body and limbs, and then nailed them to the coffin and buried them underground amid the crying of everyone. Later, I went to the village to complete the procedures and received the funeral expenses.
After my uncle passed away in the second year, my cousins and sisters discussed it and respected traditional Chinese customs. Ye Luo returned to their roots. They secretly buried my uncle underground without receiving a 24-month salary or a funeral fee. A few years later, my aunt died. The two of them were buried together. When they opened my uncle's coffin, the bones were intact. I felt uncomfortable when I saw this. I regretted that my father and mother did not bury them secretly. How great is it to leave a whole body behind! However, at that time, the local government advocated changing customs, paying attention to funeral reform, and saving land, which made people helpless. In the past two years, as the calls for burial have become increasingly high, the government seems to no longer force people to cremate, and the business of funeral homes is much worse than before. Recently, Professor Wu Fei’s suggestions from Peking University are really enlightening.
Professor Wu Fei believes that cremation should be abandoned, cremation should be burned into ashes, and then thrown into some places like garbage. This is disrespect for the deceased. Customs should be respected and burial should be implemented. Burial can fully respect the deceased and give some comfort to the hearts of the deceased's relatives. For thousands of years, people have attached great importance to their affairs after death. Those emperors, generals and ministers have made great progress in building and built luxurious mausoleums, hoping to go to another world after death and be respected and praised by people as before. Although science has not yet proved what the world after death is going on, at least for thousands of years, the excavated tombs have passed on effective information to our archaeology. If the ancients also carried out cremation, we might not have been able to obtain any information from ancient times.
Even ordinary people want to leave a whole body after they die. It seems that the cancellation of cremation and the implementation of burial seem to be more in line with the wishes of the people.
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