Why do rural areas in China always oppose cremation and insist on burial?

People born in rural areas are no strangers to burial. When cremation was not popular, the old people in the countryside were put into coffins after death, and the local mage was asked to choose an auspicious day for burial. Every Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, future generations will go to the grave to worship. In recent years, the country has carried out cremation for land resources, planning and other reasons, and some places have flattened their graves, but this has also been opposed by some rural farmers.

Why don't rural elderly accept cremation and insist on burial? Bian Xiao interviewed most rural elderly people, basically because of the following points.

First, burial in China has a history of thousands of years and has become a custom. It is unacceptable for farmers to change burial into cremation at once. There is a saying in the countryside that the deceased is the biggest, and the rural elderly asked to be buried in that place before their death. Later generations generally do what the old people want, and there are some feudal superstitions in rural areas. The geomantic problems in ancestral graves have affected the fortune and health of future generations.

Second: Because the rural areas in China are vast and sparsely populated, there are some different customs and habits in different places, so it is difficult to change them at once when burying the dead.

Third, according to the current national plan, only one county will set up crematoriums in remote rural areas. Because some rural areas are far away from the county seat, crematoriums involve many fees, such as makeup fees, morgue fees, relatives' transportation fees, etc., which is not a small expense.

Although burial is a waste of land resources in China to a certain extent, which leads the country to advocate cremation, China has a history of thousands of years, involving culture and feudal superstitions. Therefore, Bian Xiao finds it hard to accept and understand that rural farmers will be cremated immediately, even if they have to be cremated completely, there will be a transition period.

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