What are the rules of traditional funerals?

Funerals are popular all over the world. It came into being in the middle of Paleolithic Age. In western Europe, most tombs are the earliest known tombs. During the primitive commune period, all clans had fixed cemeteries. In slave society and feudal society, families also have fixed burial places. Burials usually bury one body, but several people or clans are buried together.

Burial of the Han nationality has a history of thousands of years. In ancient times, it was emphasized to be buried in the ground. Because "Zhou Li" stipulates that "all sentient beings will die, and when they die, they will return to the earth", and a heavy burial is filial piety. After the founding of New China, it was changed to cremation. Eskimos can't be buried in the ice and snow, so every time they build a small igloo, they bury the dead.

Burying the dead was originally regarded as a sacred place, but later it was avoided as an unclean place, and it was painted white with lime to facilitate identification and avoid going astray. This is the etymology of metaphor. However, many ethnic groups in these caves and cemeteries still regard them as holy places and worship them, such as thousands of cave temples in West India and Sri Lanka.

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The deceased usually takes a prone position, and the orientation is related to religion. For example, a Muslim deceased must turn his right side towards Mecca. Buddha's head points north; The ancient Egyptians faced the west, which was immediately called the gateway to the western paradise.

There are differences between men and women in Daguari, Africa. According to a scholar, a person's body faces east, which means that he works at sunrise-hunting and farming; The female corpse faces west, which means cooking dinner at sunset. Babylonians and Sumerians were confined to the upper class, and servants with low status could only bend over as if waiting for service.

When the dead American Indian was buried underground, he curled up like a fetus, which seemed to mean returning to his original place. Some ethnic groups adopt vertical burial. 1970, there was a so-called "bury love Good Society" in Vienna. After the members died, plastic pipes were placed and holes were dug for vertical burial.