Why should people be cremated or buried more than three days after death?

It turns out that people can't be buried until the first seven days after they die. Moreover, the funeral procession is still very grand, the dutiful son and grandson La Yu. This is because on the seventh day after his death, the soul of the deceased will come back to see the world before he can leave with peace of mind. Due to the hot weather in summer and the lack of refrigeration equipment in ancient times, the body is likely to rot after seven days. As a result, the time for the corpse to stay was shortened to three days.

In fact, three-day mortuary is not a feudal superstition, but has a certain scientific basis. The most important thing is to prevent the loss of the Lord from being "a big mistake" and to bury the relatives who faked their deaths in coffins.

"Fake death", also known as weak death in medicine, refers to a state in which people's circulation, breathing and brain functions are highly suppressed and their vital functions are extremely weak. His life refers to a state that ordinary clinical examination means can't check people. On the outside, they seem dead, but in fact they are alive. After active treatment, you can still wake up. Generally speaking, this person's breathing, heartbeat, pulse and blood pressure are very weak, which can fool us ordinary people and some "quacks" and is considered dead. If the experts examine it carefully, they can judge whether it is suspended animation or not and whether they can wake up again.

If you don't die for three days and don't nail the coffin, there will always be a wake. In case this person wakes up from suspended animation, you can treat him in time to avoid "making a big mistake". There were cases of suspended animation in China during the Spring and Autumn Period.

Bian Que was an imperial doctor during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. He travels around the world and specializes in incurable diseases. It is said that he has the ability to bring back the dead. One day, when Bian Que arrived in Guo, he heard that the prince of Guo died suddenly half a day ago and was preparing to be buried. With a try attitude, he came to the gate of the palace, claiming to be a doctor, and asked to see if the "corpse" of the prince could be saved.

The gatekeeper thinks that Bian Que is crazy about making contributions and making money. He wants to get rid of Bian Que because he didn't come back after his death. Bian Que sighed and said, "If you don't believe what I said, then try to meet the prince according to my method first, and see if his nose is swollen and his thighs and genitals are still hot."

Hearing this, the gatekeeper was dubious, afraid to make decisions without authorization, and hurried into the palace to report. Guo Jun tried Bian Que's methods, and all of them came true. So he got scared and went out to see Bian Que personally, asking the imperial doctor to save his son's life. After Bian Que entered the palace, he observed:

"The prince's illness is the so-called' corpse syncope'. People accept the harmony and health of Yin and Yang between heaven and earth. At present, the imbalance between Yin and Yang of the Prince, the internal and external barriers, and the upper and lower barriers lead to the chaos of the Prince's pulse, which is unrecognizable and looks like a dead silence, but not death. "

After Bian Que and his disciples were rescued, the prince soon woke up. After more than 20 days of decoction conditioning, the prince's illness was cured. Since then, Bian Que's reputation of coming back to life (saving the "dead") has spread all over the world. In fact, Prince Guo only faked his death, but after treatment, he successfully recovered.

If he is really dead, no matter how severe Bian Que is, it won't help. Prince Guo must have been treated by Guo's physician before he died, but their level was too low to see that it was suspended animation, so he was judged dead. If Bian Que, a doctor who cured too much, was not treated in time, Guo's monarch might make a big mistake, bury his alive son himself and send him to the "underworld".

Since then, both dignitaries and ordinary people have remembered this lesson. After death, people should be dead for at least three days, and then nailed to the coffin board for burial, so as not to bury their dead relatives alive. In fact, there is another consideration besides preventing fake dead relatives from being buried alive and "making a big mistake".