What do you mean by funeral?

Funeral is a natural elimination of human beings and a civilized form of dealing with the remains of the deceased.

Funeral culture is formed and precipitated in the process of social development, which concentrates people's understanding of death, the value of survival, human nature and affection and other conclusions about the origin of human beings.

More than one million years ago, our ancestors worked, lived and multiplied in the vast and rich land of the motherland. After a long time, people's life activities expanded, primitive people were gradually replaced by fixed living groups, and the social organization of clan commune appeared. In the commune, there is no exploitation and oppression by others, and there is no inequality between the rich and the poor. Every member has an equal status.

Cultural development

On the issue of funeral, it is extremely simple. For example, after the death of a member, future generations can't bear to watch the dead body rot, so they cover it with firewood and bury it in the wild. They don't dig graves and have no manners. However, with the progress of society, people adopt burial. In the primitive society of China, religious superstitions about the immortality of the soul gradually appeared. There was no habit of burying relatives after death. After the concept of immortality of the soul was born, there was a custom of burying relatives.

The origin of funeral culture in China can be traced back to the late Paleolithic period. Around the remains of cavemen, red powder containing hematite is scattered, and there are also decorations such as drilled animal teeth, stone beads and bone pendants buried with them. This is almost the earliest primitive tomb. With the development of history, classes appeared, and the "three, six and nine grades" of classes were also reflected everywhere in funeral culture, in cemeteries, burial utensils and funerary objects.