What are the harmful effects of the centuries-old tradition of burial, which is gradually being banned in rural areas?

The harmful effects of earth burial are easy to breed bacteria, waste of land resources, and consume too much manpower, material and financial resources, in rural areas to promote the process of cremation is a little bumpy, but the results of the expected is good.

I. The corpses buried in the earth are simply petri dishes for bacterial viruses.

Earth burial refers to burying a body in the soil and letting it degrade on its own, and is a burial method popular among the Chinese people for thousands of years. The body is not treated in any way, and the internal organs of the body will harbor countless bacteria within a few days, and this toxic or non-toxic corpse water will go deep into the ground. If a new grave is built next to a field in the countryside, the food grown on that field for a short period of time may be at risk of causing disease, which is a serious blow to rural areas with poor sanitation and medical conditions. This could lead to a massive virus infection, with unimaginable results.

Second, one person one grave, too wasteful of land resources.

The scale of earth burial is much larger than cremation, the grave is basically about ten square meters, the rich people prefer to repair the grave bigger, they believe that this will bring blessings to the dead people, but also to their own family to bring an unexpected charm. The most important thing is feng shui, feng shui treasure is the most suitable place for the most graves, the old generation of this old thought to change is very difficult.

Fengshui treasure land is generally sunny, rainy place, such favorable geographical conditions is a good place to grow food. But when earth burial graves use up this evil treasure land, where does the grain go to grow? With the increase in population, land is already very scarce in our country, burial is simply in a large number of unreasonable waste.

Three, the earth burial ceremony is too cumbersome, manpower, financial and material resources are trampled.

Most people have experienced rural burial ceremonies, coffins, burial goods, stone and so on, cover a grave difficult investment is no less than building a house; and burial wine cost more than frightening, the average poor family to save enough, borrow enough money to carry out a burial funeral. Most people are powerless to spit out those expensive dowry is that so to the coffin stuffed, the living people with bad?