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Rural "funeral reform" has not been popularized, suona and controversial, some people call for a ban, should be supported?

In rural areas, the two most important things in a person's life is the "red and white wedding". Parents consider their children's marriages to be their life's work, and the death of an elderly person is more important than the marriage. As the so-called "the dead are great", the ceremony of the dead is not only a kind of memorial, but also the embodiment of filial piety, which is a traditional culture.

However, in form, some rural people do deviate from the most fundamental direction, which should be condemned and reformed. However, "funeral reform" requires a gradual process of change, and the sonata does have some formalization and even comparison of the problem, but not everyone is like this, we should not "one size fits all" to look at this issue.

In fact, the first implementation of the "funeral reform" is to change the funeral to cremation, minimize the waste of agricultural land caused by the funeral. For a long time, rural areas do not have cemeteries like the city, and burial is usually the choice of digging a hole in your own farmland for burial. This y rooted notion of returning to rural roots has also encouraged this form of burial to be passed on from generation to generation. However, the traditional "mourning" is good, but the implementation of so many years has not improved, why?

For example, there are no cemeteries in the countryside. Although rural cemeteries have been tried in some areas, there are generally no cemeteries. Where my wife and I come from, there are no cemeteries. In the past, burials were strictly controlled. After some villagers cremated their dead elderly, their ashes remained scattered in large coffins, which were dragged to the ground for burial in the middle of the night. Funeral competitions wind up with the clamor of gongs and drums, a chorus of firecrackers, and even inviting dance troupes to dance. And before the burning of contraband, white graves burned paper money, bundles of paper and other daily use of items, now actually appeared a number of simulated coins, simulated objects, although there is also paper, but clearly inappropriate.