What kind of evolution did funeral customs and rituals have in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom?

In the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, people did not need to cry when they died, and funeral customs changed. A witness to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement, an Englishman, said in his Personal Experiences of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Revolution: ? All Buddhist funerals and general Chinese sacrificial customs were strictly forbidden. They instituted a Christian funeral service, with the officiating priest praying beside the coffin.?