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Why is earth burial popular in rural areas instead of cremation?

Dirt is fragrant and healing. When I was a child, my grandfather's hand was cut by a scythe, and he grabbed a handful of dirt and put it over the wound, and the bleeding stopped.

Grandfather said, the crops are inseparable from the soil, the soil has nutrition, before growing food. That's why he could also cure diseases. Once, when grandma vomited blood, grandpa grabbed a handful of stove heart soil and boiled water for grandma to drink, and grandma stopped vomiting blood.

Grandpa said, farmers regenerate to the land as food and clothing, and die also still follow it to go, in another place still farming life. If the people living in the countryside, they die is not willing to leave the homeland, that love only they understand. If a person dies and his body is moved alive to the crematorium in the city to be cremated, the dead person will be angry and will not close his eyes, he will shed more than tears in the other world.

Man, in a place to stay a long time, there is his eternal place, born in the Si, long in the Si, death also in the Si. This is a kind of love, attachment to the hometown and the land.

Grandpa, before his death, also instructed his father not to listen to the words of the village chief, do not go to the cremation, to give him an intact body, and so I went to another world, see the king of Hades is not shy of it.