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Why do you say "the dead are the biggest"? Does respecting the dead mean respecting life?

The reason why the dead are great is that the dead good people and bad people can't affect our normal life, so we should pay tribute to them. So the best way to respect a dead person is to look at him objectively and comment on him.

Respect the funeral way of the deceased.

Wu Fei, a professor in Peking University, thinks that burial should be resumed. When this statement came out, it won applause from the general public. Cremation is to burn human remains into ashes, put them into small urns, and properly place the urns. However, the simple practice of cremation has not been recognized by the general public.

Therefore, Professor Wu Fei's proposal is not a whim, but based on the traditional culture of China. China has said since ancient times that "the dead are the biggest". In front of the deceased, all kinds of past grievances will be written off. Forgiving the past means forgiving yourself. This is both a respect for the deceased and a respect for life.

Funeral etiquette

Funeral etiquette is the epitome of traditional culture, which originated from the soul view and the world view after death in ancient society, developed the etiquette norms to maintain family filial piety ethics, and focused on the etiquette system and moral norms to carefully pursue the distance between the living and the dead. Funeral etiquette is the long-term accumulation and development of human survival wisdom for thousands of years. Its cultural connotation is extremely rich and complete, and its system is quite large and diverse.

After entering the modern society, this life etiquette to deal with death should not be ignored or abandoned. It should be the re-realization of the dignity value of human life, and it is necessary to cultivate a higher level of moral cultivation and ethical care, treat the dead with funeral etiquette and comfort the living.