An essay to change customs is Ningdu.

When I was a child, whenever I heard noisy gongs and drums, I felt a trace of sadness and sadness in my heart. My hometown is in a small mountain village, and people's thoughts seem to be imprisoned in this mountain-backward, feudal and superstitious. In our place, there are always gongs and drums at funerals. In our young hearts, the "lively and extraordinary" sound of gongs and drums announces the passing of another life, which makes people shudder. I can't let go of my childhood memories until now, but in that indescribable infinite emotion, I gradually became more disgusted and helpless. Every funeral is almost a big event, with a banquet, a band, playing for several days, and finally putting on costumes for burial. According to "Lao Li", this is the last journey of the dead. But I don't understand, can this still let the deceased "rest in peace"? So I thought to myself: If I die one day, I must not be like them. I would rather burn my body with a raging fire and then drift to the ends of the earth with the wind. Isn't this simple way better? In fact, no matter how lively the ceremony is, it is just a memorial to the deceased, and making the funeral so ostentatious and wasteful is not only for face, but also ignorance and feudal superstition. In fact, there are still many such bad habits: adults say that when people are sick, they don't see a doctor, but they invite "gods" and "dance gods"; Young men and women play with friends to get married, but also look at the eight characters; Some people even have to ask someone to do some calculations when they go out for a long trip to see if they are suitable for traveling ... all these bad habits are common in life. It is the glory of socialism to be proud of advocating science and ashamed of ignorance.