What are the rules at a traditional funeral?

Burial is popular all over the world. It arose around the middle of the Paleolithic period. In Western Europe, Mousterian burials are the earliest known earth burials. During the primitive communal period, clans had fixed burial grounds. In slave and feudal societies, families also had fixed burial grounds. Earthen burial tombs generally buried one body, but there are also several people or clans buried together.

The Han burials have a history of thousands of years, and in ancient times, it was a matter of honor to be buried in the ground, because the Zhou Rites stipulated that "all living beings must die, and death must be returned to the ground," and that a thick burial was only filial piety. After the founding of New China, cremation was standardized. Eskimos live in the snow and ice can not be buried, every building a small dome snow house to bury the dead.

Burial of the dead, initially regarded as a holy place, but later it is regarded as an unclean place to be avoided, and painted white with lime so that they can recognize and avoid the mistake of entering, this is the metaphorical etymology. However, such cave cemeteries are still regarded as sacred and worshipped by many ethnic groups, such as the thousands of cave temples in West India and Sri Lanka.

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The dead usually lie in a reclining position. p>The dead are generally lying down, facing the orientation of each and every religion, such as Muslims will make the dead right towards the holy land of Mecca; Buddhists head north pointing; Ancient Egyptians face the west, that is, to the Western world of bliss, so-called.

African Dagari men and women are different, according to a scholar said: male body face east, meaning that the sunrise - hunting and farming; female body face west, meaning that the sunset should be cooking dinner. Babylonian and Sumerian reclining position is limited to the identity of the high class, the lowly servant can only be flexed, as if on standby for service.

The American Indians buried their dead in the fetal position in a tightly wound manner, seemingly returning to their roots. A number of ethnic groups to adopt the standing burial, the so-called "standing burial enthusiasts club" in Vienna in 1970, members of the dead into a plastic tube, dug into the ground for the hole upright burial.