Trends in the development of burial

For thousands of years, burial has been the most common way for Chinese people to bury their ashes. However, with the passage of time, burials have been increasingly exposed as a waste of land, destruction of green space, pollution of the environment and other problems, and can no longer meet the requirements of social progress and development, reform of the traditional way of burial has become a prominent issue in the funeral reform.

On March 31, 2010, the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People's Republic of China and the Social Science Literature Publishing House of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences jointly held a conference on the 2010 Green Book of Funeral in Beijing, disclosing that the three major focuses of China's funeral reform in 2010 were the implementation of preferential funeral policies, the implementation of green burials and the standardization of funeral services.

In particular, green burial methods will be vigorously promoted. In the rural cremation area, to promote the construction of public cemeteries in rural areas, increase law enforcement efforts, in accordance with the law, to deal with the "second burial in the coffin". In developed countries in the West has been from traditional burial to flower burial, tree burial, lawn burial and other environmentally friendly burial. To study and formulate policies to advocate, encourage and support the new burial method, according to local conditions to promote the new burial method.

Funeral reform is a good thing for the country and the people, for the benefit of future generations. Every year in April is the funeral publicity month, governments at all levels are using a variety of publicity methods to guide the general public to change the traditional concept of funeral, set up a civilized, thrifty, green, land-saving funeral new style, changing customs, civilized funeral, saving land resources, protect beautiful mountains and rivers, *** with the construction of a harmonious and happy home.

With the improvement of people's living standards, funeral reform initially advocated wreaths, simple body farewells and other forms of mourning, is not suitable for the masses of the "appetite". Especially with the development of society, population growth, sharp decline in resources and environmental degradation, triggered a new revolution in the funeral industry to address the handling of human remains and human living environment as the core content, advocating low-carbon sacrifices, green burial has become the direction of the transformation of China's funeral industry. The so-called green funeral, broadly defined as the full use of advanced science and technology, advanced facilities and equipment and advanced management concepts to promote funeral security, ecological security, resource security and improve the overall effectiveness of the funeral of the coordination and unity of the goal to advocate the standardization of the funeral as a means to promote the coordination of the human society, sustainable development of the funeral model. And green funeral in the narrow sense refers to the concept of environmental protection, that is, the implementation of funeral reform, reduce resource consumption, reduce and control pollution emissions. The continuous enrichment of the green funeral mode is the progress of the people's thinking, but also the people's new understanding of the funeral culture, which enhances the height of the whole society's understanding of the funeral culture.

Funeral reform is to transform the development of the main line, to leapfrog the development of the goal, in line with the development of the times and characteristics of the momentum, profoundly elucidated the opportunities and challenges faced by the funeral, adhere to the funeral reform without wavering, to promote the development of funeral undertakings without stopping, to improve the level of funeral services without relaxing. First, the construction of service funeral. Taking the satisfaction of the masses as the standard, improve the quality of funeral services, constantly expand service programs, innovative service methods, the implementation of service brand strategy, increase social acceptance and satisfaction. Second, the construction of green funeral. Green funeral is derived from the concept of sustainable development, green environmental protection and low-carbon model is the future development trend of the funeral industry, to gradually guide the masses to change customs, abandon funeral stereotypes, and completely eliminate the "white consumption". Third, the construction of cultural funeral. Publicize the traditional virtues of the Chinese people, inheritance and development of funeral culture, online memorial services, family memorials and other forms of better penetration, and gradually rise to meet the psychological support of the masses and the height of spiritual needs. Fourth, building innovative funerals. Increase research and development efforts to strengthen cremation and incineration, embalming, pollution control and other aspects of funeral technology innovation, in promoting the modern funeral process to give full play to the supporting role of various innovations. Fifth, building a harmonious funeral. Protect and improve people's livelihood, maintain fairness and justice, increase the government's public **** financial security, to achieve funeral reform from administrative orders to the policy of subsidies for the transformation, to achieve equalization of funeral services.