Funeral culture

Funeral culture is formed and precipitated in the process of social development, focusing on people's understanding of death, the value of survival, human nature and affection, and other issues related to the origin of the human race to think about the conclusion. Perhaps the answer is never complete, so we have been constantly thinking about the exploration, never stop thinking and exploration is our inheritance of traditional funeral culture process.

The origin of Chinese funeral culture can be traced back to the late Paleolithic period. The remains of cavemen were surrounded by red powder containing hematite, and were buried with drilled animal teeth, stone beads, bone pendants and other ornaments. This is almost the earliest and most primitive burial. With the development of history, the emergence of class, funeral culture is also reflected everywhere in the class of the "three, six, nine classes", in the cemetery, burial and burial goods and other aspects are reflected. From the Peking ape man, the upper part of the cave was used as a living room for the living, and the lower part as a burial ground for the dead. To the scale and luxury of the mausoleum of the first emperor of Qin Shi Huang, just like a picture of a palace city, the funeral rites of "death is like a matter of life" have been played to the extreme. Until the Ming and Qing Dynasties funeral etiquette has formed a set of grand and cumbersome funeral etiquette.

Throughout the earth burial period, earth burials were practiced mainly to prevent the dead from being eaten by wild animals, and also to give the dead an eternal rest and burial place. The Chinese people's passion for earth burial is partly due to the fact that they are very dependent on and attached to the land, and partly because they believe that burying the dead in the earth provides them with another space to move around. Since the founding of New China, China has gradually begun to promote cremation. With the development of social economy, material and cultural life is constantly enriched, people gradually from meeting the basic requirements of life to meet the level of spiritual needs. The funeral industry has also risen from meeting people's basic needs for the disposal of human remains to meeting people's spiritual needs. Non-profit pricing

Based on the characteristics of the demand for funeral services, the Opinion divides the funeral service area into basic services and extended services.

Basic services mainly include the necessary services such as the reception and transportation of human remains (including lifting and disinfection), storage (including cold storage), cremation, and storage of ashes.

Basic service fees are government pricing, by the local price authorities in conjunction with the relevant departments on the basis of cost monitoring or cost survey, taking into account the financial subsidies, in accordance with the principle of non-profit from the strict approval. Government price

Under the premise of guaranteeing the scale and quality of the supply of basic services, funeral service units may, according to the actual situation, properly carry out extended services. Extended services are in addition to the basic services, for the masses to choose special services, including body reshaping, body embalming, condolence facilities and equipment rental. For the extended services, the localities according to the local situation to implement government-guided pricing.

Considering that funeral supplies sold by funeral parlors are less selective, the Opinions require that funeral supplies such as urns, wreaths, and life jackets sold by funeral parlors should be subject to government-guided pricing or managed in other necessary ways according to law.

Beneficial funeral

In 2015, in funeral parlors, cemeteries and other public **** sacrificial places, Guangxi will be Nanning, Guilin, Liuzhou, three places as a collective flowerbed burial of the permanent organization of the place, Beihai for the sea burial site. High price intervention

In regulating the price of various types of cemeteries, "Opinions" requires localities to strengthen the pricing of operational cemeteries to guide the norms of behavior: the price is obviously high, if necessary, to intervene and management in accordance with the law. Charges for public cemeteries to take strict government pricing management, the implementation of low fee policy, to meet the basic needs of the masses.

"Opinions" particularly emphasized that funeral service units in the provision of ash storage compartments, funeral supplies, to focus on meeting the needs of low- and middle-income people. For urban and rural people in difficulty who enjoy various types of assistance from the civil affairs department, and for those who receive regular state pension subsidies and other difficult groups, governments around the world should study and formulate policies on fee reductions and exemptions for basic services, as well as government compensation methods. Project standard publicity

"Opinions" requires that the civil affairs departments around the establishment of funeral service charges and funeral supplies price publicity system, funeral service units should seriously implement the fee publicity system, in the service place prominently announced the service projects, charges, document basis, reduction and exemption policy, reporting telephone, service flow and service specifications, widely accepted by the community to monitor the content.

Price departments around the competent departments to work together with the civil affairs departments to grasp the region's funeral service fee policy to carry out a comprehensive clean-up, abolish unreasonable charges, reduce the high charges, and further standardize the funeral services and charges. After the cleanup of the local re-formulation of the funeral service charges policy, to be announced to the community.

"Opinions" pointed out that the competent price departments around the "12358" price reporting telephone, seriously investigate and deal with funeral service units to set up unauthorized charges, raise the fees, expand the scope of charges and mandatory services and charges, such as indiscriminate behavior, the nature of the bad, the circumstances are serious and the typical cases of public exposure.