中西方葬礼文化差异
Funeral Cultural Differences between East and West
I will talk about the funeral cultural difference between Chine and western. If life is a trip, funeral is the end of the long journey. Death for people who believe in reincarnation does not mean the end of life, but the conversion of life. In other world .Funeral is to put the soul of the decead to the underworld. The funeral ceremony refers to the etiquette of living deal with the decead, and it is considered the last step of one’s whole life.
i love to be loved by youTo Chine people, death means the emancipation from earthliness. If people die in the hou peacefully, when he/she is extremely old, we call his/her funeral ‘white occasion’. As a very admirable way of death that one’s life ends at home without pain and dia is people’s long-cherished wish of lifetime and it’s also the glory of the family.杭州学校
beachheadFuneral preparation is ready shroud, coffin and for the dead. In China it’s very important and formal. There is a lot of custom taboos in this step. T he shroud is generally made from
cotton. Nobody will like his/her shroud made by fur or silk, becau Chine believe that furs can make people into animals in the other life. Silk is not ud to make shroud for it’s Chine pronunciation ‘duan’ which means bad for the death’s
children. The coffin is divided into different grades according to the hardness of the timber, the harder the better.
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grayveeA prerequisite for the implementation of the funeral, obviously, we must determine the person is dead. In China, people will cotton on the person’s nostrils to test whether or not people die. I t is named a fine cotton in The Book of Rites. A fine cotton is much accurate than directly testing by hand and show respect for the decead. If relatives were sure the person had been dead, everyone started crying. Crying means starting the funeral ceremony. In some place of China, especially in rural, people always open the roof tiles to wish the death go heaven.
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At the central plains region, it is bathed in his deathbed. Then put shroud on for him before he death. Medium civil funeral have “停灵”customs ,continued for three days, five
days or ven days, it shows relatives look forward to the resurrection of the decead, t aside enough time to the escape soul can return to when there is physical dependence.
Western funeral rituals and customs are esntially religious funeral rites. Western people advocate “individual-bad” and “individual-centered”, so people focus on rettlement of the decead “soul” at the funeral. Father
of repentance to him. This is also o hospice, so that the dying people will get correct view of the death of the decead, and get out of the fear of death. At death, under the auspices of Father give the decead corp washing, dressing, religious meaning of his sins are washed away, clean e God after the priest want to pray.
Chine cemeteries are generally located on hillsides since this is thought to improve Fengshui(geomantic omen ).The higher a grave is located, the better. At the graveside, when the coffin is taken down from the hear and lowered into the ground, all prent must turn away. Family members and other relatives throw a handful of earth into the gradoggy bag
ve before it is frilled. After the funeral, all of clothes worn by the mourners are burned to avoid had luck associated with death. After the coffin is buried, the keeper of the cemetery will also offer prayers to the decead. Family members and relatives are prented with a red packed(A sign of gratitude from the decead’s family, and the money in it must be spent).A white towel is also a sign of gratitude although it is also ud by funeral guests to wipe away perspiration. The eldest son of the decead will retrieve some earth from the grave to put into an incen holder, and the decead will be
worshipped by the family at home using an ancestral tablet.
Western funeral is religious funeral. The customs of western countries’ are influenced by their religions. Western funerals mainly pray for the decead, wish souls ascend to heaven as soon as possible. Christians thought people should give the decead’ soul need to be quiet after death ,so western funeral customs are simple and enmity. Confucian established the Chine traditional funeral rites. I n traditional Chine culture,
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the soul is immortal; it’s attached the gods, worshiped in the Temple. Later, the introduction of Buddhism, bring the “six reincarnation, reincarnation Health care “and other concepts. At the same time, the Chine local religion Taoism put forward the concept of Hell. Chine people mixed the different believe together, and formed Chine funeral customs-the Confucian tradition as the main body, the convergence of Buddhism and Taoism’s funeral rites.mars的意思
