China has a history of 5,000 years, and there were four major ancient civilizations in the world in the past, but now there is only one left, which is also the basis for standing tall in the world and saying that "the mainland has a deep cultural heritage".
Countless things have happened over the millennia, and one of the reasons we can stand firm and become stronger is to learn from our ancestors and listen to the wisdom they left behind.
The two are on the same starting line, one of them is talented but hard working, the other is just thinking about fantasies that never begin, and after a few years the person who struggles hard has experience in the field, while the other stands still. Be brave and take the first step anyway.
The wisdom left by the ancients is far more than that, and they usually add serious consequences to make future generations pay attention to them, so as to play a warning role, such as burning the clothes worn before the death of the family, otherwise the deceased will have no clothes to wear in another world.
Funerary culture has a thousand years of history, in this system human death is not the end but a new beginning, out of the body in the form of ghosts, continue to survive in another world.
Relevant historical records: "The gully of death and abandonment, the feelings of man cannot bear it, so there is the righteousness of burial." The buried, hidden also. ”
In feudal society, it was believed that the fall of leaves returned to the roots, and it was the best result to return people to dust after death. Funeral culture covers a wide range, in addition to psychology, faith, but also extends hospice care, death education and other content.
- The theory of gods and ghosts
In the concept of the ancients, people become ghosts after death, may float in the human world or live in another world, the earthly government has currency circulation like the human world, if they do not burn the clothes of the deceased, they may be ragged and ridiculed, fire is a medium for transmitting goods.
In addition, feudal society believed that the clothes of the deceased were obscure, and that something bad might happen if they continued to stay at home.
- Missed feelings
In the Legendary Yan Mao, it is said: "The noble concubine gave a dust-avoiding rhinoceros, saying: 'Seeing things and thinking of people on another day, when you see an object, you will think of something related to it.'"
There are many young people whose parents have died one after another to go to other cities, just to avoid touching the scene, clothes are the same, if you can see the clothes worn by your relatives every day and often think of each other, it is a kind of mental torture for the living people.
- Scientific truth
In fact, burning clothes is scientific reason, some people die is not the end of life but the disease, may suffer from infectious disease death, then the body is best cremated, to prevent the bacteria from spreading to others, if the infectious disease death clothes are best burned to prevent the continued spread.
In ancient times, the level of medical treatment and the concept of disinfection were far less than those of today, and it was relatively easy to break out of the plague.
"Yongzhou Longxing Temple's Records of The Land": "There are many epidemics in the south, and the laborers die first." "The plague spread rapidly in a short period of time, causing a large number of people to die, and one of the official methods was to burn the clothes, which may have become a custom over time.
Therefore, there is a scientific basis for burning clothes after death.