Do you know exactly how the "corpse oil" of the crematorium is handled?
Is the "corpse oil" in various thriller novels or film and television dramas real?
There has always been a lot of speculation about the whereabouts of the "corpse oil" in the cremation, and some even speculate that these oils finally reached the catering industry and became the processing oil for many dishes.
It is only because "corpse oil" often appears in various thriller novels or film and television dramas that many people have unlimited reverie about "corpse oil".
But we need to know that the body will undergo high temperature burning during the cremation process, and the so-called "corpse oil" is a layer of grease.
People imagine that after the flesh is burned, the fat will form a layer of oil, just like we usually use pork to stir-fry, and the fat part will fry a lot of oil.
But this idea does not actually hold, because the temperature at the time of cremation is very high, can reach about 700 to 1000 degrees Celsius, in this environment the grease is impossible to survive, and these greases will be more like the flame of the accelerant, so that the fire is fiercer, the temperature is higher, and finally the end of these greases can only be evaporated.
In the end, the cremation can only be left with the ashes of the corpse, so we often see that after the cremation, there is an urn to place the ashes of the deceased.
Such a thing as "corpse oil" will not appear at all, and there is no possibility of it flowing out.
Although cremation sounds very cruel, so that people do not have a whole corpse after death, can only be turned into a small pile of ashes, but cremation does have many benefits, will be widely accepted by modern people.
Since cremation was introduced, the debate over who is more appropriate for cremation and burial has never stopped.
So how did traditional burials develop? What does it mean for Chinese culture?
In the early primitive period, there was no habit of burying the deceased, and the remains at that time were basically discarded at will, and there would be no attachment to them.
Later, with the passage of time, human beings began to pay attention to the dead, and began to lay a layer of leaves on the body or send the body to a cave to bury the dead in this way.
In the cave people at the top of the mountain, their handling of the dead was no longer convenient, but more ritualistic.
At that time, the cave people on the top of the mountain began to consciously preserve the remains, not only buried with a layer of soil, but also placed next to the remains the deceased's favorite ornaments, which was also the beginning of the burial.
In the Xia, Shang and Zhou periods, "tombs" arose, but although there were "tombs", they did not have a tomb pile or a monument, and only placed a lot of burial items in the tomb.
Then in the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period, "tombs" appeared, and the reason why the shape of the mounds was only to have a clear sign that was convenient for future generations to worship.
The foundation period of the ancient ceremonial system was the Western Zhou Dynasty, at which time the funeral rites were further consolidated, forming a very traditional "funerary culture", which was also steadily passed down with the long river of history.
In fact, earth burial is a way of disposing of corpses, because using soil to cover up corpses was the most effective and common sense solution at that time, and earth burial also controlled the damage of corpses to the environment to a certain extent, and also reduced the probability of the emergence and spread of infectious diseases.
Moreover, burial in the traditional concept of Chinese is also the best arrangement for a person's life, and it is believed that the ancestors buried in the ground will protect their descendants like the roots of plants nourishing plant branches and leaves.
Since burial has become the traditional Chinese burial method and continues to this day, why is cremation method introduced now? Is it better to be buried in the earth or cremated?
Cremation is actually not a new product, as early as the Neolithic Age, there were prototypes of cremation, and cremation in the modern sense originated in central Europe before 1800 BC, spread to the western frontier areas of the mainland in the Spring and Autumn Period, and later spread to the mainland during the Tang Dynasty and flourished.
To say that the most popular period of cremation is the Song Liaojin era, when basically all burials were cremated, and the traditional burial was abandoned, and then cremation began to gradually decline in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.
Until after the reform and opening up, the government began to promote cremation, and successively promulgated a number of regulations to advocate and supervise the people to promote cremation, but at that time, the people's thinking had been affected by traditional burial, so the implementation was not smooth, especially in rural areas, you can still see the emergence of graves.
However, because the number of graves is increasing, the land area available is also decreasing, and the emergence of cremation can solve this problem very well, in addition to the cremation does not require coffins, but also saves wood resources, so modern people are more and more willing to promote cremation as a burial method.
However, along with cremation, there are high cremation process costs, cemetery costs, etc., the price of urban cemetery fees dissuades a large number of people, which also makes cremation very difficult to implement, more people have invested in burials that are more in line with the traditional culture of the mainland, so there are still many controversies about whether it is better to bury or cremation.
With the progress of the times and the development of science and technology, as well as tree burial, ice burial and other ways to freshly bake, it can only be said that there will only be more and more choices for future burial methods, and it will take a long time to decide the victory or defeat.