After death, the more solemn the funeral, the more respected this person is before he dies. There is a special ceremony in the funeral, that is, before the burial, there must be a "coffin carryer" to send him a spirit, and the higher the status of the coffin bearer, the more honorable it is.
For example, after the death of Hong Kong director Liu Jialiang, everyone may not know who Liu Jialiang is and how high his status is. But look at his coffin bearer, you know his status.
Liu Jialiang's coffin bearers were Zou Wenhuai, Jackie Chan, Xie Xian, Yang Shoucheng, Dillon, Lin Xiaoming, and Jacky Cheung. Among them, Zou Wenhuai and Lin Xiaoming's status in the film and television circle can be queried by themselves if they do not understand, and the rest of the people do not need to be introduced. This shows Liu Jialiang's position in the Hong Kong performing arts industry.
See one of the biggest funerals of 1936 today.
In 1936, Mr. Lu Xun died of illness in Shanghai at the age of 55. After Lu Xun's death, the whole of China was in an uproar, and 300,000 people sent Lu Xun off at the time of the funeral. Among them, the funeral committee consisted of 13 people, and the coffin carrying person consisted of 16 people, which can be said to be the highest standard funeral at that time.
The funeral committee consisted of Thirteen people, namely Cai Yuanpei, Neishan Guanzuo, Song Qingling, Smedley, Shen Junru, Xiao Shan, Mao Dun, Hu Yuzhi, Hu Feng, Zhou Zuoren, and Zhou Jianren.
Cai Yuanpei was known as one of the four elders of the Kuomintang, the old president of Peking University, and the most famous educator at that time. Soong Ching Ling was the wife of Sun Yat-sen and the mother of the Republic of China at that time.
Uchiyama is Japanese and a well-known expert in Sino-Japanese friendship. Smedley is a well-known American journalist and writer who has spent 12 years in China and has a deep affection for China.
Later, Xiao Shan, Mao Dun, Hu Yuzhi, Hu Feng, Zhou Zuoren, and Zhou Jianren were all literary figures at that time, and they were also big men in the cultural circles at that time.
The 16 people for Lu Xun were Hu Feng, Ba Jin, Huang Yuan, Lu Diqian, Li Liewen, Meng Shihuan, Jin Yi, Zhang Tianyi, Wu Langxi, Chen Baichen, Xiao Qian, Nie Qiyi, Ouyang Shan, Zhou Wen, Cao Bai, and Xiao Jun.
Their backgrounds are not small, these people are the representatives of young writers at that time, and later basically everyone became everyone and contributed their own strength to the development of Chinese culture and education.
Lu Xun's funeral was attended by 300,000 people, and the grand event was unprecedented.
At the funeral, Song Qingling put a flag embroidered with the "national soul" and covered Mr. Lu Xun's coffin. Then there were sixteen coffins, and it was a total of ten kilometers from the funeral home to the cemetery, and all of them walked to mr. Li.
Finally, when he was buried, he used Xian Xinghai's improvised "Song of Rest": May you rest in peace, rest in peace! May you rest in peace, rest in peace, rest in the land....
This "Song of Rest" was composed by Xian Xinghai temporarily after receiving the news of Lu Xun's death. What many people don't know is that Xian Xinghai is a famous musician who wrote "The Yellow River Chorus".
Lu Xun wrote a will before his death: he would not receive a single penny from anyone for the funeral. Quickly converge, bury, pull down. Don't do anything about remembrance.
Unfortunately, it backfired, Lu Xun had the wind and arrogance of a literati, and did not like to be lively. What he did not expect was that after his death, it was empty of people and became the most grand funeral of the year.