Are more funeral routines in rural areas turning poverty alleviation and income increase into coffin books?

One-stop funeral industry: "a set of unexpected things"

The reporter's investigation found that the current funeral customs are more and more "industrialized" and a complete "industrial chain" has been derived.

A chairman of the village's Red and White Council said that funeral customs are being "updated". At one time, most of the cemeteries chosen by villagers were near ancestral graves. Now some people are willing to spend thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan to buy Feng Shui Yin Zhai.

The tomb has also been upgraded from the past soil structure to the brick-concrete structure, and even more exquisite, it has to be plastered with marble. The cost of materials and labor is three or four thousand yuan to ten thousand yuan. The coffin should use at least Chinese parasol trees, preferably black pine and Chinese toon.

In some counties and districts in the east, the "paper products" burned at funerals have developed from a few wreaths in previous years into "a set of unexpected things": pots, pans, stoves, gas tanks, buildings, gardens, refrigerators, washing machines and many other electrical appliances, and cars, televisions and mobile phones must have built-in model batteries. It is roughly estimated that a set of "paper goods" will cost four or five thousand yuan to be fully prepared.

"There are more and more ceremonies, more and more complicated, and the waste is naturally more and more serious."

The director of a township civil affairs office in southwest China said that a local dance team was invited to dance at the funeral, and some of them spent more than 5,000 yuan.

"The more famous the dance team, the higher the price."

In recent years, "car cannon" has become popular in the local area, and family members invite air cannons at funerals to make a louder sound than traditional firecrackers.

The books behind the funeral industry chain are surprising. According to the calculation of local funeral expenses in a county in central China, it is found that the cost can be reduced by 20,000 yuan to 3,000 yuan only by building a traditional ceramic tile burial grave in the ashes cemetery, and there is no need to invite Mr. Feng Shui, geotechnical workers, hand blowers and so on. And there is no need to pay for the coffin ceremony and the decoration of the mourning hall. The per capita burial expenses can save about 40,000 yuan.

The county party secretary of a county in the east estimates that there are about 8,000 old people who die every year in this county. According to the average funeral expenses of 25,000 yuan per person, the county will spend 200 million yuan on this item every year.

Improving the funeral ceremony and keeping the funeral simple should be the direction.

At present, the masses are obviously at a loss, but they are wrapped in funeral customs. A certain place in southwest China has made great efforts to promote the funeral reform, but some cadres encountered an embarrassing scene when they went to work at home: someone knelt down on the spot and "begged" to allow them to properly handle the funeral.

Some funeral practitioners believe that the key to funeral reform lies in effectively breaking old psychological habits.

"The vast majority of villagers want to be frugal, but they are worried about being stabbed in the back and saying that they are not filial."

The chairman of the Red and White Council in a village in central China said. Also, because of the cognition that the funerals left over from the countryside are related to family wealth for a long time, many villagers dare not openly object, although they don't want to continue this strange funeral.

Funeral habits seem to be a family's "trivial matter", but behind it is rural civilization. Improving funeral ceremony and simplifying funeral should be the direction of rural funeral.

Nowadays, Shandong, Jiangxi, Yunnan and other places frequently promote funeral customs. Jiangxi, Shandong and other places have introduced action plans and reform measures to promote rural customs and promote rural customs and civilization.

In Dayu, Jiangxi, "Mr. Feng Shui" became a member of the Rural Civilization Council, and the "house-side grave" and "roadside grave" disappeared, with less paper money pollution and noise disturbing the people, and he was in a good mood.