Gongga county immigrants

Any parent must agree that one of the biggest difficulties experienced after the death of a family member is to explain to their children what happened and what happened next. You should tell them a naked fact: won't entertainment and games last forever? What words would you use: dead, dead, dead, lost, crossed, or asleep? This is a very, very old problem of origin.

The ancient death ceremony provided evidence for this.

Since civilization, parents should teach their children how to mourn, remember and dispose of their dead relatives whenever and wherever.

In the ancient world, death is an extremely complicated matter, which can be seen in bizarre death ceremonies from one culture to another all over the world.

Here are some of the oldest funeral ceremonies in history, which have brought death to a creepy new height, namely Zoroastrianism.

The ancient pre-religion of modern Iran was founded about 3,500 years ago and still exists in India, where the descendants of Iranian (Persian) immigrants are called Parsis.

An article entitled Zoroastrian Funeral, Zoroastrian View of Death published by scholar Catherine Beyer on October 7th described the first step of Zoroastrian funeral ceremony, in which a specially trained community member washed the dead with "desecrated bull urine".

Then the body was wrapped in linen and visited twice by Sagido.

Sagido is a dog full of spirit. It is believed that evil spirits can be driven away, and then put on the top of "Dakma" (Tower of Silence), torn into pieces, and finally swallowed up by a photo of 1938, showing the consequences of "celestial burial" in the German Federation.

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0), similar to Zoroastrianism in ancient times, today, about 80% of Tibetan Buddhists still choose the traditional "celestial burial".

This Buddhist ceremony has lasted for thousands of years. It is different from the Iranian/Indian ceremony because the deceased was cut into small pieces to feed the birds. A research article published on the Buddhist channel explained that Buddhists don't want to commemorate dead bodies by preservation because they are considered as empty shells without souls.

More importantly, in their doctrine of "respecting all life forms", if one person's ultimate behavior is to maintain the life of another creature, then this ceremony is actually the ultimate behavior of selfless sympathy and charity, which is the basic concept of Buddhism. Derigong Temple in Gongga County, mature, * * * was founded in 1 179, with a long history.

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0), the indigenous culture in the northwest of the United States carved wooden totem poles to symbolize the mythical characters and events and convey the experiences of the living and the recently deceased ancestors.

Haida people from southeastern Alaska threw their dead into a mass grave for wild animals to clean up.

However, Marian Bolscher tells us in her book Insider: Dialogue between Haida Society and Myth, published in 1988, that the death of a chief, shaman or warrior brings a series of complicated and bloodthirsty rituals.

It is believed that the dead wizard cured the sick, ensured the supply of fish and prey, and influenced the weather, trade expeditions and wars. They are chopped up and beaten into pulp with sticks so that they can be stuffed into suitcase-sized wooden boxes.

Once pressed in, these boxes were placed on totem poles in the mortuary outside the late shaman's home to help their souls go to the afterlife.

Wooden totem poles are located in the Skidgate Indian village of Haida tribe.

Ski Degert Bay, British Columbia, Canada 1878.

It is called "endocrinology" by anthropologists. Many ancient cultures treated the dead by eating corpses.

Herodotus (3.

38) The first mention of "funeral cannibalism" was made by the Kalati people in India.

In addition, according to an article published today, Agol people in northern India "ate the bodies of the dead floating in the Ganges in pursuit of immortal and supernatural power", and melanesians in ancient Papua New Guinea and Vari people in Brazil held a "feast of the dead" in an attempt to "connect the living with the dead" to express their fear of death in their communities.

Some experts believe that endocrinology may be what the deceased expected, as for the tribe and its immediate family Charles E.

Gordon Fraser (1863- 1899) wrote a feast of cannibalism on Tanner Island in Vanuatu, New Hebrides, which was about 1885- 1889.

Suttee is a funeral custom of ancient Egyptians, Vedic Indians, Goths, Greeks and Skettians.

Today, Sadie is banned almost everywhere. She asks widows to be burned to ashes on her dead husband's woodpile.

Sometimes they voluntarily end their lives, but there are many records showing that women are forced to carry out Sadi, which is incredible without any reason. He is an honorary professor of humanities, * * and Asian studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

In his rich book "The Reappearance of Sadie: Four Eighteenth Centuries", Sadie ceremony is considered to have originated from "discouraging wives from killing rich husbands" and sold to the public as a way for husbands and wives to take risks together in the afterlife.

In the 1920s, the British illustrator Frederic Shoberl burned a Hindu widow with her husband's body.

(In the public sphere) Although the threat of Sati ceremony must make Hindi women of different ages and beliefs feel extremely scared, according to Ahmad ibn Fadlan, the writer of * * * in10th century, the death of an ancient Scandinavian nobleman brought about an "unusually barbaric" funeral.

After the death of a chief, his body was placed in a temporary grave for ten days, and a slave girl was "chosen" to join his journey after death.

Sacrifice girls were forced to get drunk, and psychedelic mushrooms were used to strengthen drinks. As a way to "change the vitality of the chief", she was forced to have sex with every man in the village, and they would say to her, "Tell your master that I did it because I love him.

"In 20 15, the writer Mark Miller wrote an article about the origin of ancient times, entitled" Chronicle of the violent and carnival funerals of pirate leaders in the 10 century ",which discussed these ceremonies in detail and explained that after the constitution" * * * ",the girl was taken to another tent, where she had sex with six pirate men.

The last person strangled the girl with a rope, and the matriarch of the settlement stabbed her to death at the ceremony.

Toast and slave girls were finally put to death on wooden boats. Dead toast and slave girls are sometimes burned on symbolic stone boats.

This example is located in Sweden v? ster？ Badelon Da near the south.

In 1573 A.D. (3rd BC), the Gelao people in Gongxian County, southern China were slaughtered by the Ming Dynasty, and now they are almost completely forgotten. If it weren't for their mysterious 160 coffin baskets, these coffin baskets were located 300 feet (9 1 m) high on the edge of the cliff and in natural caves above the river crab creek.

An article about China. Com said that the locals called Gubo people "sons of cliffs" and "undead in the sky", and the murals around the coffin were decorated with bright scarlet, depicting the lifestyle of the slaughtered people in ancient times. This is one of the hanging coffins of Ku people in Bainitang, Qiubei County, Wenshan Prefecture, China.

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0), we avoided some death ceremonies in the ancient world, and now we hope to better answer the questions that children will inevitably ask us.

You should quote the writer Robert Fulham to your children: "I believe imagination is stronger than knowledge."

That myth is more powerful than history.

Dreams are stronger than facts.

Hope always triumphs over experience.

Laughter is the only cure for sadness.

I believe that love is stronger than death.

Above: Hercules fought to save Alsace (1869- 187 1), the first baron Frederic Leighton.

Many ancient death ceremonies are very strange or terrible to modern people.