Why are rural funerals so lavish? The reasons are thought-provoking

The dead are held in the highest respect, and burial brings peace to the deceased. Today's rural funerals no longer look the way they did in my childhood.

When I was a child, when someone in the village passed away, the whole village would come to help.

When someone dies, the rice steamer is opened, and people come without being invited.

Back then, during the campaign to destroy the Four Olds, there were no Taoist priests performing rites, and the climax of the whole event was the memorial ceremony on the night before the coffin was carried out.

After the guests' offerings came the family's offerings.

Dutiful sons and worthy grandsons knelt in rows. After the three kneelings and nine kowtows were done, the final moment before the coffin, the sound of weeping shook the heavens.

With the kindness of one's parents not yet repaid and the living and the dead separated forever, how short life is. How could sorrow not rise from within?

Onlookers were equally moved, sighing and wiping away tears.

The deceased is honored.

Of course, nowadays when paper spirit houses are burned, they are all villas. Cars and iPhones are standard, and there is even a second wife.

What one wanted but could not have in life, one has everything after death.

The countryside was once the last pure land, and farmers were the kindest and most simple-hearted people, but this new way of thinking has slowly destroyed the spiritual home of rural people, causing many rural people today to be unable to return to the past.

In China's countryside, we already feel the inner torment of having no home to return to, but is no one thinking about the collapse of the countryside's complete fall?

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