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  2. Chinese funeral rituals - Wikipedia

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    e. Chinese funeral rituals comprise a set of traditions broadly associated with Chinese folk religion, with different rites depending on the age of the deceased, the cause of death, the deceased's marital and social statuses. [1] Different rituals are carried out in different parts of China, many contemporary Chinese people carry out funerals ...

  3. Looting of the Eastern Mausoleum - Wikipedia

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    Looting operation. On June 12, 1928, Sun Dianying ordered a large-scale graverobbing operation that removed almost all the underground funeral objects of the Huifeiling and Yuling Mausoleums and the underground palace of Puxiangyu East Dingling. Ma Futian, Regimental Commander in the 28th Army of Zhang Zuolin, had quietly occupied Malanyu.

  4. Sky burial - Wikipedia

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    A sky burial site in Yerpa Valley, Tibet Drigung Monastery, Tibetan monastery famous for performing sky burials. Sky burial (Tibetan: བྱ་གཏོར་, Wylie: bya gtor, lit. "bird-scattered" [1]) is a funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed on a mountaintop to decompose while exposed to the elements or to be eaten by scavenging animals, especially carrion birds like vultures ...

  5. Disposal of human corpses - Wikipedia

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    Disposal of human corpses, also called final disposition, is the practice and process of dealing with the remains of a deceased human being.Disposal methods may need to account for the fact that soft tissue will decompose relatively rapidly, while the skeleton will remain intact for thousands of years under certain conditions.

  6. Han dynasty tomb architecture - Wikipedia

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    "According to the ancient rites, the sacrifices to the ascendants were performed in temples, the modern custom is to offer them at the grave." Well-known examples of Western Han tombs have been scientifically excavated: Mawangdui and the tombs of Liu Sheng, Prince of Zhongshan and his wife, Dou Wan. The tomb at Mawangdui is a nested tomb.

  7. Chinese Rites controversy - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese Rites controversy (simplified Chinese: 中国礼仪之争; traditional Chinese: 中國禮儀之爭; pinyin: Zhōngguó lǐyí zhī zhēng) was a dispute among Catholic missionaries over the religiosity of Confucianism and Chinese rituals during the 17th and 18th centuries. The debate discussed whether Chinese ritual practices of ...

  8. Religion of the Shang dynasty - Wikipedia

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    [204] [205] [206] Several tombs also served for the purpose of rites, and were topped by ancestral shrines. [207] The Shang king was the organizer of burials and funerals which came with them, as when Wu Ding held ceremonies for burial of his father Xiao Yi 小乙 and his son Zu Ji 祖己. [203]

  9. Taoism and death - Wikipedia

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    Taoism places great value in life. It does not focus on life after death, but on health and longevity by living a simple life and having inner peace. It is said that the human body is filled with spirits, gods, or demons. When people die, it is believed that they should do rituals to let the spirits guard the body.