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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. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Burning of books and burying of scholars - Wikipedia

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    The burning of books and burying of scholars was the purported burning of texts in 213 BCE and live burial of 460 Confucian scholars in 212 BCE ordered by Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang. The events were alleged to have destroyed philosophical treatises of the Hundred Schools of Thought, with the goal of strengthening the official Qin governing ...

  8. Religion of the Shang dynasty - Wikipedia

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    The Shang dynasty's religion centered on systematic rituals that influenced traditional Chinese rites. Main Shang rituals include divination, liturgical sacrifices, invoking prayers, and funerals. There was also an "archery ritual" as Li Feng terms it, demonstrated in an inscribed bronze turtle rewarded by the Shang king to an individual named ...

  9. Feng Shan - Wikipedia

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    Feng Shan. Feng Shan or feng-shan (Chinese: 封禪), also referred to as the Feng and Shan sacrifices, was an official rite offered by the Son of Heaven (kings of Zhou and later emperors of China) to pay homage to heaven and earth. The sacrifices were usually offered at Mount Tai, [1] the highest peak in the area, and nearby Mount Liangfu.