It is a civilized way to deal with the remains of the dead. As a funeral way, we know it through folklore and archaeology. The ancients always regarded funeral as a social activity, even as entertainment. Without exception, they will make a big fuss about funerals, such as mourning, witchcraft, jumping corpse (entertaining corpse), singing sacrifices, praying and seeing off. Later generations developed rice, small danger, great danger, mourning, basin throwing and restraint. There are many corresponding binding norms in China in the past dynasties.
Ethnicity
More than one million years ago, our ancestors worked, lived and multiplied in the vast and rich land of the motherland. After a long time, people's life activities expanded, primitive people were gradually replaced by fixed living groups, and the social organization of clan commune appeared.
In the commune, there is no exploitation and oppression by others, and there is no inequality between the rich and the poor. Every member has an equal status. Reflected in the funeral problem is extremely simple. For example, after the death of a member, future generations can't bear to watch the body of the deceased rot, cover it with firewood, and bury it in the wild, without digging graves and being impolite. With the development of society, people adopt burial.