1. Grand
These funerals in feudal society can really be said to make people feel especially bad. My grandma was a feudalist when she was a child, and she often told me about some of the taboos or bad things about their funerals at that time. For example, in ancient times, those royal court ministers, the king died, the emperor's will be a wave of the hand, shouting a sentence, this person give me a beautiful funeral!
But do you know how grand the funeral has been? Not only require the people of the whole city to kneel to meet, but also need to have a lot of rows, and even in their burial, those burial goods are countless gold and silver treasures, real gold and silver, these things a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit. Moreover, when they feel that they are going to die, they will also repair their tombs in advance, and look for a Feng Shui master in advance to divide the gold and set the points, and find an excellent feng shui treasure land, and then start to build up a lot of land, and if there is no mountain, I will open up a mountain. If there is no water, I will open up a river of water.
This kind of human and material resources, the consumption of which is simply impossible to measure in terms of money. Feudal people are superstitious, they think that they buried well, can bud shade future generations of children and grandchildren. Therefore, in feudal society, funerals, especially those of dignitaries, were very grand. But since these dignitaries had funerals, those poor people also had their funerals. They also need to be elegant, people in this life, from beginning to end of the thing is to marry and have children, and so after marrying and having children, you have to save yourself old money, this old money is the coffin. When you die, you can spend money to buy a very beautiful coffin, and you will be satisfied with your life.
So this aspect of grandeur, for these funerals in feudal society, is the first thing to do. The rich and powerful were buried in style, the slightly wealthy bought a good coffin, and the poor really had no choice but to roll out a straw mat to avoid having their own dead bodies in the wilderness.
2. Cruelty
Everyone should have heard the word "martyrdom"! Whether it's the person who builds tombs for dignitaries, or the concubines these people liked in life, after their own death, they all need to be buried with them. Especially the higher the status, the more people were buried with them. You must not think that there was such a thing in ancient times. In recent times, there is no such thing. My grandma once told me that he had seen such a thing when he was a child.
The family is a big family, the son because of childhood weakness, early death, but just because of the weakness, want to find a happy event to wash away the joy, the early betrothal of a doll. The girl is just 12 years old. Door have not passed, to give the man martyrdom. There is no one around to persuade, all think this is a very normal thing. Can only blame the girl's life is not good. You can imagine, the girl buried alive in the soil with the man living in the same coffin, alive to be suffocated to death. This is how cruel a thing.