Through Funeral Ceremony Of The Dead And The Living

Fuxin Mongolian autonomous county (hereinafter referred to as Fumeng) is locatedin the regional fringe of Liaoning province and Inner Mongolia. It is a mountainous,rainless and Multi-ethnic place. The unique objective conditions, such as geography,climate, social and humanity determine the characteristics of Mongolian funeral customin this area. These features make it constantly inherit and variant in its long historicaldevelopment process and also showing the reality form which makes a perfectcorrespondence with this area.Taking all factors, the local people are used to choosing the grave sites in themountains. Now, apart from a few areas still carry out body coffin, most towns haveadopted first cremated and then buried in landfill. Burial of the whole process from achronological point of view is divided into three aspects, namely: the period of preparefor posterity, the main part of the ceremony and the sacrifice after burial, the period ofprepare for posterity is mainly sewing clothes and making coffin. The main part of theceremony includes three parts: Just died, Encoffining, and Bury, it is the climax place ofthe whole funeral ritual. The sacrifice after Funeral, people often memory deceased andplacate undead by the way of "Burn seven", ShouXiao, Graving and so on.All of the folk are originated from the need of human’s social group life and in turnto provide service for people’s daily life. Funeral ritual is not only arranged the finaldestination for deceased, but also have a great influence in the world of the living.Mainly including strengthen ethnic identity and condensing neighborhood folks, standardpersonal idea and behavior, etc. we can say that, The Mongolian funeral custom of FuxinMongolian autonomous county was playing a incomparable effect at the local.Any kind of folk-custom phenomenon has its stability and variability. TheMongolian funeral custom of Fuxin Mongolian autonomous county was accompanyingwith people’s production and life since the date it has formed. It has become anindispensable part of people’s everyday life. But because of the existence of someproblems, such as national exchanges and time progresses, the internal of the custom stillexists many variable factors. Therefore, the Mongolian funeral custom of FuxinMongolian autonomous county will show the development trend of changing in the steady in the future. The whole framework keeps long-term stable, the concrete contentkeeps constantly changing.