The Influence Of Zhou Dynasty 's Funeral On The Funeral Customs In Contemporary Qufu Area

All living things have life and death, for people with reflective ability, death in their thinking also occupies an important position. After the Second World War the West also appeared in the works of a number of human history of death, the main research people in different historical periods of death have different ideas about what, Vowell’s "death cultural history" is one of the representatives of. The funeral is about dealing with the death of etiquette,since the primitive society, according to archaeological research, human in primitive society period appeared simple funeral customs, after entering the civilized society, funeral gradually institutionalized, standardization, and gradually developed a complete system of funeral culture,has become an important part of Chinese traditional culture, has affected people’s living habits and ways of thinking.Qufu Lu as the ancient capital, Zhou Dai is in the music culture strongly executors and practitioner. Qufu is a great thinker and educator Confucius’ s hometown, music in his thought system occupies an important position, he and his disciples the propaganda of the thought of Li Yue also in Qufu, China produced profound influence. It is the unique historical heritage and cultural heritage created a unique regional culture in Qufu, including funeral, ancient etiquette in Qufu has been relatively complete preservation.As the last part of the funeral rituals of life, people attach importance to. The preservation of records of a large number of funeral in "The Chou Rituals", "Yili", "book of Rites" and other pre Qin classics, ancient funeral especially mourning research results ho smoke sea. By comparison, it is easy to see, many contents in Qufu area in the funeral custom has very ancient local culture of origin, such as after the death of the deceased drag the soul "program and the dead of the shroud are able to reflect this point; at the same time, with the passage of time and social development, the influence of Buddhism on the local funeral customs also nots allow to ignore, Qufu traditional funeral custom in 77 recommended chase, Zhongyuan worship are subject to the influence of Buddhist teachings. Since the 20 th century, with rapid changes in Chinese society, the funeral customs appeared some new factors, the rise of which simplifying your funeral, cremation was popular, funeral services are among some of the more significant characteristics.