Ancient Chinese Funeral Culture And The Novel Of The Funeral Description

The funeral activities of human society is the important cultural phenomenon andrites of life, especially for a5000-year history of civilization of china. Funeraletiquette is a comprehensive expression of traditional Chinese culture, whichoriginates from the formation of long-term outlook on the soul and the concept of lifeand death between the living and the dead, pay attention to etiquette system and ethics.In the orthodox culture field, in order to maintain the genetic rule of the rulers, thefuneral was ruler in legal action, to a systematic form preserved, encourage people tofollow independent. The funeral activities is also a kind of social activity, whichreflects the values and ideological trend, and are closely related to people’s lives,based on these omnipresent life etiquette is the fiction writers, to express his grief atseparation and joy in union. Master these customs in order to better understand thenovel, restoring the life. Therefore, funeral etiquette can be said to be the inheritanceand evolution of our study of ancient thought and the novels of Ming and QingDynasties is an indispensable important point.On the development of the funeral culture in ancient China made a brief review,focusing on a detailed study of the novels of the Ming and Qing Dynasties,manifested in the funeral culture first, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties Novels appearfrequently in such as "Chusang","funeral","funeral","buried" etc. burial stage theetiquette, can enable us to carry out a full range of funeral process the prevailingunderstanding. Then the art of funeral described as prominent figures, deepen thetheme, pushing forward the plot are discussed, then discussed the period of Confucian,Taoist, Buddhist three advocated funeral culture is different, finally, will be reflectedin the novels of the Ming and Qing Dynasties funeral custom culture function and thefunction of literature analysis, and the two phase of a comprehensive exposition.