Social Media Ideas for China Burial Traditions

Thousands Gather in Guizhou as Villagers Push Back Against Mandatory Cremation

The latest gathering follows months of clashes in China's Guizhou, where villagers have pushed back against cremation requirements they say disregard generations of traditional bur...

From Obon to Zhongyuan: The Ancient Story Behind Asia’s Tradition of Honoring the Dead

Across Asia, festivals honoring ancestors take on different forms, but many share an enduring emphasis on filial devotion, remembrance, and maintaining ties between generations

Ancient Chinese lord buried with bells meant to silence ancestral war rituals

Imagine, for a moment, that you lived in ancient China, with a rival state threatening your people’s very existence. In the quest for any advantage, one strategy might involve perf...

Vietnam's former imperial city Hue seeks to make funerals solemn, brief, encourages cremation

The central city of Hue has new restrictions for funeral ceremonies: they can last no more than 72 hours and joss paper cannot be scattered during the procession.

More Koreans abandon traditional funeral halls to focus on grief

The funeral that Ryu Jae-jun, 57, held for his father on June 23 broke entirely from Korean tradition. His family dispensed with a formal funeral hall — a traditional three-day rec...

Why Our Dog Was Given A Taiwanese Traditional Pet Funeral

Before a shrine of Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha lay a white Spitz, her lifeless body wrapped in a gold “dharani blanket” covered in Sanskrit and Chinese. To the left, a wall was stocked...

China’s billion-dollar pet funeral industry stays largely unregulated without public oversight

In May, at a pet funeral home in Dalian, northeastern Liaoning province, a grieving couple wept as they tenderly combed the fur of their deceased pet cat, a Silver British Shorthai...

Chinese dad sparks controversy after digging grave to help sick daughter cope with death

A father in southwestern China, who once dug a grave for his two-year-old ailing daughter, has transformed it into a flower garden after she made a remarkable recovery. Zhang Xinle...

Harmony Funeral Care Strengthens Buddhist Funeral Services in Singapore

Harmony Funeral Care continues its 60-year family legacy by helping families preserve Buddhist funeral traditions through respectful funeral services and compassionate guidance.

Video Shows Woman Buried Completely Upright in Striking Funeral Rite | WATCH

*A striking video circulating on social media shows a woman being lowered into a grave completely upright — not lying horizontally and not positioned in the seated posture associat...

Theban tomb reveals how Egyptian burial trends evolved in time

Practices shifted from individuals buried in coffins to reusing sites for later mummy interments.

Green burials offer alternative to eco-conscious

When someone dies, the state of Ohio recognizes two ways to dispose of the remains: burial and cremation.

Families Turn to Symbolic Cremation After Nepal Floods

Thousands are missing, and some families have lost hope of recovering their bodies. To carry out his sacred duty, a son lights the funeral pyre for a straw effigy of his father.

Ruled just 27 days: Liu He’s tomb held 2M coins and 120kg of gold

В Кыргызстане официально запретили кремацию тел умерших

Отныне погребение всех граждан, включая неопознанные и невостребованные тела, должно производиться исключительно классическим способом

Grave Opened, Remains Defiled: What the Cultural Revolution Did to Kang Youwei 39 Years After His Death

He had spent his life arguing that reform from above could save China. In 1966 he was reduced to a single label, and to a skull tied to a pole.

Inside a paper coffin: how Hongkongers can prepare for the end of life

In the final instalment of a five-part Health Matters wellness series on ageing in Hong Kong, Emily Hung looks at how living funerals, advance directives and family mediation are h...

China censors public mourning as it holds former premier's funeral

While hailing Zhu’s legacy, authorities are wary that the nostalgia could lead to criticisms of Xi’s rule.

Ghost offerings

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元火葬場職員、骨壺に入りきらなかった遺骨の行方について解説

ざっくり言うと YouTubeチャンネル「火葬場談義」が遺骨の行方について動画で解説した 骨壺に入りきらなかった遺骨は合同埋葬地や霊園に埋葬されるとのこと 大...

Keeping Their Ashes Close: Finding Comfort in Personal Remembrance

The kind of "blind obedience" once theologized as the ultimate step to holiness, is itself blind. It blinds a person to the insights and foresight and moral perspective of anyone o...

China drink-driving suspect stages death with coffin, bogus burial to evade authorities

A drink-driving suspect in central China faked his death with the help of his family to evade prosecution before fleeing south. Prosecutors in Anyang, Henan province, recently reve...

An Egyptian Tomb's 4,000-Year-Old False Door Reveals How the Living Honored the Dead

Learn how a false door, ritual offerings, and later burials trace centuries of changing funerary practices at Saqqara.