1st Touch to Water Burial

Chinese burial such as ground burial, sky burial and fire burial are very familiar to people, but there are not many people know about water burial in China, because it is a very rare burial way which just exists in a few ethnic.

"Born from water, end in water." which is the reason why people choose to have water burial as a belief in their life, and it is also the sentence made me to choose to explore water burial. As what these ethnics believe, their god is living in the river, water burial is a such way to respect life and their religion. They believe that people's soul can gain the sublimation through get touch to their god inside the river. Thus, water burial represents a beautiful wishes to the dead people to send their body into the divine river.

Fish has gain highly respect from those ethnics people in China, because they are regarded as the avatar of god in the river. So people never eat fishes in that area, and actually water burial is also a way to feed the fishes with the dead body, because they think if the body has been eatern by the fishes then the dead person has been touched by the god and has reached the heaven.

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