Can Chinese be buried, and is the state allowed for burial

The state prohibits burials.

It was formulated in order to strengthen funeral management, promote funeral reform, and promote the construction of socialist spiritual civilization. Reform burials by stipulating cremation, save funeral land, eliminate bad funeral customs, and advocate civilized and frugal funerals. Secondly, the state's ban on burial is also to protect the use of cultivated land, so as to avoid the occupation of agricultural land due to burial, so as to avoid the continuous reduction of national agricultural land.

So now in some rural areas, there are still burials, and my country's system is slowly improving!

Legal basis: Article 2 of the "Regulations on the Administration of Funerals" The principle of funeral management is: actively and step-by-step implementation of cremation, reform of burial, saving funeral land, eliminating bad funeral customs, and advocating civilized and frugal funerals.

Article 4 Cremation shall be practiced in densely populated areas, with less cultivated land and convenient transportation; In areas where there are no conditions for cremation, burial is permitted.

The areas where cremation and burial are permitted shall be demarcated by the people of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and shall be reported to the civil affairs department for the record by the people's civil affairs department at the same level.

The new regulations allowed burial by the state in 2022 are as follows:

1. Cremation shall be practiced in areas with dense mouths, less cultivated land, and convenient transportation;

2. In areas where cremation is not available for the time being, burial is allowed;

3. The areas where cremation and burial are permitted shall be demarcated by the people of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and shall be reported to the civil affairs department by the people's civil affairs department at the same level for the record;

4. Where the remains that should be cremated are buried in the soil, or the remains are buried in places other than cemeteries and public welfare cemeteries in rural areas to build graves, the civil affairs departments are to order corrections to be made within a set period of time.

Burial, one of the funeral methods after human death, popular all over the world, generally put the remains of people in a coffin first, and then bury the coffin in the soil, tombstone (epitaph.

There may be or no, and in some places only the grave stone is erected, and there is no writing. There may be a memorial platform in front of the grave for future generations to pay respects. In our country, burial has been gradually replaced by cremation.

The state has designated the area as a cremation area, and burial is prohibited. At present, most economically underdeveloped areas such as Shanxi, Shaanxi, Guizhou, and Sichuan are still dominated by burials, and the vast majority of urban areas have been banned from burial.

Regulations on the Administration of Funerals

Article 8: Construction of funeral parlors.

Crematoriums, by the county-level people** and districted cities.

The civil affairs department of the people of the autonomous prefecture shall submit a plan to the people at the same level for approval; The construction of funeral service stations and columbariums shall be examined and approved by the civil affairs departments of the people's ** at the county level and the people** of districted cities and autonomous prefectures; The construction of cemeteries shall be submitted to the people's civil affairs departments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government for examination and approval after being reviewed and approved by the civil affairs departments of the people's governments at the county level and the people's departments of districted cities and autonomous prefectures.

The use of foreign capital to build funeral facilities shall be submitted to the civil affairs department for examination and approval after being reviewed and approved by the civil affairs department of the people's government of the province, autonomous region or municipality directly under the Central Government.

Public welfare cemeteries are set up for villagers in rural areas, at the township level.

After the people's ** review and approval, it shall be submitted to the people's ** civil affairs department at the county level for approval.

Article 10 The construction of graves in the following areas is prohibited:

1) Cultivated land and forest land;

2) Urban parks, scenic spots and cultural relics protection areas;

3) Reservoirs and river dams and water source protection areas;

4) Both sides of the main railway and highway lines.

The existing graves in the areas provided for in the preceding paragraph shall be relocated or buried deeply within a set period of time, with the exception of cemeteries with historical, artistic, or scientific value that are protected by the state and shall be retained, leaving no graves.

Article 11 Strictly limit the area and service life of cemeteries. If burial or burial of ashes is permitted in accordance with the plan, the area and service life of the burial pit for the burial of the remains or ashes shall be prescribed by the people of the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government in accordance with the principle of saving land and not occupying cultivated land.

2022 Burial Update

The latest regulations on burial in 2022 are that burials can be carried out in areas that do not have the conditions for cremation for the time being, mainly for areas with sparse population, vast cultivated land and inconvenient transportation. But on the contrary, in densely populated areas, with less arable land and convenient transportation, cremation should be practiced. Because this is according to the relevant content of the "Regulations on the Administration of Funerals" of the People's Republic of China (No. 225), and the areas that can be buried must be buried in the places specified by the people or the state.

Therefore, in 2022, the state did not issue the latest regulations on burials, nor did it explicitly issue a national ban on burials. Now the implementation of the policy of adapting measures to local conditions, if the local ** does not clearly issue a document prohibiting burial, you can still carry out burial, but there is a document that clearly cannot be buried, then you can not be buried, only cremated.

The latest regulations on annual burial 1: Cremation shall be practiced in densely populated areas, with less arable land and convenient transportation. In areas where cremation is practiced, the State advocates the disposal of ashes in the form of deposit and other methods that do not occupy or occupy less land.

The latest regulations on annual burial 2: Burial is allowed in areas that do not have the conditions for cremation for the time being. In areas where burial is permitted, the people at the county level and the people of districted cities and autonomous prefectures shall include the construction of cemeteries in urban and rural construction plans.

The latest provisions on burial in the year 3: The areas where cremation and burial are allowed shall be demarcated by the people of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and shall be reported by the civil affairs department of the people at the same level to the civil affairs department for the record.

In addition, the state respects the funeral customs of ethnic minorities and voluntarily reforms funeral customs, others must not interfere.