The Cultural Background and Social Function in the Wa Funeral Customs;

Jianghuai traditional funeral customs mainly include making shroud and coffin,setting soul and giving obituary notice,encoffining and condoling,doing seven,conducting a funeral procession and burying,and so on.

This paper takes the astrological activity of funeral customs in the pre-Qin period,Qin and Han Dynasties as the object and makes a study of its representation and status and the social reasons for its existence,the ideological cultural foundation and social significance of astrological activity.

Explanation of Religious Science on Funeral Custom of the "Jia xi Fans" in HuangYuan of QingHai Province;

As a ethnic believing in Islamism,the Huis funeral practice comes from Islamism directly,with obvious religions features,such as the characteristics of burial in the ground and burial soon of the funeral custom of the Huis followed the will of the True Lord of Islamism and the characteristics of the simple funeral followed Islamism to believe the future life.

Tibetan funeral custom has inclusive characteristics of each nation of the world in ancient times,such as earth interment,cremation.

By analyzing the documentary data and the portrait stones,it can be concluded that the burial customs reflected in Shaanbei portrait stones mainly include burial with abundant accompanying articles,the con- cept of Ying-Yang and the five elements,the custom of carrying pieces of cloth to call back souls,jo.

Based on a lot of first -hand materials, this article deals with the Russian traditional funeral customs and their changes.

This article analyzed funeral custom in HOME(written by Mr.

“Husband and wife sharing the grave” was a vastly prevailing funeral custom in the Tang society.

As to funeral custom reflected by Soul Jars, the author general.