Chinese

Donation Of Body Parts

Funeral

Custom and Change in Chinese Funeral

• there are at least 300,000 people in need of organ transplantation but only about 10,000 can get the organ needed
• Filial piety, a key principle in Confucianism, is the primary reason holding Chinese back from organ donation.
• On March 19 2014, the website for voluntary organ donation registration was official launched in China

• First, there is often a wake that precedes the funeral. The wake can be held at the family’s home, a local temple
• During the wake, family and friends bring flowers.
• White envelopes filled with cash. The money is meant to help the family pay for the funeral. The number must be odd.
• After the funeral ceremony, a funeral procession to the cemetery or crematorium is held. The band plays loud music to frighten spirits and ghosts.

Have you participated in funeral?

Can you think of any difference between funeral? e.g. decoration, religion, people’s

wear…

Autopsy

Typically, some steps are continuing in a funeral no matter which religious view the dead people is.

(1) Small Burial

(2) Watching the coffin

(3) Large Burial

Coffin Closing

(4) Burying

We analyze that there are several changes in Chinese Funeral……

1. Venue - Past: coffin home now: funeral home

2. Religion functions:

(Buddhist mix Taoism and Christianity)

3. Method of burying:

(burning VS buryin)

4. Period of memorial the dead

(3 years VS after funeral)

Euthanasia

• Fall down: The attitudes of the public have become an important factor
• Confucianism, life cycle.

• is banned under current Chinese law.
• two-thirds of Chinese have an open and tolerant attitude toward euthanasia

Chinese Religion

Burial Body

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• During the reign of Chinese dynasties, the ancient Chinese believed that when a person dies, he or she entered into the after life. Death was comprehended as a prolongation of life, and an emperor's mausoleum was his after-life palace, mirroring his regal life on earth.
• Build small temples next to the mounds so family members could leave offerings to their ancestors. The temples were also used for rituals to honor the deceased family member, who was believed to have influence over the fortunes and well-being of the living.
• Right now, cremation is the most common way.

Prolongation of Life

• Emotional harmony: The maintenance of emotional harmony was a central theme.

• Hope: when a person was of advanced age and had completed many big life events. If they have serious illness, they become hopeless.

Hospice and Chinese Religion

Education : Hospice is a new terminology in China.

Combination: Filial piety with professional taking care of the end of life.

• Life cycle: We must all follow the same course: birth, ageing,

illness, death, and next life.

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Chinese Medicine

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Reference

http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/chinrelg.html

http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_chinaway/2004-03/03/content_46092.htm

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90882/8587138.html

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/851636.shtml#.Uz1_RU1OXct

Chinese medicine is an ancient medical system based on the Daoist view of a universe where everything is interrelated. Through thousands of years of observation and practice, the Chinese have developed a unique method of understanding the structure of the internal organs and the body's physiological processes.

What we do, if we are sick?

Today that medicine is called Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Chinese medicine is designed to promote and maintain health through diet and exercise. If illness occurs, it is treated with acupuncture, herbs, and Qigong. Chinese medicine practitioners diagnose and treat all types of illness and disease. It is undeniably a valid and effective form of medicine.

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Chinese religion" is a term describing the complex interaction of different religions and philosophical traditions that have been influenced in China.

Buddhism

Chinese folk religion

Confucianism

Taosim

Confucianism is an ethical and philosophical system developed from the teachings of the Chinese philosopher Confucius。

Taoism, focuses on dao as a "way" or "path" — that is, the appropriate way to behave and to lead others.

In Chinese astrology, the Chinese Zodiac, known as Sheng Xiao, is based on a twelve year cycle, each year in that cycle related to an animal sign. People can tell your personality and characterize from your animal zodiac.

Chinese folk religion is an unsystematic and ritualistic system of deity worship and ancestor reverence. It draws on traditional belief systems and ideologies of China and varies widely from one location to another.