The Tempo-Spatial Evolution of the Funeral Ceremony in Taiwan.

• Main Authors: Liu, Kuang-Suan, 劉光軒
• Other Authors: Hsueh, Yi-Chung
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/43978885860752763558

碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 地學研究所地理組 === 102 === The traditional Chinese funeral was largely influenced by the Confucianism in the past. According to the Confucianism, the funeral as a ‘filial piety’. In Taiwan, due to an aspect of the special viability, funeral customs and rituals were based on derived unique folk cultures. The changes of funeral and burial customs were affected by different factors. By collecting the historical and modern literature, this research was focused on generalizing the funeral customs and the ‘concepts of death’ from Japan colonial period up to date. In the Japan colonial creed the main funeral manner was traditional ceremony, after this period funeral ceremony have acquired special appearance due to addition of Taiwan unique folk beliefs, common practices, and other traditions. The common burial tradition converted into dominating burials, and then also under the influence of policy, cremation increase in the proportion of space has also changed with the use of Feng-Shui based way of thinking. After the World War II, funerals acquired difference ceremonial face making funeral rituals particularity unique to Taiwan. During this time population density and economic value of land was relatively lower than the present. The government decided to change the burial policies in order to avoid cultural conflict let people to make more freedom for burial traditions. So abolishments of the burial policies make land use more intensive. The economy of Taiwan grew faster after the World War II but the reckless decisions of government have made funeral ceremonies more chaos. Afterwards, due to development and new thoughts on the funeral industry furthermore with government efforts reversed the image of funeral customs and traditions. With the globalization and the rapid economic development of the society, the traditional ideas on funeral customs was greatly changed in the past few decades. The monetary value of Land was significantly increased due to industrialization and urbanization, therefore, the cost for burial activities also remarkably increased. As a result cremation, burial and other ways of funeral, with the consideration environmental protection, surge sharply from the use of space plane space usage, changed into a vertical tower.