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| Processed by: | goldyn_chyld (2017-12-02 19:57:50 UTC) |
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<< review queue entry 61358 - submitted by 'richwarm' >> 0) M LA 1) One regional custom in Fujian and Taiwan is to bury the deceased in a coffin, and then 1–2 years after burial, dig up the body, and transplant the bones (since that is all that remains) into a special funerary jar. This custom is known as 捡骨 which means “picking up the bones”. This task is reserved for the son/s of the deceased. https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-Chinese-funeral-customs/answer/Paul-Denlinger 2) http://tw.forumosa.com/t/dig-for-some-bones-at-the-graveyard/32226 3) http://asiastrangenews.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/taiwanese-funeral-traditions.html 4) TP ~ 有一次，一位亡者的生辰是俗稱的「破骨」命，傳說不能撿骨。於是高繼昌就在撿骨時，在墳上打破一只磁碗，以「破碗不破骨」化解禁忌。「很多民間習俗，喪家要是不做，就覺得心裡怪怪的，甚至日後形成一種遺憾，」 On one occasion Kao had to deal with the funeral of a man who was said to have a "broken bone" fate. According to folklore, this meant that his bones could not be gathered up from the grave for placing in the urn. To overcome the taboo, Kao shattered a porcelain bowl over the grave-"breaking a bowl instead of a bone"-and then went ahead and gathered the bones. "With a lot of these folk customs, the mourners don't feel right if the custom is not observed, and they regret it afterwards," 事實上，若再加上合法公墓外濫葬之購地成本，撿骨進塔或再葬，還有寄存在寺廟納骨塔每年的香油錢， Also to be added are the costs of acquiring a plot in a public cemetery, the costs of placing one's bones in a columbarium or carrying out a re-burial, not to mention the "incense and oil" fees at the columbarium or temple where one's remains are kept. 對於清洗屍體、觀看法醫解剖屍體、火化、撿骨一一親身領略。 As a result she came to learn firsthand about corpse-cleaning, post-mortems, cremation, and bone-gathering. 「由於廟方拆除前沒有做好構件編號，使得重新組裝的難度大增，『比撿骨還難』，整整花費4個月，日夜趕工才完成！」 "Because they hadn't numbered the pieces properly before disassembling the temple, it made it very hard to put it back together again. It was harder than reassembling the bones from a grave for reburial. It took four months working day and night to finish!" |
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+ 撿骨 捡骨 [jian3 gu3] /bone-gathering, a custom of Fujian and Taiwan in which a son recovers the bones of his deceased father from the grave and places them in an urn for permanent storage in a different location/ |