chine ancienne, chine antique, civilisation chinoise: chine ancienne, chine antique, civilisation chinoise: Jacob Maria de Groot, The Religious System of China. its ancient forms, evolution, history and present aspect. Manners, customs and social institutions connected therewith. Volume III : Disposal of the Dead : The Grave (second half)

The Religious System of China. Volume III (1897)
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Une édition électronique réalisée à partir du texte de l'ouvrage de Johann Jacob Maria de Groot, The Religious System of China. its ancient forms, evolution, history and present aspect. Manners, customs and social institutions connected therewith. Volume III : Disposal of the Dead : The Grave (second half). Édition originale, E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1897, 640 pages + illustrations. Réimpression : Literature House, Ltd, Taipei, Taiwan, 1964. Une édition réalisée par Pierre Palpant, bénévole, Paris.

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BOOK I. DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD.

PART III. THE GRAVE.

Chapter

X. Concerning the Custom of burying the Dead in the same Ground with their Ancestors : 1. On Family Graves. On Conveying the Dead to their Native Place for burial. — 2. On burying the Souls of' the Dead without their Bodies.

XI. Of the Care bestowed by the People and the Authorities upon the Dead of Others : 1. Public Charity towards the Dead. — 2. The proper Interrnent of the Dead is the Business of the Government.

XII. Fung-shui : 1. Introductory Notice. — 2. Fung-shui as regulated by High Grounds and Water-courses. — 3. The History of Fung-shui. — 4. The Professors of Fung-shui. The Influence of Fung-shui on Practical Life.

XIII. On the Custom of Re-burying Bodies in otherGraves. Urn Burials.

XIV. Description of Tombs and Mausolea : 1. Concerning Graves of the Common People, the Nobility and the Mandarinate. — 2. Inscriptions placed upon and in the Tombs. — 3. The Mausolea of Princes of Imperial Lineage. — 4. The Imperial Cemeteries of the Ming Dynasty. — 5. The Burial Grounds of the Present Reigning Dynasty: The two Cemeteries in Peh-chihli Province - The three Mausolea in Manchuria.

XV. On Graveyards and free Burial Grounds.

Additional Chapter. On some exceptional Ways of Disposing of the Dead : 1. On the Custom of Throwing Away the Dead. — 2. Water Burial. — 3. Cremation.