Funeral ceremony,the history of mankind is a history of burying customs as old as human civilization.Chinese and Western cultures are the in world two most influential cultural systems,they about death have a different understanding and interpretation of their own.East and West,between the culture of death on the reason why there is a huge difference from the geographical environment,socio-economy,demography,political system and ideology,and other causes.
Before there are many well-known scholars who researching in this area has made great achievements.For example,Irion,Paul in "The Funeral and the Integrity of the Church." In this article,he fully describes the burial practices of the characteristics of the West and the Christian.From his article,I conclude that Western Christianity's "culture of death" is a part of the Christian doctrine of the soul which is intended to foster the religious feelings of the people of God and purify his moral.Christianity holds that evil is human nature undermining the original harmony between man and God,the relationship,thus causing all human suffering.To fix the relationship with God,Christians must overcome the evil of human nature.Christians believe the resurrection of the body and immortal,so that they are not afraid of physical death.Death means that adust attribute to,the end of the world's toil and return to heaven forever home.Therefore,for Christians,death is a passage:it belongs to the life on earth,but at the same time leads to eternal life.It can be seen,the Christian have great hope after death.Therefore,the West's funeral are relatively simple
问题补充：But in China,"Culture of death" is a Confucian filial piety,benevolence of a specific form of cultural.Confucian scholars in ancient China."Health" and "death" on the surface are two entirely different states,but the nature of the study,it is interlinked.Therefore,there is a "dead matter,such as for trouble" point of view.In the ordinary Chinese ideology,the death "like go home" is a human return to the situation with the Health and completely different world going.Confucianism in its formation at the beginning put the focus of attention toward "people",invested in the reality of human life.This kind of people-oriented values shows the human nature of Confucianism,in essence,and deny the divine nature.Therefore,Chinese funeral is generally more complex.