政府主导型殡葬改革与厝棺土葬传统的变迁——来自安徽省桐城市的报告

Transition of the Custom of Cuo Guan Inhumation(Parking Coffin before Burial) Under the Influence of Funeral and Interment Reform Guided by Government——Reports From Tongcheng City of Anhui Province

厝棺土葬履行着其它尸体处置方式所不具备或难以替代的工具理性和价值理性功能。地形特征因素与经济发展因素的叠加影响了殡葬改革的进程和结果。民众对于政府主导的殡葬改革表现出包括激烈反抗、表面服从、温和认同、欣然接受的差别化态度反应。人口的频繁流动促进了市场工具理性的增长并进而成为厝棺土葬传统内生自发的消解性力量。政府主导的殡葬改革作为一种外生型力量,大大加速了厝棺土葬传统式微直至消亡的自然历史进程。

Cuo Guan Inhumation(Parking Coffin before Burial) is a tradition which bears some functions of tool rationality and value rationality that other corpse disposal methods do not have or cannot replace. Geomorphic feature and economic development affected the process and result of the funeral and interment reform. Urban and rural residents had various reactions which included fierce resistance, surface obedience, and mild identity and readily accept when they faced the reform guided by the government. The frequent flow of population has accelerated the growth of market-instrumental rationality and has become the endogenous initiative force. The funeral and interment reform carried out by Tongcheng government in 2014, as exogenous compulsory force, has greatly accelerated the natural history process of this tradition's decline and disappearance.