China is exhuming its dead and bulldozing coffins to tackle land shortage
Local government workers in China smashed their way through thousands of coffins as part of a campaign to promote cremation. The radical measures were part of funeral reforms being introduced in the country's south. Thousands of coffins were smashed by diggers in Ji'an City in southeastern Jiangxi Province on July 25. Officers exhumed bodies while some locals climbed into coffins in protest. Thousands of wooden coffins were piled on a vacant parking lot and smashed by diggers. According to reports, in Jiangxi Province traditional culture dictates that residents save up for years to buy their own coffins to place at their home when they reach 60 years old. It is seen as a mark of good fortune and longevity. But now, in order to save land, local authorities issued the regulations to outlaw traditional burials, making it illegal to make, sell and own coffins. Around 25,000 coffins were collected in Ji'an city, reports said. The measures have prompted a backlash online in China.
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Two giant Buddha statues were demolished in September, despite the attempts by local believers to protect them.
Bitter Winter has previously reported on the destruction and closure of Buddhist temples across China. New reports detail the destruction of two Buddha statues in the central province of Henan.
In September, when the government officials visited the Jiushan Buddhist temple in Huixian city, they ordered the temple administration to pull down their Buddha statue. However, the person-in-charge refused to obey and reminded the officials that the statue had been built following all government requirements.
The officials claimed that the new policy was to tear down all statues of Buddha and Guanyin, the Goddess of Mercy, across China, no matter what. The officials further threatened the person-in-charge, “If you don’t dismantle it, your son and grandson won’t be allowed to work.”
The administrator’s son and grandson work at the local office of the Prosecutor General and the court, respectively. Since the authorities had already suspended both of them during an earlier round of Buddha statue demolition, the in-charge yielded to the demands, fearing that his persistence would harm his family members.
Within days, the local authorities mobilized over a dozen workers to start the demolition, completely destroying it in under two weeks. The statue was 8.5 meters tall and had cost over 100,000 RMB (or a little over 14,000 USD) to build. But the temple was not compensated for its loss after the demolition, despite it being a legal statue.
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Nanjing ( listen; Chinese: 南京; pinyin: Nánjīng; Wade–Giles: Nan-ching) is the capital of Jiangsu province in Eastern China. It has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having been the capital of China for several periods. Its present name means Southern Capital and was widely romanized as Nankin and Nanking until the pinyin language reform, after which Nanjing was gradually adopted as the standard spelling of the city's name in most languages that use the Roman alphabet.
Located in the lower Yangtze River drainage basin and Yangtze River Delta economic zone, Nanjing has long been one of China's most important cities. Having been the capital city of six different dynasties since 3 A.D., it is recognized as one of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China. It was the capital of Wu during the Three Kingdoms Period, and the capital of the Republic of China prior to its flight to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War. Nanjing is also one of the fifteen sub-provincial cities in the People's Republic of China's administrative structure, enjoying jurisdictional and economic autonomy only slightly less than that of a province. Nanjing has long been a national centre of education, research, transport networks and tourism. The city will host the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.
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