Why did some people in the countryside have to be buried in crop fields after they died?

In the empty flat cemeteries, in our Shandong plain area, rural people do not buy cemeteries. This is mainly due to years of customs and habits, and the price of specialized cemeteries is still very expensive. Farmers do not have them. The one who used his spare money to buy a cemetery. So why should it be buried in crop fields? Let me talk about how our system is directly related. Historically, it seems to be the Han Dynasty. In order to save farmland, the funeral system at that time forced the deceased to be buried within a hundred miles of the grave, that is, if there were hills within a hundred miles of the surrounding area.

Hills and hills. After a person dies, he must be buried on these hills and hills. Otherwise, he will be punished. Increase publicity efforts, advocate civilized burial, cremate the body after death, and get rid of the bad habit of "burying in peace". The second is to delineate cemetery bases and concentrate funerals. The third is to establish a columbarium for centralized storage. The fourth is to promote green and environmentally friendly funerals. That is, the ashes are not retained, and they are buried in trees, buried in water, etc. They can be buried in the mountains. For example, there are no mountains in our Jiaodong area. After death, people can only be buried in crop fields. When people in the city die, they need to go to the cemetery to buy a cemetery, but people in rural areas do not need to buy a cemetery. Each village generally has a dedicated place as a cemetery.

It is determined by the geographical conditions where most people in the village go. In plain areas, if a person dies, he or she must be buried in farmland. There is no other choice but to coordinate the burial site so that your own farmland can be used as you like. Because after the implementation of the household contract responsibility system, the cultivated land belongs to the farmers themselves. Who would be willing to give their own land to others for burial? The only option is to find a suitable place in the cultivated land contracted by oneself. Those in mountainous areas can be buried on the mountain, those near the sea can also be buried in bamboo sea, and there are many other methods such as sky burial, tree burial, rock burial and so on. But no matter what the method is, the first is to bury the ancestors in the same cemetery, but now it is impossible! Because those ancestral graves have been redistributed by the village collective and contracted to different farmers according to the requirements of several acres of land per capita, they have become contracted land that will not change for 30 years. During the contract period, the farmers who contracted the land have the final say on this land. !