Editing Cremation (section)

===Chinese===
[[Neo-Confucianism]] under [[Zhu Xi]] strongly discourages cremation of one's parents' corpses as [[filial piety|unfilial]]. Han Chinese traditionally practiced burial and viewed cremation as taboo and as a barbarian practice.

Traditionally, only Buddhist monks in China practiced cremation because ordinary Han Chinese detested cremation, refusing to do it. But now, the atheist Communist party enforces a strict cremation policy.{{Citation needed|date=March 2025}} Exceptions are made for [[Hui people|Hui]] who do not cremate their dead due to Islamic beliefs.<ref>{{cite book| author = Richard V. Weekes| title = Muslim peoples: a world ethnographic survey, Volume 1| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=tiOSRAAACAAJ| access-date = 28 June 2010| year = 1984| publisher = Greenwood Press| isbn = 0-313-23392-6| page = 334 }}</ref>

The minority [[Jurchen people|Jurchen]] and their [[Manchu people|Manchu]] descendants originally practiced cremation as part of their culture. They adopted the practice of burial from the Han, but many Manchus continued to cremate their dead.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China|first=Mark C.|last=Elliott|edition=illustrated, reprint|year=2001|publisher=Stanford University Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_qtgoTIAiKUC&pg=PA264|page=264|isbn=0804746842|access-date=10 March 2014| ref = {{harvid}} }}</ref>