This isn’t the happiest topic out there, so I’ll make it short and efficient (I also think I have touched upon this before). China doesn’t have cemeteries dotting their cities like we do. The traditional method is to take the deceased outside the city, and bury them in any old plot of land. In some areas, where many people have been buried near each other, they (and I have no idea who “they” is) put up a fence to make the area more sacred. In this respect, it is a cemetery. However, anyone can access it easily enough, and through it can have access to the rest of the mountain. One of the more interesting things, though, is that in the mountains you come across holes that are, most likely, pre-dug graves (which is pretty morbid). According to some Chinese I spoken to, though, most people today opt to be cremated, so as not to waste any precious land or money.
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