In Xinhe Town, Wenling City, Zhejiang province, a luxurious funeral procession of 9 Lincoln limos, a thousand-people band and a 16-gun salute stirred up the whole town. It was a funeral of a local entrepreneur’s mom held at the large sports field of New River Middle School.
The multi-million dollar funeral took place on March, 4th, 2011. Soon pictures of the luxurious funeral went viral online. People responded by questioning whether filial piety can be reflected through a lux funeral and what the incident would possibly teach those students studying at the school, where the funeral was held.
Upon hearing the news, local government and relevant departments soon took action to stop the funeral and disperse the masses. It was reported that a vice president of New River Middle School had been suspended for the matter.
New River Middle School is one of the key local secondary schools. 4 a.m. in the morning, the campus was already filled with crowds and funeral music. In the school’s playground, 9 Lincoln limos decorated with paper banners held in line, 16 mighty gun salutes were ready to fire, thousands of wreaths stood along the long black carpet with a huge portrait of the dead in the end, alongside with two huge LCD screens showing the dead’s life story.
And that is not all, there is thousand-people band playing funeral music and hundreds of monks singing prayers, as well as big balloons with the word “libation” slowly swinging in the sky.
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