Its The Cost To Get Buried That Will Kill You
I was not really sure what I was going to research for this post, but I think that I have found something very interesting, something that I definitely would have never learned outside of this project. I was looking through what I thought t be the shorter and less "full" response, even though it had les information, and was really short, it held the key to my project. A topic that I knew nothing about. What cemeteries in China looked like, I figured that they look like the cemeteries in America, they do, but times 10.
In The United States, there is approximately 316.1 million people, with 50,000 graves. In china, there are approximately 1.357 billion people, and 3,000 cemeteries. This has cause the price of the burial land to go up exponentially. From the usual 15,000$, up to 48$ million on the black market, and for the prime real-estate, up as high as 3.5$ billion. According to the Smithsonian's website, the
plots of land set aside for graves could run out in as little as six years. And even though the population is not growing as rapidly as it used to be, t is still a huge country, and people will always have the need to do the deed.
I did not get much info from my correspondence about the cemeteries, but I know that there are lots of temples and shrines. There are huge pillars that are as big as tree trunks, these shrines and temples must be beautiful works of art, all the time and effort that it took. The amount of craftsmanship that goes into a piece of art like this is incredible. Imagine being the companies who make these types of things on a daily basis?
I think that these statistics are crazy, they have just over four times as many people as we do , yet we have almost 17 times the grave yards. have. That doesn't make much sense to me, but what do I know, I don't plan on dying for a while, so its not something that I need to worry about. I looked but couldn't find this information, but I wonder what it would cost to build a burial shrine like that everyday.
Sources:
-The Smithsonian Website
-Amanda (Song Yalin) "A Crazy Night". Letter to Jack Wilson. October 26, 2014. Qingdao China
-Google Images
