The Four Stages of Life in Chinese Culture
There are four life stages that are significant in Chinese culture. They are birth, aging, sickness, and death. Although the latter three are widely considered negative topics among Chinese people and are generally avoided, traditional Chinese education emphasizes the significance of all four episodes.
Both Daoism and Buddhism recognize the eternal soul and its potential and various life forms due to the laws of karma. In other words, people's behaviors may influence their reincarnation. This view helps ease anxiety and fear about life and death. Confucianism seems ambiguous about the after-death. Instead, a lot of attention is paid to how to behave while alive to achieve harmony at home and in society.
Traditions today may have lost their origins and meanings. But they are certainly carried on among Chinese communities.
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