Abstract:

Behind the successful “Wenchuan experience” of post-disaster reconstruction, it still takes time to heal the spiritual and psychological trauma to the community in the disaster area due to the huge number of people killed by the disaster, and many rituals still maintain the original social relationships between the living and the dead. However, due to the centralized burial of the victims’ bodies and the local sealing of the victims, the original dialogue relationship between the living and the dead that can be completed by graveyards and tombstones cannot be established, so the non-religious mourning and memorial ceremonies of the victims in the regional community are strengthened, and therefore the re-discussion of various memorial ceremonies for the victims has become very important.

Key words: ritual, Wenchuan earthquake, face-to-face