In ancient times, unmarried women could not enter their ancestors’ graves after death, so where should they be buried?

Nowadays, when people die, they will choose a cemetery to be directly cremated and buried. However, in ancient times, if women were unmarried, they could not be buried in the ancestral graves. They were usually buried directly in other lands.

For example, in ancient times, unmarried women were buried in the land next to their ancestral graves after their death. Because the ancients were very superstitious about cemeteries, they felt that they could not choose the one with bad terrain, and they also had to check the feng shui. They felt that whether the cemetery was good or not would affect their future generations and even their descendants, so they were very cautious. Moreover, in the eyes of the ancients, women's status was inherently low, not to mention unmarried women, so they were generally regarded as unclean people and buried directly in the ground next to them.

If the daughter is from a poor family, just throw it into a mass grave or bury it in a deserted place. In fact, the ancients were not only superstitious and old-fashioned, but also extremely paranoid in their thinking. The poorer the family, the more the man felt that the children were dragging him down, so he did not pay much attention to this aspect. He felt that if the children were gone, they would be gone, and they would just bury them. I didn't have any money, and it would cost money to find a good place to bury it, so I just threw it in the mass grave, in the name of having someone with my child.

So unmarried women in ancient times were actually very miserable. After all, in the eyes of the ancients, if you marry and obey your husband, your name will be written in the man’s family tree after you marry, and it will also follow you after your death. Burying it with her husband's family can save face for herself, and people will pay homage to her every year. But unmarried women are more desolate. Those with better conditions can just erect a tombstone, while those with poor conditions have basically nothing. The worst thing may be to just wrap them in mats and throw them away.