Man In China Jailed For Opening Coffins At Historic Burial Web site, Kissing Skulls

The location in query dates again to the Ming dynasty

A  man in China has been punished with a nine-month suspended jail time period after he visited an historical burial website and defiled three coffins in an try to generate profits from live-streaming. Based on a report by South China Morning Post, villagers caught the 21-year-old man, surnamed Chen, trespassing the traditional Guoli cave burial website in March final yr.

As per the report, Chen opened up three coffins with the assistance of his two pals and live-streamed a video of himself that confirmed him eradicating the bones from one of many coffins. Not solely that however he was additionally seen kissing skulls.

Notably, the location in query dates again to the Ming dynasty and incorporates a conventional type of burial utilized by the Miao ethnic group in Guizhou often known as a ”coffin cave”. In 2015, the Guoli cave-style burial was listed as a provincial cultural relic safety website. 

After the video surfaced on a video platform known as Anmo,  Longli County Folks’s Procuratorate pressed costs towards him on February 16. Initially, the police weren’t eager on urgent costs however judicial officers insisted on prosecuting the person accountable to assist defend cultural relics.

”Not severely cracking down on such behaviour will hurt the traditional social order and the safety of native cultural relics,” the police stated. The person then apologised to the descendants of the individuals buried on the website and was later slapped with a suspended jail time period.

In the meantime, the incident garnered a variety of criticism on social media web sites in China, who have been left appalled by the person’s actions. 

“Even grave robbers know it’s immoral to open coffins, and money-grubbing live-streamers haven’t got a backside line,” one particular person commented, as per SCMP. 

In an identical incident within the UK, a drug addict dug up graves to extract jewelry. Based on the BBC, Wayne Joselyn, a 43-year-old drug addict and routine felony, dug up Kell and Maud Goodwin’s graves as a result of he thought they held priceless jewelry.