Remains Relocation-A Befitting Act of Filial Piety 拾金文化-千古孝心, 敬祖孝亲

Qing Ming is a traditional custom for the chinese, where they fulfill their filial piety to their ancestors and show their love and care. It remains a much revered event to pay homage to the ancestors and a gathering for family members to enhance family ties.

Not only do they pay homage, but also pay special attention to the conditions of the tomb to ensure that is not in a deplorable condition and it is not deteriorated by environment condition and disasters such as floods, white ants, dryness or even invasion from outsides.

清明節掃墓是华人的传统习俗, 除了展现孝子贤孙慎终追远, 敦亲睦族及行孝品德外, 最重要的是对祖墳作全面观察, 是否有遭受刭損坏。 保持墓碑和墓墳的完整, 淸幽, 而使亡灵” 居住安定”, 应该是阳世子孙的责任。

先人迁葬风水龙穴佳，拾金增强风水阴助力

一般人都比较注重阳宅风水（住家，办公室，工厂等），很多人是在发生严重的破财损人丁后，才想到祖坟风水是否出了问题，通常已是亡羊而补牢，所以对于阴宅风水不可不慎。

拾金也可称为啓攒，开金，捡骨，洗骨，迁金，迁葬，在 殡葬风水中是属于“吉葬”的处理方式。为避忌和尊重仙人（祖先）习俗上把先人的骨骸视为黄金。因此，开棺捡骨也叫开棺拾金，而把发放置先人的陶土瓮尊称为金鬥瓮。

Remains Relocation is an act of relocation the remains of ancestors to a new burial land with better environment (Feng Shui) or urn columbarium. It is also known as “bone collecting” or “bone cleaning”. The remains relocation is not simple procedure. It has to be conducted by an experienced fengshui master or a relocation master. The procedure varies according to the deceased’s religion, cultural practice based on his/her Chinese, improper relocation could result in bad luck befalling its descendants.

Why we should relocate remains:

拾金是为先人迁葬更好的风水龙穴, 借助元运的转換, 发挥更旺更持久的风水荫助力。

先人長眠自已选擇的福地, 为何后代子孙日后要拾金?

通常子孙们会考慮为祖先亲人拾金迁葬(吉葬), 通常是受到几种因素影响:

1. Bad fengshui

2. Environment condition due to occasional floods, the presence of pests,etc

3. Relocate for the convenience of paying homage.

(一) 历史因素-早期我们的祖先从中国南来马来西亜, 祇是想在这里讨生治赚点銭, 然后衣錦还乡。如果不幸客死异乡都希望落叶归根, 迁葬回到中国故乡。子女或乡亲会, 为完成祖先遗願, 会选擇在下葬几年后, 待尸身肉体腐化, 再擇日破土开棺拾金, 然后运回中囯故乡重新擇日下葬。

(二) 风俗因素-有些地区或某种籍贯族群, 在其传统习俗上, 会为先人在葬后5到8年不等(视年龄而定), 再另擇一塊更好的风水地迁葬。

(三) 征地因素-社区建设蓬勃发展, 许多政府或私人商业界欲徵收回义山地, 以作为道路建设或商业发展。

(四) 天災因素-有些义山或墓园规划建设不当, 导致排水不佳, 再加上保植不良, 当雨季来臨时, 就很容易发生土崩, 造成墓地崩塌或棺木断裂和移位。

(五) 孝心因素-袓墳已陈年老旧破损, 为祖先擇日拾金迁葬, 重建新墓, 以期世代子孙永远祭拜追思。

(六) 方便因素-袓先或亲人各葬东南西比, 每逢清明節许多人都为此东奔西跑, 非常麻烦不便。因此,后代子孙迁葬于一处, 让世代子孙永远记得墓址及方便祭拜。

(七) 风水因素-荫尸地, 泡水穴, 湧泉穴, 淋头水穴, 煞地, 鼠蚁入穴或有嚴重形煞衝射无法化解等风水问题。