「贵州“反强制火葬运动”烽火再起，千人护葬（2026.08.20）」8月20日，在沉寂八个多月后，贵州农民大规模“反强制火葬运动”烽火再起。当天，上千名彼此素不相识的村民自发聚集在贵州黔南州贵定县岩下乡，为一名离世老人举行土葬仪式，并一路护送其遗体顺利下葬。
据村民透露，当地一刀切的强制火葬政策已强推多年，民间积怨已久，普遍呼吁废除这一不合理的制度。值得关注的是，面对此次千人规模的群体护葬，地方政府并未如过往般出动人员拦截队伍或强行“抢尸”，仅调派了无人机在空中进行拍摄监控。
2025年11月至2026年1月期间，云南、贵州多地曾密集爆发大规模的农民“反强制火葬”运动。当时，为保卫逝者遗体，村民与官方派出的“抢尸队”多次爆发激烈冲突。持续的大规模抗争最终迫使多地政府妥协，取消或暂缓了该项政策。
在2025年11月22日贵州息烽县的一场冲突中，面对进村强推政策的政府人员，一名农民曾当面发出极为激烈的质问：“如果共产党是挖祖坟的，就先挖习近平祖坟。”这也成为彼时民众捍卫传统与尊严的最直白注脚。
“Guizhou’s ‘Anti-Forced Cremation Movement’ Reignites as 1,000 Villagers Escort a Burial (2026.08.20)”
On August 20, after more than eight months of relative quiet, Guizhou farmers’ large-scale movement against forced cremation reignited. That day, more than a thousand villagers—many of them strangers to one another—spontaneously gathered in Yanxia Township, Guiding County, Qiannan Prefecture, Guizhou, to hold a traditional burial for an elderly person who had passed away and escort the body safely to its final resting place.
According to villagers, the local government has forcibly imposed its one-size-fits-all cremation policy for years, fueling longstanding public resentment and widespread calls for the abolition of this unreasonable system. Notably, in response to the thousand-strong funeral escort, the local government did not deploy personnel to block the procession or forcibly “seize the body,” as it had done in the past. Instead, it merely sent a drone to film and monitor the gathering from the air.
Between November 2025 and January 2026, large-scale farmers’ movements against forced cremation erupted across numerous parts of Yunnan and Guizhou. In their efforts to protect the bodies of the deceased, villagers repeatedly clashed with official “body-snatching squads.” The sustained mass resistance ultimately forced several local governments to compromise by canceling or suspending the policy.
During a clash in Xifeng County, Guizhou, on November 22, 2025, one farmer fiercely confronted government personnel who had entered the village to impose the policy: “If the Communist Party is in the business of digging up ancestral graves, then dig up Xi Jinping’s ancestral grave first.” The remark became one of the most direct expressions of the people’s defense of their traditions and dignity at the time.