In his "Two Supplementary Essays on the People's Livelihood and Recreation," President Chiang Kai-shek stated, in order to insure that the people's funeral arrangements would go without worry, that every locality should have a publicly funded funeral hall.
老總統在其著述「民生主義育樂兩篇補述」當中曾提到，為安人民身後之事，全國各地應有公立殯儀館的設立。