Chinese funeral is thought to be an important method to show filial respect to parents by confucianist from ancient time and was very important in each ancient dynasty of China. Not only the funeral rite was complex and diversiform, but also a kind of strict hierarchy came into being in the developing progress of funeral. The hierarchy of funeral rite germed in far-away ancient China, was founded during Qin and Han dynasty in China, had it’s legal status during Tang and Song dynasty in China, and shrinked in Qing dynasty. In the end, the hierarchy of funeral rite was abolished politically after the foundation of new government in morden time. The hierarchy of old funeral rite showed the social status of the dead person. Historily it helped the ancient governor to stabilize hierarchical domination like other rites, systems and laws in ancient China. However, during the final stage of Qing dynasty, the ideals of freedom, democracy, and equality from Europe were introduced to Chinese. Following that, European funeral rite entered in China and affected Chinese traditional funeral dramatically. Under the influence of European funeral rite, people in China began to give up the Chinese traditional complex hierarchical funeral rite. Even the government of the day announced and called for a new simple equal funeral in China. The new funeral was accepted by many Chinese gradually and The traditional hierarchical funeral of Chinese started to disappear. And then, after a new Chinese government, the Pople’s Republic of China was set up, a special administrative department which aimed to remove the old complex hierarchical funeral and to guide a new modern funeral was also instituted. Thus, the hierarchy of funeral died politically. Then, the funeral exists in China not as a role of helping to stabilize the hierarchical dominaion but as a role of reducing sadness of losing a family member and strengthen links of the alive family members and so on. This paper will study the development and disappearance of Chinese funeral hierarchy by observing Chinese funeral from ancient to nowdays.