Zhongxin Finance, April 3 (Reporter Xie Yiguan) "Swallows come to Shixinshe, pear blossoms are behind the Qingming Festival." The Qingming season is approaching, and it is time to remember the deceased and cherish the memory of the ancestors.
The spread of the epidemic in many places this year has prevented many people from returning home, so cloud sacrifices and tomb sweeping have become popular.
Can't go home at Qingming? Cloud sacrifice and tomb sweeping are popular
Recently, the Ministry of Civil Affairs held a teleconference on the 2022 Qingming Festival sacrifice sweeping work, proposing to vigorously promote civilized and low-carbon sacrifice sweeping methods such as online sacrifice sweeping, flower sacrifice sweeping, and family memorial service.
Civil affairs departments in many places have also launched online services such as online sacrificial sweeping, and many local cemeteries offer free sacrificial sweeping on behalf of relatives.
Citizens can mourn the deceased by logging on to the local funeral home's cloud sacrificial scan website or the WeChat public platform online sacrificial scan platform.
Some operating cemeteries have also launched cloud memorial services and paid sweeping activities.
For example, in the "Cloud Memorial" service of a cemetery in Shanghai, just click on the names of relatives and friends, you can enter the memorial hall, click on the virtual sacrificial sweep, express your thoughts for relatives and friends online, and "put lights on and pray for blessings" for relatives and friends.
The park also provides valet sacrificial and sweeping services, which are divided into packages of different prices, including a package of 35 yuan. The service process prepares the corresponding package items for the staff to go to the site.
After arriving at the scene, there was a minute of devout silence, then a bouquet of flowers was presented, three bows of silence were presented, and the scene was organized.
The 260 yuan package includes more abundant services, including wiping tombstones, lighting incense candles, and offering large bouquets of flowers.
After the service is completed, you can receive the photo push of the sacrifice.
Sacrifice sweeping service launched by a cemetery.
Private "sweeping" often costs hundreds of thousands, and 300 yuan is charged for kowtow?
In addition to the "sweeping" activities launched by these large cemeteries, some people have also started private "sweeping."
"Tomb-sweeping on behalf of the Qingming Festival, crying, screaming, making trouble, online reservations", "XX area, tomb-sweeping, offering flowers, buying sacrifices, and offering incense"... Open a second-hand trading platform, you will find that there are many generations of sacrifices. Posts generally use their own city and surrounding areas as the service scope, and the price ranges from a few yuan to thousands of yuan.
A screenshot of a trading platform.
A reporter from Zhongxin Finance and Economics found that many services are not significantly different from the services provided by the cemetery.
For example, a "sweeping" priced at 1,000 yuan, the scope of services includes cleaning around tombstones and tombs, placing offerings, flowers, video recording, etc.
However, another "sweeping" priced at 1,000 yuan, in addition to basic services, can also cry.
A businessman who provides worship services on behalf of the Beijing area told reporters that his 299 yuan fee only includes cleaning, two chrysanthemums, silence, message transmission, and audio and video services.
"If you want to put sacrifices and burn paper money, you will need to pay extra. Two boxes of sacrifices are 30 yuan, four boxes are 50 yuan, and paper money is 30 yuan. Tobacco, wine, other flowers, food, etc. also need to pay extra."
Some businesses will provide kowtow services, but the fees are also higher.
A merchant with a price tag of 600 yuan told reporters, "The price of 600 yuan includes cemetery cleaning, basic chrysanthemums, etc., and an additional 300 yuan will be charged for kowtow."
In addition to arbitrary pricing, private "sweeping" and "burning" are also full of traps.
According to media reports, some consumers received several live videos from businesses after purchasing 200 yuan worth of "substitute burning" services online.
But when it was transferred to the mobile phone, the flaw was found. "Except for the first video, which was shot on the same day, the other videos were shot a month ago. The same video, I don't know how many people were deceived."
It is best to choose a formal service agency for "sweeping"
In the face of "sweeping agents" who offer random quotations, charge a lot but do not go to graves, and just use WeChat live broadcast to switch to other scenes to deceive consumers, Liu Junhai, a professor at the Law School of Renmin University of China, told a reporter from Zhongxin Finance and Economics that he was affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic. Due to other influences, it is also human nature that relatives who are far away cannot go to sweep the tombs in person, and entrust others to perform sacrifice sweeping on their behalf.
In addition, paid scanning is also understandable.
However, "a gentleman loves money and takes it in a proper way", and he cannot set prices at will or simply charge fees and not work, which is against the spirit of the contract.
"Therefore, we must emphasize the integrity of the tomb-sweeping industry, not only freedom of contract, but also fairness and strict adherence to the contract." Liu Junhai added.
Previously, the Sichuan Provincial Consumer Council also issued a document to remind consumers to understand more, compare more, and inquire more before accepting funeral, funeral and sweeping services, and comprehensively analyze the service provider's business status, integrity, price, reputation, and after-sales services. Consider.
It is best to choose a formal service organization and make a written agreement with the operator on service items, methods, time, procedures, charges, etc.
Some consumers will pay a high price to put forward various personalized needs for the "sweeping agent". In this regard, Liu Junhai also said that consumers should also be rational, just send flowers and express their grief.
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