(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Wuhan Qingming suspends on-site memorial service and implements collective memory service
China News Agency, Wuhan, April 4 (Xu Jinbo, Hao Lihong) Affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Wuhan City suspended the on-site festival and sweeping activities at the Ching Ming Festival this year.
The relevant person in charge of the New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters in Wuhan City introduced on the 4th that in order to prevent the spread of the epidemic caused by concentrated sacrifices and to protect the health and safety of the people, the city according to the relevant regulations of the state and Hubei Province on March 26 Announcement No. 21 issued on the day.
According to the circular, during the Ching Ming Festival this year, funeral homes, cemeteries, and ashes halls in the city will be temporarily suspended from gathering activities such as keeping spirits, farewells, and sacrificial sweeps. The reopening time will be temporarily executed no earlier than April 30. At the same time, the mass sacrifice service is launched. The civil affairs department will arrange for the cemetery management unit to organize staff to hold a mass sacrifice ceremony for the deceased buried in the cemetery. Sweeping ceremony. In addition, an online memorial service is provided, and the family of the deceased can log in to the online memorial platform on the cemetery where the deceased lives, remembering the deceased and expressing sorrow.
On the 4th, the Xiaoen Garden in Longquan Mountain, Wuhan was empty, and there were no scenes of people and mountains in previous years. Wuhan East Lake High-tech Zone Management Committee and Mausoleum Park held a collective memorial activity with the theme of "Warm Remembrance and Reminiscence of the Old" in its Xianghe Square. The staff of the park represented solemn and simple on-site ceremonies such as mourning, reading rituals, offering flower baskets, three bows, employees offering flowers, and putting lotus lanterns on behalf of all Wuhan citizens who failed to come to the park to pay their respects to the old people who stayed here. Sorrow and nostalgia.
Li Dingxing, deputy general manager of Longquan Mountain Xiaoen Garden, introduced that in addition to the solemn and simple collective sacrifice ceremony, the park also specially purchased 50,000 chrysanthemums and 50,000 red ribbons, planned from April 4 to April 15, Launched a "one monument, one flower, one ribbon" free sacrifice offering, offering a chrysanthemum, tying a ribbon, and bowing twice to more than 43,000 deceased people who were sleeping here, on behalf of all family members who failed to be present Feelings.
It is reported that Wuhan Civil Affairs Department arranged 7 funeral homes and 13 cemetery management units on the same day, and organized staff to hold collective sacrifices and activities. (Finish)