China News Agency, Guangzhou, April 5th (Cai Minjie) wiped the tombstones, silently mourned, bowed to worship ... On the 5th, Guangzhou was raining and raining, and a concentrated sacrifice sweeping activity was held in Xintang Overseas Chinese Cemetery in the city.
After the host read the sacrifice, the staff of the Guangzhou Funeral Service Center came to the burial area of the flower bed and used flowers to express their grief to the old man. Under the epidemic, the relatives and friends of the deceased who could not go to the scene to complete the sacrifice wish.
It is understood that the flower bed burial of the Overseas Chinese Cemetery Yi'an New Garden opened in 2010. The dead ashes are buried deep in the degradable ashes altar. The plants and flowers are planted on the ground without leaving graves, and the ancestors are engraved on the monument. The name commemorates.
As time goes by, the ashes will be integrated with the soil and flowers, and the new ashes can be circulated in place, which is one of the ecological burial methods. In the past 10 years, a total of 1080 ashes have been placed in the flowerbed burial area of Yiyuan Xinyuan, and the scale of the ecological flowerbed burial has increased year by year.
Affected by the new Coronary Pneumonia epidemic, starting from March 18th, Guangzhou City suspended the on-site festival activities. Hou Xuejun, director of the Guangzhou Funeral and Funeral Service Center, said: "We will purchase 44,000 sticks and dedicate flowers. During the Ching Ming Festival, we will present flowers to the deceased who have been sleeping in the Overseas Chinese Cemetery according to the model of" one tomb and one flower ".
Hou Xuejun said that family members can also log in to perform online sacrifices through social platforms or websites, and pay homage to their loved ones through "cloud worship festivals."
Guangzhou has formed an ecological burial service system with ash storage as the mainstay, ashes returned to the forest, ash ashes, lawn burial and other methods. The land-saving ecological burial rate has reached 84%.
Among them, since 1988 and 1989, the first activities of ashes to spread the sea and forest reforestation have been initiated in mainland China. Guangzhou has successively waived the cost of activities, established an ecological burial award and compensation mechanism, and encouraged the public to participate in the green festival ecological burial law.
Up to now, Guangzhou has spread 26,600 sea ashes and returned 21,200 forest ashes, with a subsidy of 5.648 million yuan. The ashes for planting trees and forests in Guangzhou Baiyun Mountain "Siyuan" is now saturated, and Guangzhou is planning to build new planting and foresting sites.
In addition, Guangzhou promotes home remembrance, online worship, flower worship, etc., and promotes modern civilization, simple and environmentally friendly funeral methods. (Finish)