The blue waves reflect the willows by the lake, and the green grass is like green grass; the canoe in the lake is rippling, the piano and flute are ensemble, and the music is melodious.
The rituals dressed in traditional costumes gently sprinkled the petals of longings into the lake, and waved the new branches of the willows in their hands to pray for blessings and auspiciousness...
On April 1, the 2021 Beijing Municipal Festival Land Ecological Funeral Qingming Festival with the theme of "Soul Return to the Sea·Natural True Nature, Qingming Spring Temple·Careful Thinking and Pursue" was held in Beijing Changqing Life Memorial Park.
With solemn expressions of salute, the soldiers lined up to present a basket of flowers to the Haisa Monument.
The families of the deceased walked around the Haisa Monument for a week with chrysanthemums and presented flowers to pray for the deceased and pay tribute to life.
Beijing began to promote ecological burials such as sea burial of ashes in 1994. At first, there were only 300 or 400 copies per year. By 2019, the number of ashes spread increased to more than 3,200.
Up to now, Beijing has carried out 584 burials of ashes, spreading 25,068 ashes.
Affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic last year, Beijing's burial of ashes was suspended.
According to the arrangement, orderly recovery this year, it is estimated that more than 5,000 ashes will be sown throughout the year.
(Reporter Du Yan produces Zhou Jing)
Editor in charge: [Wang Kai]