China's ecological burial is becoming more and more popular, people respect life and are more environmentally friendly

　　China News Service, Zhengzhou, April 4 (Reporter Han Zhangyun) After placing the biodegradable urn in a hole under a tree and filling it with flower petals, Wang Yun sowed grass seeds on the bare ground and bowed three times to say goodbye to his father. On the eve of Qingming Festival, at a public tree burial event held in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, Wang Yun and many citizens bid farewell to the deceased in a more environmentally friendly way.

　　It is a traditional Chinese custom to sweep tombs in memory during the Qingming Festival. Recently, various forms of ecological burial collective burial ceremonies and public memorial activities have been held in many places in China, taking into account green environmental protection and humanistic care, and paying respect to life, with more and more people participating.

　　In Zhengzhou, 289 deceased people were "sleeped" in a tree burial garden; in Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province, the ashes of 46 deceased people were scattered into the Yangtze River and buried collectively; the civil affairs departments of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Province jointly organized ashes scattering into the sea Activities, the dead "sleep" with the sea.

　　A reporter from China News Service saw at the public welfare tree burial event in Zhengzhou that the memorial site was surrounded by flowers, and memorial supplies such as prayer and wish cards, water-soluble letter paper, and loving thoughts lamps prepared for each group of families were placed in sequence. The processes of offering grains, serving tea with warm lamps, bowing, and expressing feelings with water-soluble paper are warm and solemn.

　　At present, ecological burial is gradually promoted in China. According to statistics from the Civil Affairs Department of Guangdong Province, the ecological burial rate in the province has exceeded 63%; since the "14th Five-Year Plan", the number of deceased people in Jiangsu Province who have adopted ecological burials has reached 30,000; in the past five years, the number of people participating in ecological burials in Shandong Province has been approximately 120,000 people. Sea burial, tree burial, wall burial, flower bed burial, lawn burial...the deceased can "sleep peacefully" while saving space and protecting the environment, allowing life to continue in another way.

　　Wang Yun is a pioneer in ecological burial in Zhengzhou. 13 years ago, she bid farewell to her mother with a tree burial. "Now I see that the tree where my mother is buried is much thicker, and I am very happy, as if she is still with us." She believes that ecological burial is a spiritual comfort for the family members, not only allowing the deceased to return to the earth decently and quietly , and also "reduce the burden" on the natural environment.

　　Ecological burials often do not erect monuments or leave names. In order to meet the public's memorial needs, public memorial ceremonies are organized in various places to expand the humanistic connotation of ecological burials. For example, the Sea Burial Memorial Park in Dalian City, Liaoning Province has been opened, so that family members no longer need to go to sea to pay homage; in Zhengzhou City, the names of the deceased who participated in public welfare tree burials are engraved on the monument for family members to pay their respects. Some areas also use digital technology to transmit information about the deceased to the "cloud" for family members to pay their respects online.

　　Wang Chaofeng, director of the Zhengzhou Funeral Service Center, said that while ecological burial respects traditional funeral customs, it also enriches and extends the funeral culture and can better meet the people's needs for "a peaceful death."

　　The "Analysis on the Development Trend of Ecological Burial in my country's Cemeteries" released by the China Funeral Association also pointed out that the application of digital technology in ecological burial can preserve the life culture of the deceased, so that the living can not only express their grief in the memory and remembrance of the deceased , can better understand the value and meaning of life, and enhance the cultural connotation of funeral activities. (over)