China News Agency, Beijing, April 4th. The traditional Chinese festival Qingming Festival is here again.
Due to the spread of the new crown epidemic in many places across the country, the "pause button" was pressed on the on-site sacrifice sweeping, and the "cloud memorial" at the fingertips became a new trend, and the concepts of green funeral and low-carbon sacrifice sweeping have gradually gained popularity.
Reducing the risk of the epidemic, "sacrifice on the cloud" has become common practice
"During the Qingming Festival, we cherish the memory of the victims of the Nanjing Massacre. We will not forget the history, inherit the historical memory, and convey the voice of peace." On the 4th, many netizens left messages in the comment area of the Qingming "Cloud" Festival at the Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by the Japanese Invaders. .
Similar online sacrificial sweeps are common across the country.
According to a report from the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People's Republic of China on the 3rd, on the first day of the Qingming Festival holiday this year, 6.95 million people across China participated in online sacrifices, an increase of 275.7% over the same period last year.
"As long as the deceased relatives are truly remembered, the online sacrifice is also a good method. The key is how to guide the community." Fang Yuan, a citizen of Hohhot City, said.
Changing customs, "ecological burial" and "sacrificial sweeping" help reduce carbon
In the artistic ecological burial area of Zhengguo Wan'an Garden in Zengcheng District, Guangzhou, citizens worshipped their ancestors under a large field of bougainvillea.
Under many tombstones, there are also dolls that the deceased loved during his lifetime.
Citizen Mr. Lu believes that the flower beds can be recycled for burial, which is conducive to environmental protection, and the ancestors can be accompanied by flowers and green grass all year round.
"The local civil affairs department requires consciously to abandon the vulgar customs of burning paper money and setting off firecrackers..." said Wang Chenglong, a villager in Guangyilong Town, Chayou Middle Banner, Ulanqab City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. There was also a fire risk, so he decided to replace it with flowers.
"The epidemic temporarily blocked the exchanges between compatriots on both sides of the strait, but it could not block the love and longing of relatives." Jiang Yunhai, president of the Taiwan Overseas Chinese Association in Xikou Town, Fenghua District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province said.
In recent days, he and the local volunteers have been grouped in Taokeng Mountain and other places to "sacrificing and sweeping" for Taiwan compatriots. "Many younger generation of Taiwan compatriots intuitively feel the local development and changes through the video."
According to Chen Chaoping, vice-chairman of the Taiwan Compatriots and Taiwan Affiliates Association in Fenghua District, Ningbo City, the association has implemented the "Sacrificial Sweeping" activity for many years, and is expected to serve more than 2,000 Taiwan compatriots and Taiwan families this year.
During the Qingming Festival, 13 cemeteries in Guangzhou cleaned tombstones for free and presented flowers to all the tombs.
"In general, the public can understand and accept these arrangements for sacrifice and sweeping," said Zhou Yun, deputy director of the Guangzhou Municipal Funeral Management Office.
The rise of "Spar of Life" and "Wisdom Cemetery", young people send multiple condolences
During the Qingming Festival, Xu Yan from Luoyang, Henan took off a small "life spar" on her neck and wiped it gently to express her grief for her father.
"Life spar" is a funeral method that has emerged in recent years. Through technologies such as pressure and high temperature sublimation, the ashes are made into spar, which can be used as accessories and decorations.
When some young people were interviewed, they believed that the life spar was small in size and beautiful in shape, which was economical and portable.
"Tombstones need to be 'slim down', and commemorative needs to be 'expanded'." Zhao Xiaohu, director of the Cemetery Working Committee of the China Funeral Association, believes that with the continuous emergence of new technologies such as life spar, ashes diamonds, and ashes compression, and the integration of "Internet + entity" The new form of the Wisdom Cemetery has also appeared. In the future, the cemetery should probably be called the Life Memorial Park. Every landscape in the park is a life memorial, and behind it are the stories of life.
"A different kind of Qingming has the same feelings, and the sacrifice is not in the heart." The relevant person in charge of the Social Affairs Office of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Civil Affairs said that the concept of green and civilized funerals is gradually taking root in the hearts of the people.
(End) (Participating in writing: Cai Minjie, Liao Peijin, Lin Bo, Li Aiping, Kan Li, Zhu Xiaoying)