Qingming Festival is an important day to "commemorate the martyrs and pay tribute to the ancestors". In the past few days, Our city of Wuhan has gradually ushered in the peak of the Qingming Festival festival. The reporter recently visited and found that in response to the call for scientific epidemic prevention and civilized sacrifice, the current generation of sacrifice sweeps and cloud sacrifices has become a new choice for people to mourn and remember their ancestors.
On the morning of April 1, the reporter visited the cemetery and learned that the people who have the demand for substitute sacrifice sweeps and online sacrifice sweeps are mainly in different places, or citizens with limited mobility.
At present, Wuhan Biandanshan Cemetery, Changyuan Cemetery, Longquan Mountain Xiao'en Park and other cemeteries have opened online sacrifice and sweeping services for citizens to mourn.
This year's Qingming Festival, Mr. Wang was in Shanghai, could not go back to Wuhan to visit his father's grave, after learning that Shimenfeng had a substitute sacrifice sweeping service, he immediately made an appointment.
Hu Dong, the liturgist of Shimenfeng Memorial Park, received Mr. Wang's entrustment to perform sacrifices and found the grave of Mr. Wang's father. He gently wiped off the dust on the tombstone, then solemnly placed offerings such as fruits and flowers, and also read aloud the sacrifice essay written by Mr. Wang. The entire ceremony was photographed and videotaped at the scene.
After the end of the festival, the staff of the park immediately sent the recorded video data to the client.
Wu Dong, a ceremonialist at Shimenfeng Memorial Park, told reporters that there are still more personnel for valet sacrifice sweeping, so far, there have been dozens of orders that have been handled, and they can also do some customized services for their families, such as offering a piece of music to their relatives, and then they have some heartfelt words, they can also speak to their relatives on their behalf, some fruit snacks, according to their requirements, to provide them, through this way of bringing sacrifice sweeps, it can also alleviate our families in foreign countries. A kind of nostalgia and longing for loved ones.
Shimenfeng Memorial Park has now launched a full-age festival sweeping service. According to reports, the appointment of the substitute cleaning service is generally concentrated in the Spring Festival, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Qingming Festival or the anniversary of the deceased relatives. The cost of the valet sacrifice sweeping service ranges from tens of yuan to hundreds of yuan.
The park said that since 2020, this new number of valet sacrifice sweeps has been increasing, compared with several orders a year in previous years, and now at its peak, there are four or five orders a day. At the same time, citizens who cannot go to the scene for sacrifice and sweeping can also take another way of offering and sweeping, that is, online cloud sacrifice.
Yan Hao, head of Wuhan Shimenfeng Memorial Park: "Our park launched this kind of online memorial service, log on to our public account, click on our online memorial, such a service, which can release some, some photos of his life history, you can also commemorate him, publish the language of missing his loved ones, and also provide him with a special, login account and password, very private." ”
Yan Hao, head of Wuhan Shimenfeng Memorial Park, introduced that since the opening of the network festival sweep, tens of thousands of people have used it. Compared with the traditional on-site festival sweeping, although there are different generational sacrifice sweeps and cloud sacrifice sweeps, the feeling of remembrance expressed is equally strong.
Travel during the holidays, remember the safety of the festival, civilized travel
- Try to choose the smokeless fire civilization sacrifice methods such as network sacrifice sweeping, flower sacrifice sweeping, ribbon sending mourning, qingqing remote sacrifice, classic recitation, etc., to express the thoughts and concerns for relatives and martyrs.
- During the festival sweeping activities, do not throw cigarette butts and set off fireworks and firecrackers on the mountains and grasslands, remove combustible materials such as weeds around when burning incense and paper, and extinguish the embers when people leave, so as not to cause mountain and forest fires.
- During the festival sweeping activities, it is strictly forbidden to occupy or block the safety exits, evacuation passages and fire truck passages; parents should educate their children not to play with fire, and not to let children light candles, burn incense, burn paper, and set off firecrackers in unsafe areas.
- Strictly abide by the relevant regulations of the festival sweep, and go to the designated place to burn paper and incense. Do not burn incense and paper on the lawn, next to the gas pipeline, next to the car, sewer manhole covers, haystacks, construction sites, near the shed and other areas in the community.
- When traveling on Qingming holidays, please check the power supply and gas in your home, clean up the debris on the balcony corridor, and maintain the safety of home fire.