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Numberer at the end of life
The pines and cypresses in the park are green, and it is the busiest time of the year in the Xikun De'an Building in Liwan, Guangzhou.
"Please show the real-name reservation code and the 48-hour nucleic acid negative certificate." At the entrance to the park, volunteers hold a temperature gun in their hands to check the required certificates; go inside, the staff of the business office is responsible for charging fees: during the Qingming Period, the smoke-free worship area is free and flowers are given, and the rental worship altar is 20 yuan / table; the upstairs financial room is busy sorting out the bills that have recently been piled up into a hill.
These labels will be attached to the inside of the passing position on the surface of the columbarium.
As one of the four major festival sweeping places in Guangzhou, most of the people working in De'an Building are old employees who have been working for some years. And there is a pair of old partners who have witnessed the development and changes here: Li Fuquan, general manager of De'an Building, and Liang Zhaorui, administrator of the ashes number.
"They're all retired and rehired." Liang Zhaorui said, "I'm older, crawling around, and I don't want to do it again this year." Li Fuquan, who is known as "Brother Fu", also often hangs on his lips.
Li Fuquan led the staff of The De'an Building to carry out a collective sacrifice and sweeping ceremony to convey the condolences of the family.
This old pair, saying that they want to leave, but every year as usual in the columbarium to welcome the delivery, witness the thoughts, feel the times.
Liang Zhaorui carved the name of the deceased and the relevant year on the columbarium cup.
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Under the epidemic situation, Fu Ge's "learning" is more
"A new phase in the era of the industry." Li Fuquan described the Qingming of 2020 in the circle of friends. At that time, in order to meet the needs of citizens in Guangdong under the prevention and control of the epidemic, a special service area of "cloud sacrifice sweeping" was added to the "Guangdong Province" mini program.
Since that year, De'an Lou has opened the mode of making reservations to enter the park during the Qingming Period. In the qingming of 2020, the De'an Building suspended the on-site worship sweep. However, in order to take into account the needs of citizens to do "posthumous affairs", the Civil Affairs Department of Guangzhou stipulates that by making an appointment in advance, you can handle the business of entering the park and moving out of the park such as the entry and storage of the ashes of the ancestors.
Liang Zhaorui wrote down the name of the deceased and the relevant year on the columbarium.
How do I see the update of the number of appointments in real time on the system? How do I print the "Sui Kang Code" marked "Xi Gong De'an Building"? Which people are dispatched to the entrance to carry out temperature measurement and verification work? Like all other funeral service managers, Li Fuquan, who is almost at retirement age, thinks a little.
Today, stepping into the office on the second floor of the bungalow, Li Fuquan skillfully manipulates the computer. "You see, this is the data sent back in real time by the Civil Affairs Bureau." There are 5,000 places per day, and Zhengqing has been filled. How many people enter the park every day, we must also report back to the Civil Affairs Bureau for unified information. ”
In the past two years, Li Fuquan has also ushered in a new "experience": holding a collective sacrifice and sweeping ceremony to help citizens who cannot come to the scene under the epidemic to tell this heavy thought. 6 people in a column, a total of 4 columns. The staff of the Dean Building were all dressed in black suits, holding white chrysanthemums, and bowed deeply to the ancestors in the columbarium. Tables were set up downstairs in the columbariums such as DemanLou and Ankang Hall, and the staff of De'anLou prepared full of water, fruits, and lilies.
On the eve of the Qingming Dynasty, Liang Zhaorui was checking the contrast between the two labels.
"When Gengzi Qingming rains, the green leaves stretch out and flowers. Only thoughts are hard to forget, and do not forget the kindness of ancestors. Flowers are offered to express wishes, ecological sacrifices are clean and environmentally friendly, and the green park is full of flowers. Li Fuquan described the new experience of being a funeral person in a small poem.
In fact, the mourner has been dealing with changes in the environment and thoughts.
Service needs to be constantly changed according to the needs of the people observed: stools and chairs are set up at each entrance and exit to facilitate the elderly to rest when queuing; special groups such as widows and widows, visually impaired people are provided to assist in carrying out ritual sweeps; and social workers are arranged to carry out professional services in response to the situation that family relatives have conflicts due to worship problems in the process of ritual sweeping in previous years.
Hanging environmental protection slogans, intimate tips from business personnel, smoke-free worship areas and gifts of flowers... With the advancement of the ecological festival sweep, the De'an Building is also constantly adjusted. "It is obvious that more and more citizens are choosing smoke-free worship, and now everyone is holding flowers."
The De'an Building, where the collective sacrifice is performed, helps to convey the grief of the family.
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Uncle Rui who carved the name of the deceased
On the first floor of the office area bungalow, the small open room intermittently remembered the "buzzing" sound. Liang Zhaorui was working on the Topaz Columbarium cup with an electrified inscription pen: born on the auspicious hour of September 17, 1968. After leaving a white notch, he switched to a red pen and carefully dyed the words red. The smooth, rounded columbarium shifts direction on the hand.
Liang Zhaorui has worked here for almost 15 years. At that time, he had passed the year of knowing his fate and was introduced by a friend to the De'an Building at the entrance of the village to apply for the post of ashes number administrator. "The last guy didn't want to do it and left, and I stayed after three months of trial work." Ploughing the fields, driving cars, helping the village production team to make records, Liang Zhaorui has done a lot of work before.
After the trial work began, he knew what his work was: after numbering the columbarium cup, the number was recorded in the book and written on the label; the name of the deceased and the relevant year and month were engraved on the columbarium cup according to the requirements of relatives, and then the columbarium cup was placed in a grid; the columbarium was buried together... Liang Zhaorui carefully did every job with reverence for life.
"The busiest thing is Still Qingming, and the number of more than 30,000 columbarium cups must be checked one by one." This is one of the most important tasks of Liang Zhaorui every year, and it is also the most important thing that requires careful patience. He took the notebook full of numbers in black and white in his hand, moved the aluminum ladder to the appropriate position, and then checked the number up and down, "This is not wrong." The numbers are stringed, and the thoughts are missing. "11 layers of ashes lattice, more than 2 meters high, Liang Zhaorui is familiar with it, "but when he is older, his legs and feet have rheumatism, so he should pay attention to it." Sons and grandchildren are worried. ”
He did these jobs for more than a decade.
In his workstation, the most varied are paper and pencil. Notebooks are filled with replacements, and the paper that has been cut into small squares is bound to make a "name exercise book" engraved in front of the columbarium cup, and the pen in the pen holder is also being updated. "The original brush, not easy to use, and changed to a neutral pen, ballpoint pen, and finally found that the art pen is the best to use, the label will not be spent." With a little effort, Liang Zhaorui moved forward in the unchanged work tasks.
There is also the mentality. When he first joined the company, in the face of the deceased, Liang Zhaorui admitted that he was a little nervous. In the De'an Building, where he bids farewell to the thoughts of life, he links the deceased with the living, "Respect the deceased, respect death, and live well." ”
The unchanging tool was the electrified lettering pen in his hand. Liang Zhaorui occasionally complains that this pen is not easy to use, "Now many places use electronics to directly engrave it." "Despite this, there will be many relatives who choose to engrave his name and life." This is also very good, Uncle Rui also has some work to do. Li Fuquan said.
When the work was busy, Liang Zhaorui was not only responsible for the numbering of ashes, but also became a salesman for the memorial. "I'm old, I may have to go home and rest." But this, Liang Zhaorui said for many years.
Colleagues often say, "He is very close to the deceased, and both the deceased and his family are 'inseparable' from him." ”
【Text】Qian Mingya
【Photo】 Liang Jucong
【Editing】Wan Wenlong
[Correspondent] Liao Peijin
【Author】 Qian Mingya; Liang Jucong; Wan Wenlong
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