The Qingming Festival condenses the national spirit and national feelings of the Chinese nation, but due to the epidemic situation, this year's Qingming Festival, all funeral service agencies in Tianjin have stopped on-site sacrifices, and funeral service places such as funeral homes, cemeteries, and columbaria have suspended the organization of mass gathering activities. In order to deeply carry forward traditional culture, during the Qingming Festival, various streets and communities in the new district carried out various forms of civilization memorial activities, integrating the Chinese nation's sentiment of cautiously pursuing the future into the expression of modern civilization, changing the physical sacrifice on the ground to pay attention to spiritual inheritance, guiding citizens to remember their ancestors in civilization, pinning on the feelings of home and country, and living a peaceful, green and simple festival.
"Clouds" pay tribute to the deceased
On the eve of the Qingming Festival, the Tanggu Street Volunteer Association launched the "Message to the Deceased" online message collection activity, advocating that residents make civilized sacrifices in healthy ways such as home remembrance, flowers, and poetry. As of April 1, the participants in this online message collection activity include social workers, students, veteran party members, corporate caring people and other groups.
On the occasion of the Qingming Festival, the Qixingli Community and the Qingyuan Li Community in Chadian Street organized the youth in the jurisdiction to carry out the online signature message activity of "Children's Hearts to the Party and Qingming Sacrifice heroic martyrs". By logging on to WeChat public accounts such as Tianjin Customs Work Committee and "Jincai Youth", the children expressed their admiration and remembrance of the revolutionary martyrs by leaving messages and browsing the heroic deeds of the revolutionary martyrs and other low-carbon environmental protection worship methods.
Folded paper flowers send mourning
Fold a chrysanthemum with your own hands, write a memorial prayer card... In the civilized sacrifice activities carried out in the Harmony Garden community of Dagu Street, the residents of the community who participated in the civilization sacrifice each held a hand-folded chrysanthemum and presented flowers to their deceased relatives.
The coastal street integrity community carried out a series of Qingming Festival activities with the theme of "skillful hand raw paper flowers, civilized sacrifice to welcome the Qingming". At the event, the community staff demonstrated the green sacrifice method - origami flowers for the residents of the district, and told everyone about the benefits of civilized sacrifice. Subsequently, everyone at the scene seriously started to operate, and said that hand-made paper flowers can not only express mourning, but also contribute to the protection of the environment.
Pen and ink to remember the sages
Recently, the Yayuan Community of Tanggu Street jointly built the Lemon Tree Day Care Center and the Yayuan Community Health Hut to jointly carry out the activities of "Green Qingming, Calligraphy and Painting, and Remembrance of Martyrs". Teachers and calligraphy and painting enthusiasts of the "Chu Xin" calligraphy and painting class in the Yayuan community have given full play to their respective strengths, sending thoughts with pen and ink, expressing the feelings of remembering the martyrs and sages by writing sacrificial poems, promoting civilized sacrifices, and spreading new trends of civilization.
The Hua'an Lou community in Dagu Street carried out the collection of calligraphy and painting works with the theme of "Heroes in My Heart". Community teenagers depict their heroes through the paintbrush in their hands. Liu Hulan, Huang Jiguang, Dong Cunrui... Brilliant images come to life under the children's brushes, and the seeds of patriotism are deeply buried in the depths of each child's soul.
Poetry resonates emotionally
Binxing Garden Community of Hujiayuan Street launched the Qingming Poetry Festival with the theme of "Reciting Chinese Classics and Promoting Traditional Virtues". The scene of the event was solemn and orderly, and the reciters sent their feelings with poems, turning the remembrance of their loved ones into a poem, and integrating the true feelings into it. The sometimes tragic and sometimes exciting recitation brought the audience a shock of the heart and emotional resonance.
The Blue Whale Island community in Dagu Street carried out an online display activity to inherit excellent traditional cultural poetry recitation. In the activity, the young people in the community used their beautiful voices to convey the power of literature, express the simple feelings of loving the motherland, loving the people, loving the hometown and paying tribute to the martyrs, and interpret the cultural connotation of the Qingming Festival to remember the ancestors, remember the deceased, change customs and customs, and carry forward the new style.
Remember the martyrs in the movie
On April 3, Da'an Village, Zhongtang Town, launched an educational activity with the theme of "Remembering Martyrs, Inheriting Red Genes, and Striving to Be a Good Teenager of the Times". In the activity, everyone learned about the heroic deeds of revolutionary martyrs and learned the heroic spirit of revolutionary martyrs by watching documentaries and telling heroic stories.
In The East Village of Ningchegu in Beitang Street carried out the Qingming Festival activity with the theme of "learning the history of the party and paying tribute to heroic martyrs", and the party members, grid members and residents of the jurisdiction watched the patriotic theme movie "Changjin Lake" together, relived the hundred-year history of the Communist Party of China, learned about the party's century-old development history, and stimulated everyone's feelings of home and country who know history and love the party and love the country.
"Wall of Remembrance" before the heartfelt appeal
The way residents of Huiyangli Community expressed their grief on the street was a little different. In the community courtyard, a "memorial wall" with a plain background is particularly eye-catching, and the wall is plastered with sticky notes with words, which is a new attempt by the community to promote the concept of green festivals.
At about 9 o'clock on the 4th, residents received notes to convey mourning, and came to the "memorial wall" in turn to express their thoughts. "In the past few years, the family has been well, you can rest assured" "Dear mother, may heaven be free of illness and happiness" Line by line carries people's infinite nostalgia for the deceased relatives and friends.
"This form of mourning that writes the thoughts of loved ones on sticky notes and pastes them on the 'memorial wall' is very novel, and it also conforms to the new trend of civilized, green, low-carbon and environmentally friendly sacrifices advocated at present." A resident who came to mourn said.
Source: Ben Thanh Times