A year is clear, a year old is a remembrance. Chasing the distance cautiously and thinking about the sages is the folk customs of the Qingming Festival. On April 2, the reporter learned from the Xishan Cemetery that the Banner Funeral Service Center has made various preparations in terms of road dredging, civilized sacrifice sweeping, forest fire prevention, etc., to meet the needs of the general public.
In the Qingming Festival, the reporter found that with the concept of "green sacrifice sweep" gradually entering the hearts of the people, it has become very common for citizens to adopt green and civilized sacrifice and sweeping, and civilized sacrifice has become a trend.
The reporter saw that the citizens who came to worship and sweep were holding flowers, replacing the traditional offerings such as paper money and incense candles in the past. In the cemetery, slogans advocating civilized sacrifice can be seen everywhere, and the staff continues to patrol, always reminding the public to keep the environment clean and tidy, and it is strictly forbidden to burn paper money and other items.
Zhao Delu, director of the Qi Funeral Service Center, said: "In order to effectively ensure the safety and orderliness of the people's Qingming Festival sweeping work, we deployed one month in advance, formulated a plan for the Qingming Festival sweeping work, and carried out a comprehensive safety hazard investigation before the festival, focusing on the development of various emergency plans such as fire source control and traffic diversion plans." Snow was cleared 15 days in advance to ensure everyone's traffic safety. At the same time, we seized the favorable opportunity of the Qingming Festival, actively publicized the new way of changing customs and ecological green, and launched new ways such as exchanging flowers for paper money and sending condolences with ribbons, hoping that the masses will actively cooperate, change their thinking, change their concepts, and adopt new ways to pay tribute to their ancestors. ”
Under the advocacy of the new fashion of civilized sacrifice, flowers ushered in a wave of hot sales in the Qingming Festival, in a number of flower shops in Bayantuohai Town, the reporter saw that chrysanthemums have become a "hot" sales champion, whether it is a single flower, or a packaged bouquet, it is very popular with the public.
Liu Chunyan, a flower shop operator, said: "This year's chrysanthemum sales are much better than in previous years, and now everyone is civilized to sacrifice, using flowers to commemorate the deceased, requiring civilized sacrifices not to burn paper, and many people use a bouquet of flowers to express their sorrows." ”
The reporter also learned that some citizens used the Internet to carry out "cloud" sacrifices, taking various forms such as offering a bouquet of flowers and planting a tree to express their remembrance of the deceased.
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Layout Editor|Li Rong
Editor-in-charge|Yan Lixin
Editor-in-Chief|Fan Hua
Supervisor|Jona
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