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Sacrifice in Qingming Festival More Civilized in Chenzhou

2017-04-06

Recently, the reporter learned from the Funeral Management Office of Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau, during the Qingming Festival, Chenzhou has actively promoted the "civilized sacrifice, security sweep", with a bunch of flowers in mourning, writing down the memory and miss on the Internet, and holding a family memorial to the ancestors ...... With the popularity of environmental awareness, more and more people begin to pay homage to ancestors in a civilized and environmentally friendly way. The public take practical action to support the construction of ecological civilization and beautiful Chenzhou and establish a civilized and frugal new way of worship.

 

The traditional sacrifice pollutes the environment, paper money flying and ashes everywhere, and even the firecrackers, burning incense and paper cause fire hazards. Those are the people do not want to see. Offering a bouquet of flowers, offering a glass of wine, writing a poem and etc. also can be mourning and touches the soul. The Qingming Festival reminds us that everyone should be more "concerned about the living, caring for the dead, caring for life". Advocating living generously and burying thriftily is the real filial piety.

 

Municipal Civil Affairs, urban management departments, the streets and communities actively carried out the civilized propaganda activities of "flowers for paper money"; On April 1, the city funeral home held the open day activities; more than 50 volunteers from Chenzhou Vocational and Technical College, Chenzhou Institute of Technicians and other organizations carried out the civilized ritual propaganda activities, set up online sweep, and let the public through the offer, burning, flowers and other forms on the Internet express the deep thoughts of the ancestors. More than 200 people involved in the online sweeping activities.

 

Li Kang - Comprehensive Section Chief of Funeral Management Office of Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau, told reporters that Chenzhou will fully implement the civilized low-carbon sweeping and eco-friendly burials, to further enhance the level of funeral services, at the same time, actively implement the control measures to ensure safety sweeping. He said we should also vigorously advocate the flowers sweeping, network sweeping and other civilized low-carbon modern way of sweeping, carry out "flowers for paper money," "time and space mailbox" and other free or reward activities, to create convenient conditions of civilized low-carbon sweeping for the masses as far as possible and guide the masses to consciously resist the vulgar sweeping supplies and consciously participate in civilized low-carbon sweeping.