Civilized sacrifice sweep becomes popular in Jiaxing

Yesterday was the first day of the Ching Ming holiday. The graveyards in Jiaxing ushered in the peak of sacrifice and sweep. Everyone brought the old and the young and held flowers to express their grief to loved ones who passed away.

Qingming’s first day ushered in the peak of sacrifice.

At 7 in the morning, the Yizhuang Cemetery and the Shenjiaqiao Cemetery of the Jiaxing City Cemetery ushered in the first wave of people. Citizens can enter the park only after showing codes, measuring the temperature, wearing masks and presenting date text messages. They are guided by the staff. Next, the public offerings were clean and orderly.

In the Shenjiaqiao tomb area, the traffic volume has increased significantly and the vehicles in the emergency parking lot are parked in an orderly manner under the direction of the traffic police. “Last year’s Qingming Festival, due to the impact of the epidemic, many citizens did not come to the scene to slaughter and sweep. This year the epidemic has decreased and the number of sacrifices at the site has increased year after year, and today it has reached the highest peak recently, “introduced the director of the Jiaxing City Cemetery, Jiang Zhiming. To cope with the peak influx of people, the Jiaxing Cemetery has also stepped up its cleanup efforts. On the one hand, it cleans the garbage generated by the ceremonial sweeping in the cemetery 24 hours a day, and on the other hand, it reinforces the cleaning of the public hand washing area with heavy traffic.

To make it easier for citizens to sacrifice and sweep, Jiaxing Cemetery has extended the opening hours of the cemetery. The two cemeteries of Yizhuang and Shenjiaqiao open at 6 in the morning, and at night, it depends on the situation of the masses in The park closes after the masses have left.

According to statistics, yesterday, the city cemetery saw 43,500 people and 10,850 vehicles (including 22,000 people in Yizhuang cemetery and 5,500 vehicles; 21,500 people in Shenjiaqiao cemetery and 5,350 vehicles).

The sacrifice of civilization has become a common practice

With the continuous deepening of the concept of “civilized sacrifice sweep, green Qingming”, more and more people have sacrificed flowers. In the Shenjiaqiao tomb area, many citizens brought flowers to enter the park to sacrifice and sweep them. Citizen Mr. Zhang sighed: “In recent years, there has been much less money to burn paper when sweeping graves. Everyone brought flowers to worship their ancestors. The air in the grave area has also become much cleaner and more environmentally friendly.. “

In the Shenjiaqiao Tomb area, some citizens also delivered flowers to their loved ones buried in the tree. Tree, grass and flowerbed burials began on winter solstice 2019. They have been welcomed since their implementation. In less than two years, 98 dead have been buried. Many of these elders expressed their hope of returning to earth in their last wishes and actively chose ecological burial.

Not only that, but people’s awareness of low-carbon travel is also constantly increasing. At 9 a.m. yesterday, more and more people went to the Yizhuang tomb area to sweep the graves, and many citizens chose to travel by bus to pay their respects. This year, the Jiaxing Public Transportation Company opened six temporary bus lines for tomb sweeping during the Qingming Festival. Among them, there is a line 6 between Yizhuang and Shenjiaqiao Cemeteries to make it easier for some citizens to reach Shenjiaqiao Cemetery, which has no nearby bus stops. .

Besides sacrifice and flower sweeping, Jiaxing Cemetery also encourages citizens to make sacrifices online. Citizens can click on “Civil Affairs for the People” and select “Online Sweeping Service” through the public WeChat account “Jiaxing Civil Affairs”, and then click on the corresponding cemetery for free online sacrifices. Jiang Zhiming told reporters: “The Internet sacrifice scanning method is being accepted by more and more people. Everyone sends their pain to their loved ones through online sacrifice scanning, so that civilized sacrifice becomes the best memory”.