Guangzhou’s post-epidemic era “Xingzheng Qing”: dating system to reduce the flow of people and implement off-site monument sweeping | Guangzhou | Guangzhou | New corona pneumonia_Sina News

Original title: Guangzhou post-epidemic era “Xingzheng Qing”: dating system to reduce the flow of people to implement off-site slaughter sweep

Chinanews.com, Guangzhou, April 4 Title: Guangzhou Post-Epidemic Era “Xingzheng Qing”: Dating System Reduces Flow of People and Implements Off-Site Sacrifices

Cai Minjie, reporter for the China News Service

Ching Ming season, a long time to remember. The Cantonese area pays attention to “Xingzheng Qing”, that is, to pay tribute to the ancestors in the Qingming Festival (April 4) and send pain. Due to the implementation of new prevention and control measures of the pulmonary corona epidemic, the sacrifice and sweep places of the city implement appointments with real names and then sacrifices in place.

After visiting various places of worship that day, the journalist discovered that the general worship situation was orderly. As of 12:00 on April 4, a total of 386,600 people in Guangzhou had made appointments to worship their ancestors on the day of the Qingming Festival, representing a significant decrease compared to the 1.11 million people in Guangzhou. Qingming Day in 2019.

In recent years, nearly 6 million people have participated in the Qingming Festival in Guangzhou every year. Due to the suspension of ceremonial sweeps during the Qingming Festival in 2020, the Guangzhou Department of Civil Affairs hopes that the public’s desire to participate in this year’s ceremonial sweeps will be strong.

All walks of life in Guangzhou held a memorial ceremony for the revolutionary martyrs. Photo by Chen Jimin

In order to coordinate the prevention and control of the epidemic and the service assurance of slaughter and sweeping services, from March 20 to April 30 this year, several slaughter and sweeping places in Guangzhou implemented a system of appointments and advocated for online sacrifice sweeps, family memorials and postponed sacrifice sweep. At 12 o’clock on the same day, a total of 1.94 million people in the city made sacrificial appointments.

At 8 o’clock on the same day, the reporter saw at the entrance to the Galaxy Revolution Cemetery in Guangzhou that, unlike in previous years, the parking spaces around the main cemeteries were narrow. This year there is a special reserved lane and a designated waiting area lane, and vehicle traffic is orderly and there is no congestion; There are 4 channels dedicated to dating for worship. Citizens can enter the venue with their appointment code and ID card, and must cooperate with the body temperature measurement. Volunteers and staff will guide you to the door.

On the same day, all walks of life in Guangzhou held a memorial ceremony for the revolutionary martyrs at the Yinhe Revolutionary Cemetery in Guangzhou. At the commemorative ceremony, accompanied by the deep and long “Flower Offerings”, 12 university students carried 6 baskets of flowers and walked slowly to the side of the ever-shining torch, the participants paid tribute to the 520 martyrs placed in the cemetery, they handed out flowers and bowed three times to express their respect. Many citizens also stopped to express their grief.

Flower Festival Sweep Photo by Chen Jimin

At 10 o’clock, many citizens entered in an orderly manner with flowers and offerings. In the worship area of ​​Yinhe Cemetery, more than 10 worship altars with worship supplies were placed. Zhang, a citizen of Guangzhou, said he made an appointment when the dating channel for the sweeping ceremony opened on March 19.

At the Guangzhou crematorium, the flow of people has significantly decreased compared to previous years. Citizens enter the worship area after a series of procedures, such as measuring their body temperature and verifying the appointment code. At the same time, there is an on-site reservation area at the entrance. For citizens who have not made an appointment in advance, or for special groups such as the elderly who have problems using smart technology and do not make an online reservation. Through family and friends, the memorial and sweep site will enable an on-site dating channel to solve it.

Guangzhou citizen Miss Su and her family are preparing supplies for the worship service. “The dating process is clear and clear, and the elderly at home made the appointment with their mobile phones.” Ms. Su said that in previous years there was a large flow of people and it was necessary to take a seat early. year, basically no need to wait.

Vehicles enter in an orderly manner. Photo by Chen Jimin

In recent years, Guangzhou has promoted funeral and burial reform and innovated various external services, such as “welcoming the ashes home”, “delivering the ashes home”, “mourning letters by mail” and ” online sacrifice sweep “so people can remember. the ancestors and place their duel Added more options.

Mr. Huang, a citizen of Guangzhou, went through the procedure of “welcoming the ashes home.” After completing the relevant information on the business acceptance form, Mr. Cai came to the ash room with the ash deposit certificate to request the ashes and send his grief home.

Worshiping the ancestors is no longer limited to sacrifices and sweeps in place. Mr. Huang said that during the Ching Ming holiday there were many people who went to the cemetery to make sacrifices and the time for worship was limited. In order to better meet and accompany the deceased, he chose to “welcome the ashes back home.” make sacrifices.

In addition to the “welcoming the ashes” service, many citizens have begun to accept multiple sacrifices in recent years to comfort the deceased. During the Qing Ming Dynasty last year, the Guangzhou Galaxy Revolution Cemetery updated its online worship platform and added a mobile version of its online worship client. A total of more than 300,000 visits have been seen on the Internet, of which 45,000 have been worshiped by martyrs. Since the beginning of this year, online slaughter scanning continues to be a kind of slaughter scanning method that citizens pay attention to and participate in.

In addition, due to the impact of the new corona pneumonia epidemic, during the Qingming Festival in 2020, Guangzhou innovatively launched the external scanning service “Letters and Posts Grief”, in which the public was asked to pay tribute to ancestors by mail, and a total of more than 1,000 letters were delivered. In 2021, the Tomb Sweeping Festival, Guangzhou continued to promote the service of “mourning letters by mail”, many of which were sent to the graves of the martyrs in the Yinhe Cemetery. (End up)