Baoding Qingyuan District Qingming Festival Civilized Sacrifice and Sweeping Initiative Letter Baoding City Qingming Festival Sacrifice and Sweeping Regulations

Qingyuan District Civil Affairs Bureau’s Qingming Festival Civilized Sacrifice and Sweeping Initiative

The Qingming Festival is approaching. In order to carry forward the fine traditions of the Chinese nation and ensure that the Qingming Festival is safe, civilized, green and environmentally friendly, To prevent the risk of spreading the COVID-19 epidemic caused by the movement and gathering of people, the following initiatives are issued to the general public:

1. Strengthen environmental awareness and advocate civilized sacrifices and sweeps. Consciously establish awareness of civilization, environmental protection and science, abide by social ethics, and express traditional memorial customs in an environmentally friendly and low-carbon way. It is advocated to remember the deceased through civilized and low-carbon ways such as online memorial service, flower memorial service, family memorial service, tree planting and outing, etc., to break the old habits of burning paper money, setting off firecrackers, placing sacrifices, etc., and not to use non-degradable sacrificial supplies.

2. Advocate high maintenance and low burial, and advocate simple funeral arrangements. We should vigorously carry forward the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation of "respecting the elderly, respecting the elderly, loving the elderly, and being filial to the elderly", establish a new concept of caring for the elderly and paying homage to the elderly, and advocate that the elderly should be more filial when they are alive, and should not compare with each other when they die. Funerals should be handled simply and quickly, and no centralized memorial service should be held. , farewell to the remains and centralized dining and other activities to minimize the gathering of people and implement epidemic prevention and control requirements.

3. Raise prevention awareness and advocate safety sweeps. Try to avoid on-site mourning and sweeping service activities. For those who really need on-site mourning and funeral services, make phone reservation applications, and adopt measures such as reservations, peak shifting, and flow restriction to reduce the gathering of people. Urban and rural residents are encouraged to strictly abide by relevant fire prevention regulations, not to burn ghost coins on the streets, and not to bring flammable and explosive items and fire into sacrificial areas to strictly prevent fire accidents caused by sacrificial rituals.

4. Play a leading role and encourage party members and cadres to take the lead. The majority of party members and cadres must set an example, be the practitioners and leaders of civilized safety inspections, take the lead in discouraging, and influence relatives, friends, and surrounding people to consciously resist stereotypes and customs, and consciously abide by epidemic prevention and control requirements.

Having a harmonious and beautiful home is our common aspiration for the vast majority of people in the region. Let us join hands together, starting from you and me, and vigorously advocate "civilized sacrifices and sweeping, The new trend of "Green Qingming", with practical actions to change customs, protect the environment and promote new trends, build a beautiful home of civilization, harmony and happiness!

Qingyuan District Funeral Management Office Tel: 8120444

Tel: 8169666, 8169555

Civil Affairs Bureau of Qingyuan District, Baoding City

March 22, 2022