This year’s Qingming Festival, stone lions will completely suspend memorial and sweeping activities (do stone lions save energy in tomb sweeping during Qingming Festival)?

Notice of the Shishi City Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Prevention and Control Headquarters on the Comprehensive Suspension of Sacrifice and Sweeping Activities During the Epidemic

In order to do a solid job in epidemic prevention and control, avoid Due to the spread of viruses and cross-infection caused by the gathering of people, the city’s comprehensive suspension of memorial and sweeping activities during the epidemic period is hereby announced as follows:

1. Comprehensive suspension of memorial and sweeping activities

From now on, Comprehensive suspension of sweeping and sacrificial activities at the city’s funeral parlors, permanent cemetery cemeteries, village columbariums, resting halls, temples and other centralized burial places for funeral ashes, as well as scattered tombs that are not centrally placed. The units protecting martyrs' memorial facilities do not organize or receive gatherings to commemorate the event. The specific recovery time will be notified separately.

2. Effectively strengthen the control of sacrifices

During the Qingming Festival, relevant municipal departments must implement traffic control for people and vehicles on the road sections leading to the permanent cemetery. All towns should urge village-level public welfare columbariums in their jurisdictions to suspend memorial and sweeping activities. The general public should consciously suspend gatherings of worship activities in ancestral halls, ancestral homes and other places. Citizens are strictly prohibited from burning ghost coins, paper money and other sacrificial items and setting off firecrackers in any public places.

3. It is strictly prohibited to go up to the mountains to perform sacrifices and sweeps

All towns and villages should strengthen the control of people who go up to the mountains to perform sacrifices and sweeps, and set up temporary epidemic prevention checkpoints at each intersection to ensure the safety and security of the personnel. Encourage people to return and control fire sources.

4. Extensively strengthen publicity and guidance

Relevant municipal departments, towns, and villages should increase their publicity on the comprehensive suspension of memorial and sweeping activities, and advocate the use of home memorials and other forms to express their support. To commemorate the martyrs, ancestors and ancestors; actively mobilize people who are away from home and overseas villagers to not return to their hometowns for the time being. Party members and cadres in the city must play a leading role in demonstrating and taking the lead in organizing or participating in memorial and sweeping activities.

Shishi City Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Prevention and Control Headquarters

March 17, 2020