Jurong City Civilized Funeral Initiative (Picture of Jurong City Funeral Home Hall)

Dear citizens:

With the continuous deepening of funeral reform in our city, scientific, civilized and environmentally friendly funeral concepts have gradually taken shape. In order to further eliminate bad customs in funerals, advocate civilized funerals, promote new trends in civilization, and promote the construction of beautiful Jurong, the Municipal Civilization Office and the Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau issued a proposal to the city for thick burials, poor burials, and civilized funeral management:

Establishing thick funerals and civilized funerals The concept of filial piety in a thin burial. "It is better to provide rich sacrifices than to nourish them richly." We should vigorously carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese virtues of "respecting the elderly, respecting the elderly, loving the elderly, and being filial to the elderly" and establish a new concept of caring for the elderly and burying them lightly. When the elderly are alive, their children and younger generations should spend more time with them, care more and be more filial, so that they can run the family with filial piety and pass down the family with virtue. After the death of an old man, the funeral should be frugal and civilized, so that the deceased can be happy and the living can feel at ease, and be an advocate and practitioner of new civilized trends.

Advocate civilized and frugal funeral customs. Funeral rituals focus on emotion, sincerity, and frugality. We advocate holding memorial ceremonies in funeral homes, advocating wearing white flowers and bowing in mourning. We do not set up various cumbersome rituals, do not make grand arrangements in the name of vigils, put an end to extravagance and waste, and spend money Use it to improve the quality of life and develop the economy.

Promote green and ecological burial methods. It is strictly prohibited to occupy cultivated land, destroy forest land, build private luxurious tombs, bury people in bulk, and bury them in coffins. We advocate green and land-saving burial methods and actively build a beautiful and livable environment. We advocate tree burial, lawn burial, and burial methods that do not occupy cultivated land, comfort the deceased, enlighten the living, establish new trends, and change customs in a civilized, green, and healthy way.

Practice civilized and healthy new sacrificial practices. We should carry out civilized sacrifices, ecological sacrifices, and safe sacrifices. We should not burn paper money or paper supplies at community intersections, park squares and other places. We should actively advocate modern sacrifice methods such as flower sacrifices, tree planting sacrifices, and online sacrifices to protect the green mountains and green waters. *** Build a safe home.

Give full play to the leading role of party members and cadres. Party members and cadres in the city should take the opportunity of party history study and education to deepen their understanding of civilized funerals, use practical actions to play a role in demonstrating and leading, and take the lead in frugal funerals, ecological funerals, and low-carbon funerals. Moral models at all levels and good local people should strengthen education and guidance for relatives, friends and the surrounding people, consciously resist stereotypes and customs, and promote new trends of civilization.

Dear citizens, let us join hands, start from me, start from now, change customs, conduct civilized funerals, and use practical actions to make due contributions to building a beautiful Jurong.

Jurong Municipal Civilization Office Jurong Civil Affairs Bureau

March 26, 2021