Qingming is approaching, and many places will ban the burning of paper money and money, and advocate flowers to sweep! Is it reasonable?

This year's Tomb-Sweeping Day is coming soon. Because there is no longer a rest day, this Qingming holiday is only one day. For people who work outside their hometown, a one-day holiday may not be enough time to go back and forth.

But Qingming is probably the most important day of the year to remember and visit ancestors' graves. Many people go home to visit their graves even if they ask for leave.

Expert: Burning paper money in Qingming Festival is harmful

In recent years, environmental protection has been paid more and more attention, and even Tomb-Sweeping Day has begun to pay attention to environmental protection.

what does Tomb-Sweeping Day have to do with environmental protection? That is, when people worship their ancestors, they will burn paper money, paper money, and some will set off firecrackers.

In the eyes of some experts, whether it is burning paper money or setting off firecrackers, it will affect air quality and lead to air pollution.

In addition, some people think that it is a feudal superstitious behavior to burn paper money and coins to worship ancestors, which is not worth advocating. Now we should get rid of superstition and cancel burning paper money and coins.

At the same time, in mountain areas, if the money for burning paper is not completely extinguished during ancestor worship, there is still the risk of causing mountain fires.

In Qingming Festival, it is forbidden to burn paper money and paper money in many places, and flowers are advocated.

Therefore, this year's Qingming Festival has not yet arrived, and many places have issued notices one after another, demanding that Qingming Festival "be a civilized sacrifice", not burning paper money, not burning paper and not setting off firecrackers.

Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province recently issued a notice, advocating civilized sacrifices during the Qingming period, prohibiting occupying roads to burn paper, and making efforts to prevent and control air pollution.

Not only is it forbidden to burn paper money, but Xianyang City has also banned the stalls in its jurisdiction that occupy the road to sell paper money and mingbi in time.

Those who burn and sell paper money and mingbi on the sidewalk without listening to the advice will be punished according to laws and regulations.

The civil affairs department of Harbin has also issued a notice, demanding that the phenomenon of burning paper and money be resolutely prohibited during the Qingming period, and advocating civilized sacrifice.

Before and after the Qingming Festival, Harbin will start from the production source, sales links, burning behavior and other links, and control the problem of paper and money in the whole chain.

Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province issued a notice, demanding that Shuangyashan City is not allowed to manufacture, manage and sell feudal superstitious funeral supplies such as Mingbi, paper figures and paper horses, let alone bring them into funeral homes!

in March, Ezhou city, Hubei province issued a notice about the civilized sacrifices and funerals during the period of Tomb-Sweeping Day, which mentioned that in order to promote the change of customs, establish a new civilized atmosphere, strengthen the renovation of human settlements and reduce rural non-point source pollution, the residents of the whole city were required to resist superstitious activities and establish a civilized concept.

We advocate the adoption of civilized sacrifice methods such as flowers and online sacrifice to change customs.

It is forbidden to manufacture, sell or use "dragon coffins", use paper carts, paper figures and other feudal superstitious articles.

In other places, the initiative of "civilized sacrifice sweeping" has been issued, demanding that the burning of paper money, coins and other traditional sacrificial objects be prohibited, which are considered as symbols of feudal superstition and will pollute the environment.

as an alternative, residents are advised to use flowers instead of traditional sacrificial supplies when offering sacrifices to their ancestors.

Is it really reasonable to use flowers instead of paper money?

Many netizens, including the author, have some doubts about these "new requirements" for Qingming Festival sacrifice, mainly including the following points:

First of all, how can burning paper money for ancestor worship become a superstition and be broken? The author believes that our traditional ancestor worship, burning paper money and mingbi, etc., is just a kind of thing to express our yearning for our ancestors, which is the same as the western mourning with flowers, and it is not a feudal superstition at all.

Besides, feudal superstition can do a lot of harm, but what harm does it do to burn paper money for ancestors?

Secondly, I think it is an exaggeration to say that burning paper money will pollute the air. It will be over in a few minutes.

and paper money is fully burned, and there won't be a lot of smoke.

It's too exaggerated to say that poor air quality is related to the cost of burning paper, just like saying that farmers burning wood and cooking affect the air.

finally, it's uncivilized to use paper money to sacrifice ancestors, but it's civilized to spend a lot of money on flowers to sacrifice ancestors? Why learn from westerners? Didn't you say that we should protect traditional culture? Why should the traditional activity of offering sacrifices to ancestors be changed to send flowers like in the west?

Do you think it is reasonable that paper money is forbidden and flowers are advocated for ancestor worship in Qingming Festival? Welcome to tell me your opinion.