The latest notice in 2020, can you sweep graves during the Tomb-Sweeping Day epidemic in Guizhou?

Guizhou is a city that was unsealed earlier, but the mask can't be removed. For Tomb-Sweeping Day, Guizhou Province has long made it clear that the sweeping activities should be suspended. Encourage night sweeping, and all localities can adopt different ways to reduce crowd gathering.

It is clear in Guizhou Province that cemeteries around the country will provide convenient services such as proxy sweeping and online sweeping for the masses by opening mobile customer service terminals, official accounts of WeChat and hotlines. Funeral homes will provide basic funeral services such as body pick-up, cremation and ashes storage in a normal and orderly manner. All cemeteries take measures such as making an appointment to register, limiting the number of people, and entering the park at the wrong time to avoid gathering people. At the same time, Guizhou advocates that people can remember the dead through online sacrifices, family memorial services and planting flowers and trees. Instead of on-site worship.

On March 20th, 2020, official website, the Civil Affairs Department of Guizhou Province issued an announcement on suspending mass activities such as cemetery sweeping during Tomb-Sweeping Day in 2020.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is an important moment for the Chinese nation to pay homage to their ancestors, remember their old friends and mourn. At present, although the situation of epidemic prevention and control in COVID-19 continues to improve, the risk of epidemic spread caused by the increase of overseas input, personnel mobility and gathering still exists, and the task of prevention and control remains arduous. In order to continue to do a good job in epidemic prevention and control of funeral services such as cemeteries, and reduce the risk of infection caused by crowd gathering, with the consent of the leading group for epidemic prevention and control of COVID-19 Province, we hereby announce the suspension of mass activities such as cemetery sweeping during Tomb-Sweeping Day in 2020 as follows.

The first is to suspend mass activities such as sweeping graves. All cemeteries in the province continue to close their parks and stop organizing collective activities such as field sacrifices, collective public sacrifices, ashes scattered in the sea, collective farewell, and centralized placement of ashes; Funeral homes continue to suspend gathering activities such as wake, farewell and memorial; The closed space such as the ashes hall and the ashes temporary storage place will suspend the sweeping activities; Funeral service agencies suspend the organization of open days, on-site publicity and exhibitions and other collective activities.

Second, provide convenient and accessible sacrificial sweeping services. Each cemetery will provide services such as proxy sweeping and online sweeping for the masses by opening service channels such as mobile customer service, WeChat official account and hotline, expressing their grief for the deceased and trying their best to meet the demands of the masses for sweeping. It is suggested that the masses cherish the memory of the deceased through online sacrifice, family memorial service and planting flowers and trees. And change the on-site physical sacrifice to pay attention to spiritual inheritance, not worship on the spot.

Third, provide basic funeral services in an orderly manner. Funeral homes provide basic funeral services such as body pick-up, cremation and ashes storage in a normal and orderly manner. All cemeteries take measures such as making an appointment to register, limiting the number of people, and entering the park at the wrong time to avoid gathering people. For those who make an appointment to apply for land-saving ecological burial services such as sea burial of ashes, all cemeteries should do a good job in registration and follow-up services.

Fourth, guard against hidden dangers of accidents. People who go to scattered rural public welfare cemeteries and historical burial places to offer sacrifices should consciously abide by the relevant provisions of local epidemic prevention and control to avoid gathering. According to the relevant deployment of local forest fire prevention work, and according to the arrangement of local township (street, community) staff, it is strictly forbidden to use naked flames, burn paper money, set off fireworks and firecrackers, and prevent fires.

Sacrifice is out of shape, and the health of the living is the best comfort to the deceased. The reopening time of the cemetery will be announced separately. Please understand, support and cooperate with the masses, and * * * will contribute to the victory of epidemic prevention and control.

This announcement shall come into force on March 20, 2020 as of the date of promulgation.

There are persuasion points in front of the cemetery gates of major cemeteries in Kaili, which conspicuously remind the public to "suspend sacrifices during the epidemic". At the gate of the park, the Announcement of Guizhou Provincial Civil Affairs Department on Suspension of Mass Activities such as Cemetery Sweeping during Tomb-Sweeping Day in 2020 was posted, and many staff members were on duty. If some unsuspecting citizens come to pay homage, the staff will patiently do a good job of propaganda and explanation to persuade them to return. From now until the epidemic situation is lifted, Jiuzhai Cemetery, Guo Jiaping Cemetery and Erlong Cemetery will continue to implement closed park management, and collective activities such as field sacrifice, collective public sacrifice and collective farewell will be suspended; Erlong Funeral Parlour continued to suspend the wake, farewell, memorial and other assembly activities.

Qixingguan District, Bijie, Guizhou learned from the Qixingguan District Civil Affairs Bureau that at present, our district has suspended the on-site sweeping or collective * * * sacrifice activities in cemeteries and other funeral places. Continue to suspend mass activities such as Bijie Martyrs Cemetery, Bijie Yangshan Cemetery, Bijie Funeral Home Ashes Hall, all rural public welfare cemeteries, all graves, tombs, clan ancestral halls, collective public sacrifices, collective farewell, and centralized placement of ashes; Funeral homes continue to suspend the provision of meals, accommodation, funeral services, wake, farewell to the remains, memorial services and other personnel gathering activities, and the ashes hall and ashes temporary storage room continue to suspend the sweeping activities; Do not organize open days, on-site publicity and exhibitions and other collective activities; The ashes burial business was suspended, and the ashes were temporarily stored in the funeral home. After the epidemic is over, the agent sweeping service will be resumed.