From "showing filial piety with thick burial" to "returning to nature", how to "clap and give up your seat" in land-saving ecological burial has been recognized by more people? Recently, the reporter interviewed a number of ecological cemeteries.
"replace the tomb with a tree", leaving green mountains and green waters for future generations.
Don't build a tomb, don't erect a monument, and bury the ashes of the deceased under green trees and red flowers. Recently, the reporter visited Honglian Cemetery in Anshan City, Liaoning Province. In early spring, everything in Northeast China revived. Here, pieces of Chinese pine, spruce and ginkgo are swaying in the breeze, and the light music floating among the trees makes the park feel no sadness and depression. If there are no lying monuments or pebbles engraved with the names and inscriptions of the deceased under the tree, the reporter will think that this is a park.
Tree burial, flower burial and lawn burial cemeteries like this are gradually favored in China. Shenyang Ashes Tree Planting Memorial Forest is the earliest newly-built tree burial cemetery in Northeast China. At present, 360,000 pieces of ashes have been buried, and more than 0/000 mu of barren hills have been afforested. The amount of burial is increasing at the rate of 7,000 to 8,000 pieces per year. In first-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, the proportion of ecological burial methods has reached more than 20% ...
The white cemetery requires people to cut stones from this mountain, polish and carve them and put them on another mountain. Every time a white cemetery is built, at least two green hills will be destroyed, leaving pieces of psoriasis around the city over time. In contrast, tree burial cost is low and investment is small. Take Anshan Honglian Cemetery as an example. The average burial price of each tree is 3,000-8,000 yuan, which is less than one third of the traditional cemetery.
The tree burial of "burying a person and planting a tree" not only changed the problem of "the deceased and the living compete for land", but also solved the dilemma of greening barren hills. On the one hand, "replacing tombs with trees" satisfies the idea that China people have been buried in tombs for thousands of years, and green trees have the significance of prolonging life. "On the other hand, it also raised funds for afforestation. Raising trees by tombs ensures the survival rate of trees and will leave a green mountain and green water for future generations. " Ge, head of Anshan Honglian Cemetery, said.
Without flogging or burning paper, tree burial has brought a new way of civilized sacrifice.
During the Qingming holiday, more people went out to sweep graves. In Honglian Cemetery, more than 65,438+00 members of Feng Zhiguo Love Team in Anshan City played cello and guitar in the Woods and grass, played songs loved by the deceased and recited poems. The free music sacrifice provided by the team was welcomed by the public.
Visiting several ecological cemeteries, I noticed that green tree burial is bringing a new way of sacrifice. Here, people don't whip or burn paper, but carry buckets and shovels to water and trim the trees that accompany their loved ones, level the land, and get comfort from the trees that grow taller year by year. ...
Ms. Mei, an Anshan citizen who buried her mother in Honglian Cemetery, told reporters that the old man was more open-minded before his death. After learning from TV that there is no monument, one person and one tree, he admitted it. A few years ago, the old man died, and his children asked many questions before finding this place. Now, if she has any troubles or worries, she will water the tree, take care of the branches and leaves, sit in front of the tree and have a heart-to-heart talk, and let her feel empty.
The person in charge of the funeral management office of the Liaoning Provincial Civil Affairs Department said that before and after the Qingming Festival every year, people put whips and burn paper when offering sacrifices, which is easy to bring fire hazards, and the fire prevention pressure in mountain forests everywhere is great; In addition, the placed plastic flowers are blown away by strong winds and entangled in trees, making it difficult to remove white pollution. Many ecological cemeteries take the lead in guiding people to express and express their grief in a more meaningful way, leading a harmonious and upward civilized sacrifice fashion.
Fushouyuan International Group, a listed company, combined the construction of ecological cemetery with humanistic memorial, sculpture art and cultural education to create a unique humanistic memorial park in China, which changed people's marginalized impression of ecological funeral. During the Qingming period, Hao Ping, a business owner who came to Shanghai Fushou Garden to pay homage to his parents, said that in the past, everyone wanted to buy more offerings and burn more paper. Now here, he advocates writing letters, offering flowers and leaving electronic messages. "This is not only talking to relatives, but also talking to yourself. It is a kind of purification and education for the heart."
Popularizing the custom of tree burial has a long way to go.
A few days ago, sixteen departments, including the Ministry of Civil Affairs, jointly issued the Guiding Opinions on Further Promoting Funeral Reform and Promoting the Development of Funeral Undertakings, taking land-saving ecological burial as one of the key points of funeral reform. The insiders believe that the key to promoting land-saving ecological burial is to guide people to change their concepts.
Ge said that the reason why ecological funeral is difficult to achieve multiple goals in one fell swoop is because some merchants strongly advocate luxury funeral and solidify people's traditional funeral concepts in order to make huge profits. For example, some cemeteries will hire wreath shops and Mr. Feng Shui to help promote sales. In order to extract high kickbacks, these people will naturally recommend high-priced cemeteries. Because people who have lost loved ones spend more money, they tend to see more things. "So many white cemeteries are getting wider and bigger, causing unnecessary high investment, high consumption and high pollution."
Lu Jun, dean of the Funeral College of Changsha Social Work College, believes that the popularization of ecological burial needs both guidance and standardization. On the one hand, government departments should implement reward and compensation policies, and associations and media should publicize new ideas and guide people to change their customs; On the other hand, the competent department can tilt in the examination and approval of cemeteries, reduce the scale of white cemeteries, encourage the construction of tree burial cemeteries, and appropriately relax its business scope.
At the same time, civil affairs departments should also strengthen industry norms and supervision, and reform the old funeral services and business models. "Civil affairs departments at all levels can establish a management platform to train funeral practitioners and expose bad businesses." Lu Jun said that if we put a "lock" on chaos, we can open a "window" for new industries!