Spring Warmth and Qingming Festival | Protecting the Ecology
Another year of green grass in spring, during the annual Qingming Festival. Qingming Festival is a traditional major spring festival, where tomb sweeping, ancestor worship, and remembrance have been excellent traditions of the Chinese nation since ancient times. It not only promotes filial piety and family affection, awakens the common memory of the family, but also promotes the cohesion and sense of identity of family members and even the nation.
However, traditional methods of ritual sweeping, such as burning a large amount of paper money and candles, setting off fireworks and firecrackers, have caused paper ash to fly and smoke to linger in the streets and alleys, seriously affecting air quality and people's health.
Moreover, there are hidden dangers of fire, which pose a serious threat to people's life safety, and a wide range of sacrificial commodities inevitably lead to waste of resources. These are incompatible with the ecological, green, environmental protection, and low-carbon sacrificial methods advocated in the new era, plus the COVID-19.
Therefore, in order to jointly create a safe, green, civilized, peaceful and clear environment, we propose:
Epidemic prevention and control, online worship
We must strictly comply with the requirements of epidemic prevention and control, and not gather or visit each other. At the same time, it is necessary to advise relatives who are away from home to avoid visiting relatives, friends, and ancestors. Advocate for the use of family mourning, online worship, and other forms of memorial service to pay tribute to the deceased, effectively reducing the risk of epidemic transmission caused by the gathering of sacrificial personnel.
Forest fire prevention, you and me walking together
Enhance fire prevention awareness and prohibit outdoor activities such as burning paper, burning incense and candles, and setting off fireworks and firecrackers that can easily cause forest fires in forest fire prevention areas. During the Qingming Festival, all outdoor fires are prohibited.
Changing customs and traditions, civilized worship
Consciously resist feudal superstitions and establish a new culture of civilization. Advocate for expressing grief through planting a tree, offering a bouquet of flowers, offering a glass of wine, and reciting sacrificial texts. By telling the stories of our ancestors, spreading good family traditions and teachings, and inheriting excellent festival culture.
Low carbon environmental protection, green worship
Consciously abide by the regulations prohibiting the setting off of fireworks and firecrackers, as well as the burning of joss paper and joss paper, and actively contribute to the creation of a civilized city and the protection of the ecological environment through our own actions. We advocate for the use of green, civilized, low-carbon, and environmentally friendly methods to commemorate our loved ones and express our grief. We use flowers instead of aluminum foil and yellow paper, electronic candles instead of open flames, music for remembrance, tree planting and sweeping, and other green sacrificial methods to promote low-carbon environmental protection. To promote civilization, sweep away new trends, eliminate outdated customs, consolidate the achievements of epidemic prevention and control, and create a green and low-carbon living environment, we need to put them into practice with practical actions. Times and forms are changing, but respect and longing for our ancestors have never changed.
Let us lead by example, take active actions, and enhance the people's understanding and awareness of civilized festivals through publicity and guidance. We will play a positive role in establishing a good trend of civilized, green, and safe festivals, creating a harmonious, clean, and tidy living environment, and spending a safe, civilized, low-carbon, and green Qingming Festival!
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