Qingming Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, and also the most important sacrificial festival for thousands of years. Tomb Sweeping Day is coming soon, so we must pay attention to civilized sacrifice when we go to the cemetery. This paper sorts out 10 new methods of cultural sacrifice in the Qingming Festival in 2019. Details are as follows:
Family mourning
'low carbon, green and civilized' has become a new fashion for Qingming Festival. As Tomb Sweeping Day is approaching, instead of going to cemeteries or cemeteries to pay homage, or using superstitious objects such as gold and silver mountains and tin foil and paper money, citizens can offer a pillar of fragrance in front of the portraits of their relatives, and the whole family can gather together to bow and mourn for their ancestors.
Wine and sacrifice
Sacrificial activities do not need to be ostentatious and ostentatious. Wine and memorial ceremonies can be held in the cemetery or at home, in front of the family's portrait or tombstone, with a pot of fruits loved by the family, a cup of sake in hand, a memorial article in silence, and a family's collective wine ceremony. Thrifty sacrifice is the inheritance of good family tradition and virtues of our ancestors, and it is also the best comfort for our ancestors.
Flower sacrifice
Offering a bunch of flowers to the deceased relatives is a civilized and environmentally friendly way of sacrifice, which is very popular. Offering a bunch of flowers in front of the tomb or in the cemetery to mourn quietly is a safe and environmentally friendly way of sacrifice, which neither harasses the dead nor makes soot. Generally speaking, white flowers express mourning, so it is more appropriate to choose white chrysanthemum, white lily, Calla Lily, etc. for tomb sweeping. Yellow flowers can also express sadness, among which yellow chrysanthemum is the most common.
Tree planting and grave sweeping
It is more meaningful to take hoes and shovels, plant saplings by hand, cultivate soil, water, and write the thoughts of relatives on the ribbon and hang them on the treetops. The main species of trees planted are cypress and pine.
Memorial ceremony
In my hometown, I gather a handful of clay and take it to my family's grave to sprinkle it slowly. I light a fragrance, sprinkle a cup of yellow rice wine and insert a chrysanthemum. The simple way of offering sacrifices and sweeping can also recall the life of my family members.
Music Festival
Before and after the Qingming Festival, the favorite songs of the deceased relatives are broadcast on radio and TV stations, or a piece of meditative music is played in the funeral hall of the cemetery with a bunch of flowers to express the memory of the deceased relatives.
Reflection on images
The photos and videos of the deceased relatives were made into CD ROMs, and the family and friends were organized to watch them. The family members of the deceased selected a representative to read out the funeral oration, narrate some trivial things of the relatives, and commemorate our relatives in a unique way.
Network sacrifice
In recent years, online memorial service has become a new trend, and more and more citizens choose to express their memory of their deceased relatives through "online cemetery" and "cloud memorial service". Choose a memorial website and register a 'virtual cemetery'. You can worship on the Internet. You can order songs, light candles, offer flowers, offer wine, publish Memorial articles and upload photos.
Media sacrifice
Green Qingming, advocating simplified forms, diversified ways of offering sacrifices and sweeping, through microblog, wechat, QQ circle of friends and other media to send a paragraph of text, light a 'candle', offer a bunch of 'flowers' and other new situations to express their grief for their loved ones.
Community sacrifice
The community held a memorial service. People used flowers and bows to remember their deceased relatives. They used a piece of past, a bunch of flowers, a poem and a heart song to express their grief. In addition, we set up a reminiscence wall, and pasted flowers and missing cards on the wall to express our memory of our relatives.
The paper dust is flying, and the black smoke is diffuse. The traditional folk sacrifice method will not only cause environmental pollution, but also easily cause fire and other security risks. Civilized sacrifice is not only the best comfort to our ancestors, but also the inevitable requirement of modern social civilization. The above 10 kinds of civilized sacrifice methods of Qingming Festival hope to make civilized sacrifice become a kind of consciousness, a habit and a normal, make Qingming Festival more 'Qingming', and lead the new trend of social civilization.