Qingming Festival is a big Memorial Day in China, with the custom of worshiping ancestors. In the traditional funeral culture, various forms are very complicated, and there are many taboos. Now in some areas, in order to simplify this funeral custom, they try to change the traditional way of sacrifice, and use wechat to scan the code for sacrifice, which is known as the eco-friendly activity of sacrifice. Wechat code scanning sacrifice eco friendly activities
The first week of April means a journey of mourning for many Chinese people. On the Tomb Sweeping Day around April 5 every year, many people from all over China go to cemeteries to offer sacrifices to their ancestors, flowers and incense. But this year, some grave sweepers will no longer have to pay homage to their relatives' tombstones, but just scan the code in front of a tree: as long as they scan the barcode, the living can light a digital candle or leave a bunch of digital flowers for the dead.
This is part of the 'green funeral' service being provided by anxianyuan cemetery in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. As Chinese authorities seek to curb the erosion of more and more land by cemeteries, cemeteries in many parts of China are responding to the government's call to change the traditional funeral and sweeping activities. Wechat code scanning sacrifice eco friendly activities
Families who choose 'green funerals' -- such as burying the ashes of a deceased relative in a biodegradable container and placing them under a tree or a flower instead of a tombstone -- can use these new digital services to express their grief to their deceased relatives.
China's authorities have been vigorously promoting this new form of burial because of soaring land prices and the lack of land for cemeteries. In Beijing, the price of an ordinary cemetery can be as high as 32800 yuan to 289800 yuan. In 2016, China's Ministry of civil affairs and other nine departments issued guidelines on the implementation of land-saving burial, encouraging people to bury the dead in natural habitats, and proposing not to set up hard graves and tombstones.
However, it is not easy to change the traditional Chinese funeral customs, such as complicated funeral ceremonies, elaborate tombs, and annual visits to cemeteries.