Nanchang winter solstice now hundreds of thousands of "grass sweepers" "low-carbon" sacred to become a trend

Nanchang, December 21st, December 21st is the “winter solstice” in the traditional Chinese solar terms. As the saying goes, “the winter solstice is as big as the year”, folks in Nanchang, Jiangxi have always had the custom of worshipping ancestors and sweeping graves during the winter solstice. On the same day, hundreds of thousands of people in Nanchang rushed to the tomb area to grave the ancestors. Most of them chose flowers and other green and low-carbon ways to pay homage to the dead.

On the same day, the winter rain was rainy and cold. Despite the cold weather, the sweeping peaks in the upper tomb area of ​​Nanchang City were as expected. It is understood that the Nanshang Tomb Area is one of the large cemeteries in Nanchang. In the Qingming and Winter Solstice years in previous years, the tomb area would welcome hundreds of thousands of “grass sweepers”. Ye Song, director of the Nanchang Funeral Management Office, said that during the winter solstice, Nanchang had at least 200,000 visits to the ancestors.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, many people drove to the ancestral ancestral grave, causing congestion at the entrance to the tomb area. The reporter saw a main road one kilometer away from the tomb area. A large number of vehicles were traveling slowly. Two-way traffic had already been queued up as "long queues". Traffic policemen wearing raincoats stood at the intersection to direct traffic.

At about 10 o'clock in the morning, the upper reaches of the tomb area in Nanshang County ushered in the peak of the flow of people. Many citizens went to the tomb area with umbrellas and flowers and other offerings. The reporter stood high up and looked at a bunch of yellow, white, and blue flowers dotted among crowded people. “More and more citizens are choosing to pay their respects to the dead with flowers and other low-carbon green methods.” Ye Song Say.

Xu Wenbin, a 40-year-old Nanchang citizen, took his family to the grave area and swept away his dead grandfather. Before a small paving shop, Xu Wenbin bought a large bunch of small yellow chrysanthemums and carnations. He told reporters, "Compared with fireworks, the sacrifice of flowers is safe, fashionable and environmentally friendly. Now we are changing the traditional concepts and setting an example for future generations."

On the day of the winter solstice, a flower-for-sacrifice exchange point was also introduced in the Tomb Area of ​​Suiming. The public can use the sacrifice to exchange flowers at the exchange point. According to Ye Song’s introduction, the use of firecrackers and other sweeping methods not only provoked fires, but also caused environmental pollution. We encourage people to pay homage to their ancestors with flowers and trees. (Finish)

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