Our reporter Li Huaiping

Recently, in Laomiao Kindergarten, Liuhe Street, Hekou District, the teacher was showing the "Qingming Festival Tabloid" drawn by the children. Reported by reporter Hu Zhiying

The grass is green again in spring, and it is the time of Qingming Festival again. Qingming Festival is not only a green season when grass grows and orioles fly, and spring flowers bloom, it is also a traditional festival for people to remember martyrs and pay homage to their ancestors. In recent years, with the improvement of our city's civilization, our city's burial and memorial service methods have been slowly changing. In terms of burial methods, in addition to traditional cremation, more and more people are beginning to choose new burial methods such as sea burial and tree burial; traditional memorial methods are gradually being replaced by emerging methods, and flower memorial services and online memorial services are gradually being accepted by people.

On March 28, Huanghe Road Street Middle School in Dongying District organized students to carry out an "Online Memorial to the Heroes" activity. The street organized students from primary and secondary schools in the area to log on to websites such as China Civilization Network and Dongying Civilization Network to pay homage to the heroes by signing online messages. Correspondent Kang Ruixiang and Zhao Xiaotao reported

On March 31, Chenyang School in the city carried out the theme activity of "Commemorating the Heroes at Tomb Sweeping Day and Building the Chinese Dream" throughout the school, through "Online Commemoration of the Heroes", speeches under the national flag, etc. The form actively guides students to aspire to serve the country and celebrate the holidays in a civilized way. Children have contributed bouquets of flowers, a pair of elegiac couplets, and a song of lament online to express their truest emotions. At present, more and more Dongying citizens have joined the ranks of civilized and green memorials, planting trees, sending flowers, and online memorials to express their grief during the Tomb-Sweeping Day. During the Tomb-Sweeping Festival, some schools and communities in our city will also organize students and residents to carry out online activities such as paying homage to heroes and writing poems about Tomb-Sweeping Day, bowing, sending flowers, and writing sentiments to the ancestors and martyrs.

"Qingming Festival is a traditional festival. We use flowers to express the traditional customs and good wishes of ancestors. I particularly support this concept." A citizen who lives in Antai South District said, Qingming Festival On this festival, he plans to express his condolences remotely by paying tribute with flowers, and support civilized memorial service with practical actions. Nowadays, among the people who sweep tombs during the Qingming Festival every year, many people choose to use flowers instead of burning paper and incense, choosing a low-carbon and civilized way of sweeping graves. This has also become the common sense of more and more citizens in our city.

Ecological burial and collective sea burial held on the eve of Qingming Festival

On March 28, our city held the 2017 collective sea burial event. With gusts of sea breeze and light rain, 29 families scattered the ashes of their deceased relatives into the sea. This is the third time our city has held a mass burial at sea since 2015.

"The old man understands the sea, trusts the sea, and is willing to return to the sea together after his death." Citizen Yu Xiufeng believes that burial at sea is a public welfare behavior worth advocating. It not only saves land and protects the environment, but also is a better way. A meaningful way to say goodbye, hoping that the ancestors can rest in peace in the embrace of the sea.

According to staff from the Social Affairs Section of our Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau, in recent years, more and more citizens in our city have signed up for ecological burials such as sea burials. "Since the new burial method of sea burial was first launched in 2015, 77 people in our city have chosen sea burial. This shows that citizens' memorial methods and environmental awareness are gradually changing, and they are slowly beginning to accept this ecological burial method." It is understood that In order to further promote the new trend of civilization and frugality, deepen funeral reform, save land resources, and promote ecological burial methods, our city has implemented free sea burial services for Dongying residents since 2015. The Civil Affairs Bureau organizes sea burials every year based on the number of registrations. One or two ashes scattering activities.

Changing customs and promoting "green" sacrifices

"Currently, all 1,796 villages (communities) in the city have established red and white committees, achieving full coverage; all villages (communities) have established The rules and regulations are written into the village rules and regulations,” said a staff member of the Social Affairs Section of the Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau. “The Red and White Council plays an increasingly important role in advocating the establishment of new trends, and more and more urban and rural residents choose to do so. We should use scientific, civilized, and healthy modern methods such as flower memorials, tree planting, and online sacrifices."

On March 31, the Municipal Civilization Office, the Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau, and the Municipal Urban Management Bureau jointly issued a civilized sacrifice initiative. The book advocates law-abiding sacrifices, civilized sacrifices, frugal sacrifices, and safe sacrifices to spend a law-abiding, green, orderly, and civilized Qingming Festival. During the Qingming Festival, our city actively advocates green funerals, actively guides and encourages the masses to choose ecological burial methods such as tree burials, flower burials, and sea burials, and creates an ecological funeral trend. At the same time, we guide residents to abide by the law, be civilized, frugal, and perform sacrifices safely, and not to burn death paper in public places such as roads, squares, parks, green spaces, and residential areas, and not to carry fire and flammable and explosive items into forest areas to prevent fires. ACCIDENT. We advocate "exchanging flowers for paper money" and "ribbons to send condolences", and use methods such as flower memorial service, tree planting memorial ceremony, online memorial service, outing remote sending, family memorial service, etc. to commemorate the Qingming culture in depth. Establish a new concept of caring for people but not burying them, and low-carbon memorial services, and express their grief in an ecologically frugal way. In order to enhance the safety of sacrifices, the relevant departments of our city remind the general public to enhance safety awareness, strictly abide by relevant fire prevention regulations, and strictly prevent the occurrence of fires and casualties.

In Memory of My Mother

Remembering My Mother During the Qingming Festival

"Later, homesickness was like a short grave. I was outside and my mother was inside.

"It was only after my mother passed away that I had a deep understanding of Yu Guangzhong's "Nostalgia". The only way to have a "long talk" with my mother again was during the Qingming Festival every year.

In 2013, my mother visited the county town She passed away in the hospital, and it wasn’t until she took her last breath that she realized it was time to say goodbye. However, I was immersed in grief at the time and could not truly understand what “farewell” meant to the loss of a loved one.

Today, it has been nearly four years since my mother left. Every year during the Qingming Festival, no matter whether I am busy at work or not, I have to go to my mother’s grave, and I can’t help but burst into tears at that candlelight middle school. My literate mother is no longer there, the mother who taught me a lesson for my naughty things is no longer there, the mother who comforted me when I was lost is no longer there... In short, the smell of home is no longer there (Mu Yang)

On May 22 last year, my uncle was freed from his illness and became a part of his hometown. On that day, his roots were deeply rooted in his hometown. The situation is as clear as yesterday. Looking at the photos taken of him during his illness, I couldn't help but think: "I know that this world is as fleeting as dew. However, however! ”

My uncle is blind and has lived alone all his life. He loves me very much and I regard him as a close relative. When he leaves, I raise my head and wipe away my tears. There will be a star in the night sky paying attention to me! I want to do something A big tree, giving warmth and strength to loved ones.

The Qingming Festival is coming, the spring breeze is green again. People are still talking and laughing in front of me, and my thoughts are still endless! (Xiaojie)

Grandpa, I am I want to eat wild strawberries

It has been nearly ten years since my grandfather passed away. In the past ten years, I often dreamed that I happily took over the big bunch of red and sweet wild strawberries from my grandfather's hands.

Grandpa has always been very fond of me. He would often secretly stuff snacks into my schoolbag, tell me about his experiences as a soldier, and save money to buy me a Walkman to satisfy my little vanity. The scene is vivid in my mind. The most profound thing I remember is the wild strawberries he picked for me from the field. The wild strawberries were covered with small zigzag thorns, which often pricked his hands, but as long as my grandfather went to work in the fields, they would be gone. Pick them for me one by one. From the beginning of summer to the end of summer, from the field ridge to the hillside, the last wild strawberry in the field must be the one that my grandfather worked hard to find and put in my hands.

Now, I haven’t eaten wild strawberries for nearly ten years. For ten years, life and death have been uncertain. Grandpa, I really want to eat wild strawberries. When can you pick them for me again? (Okay)

Qingming Festival Customs

Qingming Festival is a traditional festival in my country and one of the most important sacrificial festivals. The customs of Qingming Festival are rich and interesting, including banning fires, sweeping tombs, and outings. It is said that this is because cold food and fire are forbidden during Qingming Festival. In order to prevent cold food and cold food from harming the body, people come to participate in some sports activities to exercise.

Tomb-sweeping ceremony. Ancestors

In Chinese history, it has long been a custom to prohibit fire during cold food and pay homage to ancestors. After the Tang Dynasty, the Cold Food Festival gradually declined, and sweeping tombs and worshiping ancestors during the Qingming Festival became a continuous festival tradition.

Outing

Before and after the Qingming Festival is a good time for outing, and later became an important part of the Qingming Festival customs

Planting willows

Qingming Festival is the time when willows sprout and turn green. There is a folk custom of breaking willows, wearing willows, and inserting willows. When people go out for a hike, they can break off a few willow branches and play with them, or weave them into hats and wear them on their heads. , you can also take it home and insert it on the lintel or eaves.

Lead hook

"Leave hook" is an ancient name, which is actually the modern tug-of-war sport. When attacking the state of Wu, the sport of pulling hooks was used to enhance the people's physical fitness. It mainly used a hemp rope with two ends divided into many small ropes. During the competition, a big flag was used as the boundary. When given an order, both sides pulled hard. Rope, drums and music are playing together, which is very lively.

Flying a kite

"Qing Jia Lu" says: "The wind of spring comes from bottom to top, and the kite rises accordingly, so there is ' There is a proverb about releasing the broken harrier during the Qingming Festival. "For the ancients, flying kites was a recreational activity, and they also believed that flying kites could let go of their own bad smells. So when flying kites during the Qingming Festival, many people wrote down all the disasters they knew on paper kites, etc. When the kite flies high, cut the string and let the kite float away in the wind, which symbolizes that the kite has taken away all your diseases and odor.

Related links: Introduction to some martyrs’ cemeteries in our city

There are five martyrs’ memorial facilities and protection units in the city, and about 4,700 martyrs are buried there.

Lijin County Martyrs Cemetery

Lijin County Martyrs Cemetery faces south. , covering an area of ??50,000 square meters, where 170 martyrs are buried. The buildings mainly include archways, martyrs' monuments, monument squares, memorial halls, etc., arranged on a central axis from south to north, and are listed as provincial key martyrs. Memorial building protection unit.

Guangrao Martyrs Cemetery

Guangrao Martyrs Cemetery was built in 2001 and was listed as a provincial key martyrs memorial building protection unit.

In May 2008, the county Martyrs Cemetery relocation project was implemented, and the Martyrs Cemetery originally located in the county seat was moved to its current location. The new martyrs cemetery covers an area of ??150 acres. There are 3,116 martyrs in the county, and 926 martyrs are buried in the Martyrs Cemetery, including 258 famous martyrs, 668 unknown martyrs, and 88 provincial famous martyrs.

Huanghekou Martyrs Cemetery

Huanghekou Martyrs Cemetery was formerly known as Kenli Martyrs Cemetery. It was founded in 1970 and moved in August 1994. It covers an area of ??78 acres. In May 1995, It was put into use during the construction period and was named "Dongying City Huanghekou Martyrs Cemetery" by the municipal government in October 1995.

Bohai District Anti-Japanese War Martyrs’ Shrine

The Bohai District Anti-Japanese War Martyrs’ Shrine (commonly known as Niuzhuang Martyrs’ Shrine) is located 25 kilometers southwest of the Dongying District Government Residence. It is commemorated by the Bohai Navy District of China. The anti-Japanese martyrs who died heroically were built in Niuzhuang in July 1945. In 1995, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, in order to commemorate the martyr Yue Zhuoyuan, the Dongying District People's Government built the Yuezhuoyuan Martyr Monument in the Niuzhuang Martyrs' Temple. The unveiling ceremony was held on April 13, 1996. In 1984, the People's Government of Dongying District named it a "Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit"; in December 2000, the National Defense Education Commission of Shandong Province named it an "Advanced Unit of National Education Base"; in November 2005, the Propaganda Department of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee named "Patriotic Education Unit of Shandong Province" Base"; in 2007, the Propaganda Department of Dongying Municipal Party Committee named it "Dongying Education Base".

Hekou Martyrs Cemetery Hekou Martyrs Cemetery is located 6 kilometers east of Hekou City, north of Bingu Road and east of Tiaohe River. It covers an area of ??52 acres and has a total construction area of ??2199 square meters. It was officially opened on the Qingming Festival in 2013. . 171 martyrs were moved into the martyrs' cemetery area, and a monument to the unknown martyrs was built. Hekou Martyrs Cemetery has become a key martyrs memorial facility protection unit in the city and the region, a patriotism education base in the region, a demonstration base for patriotism education for primary and secondary school students in the region, and an education base for party members in the region. It is a garden-style cemetery that integrates commemoration and popular science.