Source: Beijing Daily
Original title: The Qingming Festival Sweeping Service Reception Day begins today with a total of 5 peak days for the Sacrifice Sweeping Day.
In 2022, the Qingming Festival Sweeping Service Reception Day will start on March 19 and end on April 10, for a total of 23 days. In 2022, the city will continue to implement time-sharing appointments for ritual sweeping. It is estimated that March 26, March 27, April 3, April 4, and April 5 will be the peak days of sacrifice sweeping. Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery will be the first time Implement the double appointment mechanism for personnel and vehicles.
In 2022, there will be a total of 231 ritual sweeping sites in the city, and more than 1.3065 million ashes will be placed in cemeteries and columbariums. Among them, the cemetery in Babaoshan area of Shijingshan and the cemetery in Changping area will face great pressure on the service guarantee of ritual sweeping. During the Qingming Festival in 2021, the city will receive a total of 3.0877 million worshippers, and it is expected that the number of worshippers in 2022 will be roughly the same as in 2021.
In 2022, under the conditions of normalized epidemic prevention and control, the number of sacrifice sweepers will be regulated according to 75% of the reception capacity, and the city will continue to implement three sacrifice sweeping modes: online sacrifice sweeping, on-site sacrifice sweeping, and on-site sacrifice sweeping. The Capital Window and the official website of the Civil Affairs Bureau have set up a special topic of “Beijing 2022 Qingming Online Sacrifice and Sweeping Service”, and link to the official websites of the people’s governments of various districts to provide online memorial services such as messages and flower offerings for the masses.
Sweeping on behalf of the cemetery needs to make an appointment in advance online. You can apply for the cemetery to sweep the cemetery on your behalf through the WeChat public account of “Beijing Social Construction and Civil Affairs” or by calling the appointment phone.
For those who really need to go to the scene for sacrifice sweeping, the city’s funeral home columbarium, operating cemetery and large-scale public cemetery will continue to strictly implement time-sharing appointment sacrifice sweeping in 2022. Citizens can make reservations through the WeChat public account of “Beijing Social Construction and Civil Affairs” and by telephone. The two reservation methods have been opened at 0:00 on March 15. It is worth noting that the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery will implement the double appointment mechanism for personnel and vehicles for the first time in 2022 to limit the flow. The funeral agency reminds that the person who makes the reservation can enter the garden for sacrifice scanning only after the information is verified in the special channel set up at the entrance. In principle, the sacrifice scanning will not be arranged without an appointment.
In order to meet the needs of citizens for sacrifice and sweeping, various funeral service agencies and competent departments have introduced a variety of convenient and heart-warming measures, such as opening green and convenient passages and providing wheelchair services; providing free sacrifice flowers, supplies and utensils; providing convenient travel service etc. Some funeral service agencies also provide new-style memorial services, such as wind chime prayer walls, space-time mailboxes, space-time letterheads, memorial prayer cards, flower arrangements, etc.
The member units of the Qingming Festival Sweeping Headquarters jointly issued a civilized sacrifice sweeping initiative to the citizens, and clarified relevant preventive measures, including diversion and guidance to prevent excessive gathering of cemetery personnel; it is strictly forbidden to use open flames, smoking, lighting incense candles, burning paper, and strictly forbidden. Set off firecrackers, etc. (Dai Lili Yao Jing)