日韩精品久久一区二区三区_亚洲色图p_亚洲综合在线最大成人_国产中出在线观看_日韩免费_亚洲综合在线一区

Global EditionASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
China
Home / China / Society

Green burials promoted to save land and energy

By Li Hongyang | China Daily | Updated: 2018-04-04 07:26
Share
Share - WeChat
People plant evergreen trees to cover ashes in Fu Shou Yuan Cemetery in Zhengzhou, Henan province. Wang Zhuangfei / China Daily

Chen dug a 50-centimeter-deep hole, and then placed a biodegradable casket containing the ashes of her parents-in-law inside. Then, she planted an evergreen privet next to the spot.

There were no monuments or headstones, but each plot was marked with a tree. Later, the names of the dead will be recorded on a list on a monument at the forest entrance.

"My husband and I agree with this eco-friendly funeral. We don't mind whether the names of the deceased are engraved on a tombstone or if their ashes are kept forever - they are always in our hearts. We can join online memorials on the cemetery's website, which will help us to avoid being caught in traffic jams near the cemetery during Qingming (aka the Tomb Sweeping Festival, on which Chinese people pay tribute to their ancestors)," Chen said.

According to the contract she and other participants signed with the local civil affairs bureau, in five years, when the ashes have degraded, the trees will be relocated and the land will be developed for new burials.

In recent years, a growing number of people in China, especially in urban areas, have embraced green funerals as local governments promote eco-friendly burials.

According to a target set in a guideline by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, by 2020, 50 percent of funerals in China every year will be green ceremonies.

The number of people from Beijing opting for burial at sea rose from 1,704 in 2014 to 2,675 last year, the Beijing Funeral Service Center said.

Meanwhile, the provincial funeral association in coastal Zhejiang province said relatives of people who choose sea burial are given 5,000 yuan to 15,000 yuan by the local government,

"In the old days, little concrete or cement was used in China. However, nowadays, these non-biodegradable modern materials are popular as materials for building cemeteries, and our ancestors lie in perpetuity via these 'immortal' monuments and coffins," said Sun, the professor.

Li Shilong, deputy general manager of Beijing Babaoshan Etiquette Co, a State-owned enterprise that provides services for 11 cemeteries, said extracting rock and other materials from quarries to make tombstones and monuments not only wastes energy, but is also a misuse of recyclable land.

"Born into nature, the best choice for the body is to return to the Earth and eventually merge with it. Cement and stones block the way back. Some established customs and practices used in traditional funerals need to be changed to form a more ecological society," he said.

Environmental benefits

However, green funerals are still in their infancy in China because most people still prefer traditional burials in cemeteries.

Data supplied by the Beijing Civil Affairs Bureau show that just 3 percent of people in the capital choose sea burials, while Yang Hu, the funeral director from Zhengzhou, said only a few people per 1,000 in the city opt for tree burials.

Zhu, 81, a retired senior engineer at the railway bureau of Zhengzhou who preferred not to give his full name, took his son's ashes to the tree burial on Saturday. Zhu's son died in 1996 at age 33, and after keeping the ashes at home for more than two decades, he and his two remaining sons decided to return them to nature.

Top
BACK TO THE TOP
English
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
 
主站蜘蛛池模板: 日韩精品久久久久久 | 日韩视频在线观看 | 欧美日韩视频网站 | 成人特级毛片 | 国产精品一区av | 亚洲免费在线观看视频 | 欧美国产日韩在线观看 | 精品一区二区久久久久久久网站 | 日本高清午夜色wwwσ | 99热国产这里只有精品9九 | 女人被男人狂躁下面在线观看 | 国产专区在线视频 | 午夜精品一区二区三区免费视频 | 久久精品a一级国产免视看成人 | 国产成人精品免高潮在线观看 | 国产成人影院 | 欧美亚洲视频一区 | 2021国产精品一区二区在线 | 亚洲欧美综合久久 | 99久热re在线精品99 6热视频 | 最近免费日本视频在线 | 国产做a | 久久久久成人精品 | 麻豆资源 | 五月天婷婷在线视频 | 91p在线| 日本在线播放一区 | 91久久精品久久国产性色也91 | 久久99草| xxxxhdvideosex| 亚洲欧美另类在线观看 | 久久伊人色综合 | 国产麻豆剧传媒精品网站 | 97久久超碰 | 精品免费视频 | 亚洲精品欧美一区二区三区 | 日本天堂一区 | 99国精产品一区二区三区A片 | 尤物国产 | av789| 国产欧美综合精品一区二区 |