People pay their respects on the streets of Wuhan on April 4, 2020, the Qingming Festival.
Wuhan has the custom of “burning incense”, on the first day of the New Year, people pay tribute to friends and relatives who died in the previous year with incense. The day of New Year’s Eve, Wuhan City to pay tribute to the chrysanthemums in short supply, and even no flowers to buy, the road to the flower market is also a major traffic jam. This scene triggered many netizens to sigh, last year the Wuhan Epidemic in the end how many people have gone ah!
February 11 is New Year’s Eve, Hubei Wuhan flower market is unusually hot, especially the chrysanthemums used to pay respects to the shortage of supply, and even out of stock phenomenon. The information posted on Weibo shows that after zero o’clock on New Year’s Eve, many Wuhan residents went out to buy flowers, Wuhan Zunlimen flower market traffic jam, many people are buying flowers.
Some florists basically sold “empty”, shopkeepers have said there are no flowers to sell. One florist, who has been running a flower store for 30 years, said he had never seen such a hot scene before.
A user posted on overseas social media Twitter, “The hottest business on the streets of Wuhan on New Year’s Eve is selling chrysanthemums, as many families are doing ‘New Year’s Eve’ in memory of Family members who have died during the year. A friend in Wuhan told me: last night’s chrysanthemums are not available everywhere, and you have to go to the flower market after midnight to queue up to buy them, and they are now on sale.”
Another tweeter “Guo Zi” said, “Wuhan people have a custom, in the first year of the death of a relative or friend, will go to the incense pillar at zero o’clock on the first day of the year, and experienced last year’s epidemic in Wuhan, there is this big traffic jam, you can imagine the tragedy of Wuhan last year, very sad, but also very helpless. “
It is reported that all over Hubei Province have the custom of “burning incense”, the first day of the year, people want to give incense to friends and relatives who died in the previous year, pay respects.
Last year, during the New Year, Wuhan was closed to the public due to an outbreak of the Communist virus plague. Due to the Chinese Communist Party‘s concealment of the truth of the epidemic, there is no way to know how many people died of the disease in Wuhan. What is certain is that the true number of deaths far exceeds the official figures. The Chinese Communist Party also called the Wuhan epidemic an “epic fight against the epidemic” and treated the funeral as a happy event, which many Wuhan residents dared not speak out against.
Now that the New Year is upon us again, officials are trying to cover up the harsh reality of Wuhan’s plague ravages by reporting on the shortage of flowers in the city’s flower market, saying that “people are buying flowers with the intention of being bullish” and that “Wuhan’s prevention and control is so strong that the market demand is particularly strong”. The report even asked, “Did your family buy flowers for the New Year this year?” Provoking the anger of netizens.
(Screenshot from Weibo)
One netizen angrily rebuked the official media: “What day was it last year? What kind of flowers did you buy? Why didn’t the official media mention that the flower stores were out of stock and that the custom of burning incense in Wuhan was related? Such a cruel desecration of people’s sadness, so disgusting to please the power, the reporter is saying that Wuhan people cheerfully buy chrysanthemums is to congratulate the death of a family member? The funeral happy to do can not say, can only say that you are bereft of conscience!”
Some netizens also left a message saying, “Wuhan New Year’s Day chrysanthemums sold out or even out of stock because Wuhan has the custom of burning Qingxiang as a tribute to relatives who died this Time last year, Wuhan this time last year …… alas. The director of Wuhan comes to mind, it seems that in addition to his son, the rest have passed away, so tragic. Wuhan should have some empty houses from there on.”
Another netizen said, “Wuhan has the custom ‘burning incense’, the first day of the New Year to go to the Home of the people who died the year before to offer incense. Last night, a lot of people went out on the road, the parking lot was full of cars, traffic jams, chrysanthemums are to grab, the price is not returned, white chrysanthemums yellow chrysanthemums are gone, and later in the Zhuanli Gate to buy 180 loose chrysanthemums and then find someone to process tied up, considered cheap. Last year too many people in Wuhan went away, Life how to say this thing.”
Wuhan residents, microblogging account “Mo Bei in the South” said: “In the morning grandfather went to the old classmates home ‘burn incense’. After coming back a burst of emotion, this year the street did not buy chrysanthemums, said Wuhan’s large suppliers are out of supply. This also indirectly reflects the misery of Wuhan last year.”
After the Wuhan epidemic last year, during the Qingming Festival, Wuhan’s Bian Tan Shan cemetery was filled with the unmarked headstones of those who died during the city’s closure, when the Communist Party banned Wuhaners from visiting their graves on the grounds of the epidemic. Grief-stricken Wuhaners had to burn paper money and throw flowers in the streets and along the riverside to mourn the epidemic victims.
Last year, September 2 was the 15th day of the seventh month of the Chinese calendar, commonly known as the “Ghost Festival”. For several days in a row, the streets of Wuhan from evening to late at night, everywhere you can see people burning paper money and other items to pay their respects. Wuhan netizens said, “I have never seen so much.”
Another Wuhan resident said, “How many people have gone in Wuhan in the first half of the year, no one can count, I just see red flowers blooming everywhere.”
Han Lianchao, vice president of American Citizen Power, tweeted, “The painful feeling of New Year’s Day 2020 rears its ugly head in Wuhan as a figure crouches on the side of the road burning paper to pay respect to the dead, accompanied by piles of flying ashes floating in the light of the fire. The death of Wuhan! The death of China! The death of humanity!”
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