Authorities in Harbin city ordered a ban on burning meditation coins at Qingming. (Photo source: Internet)
Following the popular discontent caused by the forced campaign to flatten graves, the Chinese Communist Party authorities have begun to regulate the custom of burning plutonium coins for ancestors at Qingming. The city of Harbin claimed to “change the customs” and launched a special rectification action to “make the paper and coins nowhere to buy and no paper to burn”.
According to Heilongjiang official media “Harbin Daily”, Harbin city authorities in a recent meeting, during the Qingming Festival in 2021, the production, processing of plutonium enterprises strictly punish, investigate and deal with all kinds of market, funeral supplies stores, agricultural (Food) stores and other wholesale, retail operation of plutonium and other sacrificial supplies. Harbin City Vice Mayor Jiang Chuanhai attended the meeting and spoke.
The meeting announced to “let the plutonium paper and coins nowhere to buy, no paper to burn”, and put forward to advocate “civilized sacrifice”, but did not specifically express what is “civilized sacrifice”.
The authorities in Harbin have already mobilized police and city police to carry out a round of so-called special rectification action on the eve of the New Year this year. The official media said that 3,230 kilograms of paper and coins were seized and 7,460 cases of burning of paper and coins were “discouraged”.
In recent years, Jiangsu, Henan and other provinces to “change the customs” on the grounds of forcibly knocked down the land temple, forcibly flattened graves, has led to public discontent boiling. The people are angry that “can only believe in your red religion? It seems that the Four Olds have not stopped!”
Now, because it involves the New Year ancestral worship, Qingming tomb sweeping and many other traditional customs, Harbin’s official action was condemned by the people. The comment section of the relevant reports is almost a water of critical voices, such as.
“This is not superstition, is the memorial of the ancestors, if the plutonium is superstition, then the temple, incense in the Taoist temple is also superstition? And what should be?”
“Maybe they don’t have a father and mother! No matter what the right thing to do is to manage the useless, the typical psychopath, it is best to let your ancestors have nowhere to die.”
“Nonsense! If people burn some paper money in the mausoleum, why not? There is no form, how to send condolences? No mourning for the deceased loved ones, how can families not disintegrate? Put your mind and energy into developing the economy and removing de-Chineseization! Less interference with the normal Life of our people.”
“You can’t do anything, you’re the first one to do nonsense.”
“If you do something right, the revitalization of the Northeast will be just around the corner.”
“The folklore is gone, and so is the heritage of traditional Culture. Why say thousands of years without a break in the ancient civilization ah, think damn is to dig out a few cultural relics, save those hundreds of years of ancient buildings, is the folk culture is not a break in the generation. Burning incense and burning paper to pay respect to ancestors, the heritage is unbroken. Burning for thousands of years, to your dynasty here to give a ban, what do you count?”
“The question arises, is the traditional culture of Han Chinese worth protecting?”
Harbin City had special rectification of meditation paper and coins in 2017 and 2018, respectively. Harbin City Government Office issued in March 2018, “Harbin City in accordance with the law to govern the production and operation of the burning of meditation paper and coins work program” revealed that this is “to consolidate the results of the creation of the national civilized city.
A land media commentary said: “If you go to a city, suddenly found that the city a lot of street restaurants closed, a variety of mobile vendors disappeared, the city streets become neat and clean and cold, and to the government agencies often find that no one can be found, then the city must be in the creation of cultural and health acceptance period.”
The “National Civilized City” is selected by the Central Civilization Office of the Communist Party of China every three years. The superior supervisor of the Central Civilization Office is the Central Civilization Commission. Its director is currently Wang Huning, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC.
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