During the Qingming Festival, the funeral procession in rural areas was changed, but excavators were welcomed. Farmers felt uncomfortable and difficult in their hearts

Next Friday,The Qingming Festival is approaching, and the special nature of the Qingming Festival in China has been troubling us with issues such as burial sites in rural areas. The urgent task of funeral reform is to extend traditional ideas from cities to rural areas, and most rural people have significant psychological fluctuations and resistance in the early stages of funeral reform. Suddenly changing ancestral graves is difficult for many rural people to accept.Due to the special nature of Qingming Festival, it has now become a statutory holidayA 3-day long vacation. Every Qingming Festival, rural people go to their ancestral graves to pay respects, sweep tombs, and offer sacrifices. Even daughters who have been married for decades will return to their parents' homes every Qingming Festival after their parents pass away, to sweep and visit their graves.

Many people who have moved their families to the city and do not live in the countryside will also go back to their hometown to worship their ancestors on Tomb Sweeping Day, as long as their ancestral graves are still in their hometown in the countryside. However, this year in Jingjiang City, Jiangsu Province, some rural residents who go out to pay respects to their ancestors during Qingming Festival may find it difficult to even find their own ancestral graves.

Just a few days ago,Starting from March 24th, in several villages in Jingjiang City, village committees“Responding to the call”Under the pretext, excavators were brought into the fields to force the villagers to bury their graves, causing dissatisfaction among the farmers.

From the video taken by the villagers, it can be seen that several tall excavators are rumbling and digging graves in the golden rapeseed fields and the forests on both sides of the road, surrounded by shouting and cursing villagers.

Some villagers said that some local villages have flattened all the graves deep in the countryside without the consent or knowledge of the farmers.

Originally, this was proposed by the relevant departments of Jingjiang City“Funeral Reform”One requirement in the measures is to include rural areas" Three sides and six districts; Flatten or relocate scattered graves, and strive to rectify them all before April 5th. Among them,“San Yan Liu District”In the middle,“San Yan”Refers to along railways, highways, and rivers,“Six districts”Refers to farmland protection areas, urban planning areas, etc.

Due to the lack of centralized cemeteries, rural residents usually bury their elderly relatives on their contracted land, which is farmland, after their deaths“San Yan Liu District”The farmland protection area in the middle. Therefore, the village committee found an excavator to dig into the ground and level the grave.

In fact, the rural grave leveling incident is not the first time it has occurred. stayIn 2012, the flat tombs in Zhoukou, Henan Province, involved more rural areas and had a greater impact. In 2012, Zhoukou, Henan Province, in order to solve the problem“Dead and living compete for land”The city has gradually leveled offMore than 2 million graves. What was the final outcome? Not only was it criticized by society and opposed by farmers, but it was also directly stopped by superiors. Not long after, most of the graves that were flattened were restored to their original state.

However, since then, it has been common to see flat graves in rural areas. In the rural areas of Jingjiang, Jiangsu Province, scattered soil graves along the transportation routes, along the river, and within farmland protection areas have been overturned, with no graves left or visible. Many rural people's ancestral graves have been flattened.

Although implementing funeral reform in rural areas does have some benefits, such as saving arable land and so on. However, such behavior of secretly leveling graves without consent or even notification is highly inappropriate.

Funeral reform is not something that can be changed overnight“every order is executed without fail”We cannot adopt a one size fits all approach, nor can we ignore the feelings of rural people like this. Funeral reform should be a process that follows its natural course. For example, cremation replacing burial has already undergone a slow transition for decades. At first, cremation was only promoted in cities, but gradually in rural areas. Nowadays, many rural people are able to accept cremation.

The incident of tomb leveling came too suddenly, even forcing some villagers to level their graves before they knew it. This not only made farmers have objections to tomb leveling, but also affected the entire funeral reform.

Source:www.shcteng.com Used excavatorArticle transferred from Sina Focus Author: Ichijie Murakami