Ching Ming Festival's recommendations

The Qingming Festival sacrifices the original people to be Chinese folk customs. However, in recent years, citizens in some places have sacrificed on the street to burn paper, which has become a major public nuisance. The relevant person suggested that measures should be taken to stop this stereotype that is superstitious, harmful and not profitable. Source: Diary

There is a long smoke, a fire can bear, and countless figures are in front of the fire. During the Ching Ming Festival, street burning paper has become a phenomenon that passersby can often see, and it is extremely inconsistent with the new high-rise buildings and street lights. According to the statistics of the Shenyang Municipal Fire Department, the fire accident caused by burning paper during the Ching Ming Festival rose sharply. The number of police officers in the city during the Ching Ming Festival last year was more than twice as common. The unburned paper ash on the streets caused fires in surrounding buildings, resulting in serious economics. loss. In the past three years, more than 600 fires have occurred in Shenyang. The Ching Ming Festival has become another busy night of firefighters after New Year’s Eve.

Monitoring from the environmental protection department of Shenyang City shows that street burning directly affects environmental quality and public health. During the combustion process, paper will produce soot, respirable particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, etc. When the street burns paper, the smoke does not easily spread, causing the local air pollutant concentration to be too high, stimulating and damaging the human trachea, lungs, etc. .

Last night on the Ching Ming Festival, the average concentration of sulfur dioxide in the air in Shenyang City increased significantly compared with usual.

Chen Baodong, president of the Shenyang Individual Workers Association, said that breaking the street burning paper, a sinister and unprofitable custom, requires the participation of the whole society. We must promote civilized and new styles in the whole society, carry out civilized ritual activities, strengthen publicity, guide the people to bid farewell to this bad habit, and at the same time strengthen control at the source. The Shenyang Individual Laborers Association recently launched all members not to sell paper, although they earned less. Pointing money, but playing an important role in establishing a good society.

The first day of Fengli Middle School, Shishi City, Quanzhou, Fujian Province: Lin Junye