Fireworks, not flowers, rule festival
Source: Xinhua |
April 9, 2010, Friday
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A northwest city's green plan of "firecrackers for flowers" to mark the Qingming Festival on the tomb sweeping day failed to ignite enthusiasm among the public.
Three days after the festival, cemetery workers in Urumqi, capital of the northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, were still cleaning the debris of firecrackers.
Of the 10,000 fresh chrysanthemums, which cemeteries in Urumqi offered in exchange for the tomb sweepers' firecrackers, only 2,000 were swapped, a spokesman from the city's funeral service center said.
"They left behind mountains of firecracker debris, unburned fake money and other offerings," said Liu Shijun, deputy chief of Dongshan Ecological Park, Urumqi's largest cemetery.
He said the 70 park workers would need at least two weeks to clean up all the debris, which was estimated at more than 100 tons.
The fireworks and burning of other items destroyed the lawns in the park. Some tomb sweepers also broke twigs and branches of trees to add fuel to the flames, said Liu.
"It's always a long and slow process to change a custom," said Liu Shijun.
(Xinhua)
Three days after the festival, cemetery workers in Urumqi, capital of the northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, were still cleaning the debris of firecrackers.
Of the 10,000 fresh chrysanthemums, which cemeteries in Urumqi offered in exchange for the tomb sweepers' firecrackers, only 2,000 were swapped, a spokesman from the city's funeral service center said.
"They left behind mountains of firecracker debris, unburned fake money and other offerings," said Liu Shijun, deputy chief of Dongshan Ecological Park, Urumqi's largest cemetery.
He said the 70 park workers would need at least two weeks to clean up all the debris, which was estimated at more than 100 tons.
The fireworks and burning of other items destroyed the lawns in the park. Some tomb sweepers also broke twigs and branches of trees to add fuel to the flames, said Liu.
"It's always a long and slow process to change a custom," said Liu Shijun.
(Xinhua)
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