Yesterday was the last day of the Qingming holiday and Tomb-Sweeping Day. The reporter learned from the funeral office of Fuzhou civil affairs bureau that yesterday, the city funeral parlour and major mausoleum ushered in the peak of worship and sweeping, and a total of 561383 people went out to sweep tombs. The scene of a cemetery in Fuzhou According to statistics, the flow of people in Sanshan cemetery reached 126388 yesterday, which was the most in each cemetery; The flow of people in Fuzhou funeral parlour reached 97500; The flow of people in Shengquan cemetery reached 90000; The flow of people in Wenlin Mountain Cemetery reached 73259; the flow of people in Miaofeng Mountain Cemetery reached 60700; The flow of people in Emperor tiancemetery reached 52000; The flow of people in Anfu Cemetery reached 42536; The flow of people in Lianhuafeng Wanshou Garden reached 19000. According to the relevant person in charge of the funeral management office of Fuzhou Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau, the number of people who sacrificed on the day of the Qingming Festival last year reached a new high of more than 650,000 people over the years. The reason for this year’s major decline was that the Tomb-Sweeping Day this year was the last day of the small holiday, some time before Tomb Sweeping Day, many people went to cemetery and funeral parlour to worship, staggered the peak period of Tomb Sweeping Day, and a considerable number of people might delay the worship for several days, but the traffic reached 59292 times, 4000 more than last year, a record high. (Reporter Lin Juan)
