Chapter 476: Deep Mountain Mausoleum (2)
The Ministry of State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration finally set the tone for the cemetery's burial rules on the grounds of fairness.
There are three types of burial methods in the cemetery for the time being.
The first is tree burial, where cremated ashes are buried in the ground and trees are planted on them.
A small granite square tablet is erected next to the tree, the front is the basic information of the tomb owner, and the back is engraved with an epitaph to inform future generations, so that those who see it know the life of the tomb owner.
The small stele is mainly easy for everyone to identify, and also convenient for the worship of its descendants.
The second is to build a special ash storage building in the cemetery.
On both sides of the corridor of the columbarium storage building, there are dense stone lattices.
The ashes of the deceased are packed in urns and placed in these stone lattices.
There was a bayonet in the opening of the stone lattice, just enough to hold the small square tablet and hold it firmly to it.
In front of the lattice is a simple altar where everyone can worship their ancestors.
Such a six-storey columbarium can store 50,000 urns.
Based on the remaining number of lattices, the Ministry of State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration can determine when a new columbarium should be built, so that there will be no place to place the ashes.
The third is to scatter the ashes directly in the cemetery.
Then a sacrificial hall was built in the cemetery, and below the sacrificial hall was a multi-storey basement.
The small stone tablets corresponding to the ashes of the deceased are kept in the basement like books in the library.
Since there is no need for space to keep the ashes, there is no need to leave a space for worship.
Therefore, half of the building space is less than the columbarium, but it can store 300,000 small stone tablets.
If the descendants need to worship, they can worship directly on the altar.
In order to make it more convenient for everyone to worship and not interfere with each other, the shrine also adopts some modern management methods.
The above-ground part of the entire altar hall has three floors, and each floor is divided into several relatively independent worship halls.
There is an LCD TV in the worship hall, through which worshippers can recall the voices, smiles, and great achievements of their ancestors.
Of course, the video materials produced by the funeral home for free are only the basic personal information and the content of the epitaph.
If you feel that it is too monotonous, if possible, you can also provide some audio and video materials and life photos taken by yourself with your mobile phone before, and find someone to customize a more content-rich video for the deceased by publishing tasks through the online platform.
These video materials can be kept by themselves, or they can be stored in the funeral home's database and linked according to the resident identification number.
All members of the Huaxia Kingdom can directly inquire about the relevant information of their immediate family members.
Moreover, through the certification of the system, they can easily make an appointment for their own use of the worship hall on the online platform.
However, in order to use the worship hall more efficiently, the Ministry of State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration stipulates that every member of the Huaxia Kingdom can use the worship hall for half an hour free of charge during each annual cycle.
Because the worship hall is built by the Ministry of State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration for all members of the Huaxia Kingdom, in order to ensure that each member of the Huaxia Kingdom has the right to use the worship hall, it is necessary to allocate the limited resources reasonably and effectively.
In addition, if there are multiple members of a family, you can also make consecutive appointments to get a longer service time.
Of course, it is also possible to make separate appointments at different times to get more worship.
Therefore, each member has half an hour of free time a year, which is enough for most families.
For those who have used the worship hall for more than half an hour during the year, you need to pay a fee for the use of the service for the length of time, because you are taking up other people's public resources, and the sanitation and maintenance of the equipment in the worship hall also require a certain amount of expenses.
It is also a simple and effective way to regulate the content of services beyond basic benefits by economic means.
Some members with strong computer operation skills can also directly specify which worship hall they use, what content needs to be played on the LCD TV in the worship hall, and the time when they are going to use the worship hall when making an appointment through the online platform.
After the online reservation of the time period, its relevant information is automatically entered into the funeral home's database, and then when the worship hall is allocated, the system automatically vacates the right to use the worship hall during that time period.
Adequate information sharing and an advanced resource allocation management system can effectively improve the efficiency of the use of the worship hall, and there will be no conflict between multiple people wanting to use the same time period.
At the appointed time, the designated worship hall will automatically play a loop of videos or photos according to the reserved broadcast content.
In this relatively quiet space, it is more meaningful to worship the ancestors and remember their voices and smiles during their lifetimes than to burn some incense wax paper candles.
There are three different types of burial, all of which are chosen voluntarily by the members.
The tree burial seems to have a relatively loose site, but there is little information about the owner of the tomb, only the epitaph on the small stone tablet, which describes his life in very simple language.
This type of burial is suitable for those who prefer quiet.
Although the ashes storage building provides a place for each deceased to keep his ashes, and there is a building to protect the wind and rain, no matter how the weather changes, it will not affect the worship of the descendants.
However, in some special festivals, there are too many worshippers, and there is no separation between them, and the worship environment is too noisy.
Moreover, this method is similar to the method of tree burial, except that the ashes of the deceased are preserved for a longer time, and the introduction of the deceased during his lifetime is not prominent.
And for those who scattered their ashes in the cemetery, their small stone tablets can be placed in the underground storage room of the sacrificial hall.
The functions of the multimedia worship hall in the sacrificial hall can be compared with the traditional way of commemoration.
Moreover, every member of the Huaxia Kingdom has the benefit of using the multimedia worship hall for half an hour a year for free, and if you choose the first two burial methods, it is equivalent to giving up such benefits voluntarily.
Wei Minsheng wants to use such an environmentally friendly way of worship to guide and influence everyone's funeral habits and trends.
Since the cemetery is independent of the city, in order to provide more thoughtful services to the members who worship the ancestors, the cemetery is also equipped with a lot of modern facilities.
Wind and solar power generation systems were installed on the roofs of the buildings in order to provide sufficient power resources for the multimedia worship halls.
Public canteens, public toilets, stone paths and rest pavilions everywhere, as well as the installation of reasonable garbage boxes, make the whole cemetery look unusually tidy, like a park, so that all those who enter the cemetery can relax and enjoy the tranquility brought by this special environment.