With the continuous deepening of the Internet in the funeral industry, more and more people have begun to pay attention to and accept sacrifices through the Internet. Whether it is Qingming Festival or not, no matter where you are, you can use this new way to express your grief. "'Cloud sacrificial sweeping' may become a new trend for Qingming sacrificial sweeping." Tan Zejing, dean of the School of Civil Affairs and Social Work of Changsha Civil Affairs Vocational and Technical College, analyzed that the Internet will bring many changes to the funeral industry.

[Phenomena] "Cloud Sacrifice" allows memories to travel through time and space

"Grandma, I miss you, how are you in heaven..." Li Li, who works in Changde, created a memorial hall for her grandmother in the "Online Memorial Hall" of Tangren Longevity Garden and wrote a memorial article in the Qingming Festival. . Li Li told reporters that on Qingming Festival every year, she would go back to Changsha to visit her grandmother's grave, but this year, due to the epidemic, she could not go home, so she created an "online memorial hall" for her grandmother and performed a ceremony with a lot of sense. Qiang's "Cloud Sacrifice Sweep", "During the epidemic, it was inconvenient to go out. Sending flowers, offering incense and bowing to deceased relatives through the Internet fulfilled my wish."

However, what surprised Li Li was that when she recommended her grandmother's "online memorial hall" to her relatives and friends, everyone came to offer sacrifices. Some relatives who hadn't seen each other for many years also found old photos of their homes, and uploaded them after remakes. , There are more and more materials about grandma in the memorial hall. "In this way, our descendants can have a more comprehensive and intuitive understanding of grandma, and everyone can cherish the memory of the deceased here and communicate with each other."

"In 2020, we have upgraded the 'online memorial hall', and the memorial hall has changed from the previous flat mode to a 3D mode, so that everyone can feel more like being at the scene." Assistant General Manager of Hunan Tangren Wanshouyuan Co., Ltd. Fan Zheng told reporters that due to the impact of the epidemic, it is not easy for people to sweep graves on the spot, and many people may be in different places and it is inconvenient to sweep graves.

Fan Zheng said that "moving" realistic memorials and cemeteries to mobile phones is more convenient to pay homage to the deceased; and the voices and smiles of the deceased, the endless grief of relatives, the deep nostalgia of friends, and sacrifices can all be turned into multimedia files. It truly realizes the immortality of the dead in the concept of time. "As the concept of ecological protection and land-saving ecological burial continues to gain popularity, cloud sacrificial sweeps and virtual sacrificial sweeps will become new trends in the future. The fields of burial and sacrificial sweeping will also be supported by technology, making it easier for people to commemorate deceased relatives."

The reporter learned that in Changsha, it is not only a cemetery, but in order to let the memories and ties of Changsha citizens arrive in a warm way, the Changsha Civil Affairs Bureau has also launched the 2022 Changsha "Qingming on the Cloud Sending Condolences" platform, citizens can pass The method of "cloud sacrifice and sweeping" is to carefully pursue the distance and cherish the memory of the ancestors. The platform of "Send Condolences to Qingming on the Cloud" has three options: "Sacrificing to Martyrs", "Sacrificing Relatives" and "Remembering Academician Yuan Longping". You can see Jinling Urban Green Cemetery, Mingyang Mountain Fushou Garden, Tangren Longevity Garden, Xiaoxiang Cemetery, Shang Field scenes such as Shanyuan Garden Cemetery, Liuyang Fuze Garden, Liuyang Wanfu Garden, and Ningxiang Wanshou Cemetery make the mourners feel immersive.

(On November 15, 2021, at the memorial meeting of Academician Yuan Longping, a warm farewell ceremony was presented to everyone through technologies such as holographic images and real-time interaction. File picture)

[Bottleneck] "Internet + Funeral" professionals are in short supply

"Using information technology to improve service levels and speed up the standardization of funeral services will be the only way for the high-quality development of funeral services." Tan Zejing told reporters that in the Internet era, the informatization of funeral government services has accelerated, "Internet + funeral services" "Continuously deepening, the modernization level of funeral service management has been continuously improved, which directly benefits the citizens. However, funeral professionals are in short supply and there is a large market gap. So far, only 5 higher vocational colleges and 3 secondary vocational schools in the country have opened funeral services. Industry.

Changsha Civil Affairs Vocational and Technical College is the earliest and largest one. It is reported that the school's funeral college has four majors: modern funeral service, funeral equipment maintenance technology, anti-corrosion cosmetic technology, cemetery design and management. professional. "The college enrolls 300 students every year, but the number of applicants exceeds that every year," said Tan Zejing.

[Explore] "Internet +" enables wisdom to empower funerals

On November 15, 2021, the memorial meeting for academician Yuan Longping and the placement ceremony of the spiritual bone, which has attracted much attention from the people of the whole country, was held. On the day of the ceremony, people all over the country bid farewell to Mr. Yuan for his last journey through the Internet. "The holographic projection allows us to see Grandpa Yuan's life and past, which is really touching." "This immersive auditorium makes me feel that Grandpa Yuan is still by our side."...Everyone left messages on the Internet. It turned out that in the memorial hall, through technologies such as holographic images and real-time interaction, the life stories of Yuan Lao were vividly displayed in front of relatives and friends.

One after another's photos of Yuan Lao, a segment of Yuan's audio-visual memories, and the interaction of memorial flowers and flowers... At some point in the memorial service, there seems to be a dislocation of time and space, so that everyone can see the amiable Grandpa Yuan again.

"Now, smart funeral is starting from multiple links to improve the funeral business." Tan Zejing told reporters that in Changsha Mingyangshan Funeral Home, its "online business platform" covers the entire process of funeral services. The funeral information of the masses, the door-to-door service of funeral personnel to pick up and transport the remains, to the completion of cremation and the collection of the ashes by the family members, almost all business processing of the funeral home has achieved a "paperless" office, which has realized the collection and transportation of the remains, service negotiation, wake-up bid farewell, cremation, and collection of ashes. Information sharing and intercommunication in other links will promote the transformation of traditional funeral services to modern times.

In addition, the reporter learned that among the deceased that the funeral home receives every day, many died of accidents or diseases, and most of their remains are mutilated or deformed to varying degrees. Out of the consideration of respecting the deceased and comforting the family, the idea of ​​restoring the remains with 3D printing technology with strong restoring ability came up spontaneously. Some citizens even used 3D technology to print scaled-down statues of the deceased as a long-term collection. souvenirs.

In addition to 3D printing to restore the remains, there is also a high-tech playing an important role. Since it is inevitable that some places are inconvenient for manual operation when dealing with the remains, it is a good choice to send "robots" to work at this time. "At present, we are developing robots for funeral services," said Tan Zejing.