During the period of Tomb-Sweeping Day, religious (folk belief) places have always been one of the important places for people to gather for sacrifices. Although the epidemic prevention and control situation in Wenzhou is developing positively, the epidemic situation outside Wenzhou is spreading, and it is very likely that returning home to worship ancestors before and after the Qingming Festival will lead to a high-risk period of overseas epidemic import in Ouhai folk Sect. Ouhai district Religious Affairs Bureau has improved its political stance, taken the initiative to take the lead, continued to strengthen the implementation of the “double suspension” prevention and control measures in the religious field, and resolutely laid a hard battle for prevention and control in the critical period before and after Qingming Festival with a strict and practical style. Through five measures, we will comprehensively ensure the orderly development of Qingming Festival and Sweeping in Ouhai Folk Sect.
First, attach great importance to and strictly implement the “double suspension”. The leaders of the District Religious Affairs Bureau attached great importance to it, planned ahead and supervised all religious (folk belief) sites, demanding that the sites continue to strictly implement the “double suspension” before and after the Qingming Festival, strictly abide by the rule of not accepting outsiders during the epidemic, resolutely put an end to the signs and phenomena of “opening the small door” to allow believers to worship inside, and make publicity in advance to prevent conflicts and disputes. Guide all religious groups to strengthen the education and management of their religious personnel, and shall not be invited to go out to organize and carry out mass activities such as Qingming Festival.
Second, strengthen publicity and orderly guide online sacrifice and sweeping work. In order to implement the requirements of the Municipal Prevention and Control Office to further strengthen the prevention and control of the Qingming Festival and sweep the epidemic situation, and satisfy the wishes of the masses to sacrifice their ancestors to the greatest extent, the ouhai district Religious Affairs Bureau advocates public online sacrifice, and some places launch online blessing activities to share the method of praying at home, guide the masses to “cloud sacrifice”, minimize the density of people’s sacrifice and sweep, and reduce the gathering activities of people. The four major groups are religious and colloquial according to the characteristics of each religion, so that the majority of believers can better accept it and devote themselves to the epidemic prevention and control.
Third, carry out inspections to prevent gathering religious worship. All places of religious activities and places of folk belief fulfill the main responsibility of prevention and control, strengthen closed management, and strictly implement measures such as internal control and duty. From the end of March, the people’s religious departments of towns and streets and the members of the three-person resident group began to focus on strengthening the inspection and supervision of places where people are resident, further strictly implementing the system of daily inspection, daily report and zero report, grasping the work dynamics of all religious (folk belief) activity places in the jurisdiction, keeping abreast of information dynamics, and resolutely stopping the gathering worship in religious (folk belief) places; The District Religious Affairs Bureau set up three inspection teams, and in late March, it began to conduct unannounced visits throughout the region. At the same time, every day, it specially inspected all religious (folk belief) places in the area to ensure that all religious (folk belief) activities places and private gathering places in the area were closed and all religious and folk activities were stopped.
Fourth, multi-party linkage to improve the ability of forecasting, early warning and prevention. Incorporate the investigation of the gathering religious worship during the Qingming period into the grassroots society..Manage a network system, give full play to the role of grassroots folk cadres, and ensure early detection, early reporting and early disposal of clues about gathering religious worship activities before and after Qingming. Open the telephone number for reporting, unblock the reporting channels, collect information on potential risks in the religious field that may trigger the epidemic for the society, and continuously improve the ability of comprehensive judgment, prediction and early warning.
Five, be vigilant and guard against the risk of imported epidemic outside the city. People’s religious offices, religious groups, religious (folk belief) places in various towns and streets should strengthen communication and linkage, improve their vigilance against the importation of epidemic outside the city, and pay close attention to the movements of people from areas with serious epidemic situations in the local religious field. All religious (folk belief) places should strengthen personnel control to prevent imported epidemics caused by offering sacrifices to ancestors outside the city.