Since the beginning of this year, the Ethnic and Religious Affairs Bureau of Dongtou District, Wenzhou City has been continuously focusing on epidemic prevention and control in the field of religion, and has been doing a good job in guiding articles, improving methods, and implementing comprehensive policies in various aspects. It has actively guided in political consensus, cultural guidance, group building, and continuously promoted the sinicization of religion.
One is to take the study and education of party history as the main line, and enhance political identity. By taking on the responsibility of guarding the red roots and embarking on a new path of rushing to take exams, we aim to further enhance the political awareness of religious representatives and continuously strengthen their patriotic and religious stance. Organize religious venue management personnel and religious staff to listen and learn about the history of the revolutionary liberation in Dongtou, and organize representatives from the religious community to conduct a “Red Unity Tour” in Nanhu, Jiaxing, guiding religious figures to feel the spirit of the Red Boat and understand the revolutionary power. Organize religious figures to visit the Dongtou Red Imprint Museum, and carry out “Red Journey” and “Centennial Party History into the Site” inspection activities, Introduce party history education into various religious venues and ordinary believers, continuously enhancing the knowledge and love of the party and the country among religious figures.
The second is to take enriching activity carriers as the main focus and advocate cultural integration. Facing the shortcomings of limited resources and uneven development of cultural undertakings among different religions, actively undertaking city level activities, guiding religious groups to break through bottlenecks and start from a young age, organizing various learning and cultural activities, guiding religious staff to explore the spiritual connotations consistent with the core values of social ideology in religious classics, and infiltrating religious culture with excellent traditional culture. Since the beginning of this year, the Dongtou District Buddhist Association has successfully hosted activities such as the provincial training course on Chinese Buddhist etiquette, the Wenzhou Chinese Buddhist Lecture Exchange Conference, and the Municipal Buddhist Association President Forum. Buddhist cultural exchanges with the outside world have become more frequent, and the level of Buddhist teaching, preaching, and research has been continuously improving; The District Taoist Association has held 8 exchange and symposium sessions on the dress code, palace and temple management standards, and charitable volunteer services for Taoist staff, actively guiding the continuous improvement of Taoist ethics. In addition, Dongtou District also holds the “Folk Customs · Colorful Zhejiang” Dongtou Mazu Peace Festival, relying on the Zhongputuo Cultural Park to establish an art and cultural exhibition hall, showcasing traditional cultural works and folk craft products such as calligraphy and painting, sculpture, sea pottery, and shell carving. Religious culture is constantly integrated with excellent traditional culture and Dongtou folk culture.
The third is to take the role of the group as the main body and adapt to social needs. Guide religious organizations to further assume the roles of “participants” in religious affairs management and “promoters” of policies and regulations, with each religious group as the main focus,.Guide members of the group management team to enter and carry out propaganda on religious policies and regulations, normal management of epidemic prevention and control, and supervision of various publications in the venue in different areas. As of the end of August, Dongtou District has carried out 49 educational lectures, and the District Taoist Association has conducted three rounds of comprehensive inspections on epidemic prevention and control in Taoist temples and temples in different areas. The District Buddhist Association reminds all Buddhist venues to conduct two rounds of self inspection on various publications in the venue, The two Christian churches in the district provide regular guidance on epidemic prevention and control work within the church. At the same time, religious groups have taken the initiative to play an exemplary role. Since the COVID-19 vaccination work was carried out, members of the team of various groups have taken the initiative to participate in the vaccination, and actively mobilized religious staff, site management personnel, and religious believers to participate in the vaccination. So far, the members of the team of religious groups and religious staff in Dongtou District have basically completed their planting.
Next, on the basis of resolutely maintaining the security and stability of the religious field, Dongtou District will continue to make detailed and practical “guidance” articles, firmly adhere to the direction of sinicization, adhere to the socialist core values as the guide, guide the integration of religious culture and excellent traditional culture, and guide religion to adapt to socialist society.