Is Suzhou cemetery also restricted?

Near Tomb-Sweeping Day, a news about Suzhou sparked a heated discussion. The news said: you can't buy a cemetery in Suzhou if you are not registered in Suzhou. In fact, the news quoted the news of the city's Qingming work conference held in Suzhou on March 2. The theme of the conference is "All funeral service units should strengthen funeral management according to laws and regulations, and it is strictly forbidden to sell operating cemeteries outside Suzhou, so as to better serve the people of Suzhou with limited resources". Public opinion believes that this is to "block Shanghainese from buying Suzhou cemetery."

In fact, the cemetery is not only a cemetery, but also a bond and symbol of emotional connection. "Later, homesickness was a short grave. I was outside and my mother was inside." It's true. In Yu Guangzhong's works, the grave has become one of the images of homesickness. As we all know, many Shanghainese are from Suzhou because of regional blood relationship.

Recently, all parts of the country are restricting purchases, but all of them are aimed at the property market, and the scenery here in Suzhou is different. But in essence, there is no difference between the internal logic of property market restriction and cemetery restriction: speculators activate the panic of those who just need it and enlarge the imbalance between supply and demand. In order to stabilize the property price (tomb price), the government can only squeeze out the bubble and let it return to its original residential (burial) attribute. However, under the one-size-fits-all policy, it is inevitable to stage accidental injuries.

A simple truth is that the living and the dead compete for land, and the problem of the living is undoubtedly the most important. However, such absolute logic should not be so easily applied to locals and outsiders. People in Suzhou, Shanghai go back to their hometown to buy a cemetery, which is actually the result of multiple factors. In a ranking of cemetery prices in 30 major cities in China, Shanghai ranks first, with nearly 300,000 yuan for each high-end cemetery, and the city's average price exceeds 60,000 yuan per square meter. The cemetery in Suzhou is generally 30,000 yuan/square meter, and the highest cemetery last year was 1.2 million yuan/square meter. The huge price gap, coupled with the cultural psychology of falling leaves, makes it logical for Shanghainese to buy a cemetery in Suzhou. The observation of netizens also proves this point. Every time I go to the grave, 7 cars of 10 are hung with Shanghai photos and 2 cars are hung with Zhejiang cards.

If there was a surplus of cemetery resources in Suzhou in the past, it is now "the landlord's family has no surplus grain." It is understood that more than 80% of the cemetery land stocks in Suzhou are generally insufficient. Even so, the cemetery resources were snapped up by foreigners. 20 15 Suzhou civil affairs department made a calculation. In extreme cases, the cemeteries in Suzhou will be sold out within five years. In order to cope with this situation, Suzhou introduced the subsidy method of green funeral as early as 20 12, and the tree burial can be subsidized by 2000 yuan, but in the three years from 20 15, only 300 deceased people chose green funeral. Compared with nearly half of the citizens in Germany who choose tree burial, this is like the difference between clouds and mud.

It can be seen that Suzhou does have a little selfishness in restricting cemeteries. Poor implementation of ecological burial is not an isolated phenomenon in Suzhou. From a larger background, the integration of the Yangtze River Delta is accelerating, and this integration should also be reflected in various public services. In addition, if tree burial and other relatively western-style funeral methods are not easy to be accepted by people, can we consider reviving traditions such as temple sacrifice, giving people a chance to place their loved ones and rebuild their sacredness, and offering ancestral cards in temples or ancestral temples? This more oriental tradition and color solution may be worth trying everywhere.