The 5-day Qingming holiday started today, and Kaohsiung City launched 3 free tomb-sweeping special buses, which will be connected at multiple stations.

(Photo by reporter Chen Wenchan)

[Reporter Chen Wenchan/Kaohsiung Report] The 5-day Qingming holiday started today, and Kaohsiung City launched 3 free tomb-sweeping special buses, with multi-stop fixed-point connections, and added parking lots such as Niaosong Nagu Pagoda and Daliao Kaotan Cemetery to facilitate public worship ancestor.

Kaohsiung City has 157 cemeteries and 30 ossuary pagodas. The funeral office offers 3 free tomb-sweeping buses during the Ching Ming holiday, including Yanchao Shamshui Cemetery, Neimen Naospagoda, and Cijin Life Memorial Hall, from 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Take the fixed-point connection method, every 20 minutes.

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Funeral offices have 5 service stations in Yanchao and Qijin respectively, providing public consultation, ride-hailing and sacrifice services; the Nagu Pagoda in 12 districts including Qijin will also hold pujas, praying for blessings and purifying ceremonies, and inviting masters to chant sutras for the dead When praying to the Buddha, scaffoldings and altars are set up on site, and people can place fruits and flowers to worship their ancestors.

For the Niaosong Nagu Pagoda, which is the most crowded place, the Funeral Office has planned the square in front of the Jingxing Hall next to the Funeral Home as a reserve parking lot, which can add 60 to 80 parking spaces; Daliao Kaotan Cemetery is adjacent to Fengshan District, the most populous city in Kaohsiung City. The funeral home borrows private land to plan a parking lot, which can park more than 100 vehicles; Qishan Life Park also has an additional parking lot, which can add 80 parking spaces.

In addition, the funeral places encourage people to separate worship, and it is recommended to wear a mask when entering the bone tower. There are also gold paper storage areas at the entrances and exits of major cemeteries. Or the water bag can really put out the embers, so as to avoid the resurgence of the embers and cause disasters.