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China wastes heavily in public memorial ceremonies
www.chinanews.cn 2007-07-04 09:39:29
Chinanews, Beijing, July 4 �C On June 22, a large public memorial
ceremony was held in Tianshui, Gansu Province. The ceremony was held to
worship Fuxi, a legendary ruler of remote antiquity. Along with the
memorial ceremony, the local government also held a series of cultural
events. It highly appraised the ��grand�� event, saying that it was a
largest public activity that had brought widespread social influences.
From May and June, memorial ceremonies of various kinds seem to boom
across China, just like the temperature. The China Youth Daily Social
Investigation Center recently conducted an opinion poll on public
memorial ceremony. The poll shows that 62.4% of the respondents agree
that such activities should be held, at the same time pointing out that
such activities should not be overdone. Only 5% of them strongly support
such activities. In addition, 25.1% of the respondents say such
activities ��should be held only when necessary��, while 7.2% express
their strong opposition to such activities.
The trend to organize public memorial activities first appeared in 1980.
At that time, the activities were restricted to a few places that had a
historical background for such activities. In the 1990s, however, the
activities began to spread to more places. In 2003, many local
governments were involved in public memorial activities.
The year 2004 witnessed the booming of such activities across the
country. During that year, worshipping Huangdi, the legendary Yellow
Emperor, was appraised as a state-level public memorial event. Since
then, as Ge Jianxiong, a professor from Fudan University predicted a year
earlier, "ancient Chinese celebrities such as Yandi, Fuxi, Nuwa, Yao,
Shun, Yu, and many less well-known characters�� all became the ��targets
of the worshipping ceremonies held by local governments��.
At that time, many people began to raise doubts about the government��s
enthusiasm for such events. The most debatable question was whether such
activity should be held ��by the government.��
As the poll shows, 59.6% of the respondents say the government should not
be the organizer of such activities. 20.2% of them say it ��should�� play
a role in this event and another 20.1% give no clear answer.
While 59.3% of the respondents say the activity is a waste of money,
22.6% of them think the activity can play a positive role in promoting
traditional culture. In addition, 18.1% of the people are non-committal
on this issue.
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