What customs can "Green Mid-Autumn Festival" abandon?

There is a custom of offering sacrifices on the Mid-Yuan Festival. The festival of ancestor worship is on the fifteenth day of July in the lunar calendar, so it is called "July and a half" for short. Folk believe that ancestors will return home to visit their children and grandchildren at this time, so they need to worship their ancestors.

Traditional sacrifices pollute the environment and endanger health.

Health hazards:

1, according to the data, burning paper will produce harmful gases such as smoke, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

2. In addition, the way of burning paper money in the street is unorganized low-altitude emission, and the smoke is not easy to spread, which may easily lead to excessive local air pollution concentration.

The ashes left by burning paper money are harmful to people's health. These ashes have light specific gravity and fine particles, and many harmful substances such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are adsorbed on them. They float in the air and are not easy to sink, which is harmful to people's health and will damage people's respiratory organs such as trachea and lungs.

Social harm:

1, burning paper not only occupies the road, but also pollutes the air and reduces road visibility, which is prone to car accidents.

2. Destroying the pavement, especially the surface asphalt, will shorten the service life of the highway.

3, easy to cause fire.

4. Waste social resources and burn non-renewable resources.

5. Poison the atmosphere and create terror in the dark.

Therefore, we need to abandon the custom of burning paper money, burning ghosts and setting off firecrackers in traditional sacrifices, and replace traditional sacrifices with online sacrifices. Use flowers instead of burning paper money, and use electronic candles instead of open flames.