Missing like rain

It's all over the place, falling into the heart

People are exploring a harmonious farewell with nature

Use green to worship with flowers and thoughts in the clouds

Let me turn my grief into spring mud

Let life be integrated into the earth

  During the 2025 Qingdao Sea Burial Event held recently, the deceased's family scattered flowers into the sea. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Cong Jiaxin

Qingdao's seaside

The wind blows the white waves, the waves are endless

In the witness of relatives

The ashes of the deceased were placed in the degradable urn

Integrate into the blue waves

"This method can not only express longing but also save land"

The deceased's family, Mr. Jin, looked at the waves and said

  On April 1, a public welfare ecological funeral ceremony was held at Chongqing Chongxing Life Memorial Park. (Photo provided by Chongqing Funeral Management Center)

Policy escort makes the road of ecological burial wider

From the Ministry of Civil Affairs' Guidance

People-friendly policies everywhere

Tree burial, flower burial, sea burial...

Ecological burial is no longer an unfamiliar choice

It's civilized self-consciousness

  The deceased's family used electronic sacrifices to commemorate their relatives in the electronic sacrifice square of Qingdao Funeral Service Center. (Photo provided by Qingdao Civil Affairs Bureau)

Flowers replace paper money

Online cloud worship has become a new trend

The family actively participates in this poetic green ceremony

Sending condolences in a more environmentally friendly and civilized way

Numbers flowers

A wisp of virtual smoke

Missings drift across time and space to the distance

  On April 3, a first-year junior high school student from Guyuan Hongwen Middle School in Ningxia set off from the campus at 4:50 a.m. and started a 100-mile hiking ceremony for heroes. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Feng Kaihua

Hundred miles of hiking sacrifice to heroes

Guyuan students step on the footprints of martyrs

Feel the "Walking Ideological and Political Course"

Rows of martyrs in front of rows of tombstones

The white flowers that the teenagers clasped on the road 108 miles are placed

This is the best inheritance of faith

Bloom new light in the new era

It is a deep thought about the value of life

It is awe and reward for nature

The departure of life

Not the end, but another beginning

Copywriting: Li Sirui

Planning: Nie Yan

Production from Xinhua News Agency