Nationwide, the more developed the economy, the higher the service cost. Not only on the internet, but also in cemeteries in some places.
When sweeping the floor, you will buy all the sacrificial supplies in advance, and then go to the designated place to place sacrificial supplies such as garlands and fruits. There will be a person next to you to record the whole process, so that customers can see the whole process and prevent fraud. However, there is generally little demand for this kind of service, except for people who are abroad or really have no time.
Compared with sweeping graves from generation to generation, online sweeping graves has become a popular trend. Many websites offer this service. After registering an account, users can create an online memorial hall for their deceased relatives. In addition to professional websites, some official WeChat accounts can create memorial halls. There are all kinds of flowers and other sacrificial supplies in these memorial halls, with many grades. The higher the level, the higher the payment, and all kinds of privileged services, including bowing, worshipping and chanting, can be bought with money. Sacrificial supplies are generally not expensive, and a few dollars can be settled. The real windfall is the annual fee of the memorial hall, which generally ranges from 30- 100.
The emergence of these new ways of offering sacrifices is only the tip of the iceberg of huge profits in the funeral industry. During the Qingming three-day holiday, Beijingers are likely to rush to visit graves in other places, because the price of cemeteries in Beijing is as unbearable as housing prices. It is reported that in first-tier cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, the price of a cemetery has exceeded 6.5438+0.9 million yuan, and some even reached millions. Fushouyuan, the largest private funeral enterprise in mainland China, achieved a profit of about 65,438+0,656,543.8+0 billion yuan in 2065,438+08, and the income from selling tombs accounted for the majority.
In addition to some services after death, there are also living contracts, that is, insurance products related to death. After purchase, the purchaser can enjoy one-stop funeral service on the day of death, similar to life insurance products in the insurance industry. For example, the American funeral giant International Service Company (SCI) pioneered the prepayment mode of paying first and then serving, and customers can pay in installments after signing the contract. Its pre-sale business is huge, reaching tens of billions of dollars in the first quarter of 20 17.
It can be said that the funeral service industry is an industry with high gross profit, and even attracts some enterprises to do funeral services across borders. The rapid development of funeral service industry in China is mainly due to historical reasons. As we all know, China practiced patriarchal clan system in ancient times, and China people attached great importance to family ties. Therefore, all localities have formed clans with the same surname, and attach great importance to funeral and sacrifice.
Funeral sacrifice was originally for mourning, but it gradually formed a bad atmosphere of comparing and showing off wealth. In some places, regardless of environmental damage, luxury cemeteries are built in order to seize the land of feng shui. People can't forget their roots, but the most important thing is sincerity. Sacrifice is meaningful only when they are full of piety and respect for their dead relatives, not in the form of sweeping graves or building cemeteries in a luxurious way. Behind the huge profits in the funeral service industry is a bad social atmosphere.
In recent years, all localities have actually introduced relevant policies to improve. For example, vigorously promote land-saving ecological burial, such as flower burial, grass burial, tree burial, sea burial and so on. The purpose is to reduce people's burden, save land resources and conform to the concept of environmental protection. This is the deep-rooted traditional thinking of China people, and this way cannot be accepted by the public in a short time, and it is impossible to give up the traditional funeral way. In addition, for important events such as Tomb-Sweeping Day, all localities also advocate civilized sacrifices, replacing traditional firecrackers and incense with flowers and fruits, which is beneficial to environmental protection and reduces expenses.
In the future, with the rise of the dead population and land price, the price of the cemetery will definitely remain high, and the income of the corresponding funeral service industry will not be less. However, with the gradual infiltration of the concept of green funeral, people's bad atmosphere may be improved, and the service of funeral and sacrifice industry will also show a diversified development trend.