In the early morning of 31 March, Ma Cancan, who studies in Nanjing’s Xianlin University Town, lightly clicked her mouse to build an “Online Memorial Hall” for her deceased grandparents, to make up for the regret she felt at not being able to return to Guyuan, Ningxia Province, to worship her ancestors during the Qingming, or Tomb-Sweeping Festival, that this year falls today, 5 April, 2019.
3月31日清晨，在南京仙林大学城学习的马坎坎轻轻点击鼠标，为她已故的祖父母建造了一个“在线纪念馆”，以弥补她无法在今年，即2019年4月5日的清明节或清明节期间回到宁夏顾源敬拜祖先的遗憾。
It is reported that online worship has gradually risen in recent years, with the Yuhua Gongde Garden in our very own Nanjing taking the lead in carrying out the nationwide, so-called “Sacrifice Sweeping Drive”. Therein, thousands of people have purchased an online memorial, while visits to such to pay respects have numbered more than 2 million.
據報道，近年來，線上崇拜逐漸興起，我們南京的玉花拱德園在全國範圍內開展了所謂的「祭祀清掃活動」。 在那里，成千上万的人购买了在线纪念馆，而访问纪念馆的人数超过200万人。
This year, the park has also launched a digital life heritage database, which stores the voice and smiles of the deceased on hard drives. Yuhua Gongde Garden is touting such as “Ecological Burial”, calling it the realisation of “Green Network Worship”.
今年，公园还推出了一个数字生命遗产数据库，该数据库将死者的声音和微笑存储在硬盘上。 玉华拱德园正在吹捧“生态埋葬”，称其为“绿色网络崇拜”的实现。
The advantages of online memorial halls are obvious; imagine the amount of of paper money that is burnt at this time of year all over the country, to say nothing of the fire hazards posed. Without limits of space and time, people can respect their ancestors through a click of their mouse or a swipe of their phone; convenient and fast.
在线纪念馆的优势是显而易见的；想象一下，每年的这个时候，全国各地被烧毁的纸币数量，更不用说造成的火灾危险了。 不受空间和时间的限制，人们可以通过点击鼠标或滑动手机来尊重他们的祖先；方便快捷。
And there’s more; all data can be permanently preserved for their descendants, helping people with little information as to their genealogy to better know their ancestors, by preserving their forefathers’ written words, images and audio-visual materials forever.
还有更多；所有数据都可以永久保存给他们的后代，通过永远保存祖先的书面文字、图像和视听材料，帮助那些对家谱知之甚少的人更好地了解他们的祖先。
Yet, many are arguing that worship (祭祀) is a process; from preparing worship flowers and paper money to standing in front of the tomb and bowing with a sincere heart.
然而，许多人认为崇拜（祭祀）是一个过程；从准备崇拜鲜花和纸币到站在坟墓前真诚地鞠躬。
“To click buttons and store their smiles in virtual world is lacking the sense of ritual; we are allowing people to drop away from our own culture with the excuse of being too busy”, commented Wang Fan, a netizen on question-and-answer website Zhihu.
问答网站Zhihu的网友Wang Fan评论说：“点击按钮并将他们的微笑存储在虚拟世界中缺乏仪式感；我们允许人们以太忙为借口远离我们自己的文化。”
Speaking with Nanjing Daily, a manager for the Nanjing Municipal Funeral and Burial Administration said that the core of the Qingming Festival is the traditional “filial piety culture”; whether it is physical tomb worship or modern net worship, it is just in different forms.
南京市殡葬管理局经理在接受《南京日报》采访时表示，清明节的核心是传统的“孝道文化”；无论是实体墓拜还是现代网拜，都是不同的形式。
