The Local Lazy Man System

After the sacrificial ceremony in the ancestral hall, each clan must wash their face and hands again. The principals asked the men to bring some fruits, food and drink, meat, tobacco, alcohol, tea and other items, all paper money and paper goods into the carriage for the purpose of going to the grave.

"Brother Glory, I was dumbfounded to hear the sacrifice just now. This sacrifice is so well written and so talented." Ma Lin said as she walked out of the gate of the ancestral hall.

"This is from the bottom of my heart. Besides, these old people, don't think that they haven't attended any university, but the essence of Chinese culture, these old people are more powerful than our young people, those college students and doctoral students." Ye Rongrong said. .

In fact, the real reason, in the final analysis, is education. The older generation, that is, before the 1960s and 1970s, in China, the most important thing for everyone in China is the culture of China itself, and foreign cultures have been severely affected. exclusion.

Although this kind of exclusion is wrong, it allows the essence of Chinese culture to be passed on from generation to generation. In the past, scholars paid attention to qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, and basically cultural people with a little culture knew this.

But now it is no longer possible. As more than ten years ago, the state put foreign language education more important than national language education. If you fail the foreign language, you will not even be able to get an undergraduate degree, and vigorously promote foreign culture.

So much that the culture of China itself is almost being squeezed out of the living space by Western culture. In the past, the old man could write with a brush and write a good article.

Today's young people can't do it. Not to mention that there are not many people who can write calligraphy. Even the pen calligraphy is crooked. When writing articles, sometimes the words don't make sense.

These are not the most important, the most important thing is that these traditional customs and cultures of China are slowly lost in the young generation. The traditional festivals of China, few young people in China remember clearly, the festivals in the West, everyone Remember clearly.

Fortunately, the country has realized the seriousness of the problem in recent years and has added several Chinese traditional festivals. Let young people not forget that there are still so many traditional festivals in China and the traditional meaning of these festivals.

"It's true. The old people in the past were really good at learning." Liu Qingqing agreed with his man's words.

"Brother Glory, where are we going now?" Ma Lin asked.

"Now let's go to the grave." Ye Rongrong said.

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After a few people got into the car. After a few minutes, the car in front of the car in the lead started to drive, followed by a salute car. Every time it traveled a certain distance, the salute car would fire a salute. tell the people around you,

The Ye family is worshipping their ancestors.

In addition to inviting the salute car, the ancestral hall also invited a band. In the middle of the convoy, there were several singers sitting inside, singing songs continuously, making the whole sacrifice very lively.

Ye Rongrong didn't know when such a band started to emerge in the Wenzhou area. Anyway, in the past few years, many people invited this kind of band to play music. Singing songs and inviting a band, it costs about three or a thousand dollars a day.

"Husband, what should you pay attention to when you go to the ancestral grave to sweep the tomb?" Liu Qingqing asked Ye Rongrong.

"There are a few taboos." Ye Rongrong thought for a while and said.

"What are the taboos?" Liu Qingqing asked.

"First, don't go to too remote places, it's easy to provoke evil spirits. This is because there are more tombs on the top of the mountain, and the yin is heavy."

"Second, you must be respectful when you encounter graves on the way. You can't touch the tombstone with your feet. It's best to be more serious and solemn. Never take pictures of graves with your mobile phone. This is very taboo. There is nothing else."

Ye Rongrong said. These are what the elders in the village said when they followed their father to sweep the grave together, and Ye Rongyao always remembered them.

The convoy of more than 200 vehicles lined up in a long line and headed for Meiyuan Town, causing a lot of traffic jams along the way.

But in this way, the traffic police can't do anything about it, and there are many caravans worshipping ancestors in the first month. They are all mighty, and as long as they don't violate traffic laws, the traffic police can't stop them.

Of course, I didn't dare to stop it. I stopped people for no reason and did not let people go to worship their ancestors. A large ancestral hall with thousands of people could easily cause violence, and the government would be afraid.

The convoy drove for about an hour, and finally drove to a place called Wangjia Village in Meiyuan Town, where the ancestral tomb of Ye's ancestral hall is located.

This Wangjia Village, hundreds of years ago, was indeed a veritable Wangjia Village. All the people in the village were surnamed Wang, but since the ancestor worshipped in Ye's ancestral hall set the ancestral tomb here, hundreds of years later, this village has Half of the people have the surname Ye.

In ancient times, people attached great importance to feng shui, especially the feng shui of ancestral tombs, because in the eyes of the ancients, good feng shui of ancestral tombs can protect the prosperity of children and grandchildren.

Ye Rongrong heard from the old man in the village that the first ancestor of the Ye family's ancestral hall, after resigning from office and returning to his hometown, specially asked Feng Shui masters to find his tomb. .

After five years of searching, the Feng Shui master found two treasures of Feng Shui for the ancestor of the Ye family, one is Wangjia Village here, and the other is Xiaodan Village in He-Xi Town.

The ancestors were very satisfied with the two pieces of land and could not bear to give up any piece of land, so the ancestor made a difficult decision to buy both the mountains. Good luck blesses the prosperity of the children and grandchildren.

After buying the land, the first ancestor asked him to choose two of his seven sons, one to move his home to Wangjia Village and the other to Xiaodan Village, where they would spread branches and leaves, the purpose of which was to protect the ancestral tomb. , these two branches are called "mountain masters".

With the passage of time, the Ye family's population has become more and more prosperous, and now it has been divided into many small branches, with an increasing population.

However, people will never forget their ancestors and their origins. Every year, they visit tombs to worship their ancestors and pray for the spirit of their ancestors in the sky.

After parking the car, Ye Rongyao and the others got out of the car, followed the crowd, and walked towards the top of the mountain in front. The top of the mountain is not high or big, but the external shape of the mountain is like a swimming red dragon. The head raised high, with both form and spirit, heads to the east, although it is not a real place for dragons, it is also an excellent place for feng shui.

In the past, there were only the ancestral tombs of the Ye clan's ancestral hall on the entire hill. However, with the change of the times, no one will recognize the title deeds hundreds of years ago. Therefore, many graves can be vaguely seen on the entire hill. These are Graves of other surnames.

Who made this place a feng shui treasure? Many people like this place. If the current government does not allow the construction of such private tombs, there will be more tombs on this mountain.

Ye Rongyao followed the crowd up the mountain. The ancestors of the Ye clan's ancestral hall and the tombs of several Tai clans were halfway up the mountain. That position was the best location for the feng shui of the entire hill. (To be continued.)