Chapter 155, Ancestor Worship Celebration I
Tangjia Village's major moves in recent days, as well as the return of some well-known figures from around the world, quickly alarmed the local government, as well as journalists.
The purpose of the government is simply to encourage the great people who have worked tirelessly, to give back to the place where they grew up, to make it better. This time their visit went well and they received some large donations. Tang Yanguo and Tang Tianhua donated 100 million yuan for the development of their hometown, 50 million yuan for the construction of their hometown, and 30 million yuan for the construction of their hometown.
He spent 1/30 million of his son's fame on building his hometown, 1/2 million of his second child's fame on building his hometown, and 1/5 million of Tang Xiaomu and Tang Xiaoye's on building his hometown. Under the encouragement of the Tang Ministry, Liu Yan donated 5 million yuan in the name of Tang Xiaowang to build his hometown, and Tang Wanfu donated 5 million yuan in the name of his wife to build his hometown.
Tang Aiguo and Lin Xiang had no money, but they were very proud and took three million from Tang Yanmei to build their hometown with their son's reputation.
Sungai donated three million to his personal reputation, Huang Xiaoli to two million, Tian Xiaoxin to donate 500,000, Jiao Mengyu to donate five million, and other entertainers of the company to donate three million. In addition, Guashi Friendship donated 5 million, Tang Jiajun donated 100 million, Eel Jiajun donated 50 million, and all other small households in the village donated a total of 300,000.
However, such a large sum of money did not end up going directly to the conquest department, but went directly to the Love Foundation in Ribu, which was then led by the conquistador, supervised and financed by the foundation, and began the old trend of comprehensive construction, carrying out projects such as road renovation, school renovation, river cleaning, bridge repair, etc. Don't open these things, the time is fast approaching October 1st.
Today is a big day of the year, and it is also a big day for the people of Yanguo to turn a new page, because today is the National Day of Yanguo.
It was a day when the red flag was flying, it was a holidaymaker's day, and everywhere you went, you could almost hear the sounds of the Independence Day celebrations, if there were shops. But on this universal celebration of Adidas, a very strange sight appeared on the ancient tidal plane. First, three long queues of more than 10 meters opened the road.
In the middle is a group of people holding flags to offer sacrifices to their ancestors. Then there was a group of lumberjacks with whole sheep and whole pigs. There are also a few floats. Finally, there are thousands of people dressed differently, and I've come a long way in this old fashion town. The citizens are not old-fashioned people, and when they saw this scene, they took out their mobile phones to take videos and photos and sent them to the circle of friends, knowing that this was the old-fashioned people in the ancestor worship of Tang Village, and they were shocked by this scene in front of them. No wonder the people of the town were frightened, because for decades, Tangjia Village has been impoverished, with a population of just over a hundred people.
So now when I suddenly see Tang Village returning to the villagers, there are actually more than 2,000 people, and they are actually a little difficult to accept for a while. However, the acceptance of the citizens does not affect the villagers of Tangjia Village, because they now have traffic police and auxiliary police to help maintain traffic order, so that they can clear the streets of the town without hindering the smooth completion of the parade. After the parade, thousands of Tangjia villagers rowed back to Tangjia Village again.
They began to eat a big pot of rice shared by more than 2,000 people. After they had eaten and drunk enough, they all returned to their lodgings and began to rest, and it looked like the national holiday was approaching.
Of course, the fact that they can watch the show now in their spare time doesn't mean their celebration is over.
Their celebrations take place at night, in addition to the processions that take place during the day. As for why this happened, to be honest, the villagers of Tangjia Village didn't know. Tang Bu, who had been marching through the streets all morning, was resting on the sofa under the pomegranate in front of Tang Aiguo.
Suddenly, several reporters walked up to him with equipment and asked him with a smile: "Hello, Tang Bu, we are reporters, and we are here to shoot a documentary on the deeds of Guangdong. Can we take pictures of the ancestor worship in your village above Tangjia Village? ”?
We know it's rude, but the millennium didn't leave anything behind, so we wanted to document it so that more people could see our ancient Cantonese heritage... Sleeping like a log, suddenly this voice came from his ears, Tang Bu opened his eyes and was startled, what are you doing? I'm just sleeping. Do you want to do this to me....
No, Donbu, you misunderstood us. We are journalists for documentaries of Cantonese deeds. This time we came to Tangjia Village to photograph the ancestor worship in your village, and now we are here to get your permission. Facing Tang Bu, who was taken aback by him, several reporters were embarrassed for a while, and hurriedly explained.
For the movie of the Tang family's ancestral village, Tang Bu quite agrees with this, but he doesn't know that the village is taboo about this, and he doesn't dare to directly agree to these reporters' requests. He turned to the room and shouted, "Dad, some reporters have come to shoot a documentary about the ancestors in Tangjia Village." They asked if you could come out and give them an answer: "The government has contacted me." They said someone was going to come and make a documentary today. Ask them if they are reporters for documentaries on the deeds of Guangdong. If yes, tell them it's okay.
If not, drive them away... At this moment, Tang Aiguo was chatting with Tang Wanfu and five overseas Chinese in the room, so he didn't come out, but answered Tang Bo directly in the room. After listening to Tang Aiguo's words, combined with the words of the previous reporters, Tang Bu nodded and said, "My father-in-law is the current village head. He said you can shoot it, so shoot it. But because there are so many people coming back, we can't receive you, and by the way, our ancestor worship service starts at 9:09, which is 45 minutes. ”
"It's okay, we knew about your village before we came here, so we brought our own tents this time. Thank you in advance, we'll be there tonight, and after smiling and thanking him, a couple of reporters left with their gear and went back to where they pitched their tents.
At about half past nine in the evening, a loud drum beat sounded in the village. Then all the people who live in Tangjia Village all the year round, whether it is a child like Tang Xiaowang, an adult like Tang Bu, or an old man like Tang Zhaohua, all walked neatly to the ancestral hall and put on the unique costumes of Tangjia Village.
After Tang Bu and other adults changed into clothes, they neatly placed all the gongs, drums, small drums, suona and other musical instruments in the ancestral hall in the open space at the entrance of the village. After that, people will be assigned according to their rank, ex, young, middle-aged, etc., Hou Cheng, standing in three neat rows like this.
In the past, the custom of Tangjia Village was that the women in the village had to go home to hide, but with the invasion of new culture, Tangjia Village has now abandoned this ancient discrimination. But at this time, although the women of the village stayed, they could only bring back those descendants of Tang Village, and they could only watch from a distance and could not participate in it. Knock, knock, blah, blah, blah.
Forty-five years old arrived, after a drum beat. Tang Aiguo then picked up the microphone and picked up the big guy, knelt down in the neat tomb mountain towards Tangjia Village, and shouted loudly: "The ancestor of Tangjia Village, the current head of Tangjia Village, and the son of Tangjia Village, Tang Aiguo, led more than 2,000 grandsons of Tangjia Village to pay tribute to you... !!
As Tang Aiguo's words fell, the women of Tangjia Village quickly moved out a few Eight Immortal Tables and placed them neatly in front of them. The villagers did not have the qualifications or the opportunity to put on the ancient costumes of Tangjia Village, brought all the pigs and sheep in today's parade to the table of the Eight Immortals, put fruits and wine bowls, and then left in an orderly manner. After the offerings were placed, Tang Aiguo picked up the microphone again and shouted loudly: "The daughter-in-law stepped forward in her heyday and poured wine for her ancestors. The daughter-in-law's heyday pours wine, the wine is fragrant like a flower, the ancestors laugh, the children and grandchildren are happy, and happiness comes every day... ”
After Tang Aiguo's words were finished, the thirty children of Tang Xiaowang's generation immediately stepped forward respectfully, knelt on the ground and shouted: "Children of Tangjia Village, pray for the return of their ancestors!! " More than 30 young people, including Tang Yitong, Tang Hong, and Tang Xiaomu, also stepped forward in an orderly manner, knelt on the ground and shouted loudly: "Tangjia Village, the younger generation, please pray for the restoration of the ancestors!" !!!
Tang Bubian's family, Tang Aiguo, Tang Wanfu, Tang Wanda, these middle-aged people, they stepped forward neatly, knelt on the ground and shouted: "Tangjia Village elders, please Tangjia Village ancestors return to the throne!! " Tang Aiguo took all the men who had changed their clothes back to their posts, beat gongs and drums and danced in the open space, just like the ancient dance before the war, and at the same time sang the ancient war song of Tangjia Village in a loud voice. The war songs of Tangjia Village are very old, so old that no one knows the meaning of the lyrics. Even the number of people who can sing the song now is gradually disappearing and decreasing. The singing is loud, as if it has traveled through the years, back to the Spring and Autumn Period of the Warring States Period (movie), back to the most glorious era of Li Village, and back to the ancient times when the name of Li Village was God of War Village.
At this time, the singing and dancing men of Tang Bu, under the ancient war songs, seem to have become the ancestors of the Tang family village, and take them to the village before the war for the last indulgence and joy. After singing and dancing, Tang Aiguo took Tang Bu and dozens of other people away. They knelt down in the direction of the tomb mountain in Tangjia Village, in a neat and orderly manner. They raise their hands and make a gesture of acceptance. Seeing their actions, the women of Tangjia Village quickly divided into several rows and gave each of them a bowl of wine, and then a group of men stepped forward and filled them with liquor.
When pouring the wine, Tang Aiguo led the crowd to stand up, raised the wine bowl in the direction of the tomb mountain of Tangjia Village, and shouted loudly: "The ancestors of Tangjia Village, please bless our Tangjia Village, the descendants of hundreds of generations of wealth and wealth, immortal, cheers!" !
The word "Cheers" appeared, and they took the bowl in their hands and poured all the wine on the floor. Then they put the bowls neatly away. In fact, in the past, when the ancestors of the Tang village were worshipped, the toast was to drop the bowl, but later due to the change of dynasty and the fact that the Tang village had become poor, the end of this custom gradually disappeared. Returning to the theme, Tang Aiguo finished toasting, then handed the microphone to Tang Bu, and then in the village band conducted by the middle-aged man, he began to play the instrument in the hard.
The music they played came from a new song by the yellow people of Tangjia Village, and after hearing the simple accompaniment sound, Tang Bu smiled bitterly, picked up the microphone and started singing. From the waves that have climbed five thousand miles, or the walls that have not yet been rebuilt, the yellow of faded history, converging into the stain of the setting sun, from the sweat that has flowed for five thousand years, or the smell of legends, all the yellow washed out of the earth, is waiting for me to name it, the yellow man comes to the earth and spits out his new chest, the yellow man walks on the road, the world knows me differently, the more turbulent the world becomes, the more I need to break through, the whole body moves in four directions, and finally it is my turn to play after five thousand years...
After Tang Xiaomu and Tang Xiaoye finished singing, they suddenly jumped out with a microphone, and then together with Tang Hong, Tang Bu, Tang Wanfu and other three, the underground voice began to fight with Tangjia Village's three-step boxing, and Tang Xiaomu sang rap with a lively voice.
After Tang Xiaomu's rap, Tang Bu returned to the mountain and continued to accompany Tang Xiaomu to play three-part boxing, making a voice and domineering voice at the same time. There is no wound that cannot be healed, only the oldest power, all the yellow scattered on the earth, in that tenacious East, the more turbulent the braver, leaving my own yellow, a magnanimous yellow in the sky, see what I do......
One of their songs, "Yellow Man Falls," immediately shocked more than 1,000 villagers who returned to the village. People like Kurt, descendants of the Tang family, born and raised abroad, are struck by the greatness of their ancestors and the mystery of their legacy, as well as by the sense of belonging that Tangjia Village has from the depths of their hearts.
Now their hearts are saying, "This mysterious village is my base, this old war song is the symbol of my family, and this song of fresh blood is a new song in my village." Yes, I am a descendant of Tangjia Village, so I am also a descendant of Tangjia Village, I am from this mysterious and ancient village... ”