After the ancestral hall sacrifice ceremony is completed, each clan member has to wash their faces and hands again. The principals asked the men to bring some fruits, food, drink, meat, tobacco, alcohol, tea, and other items, all the paper money and paper products to the wagon for the grave.

"Brother Glory, I was stupid to hear the sacrifice just now, this sacrifice is so well written, so talented. Walking out of the gate of the ancestral hall, Ma Lin said.

"This is from the heart, besides, these old people, don't look at them without any universities, but the essence of Chinese culture, these old people are better than us young people, those college students, doctoral students. Ye Rongrong said.

In fact, the real reason, in the final analysis, is in education, the older generation, that is, before the sixties and seventies of the last century, in China, everyone attaches the most importance to the culture of the Chinese country, and any foreign culture has been seriously excluded.

Although it is wrong to say that this kind of exclusion is not right, but let the essence of Chinese culture be passed down from generation to generation.

But now it can't be done, with more than ten years ago, the state put foreign language education to a higher level than Chinese education, if the foreign language fails, even the undergraduate degree can not be obtained, vigorously promote foreign culture.

So much so that the culture of China itself is about to be squeezed out of the living space by Western culture, and the old people in the past can write a good article with a brush.

Nowadays, young people are not good, not to mention that there are not many who can write calligraphy, that is, the pen words are written crookedly, writing articles, sometimes the language does not match.

These are not the most important, the most important thing is that these traditional customs and culture of China, which are slowly lost in the generation of young people, are traditional festivals in China. Few young people in China remember clearly, and everyone remembers the festivals in the West very clearly.

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

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

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

"Now let's go and sweep 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 leader began to drive, followed by a salute car, every time a certain distance was traveled, the salute car would fire a salute, telling the surrounding people that the Ye family was worshipping their ancestors.

In addition to please come to the salute car. The ancestral hall also invited a band, right in the middle of the convoy, where several singers sat and sang songs constantly, making the whole sacrifice lively.

Ye Rongrong doesn't know when such a band began to rise in this area of Minzhou, anyway, in the past few years, many people have invited this kind of band to play music. Singing songs, please a band. It's about three or a thousand dollars a day.

"Husband, what should I pay attention to when I go to the ancestral tomb to sweep the grave?" Liu Jingqing looked at Ye Rongrong and asked.

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

"What are the taboos?" asked Liu Jingqing.

"First, don't go to a place that is too remote, it is easy to provoke evil spirits, this is because there are more graves on the hills, and the yin qi is heavy. ”

"The second is. When encountering graves on the way, you should be respectful, you can't touch the tombstone with your feet, and you should have a more serious and solemn attitude, and don't take pictures of the grave with your mobile phone. It's taboo, and there's nothing else. ”

Ye Rongrong said. These are what the elders in the village said when they followed their father to sweep the tomb together, and Ye Rongrong has always remembered it.

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

However, in this way, the traffic police have no choice, there are many convoys to worship ancestors in the first month, they are all mighty, as long as people do not violate the traffic laws, the traffic police can not stop.

Of course, I don't dare to stop it, I don't want people to worship my ancestors for no reason, a large ancestral hall, tens of thousands of people, it is easy to cause mass incidents, and the government ~ government is also 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 the Ye clan ancestral hall was located.

This Wangjia Village, hundreds of years ago, was indeed a veritable Wangjia Village, and everyone in a village was surnamed Wang, but since the ancestor of the Ye clan ancestral hall set the ancestral tomb here, for hundreds of years, half of the people in this village are surnamed 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 could protect their children and grandchildren from prospering.

Ye Rongrong heard from the old people in the village that the ancestor of the Ye clan ancestral hall, after resigning from the official position and returning to his hometown, specially asked the feng shui master to find a tomb for him, so that after a hundred years, he could be buried in this feng shui treasure to bless future generations to prosper.

After five years of searching for acupoints, the feng shui master found two feng shui treasures for the ancestor of the Ye family, one is Wangjia Village here, and the other is Xiaodan Village in He~Xizhen.

The ancestor was 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, that is, to buy both mountain lands, and the ancestor and his wife were buried separately after a hundred years, and blessed the prosperity of their children and grandchildren with the luck of the two lands.

After buying the land, the ancestor asked him to choose two sons from his seven sons, one to move his family to Wangjia Village, and the other to Xiaodan Village, where they could spread their branches and leaves, the purpose of which was to protect the ancestral tomb, and these two branches were called "mountain lords".

With the change of time, the population of the Ye family has become more and more vigorous, and now it has been divided into many small branches, and the population is increasing.

However, people will not forget their ancestors, will not forget their origins, and will sweep the tombs every year to worship their ancestors and pray for the spirits of their ancestors in heaven.

After parking the car, Ye Rongrong and a few people got out of the car, followed the crowd, and walked to the mountain in front, this mountain is not high, nor big, but its external mountain shape is like a swimming red dragon raised high, with both form and spirit, and its head is held high, although it is not a real dragon's lair, it is also an excellent place for feng shui.

In the past, there was only the ancestral tomb of the Ye clan ancestral hall on the whole mountain, but with the change of the times, the title deed hundreds of years ago will no longer be recognized, so the whole mountain, you can vaguely see a lot of graves, these are the graves of other surnames.

Who made this place a treasure of feng shui, many people have taken a fancy to this place, if it weren't for the fact that the current government does not allow the construction of such private tombs, there will be more tombs on this mountain.

Ye Rongrong and several people followed the crowd up the mountain, the ancestors of the Ye clan ancestral hall and the tombs of several Tai clans were halfway up the mountain, and that location was the best location for the feng shui of the entire hill. (To be continued.) )