Although Linyang Village looks like an ordinary rural village in the north, there is nothing unusual about most of the people in the village who make a living from farming.

However, since the village resumed the ancestor worship ceremony of the Lin family in the 80s, Lin Huasheng dragged his old body to the north and south, and wantonly contacted the Lin clan people scattered all over the motherland, so that hundreds of people returned to Lin Yang Village every year to participate in ancestor worship activities.

These Lin clan people who can participate in ancestor worship activities are naturally not ordinary people, most of them are powerful and wealthy families, and there are even wealthy businessmen from overseas.

These wealthy businessmen have no shortage of power, wealth, and status, but their obsession with returning to their roots is extremely strong, they are eager to find the roots of their origins, and they are even more eager for their ancestors to recognize them.

And this is the Chinese's belief in their ancestors.

Westerners often demonize Chinese, saying that Chinese are atheists and have no faith.

In the perception of Westerners, the absence of faith is very terrible, and it should be a heresy who has been burned to death, so most Westerners are very hostile to China.

However, Westerners do not understand the Chinese, the Chinese do not believe in God or fate, even the ancient emperor of the Son of Heaven, the Chinese do not believe it, they only believe in themselves, firmly believe that man will conquer the sky.

This is perfectly illustrated by the very different myths and stories of China and the West, in which when encountering natural disasters and difficulties, they will always respond with a "escape" mentality. In Chinese mythology, when we encounter difficulties, the first thing that comes to mind is how to solve them.

For example, in the same ancient mythological flood, the solution of Westerners was to build Noah's Ark to escape, and what about the Chinese? Dayu led the people to control the water.

The Chinese found that there were 10 suns in the sky, which were too hot, and Houyi shot 9 of them; the Chinese found that there was a mountain in front of the door, and it was very inconvenient to go out, so Yugong led his family to carve out a road for the mountain; when the sky broke a hole, Nuwa used multicolored stones to fill it. Most of these Chinese myths speak of a kind of thinking that "man will conquer heaven".

Our ancestors drilled wood to make fire, Cangjie made words, and Shennong tasted herbs. Anyway, whatever we need, we will create ourselves, and whatever difficulties we encounter, we will overcome them ourselves.

In Western mythology, the power of the gods must be relied on in the end, while most Chinese mythology is done by humans. Therefore, in the Western system of immortals, gods are born and can be passed down from ancestors. But the Chinese immortals are all people who have made great deeds and sublimated into immortals by the sacrifices of the people.

In modern society, why is religion popular in the West? Because in their minds, they never believe in human abilities, and the so-called sustenance of faith is just to find an illusory excuse for their own incompetence.

Let's look at what we Chinese have believed in for thousands of years? What we believe in is our ancestral clan.

Those Chinese who have become religious overseas can no longer be called Chinese, and the real Chinese have never disdained to believe in religion, and they believe in their ancestors.

For the villagers of Linyang Village, the annual ancestor worship activity is the most important day of the year for them, and for those Lin people who come from thousands of miles to participate in the ancestor worship activity, the ancestor worship ceremony is also an extremely significant activity.

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Lin Furong and Lin Huasheng have already compared the genealogy, and the branch of Lin Furong and Lin Cheng was officially included in the main lineage of the Lin clan, and Lin Huasheng immediately supported the ceremony of recognizing the ancestors and returning to the ancestors for Lin Cheng's family.

Lin Cheng walked out of the hall of the ancestral house under the guidance of the villagers, and found that the compound was already full of tables and chairs, the villagers who came to help spontaneously were arranging banquets, many peasant women were washing vegetables and choosing vegetables in the compound, and there were butchers killing pigs and sheep in the distance.

The ancestral house of the Lin family was donated by the wealthy businessmen at home and abroad who came to worship their ancestors, and it is a large miscellaneous courtyard, with an area of more than ten acres of land, which is enough to accommodate all the villagers of Linyang Village.

Lin Cheng's family was brought to the ancestral shrine by Lin Cheng's brother, the son of the patriarch, Lin Zhenhua, according to the ancient teachings, women are not allowed to enter the ancestral shrine, but after the founding of New China, the government has been advocating equality between men and women, Lin Yang Village conforms to the times, and now even the women of the Lin clan can enter the ancestral shrine to worship their ancestors.

Lin Cheng's family, including Xiao Xixi, also entered the ancestral shrine, and the ancestral shrine had already set up the incense case, and the three livestock offerings, roast pig, roast sheep, and cooked cow head exuded an attractive fragrance on the incense case, which attracted the young Xiao Xixi, Qiaojuan, and Qiaofeng to swallow saliva non-stop, looking like a little gluttonous cat.

In the center is the tablet of the ancestors of the Lin clan, as well as the portraits of people who have been handed down from ancient times to the present, these ancestors are all big figures who have achieved a certain status in history, and Lin Cheng even found a portrait of Lin Zexu in it.

The ancestral hall was full of people, and everyone came to watch the ceremony of recognizing their ancestors and returning to their ancestors, why was this so? It was only because Lin Cheng's family was too high-profile when they entered Linyang Village, and a whole ten foreign cars were parked in the barn in one go, and all the villagers who passed by the barn stopped to watch, shocked by the wealth of Lin Cheng's family.

Now that they heard that another wealthy businessman of the Lin clan came to recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors, the villagers who were extremely proud felt that the ancestral shrine had come to watch.

In fact, after the impact of modern social values, the ceremony of recognizing ancestors and returning to the ancestors has become very simple, and there is no need to burn yellow paper, cut off chicken heads, and drink chicken blood as in ancient times.

At twelve o'clock in the afternoon, the patriarch Lin Huasheng, with the support of several children and nephews, stood in front of him, faced the Lin Cheng family, and began to preside over the ceremony of recognizing his ancestors and returning to his ancestors.

Lin Huasheng's sons and nephews are all seventy or eighty-year-old old men, with wrinkles on their faces and white hair, but when these old men met Lin Furong, Lin Fuyuan, and Lin Cheng, they had to be called uncles and uncles, but they were wronged.

In Lin Huasheng's slightly ancient voice, Lin Cheng's family of ten knelt down to the ancestral tablet, knocking three times and knocking nine times. Lin Cheng is very pious at this time, in his bones Lin Cheng is actually a very traditional person, and he has always had the greatest respect for his ancestors.

As a Chinese, the importance of the clan has always been the first, since ancient times, the Chinese have always emphasized the "family and the world", please note that the family is ranked before the motherland and the world, for the country, the survival of the family is more important than the rise and fall of the motherland and the world.

However, it is the belief of "family and country in the world" that makes the Chinese people become slaves of foreign races several times, and it is not until the modern era when the country is on the verge of extinction that the concept of the country overwhelms the family for the first time, in order to save the fate of the motherland, countless people with lofty ideals broke the family for the country, and finally established New China.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the government has been committed to breaking the rule of the clans over the countryside, and during the Great Movement, the clan forces were almost dying under the impact of the red generals.

However, the clan concept in the bones of the Chinese is deep-rooted, after the reform and opening up, in order to attract overseas Chinese investment, the government has to raise the banner of the clan to attract foreign investment, and now the clan concept has a rising trend.