During the day, Lin Zhenhua and a large group of old men abducted Lin Furong's family to bow down and kowtow, and at night retribution came, and Lin Furong's family, who had just finished eating Chinese New Year's Eve, was assigned the task of cleaning the sacrificial vessels.

The sacrificial vessels are the things used to hold the sacrifices of the ancestors, and these sacrificial vessels and sacrifices are to be used to worship the ancestors, and they must not be sloppy in the slightest.

The washing and wiping of the sacrificial vessels used in the ancestor worship ceremony must be prepared by the main lineage elder himself, and must not be done by others, so as to show his devotion to the ancestors.

In ancient times, there was even a saying that "the major affairs of the country are in the worship and Rong", which is concise and concise, and is often quoted by later generations as a customary language, and today's people generally understand "worship and Rong" as sacrifice and war, such as Mr. Shen Yucheng's "Zuo Chuan Translation" cloud: "The big thing of the country lies in sacrifice and war."

It can be seen that for the Chinese people, sacrifice is a major event on a par with war. In ancient society, the only person who presided over the imperial court sacrifice was the son of heaven, and its pomp and circumstance was much grander than that of the army.

China's sacrificial activities were mainly handed down by the Zhou Dynasty, when there were six sacrificial vessels, namely Bi, Cong, Zhang, Amber, and Huang.

Cangbi Litian, is a blue round and flat jade.

Huang Cong Lidi: A yellow-brown square bottle.

Qingli Oriental: Oriental is wood, and the wood color is green. The god is a dragon, and the sacrificial vessel is made of a cyan rectangular gui.

Chizhang Ceremony South: The south belongs to fire, and the fire is red. The god is a red bird, and the sacrificial vessel is long red and half-pointed like a knife-shaped zhang.

White Amber Ceremony West: The West is golden, golden and white. The god is a white tiger, and the sacrificial vessel is carved into white jade in the shape of a tiger.

Xuanhuangli North: The north belongs to water, and the water is black. The god is Xuanwu, and the sacrificial vessel is made of black semicircular Huang.

The first sacrificial vessels were the most expensive bronze vessels in ancient times, and later after the popularity of ceramics, the sacrificial vessels gradually evolved into porcelain.

Originally, the work of cleaning the sacrificial vessels has always been done by the patriarch, but the Lin Furong family recognized their ancestors and returned to their ancestors, and they were actually a generation higher than the hundred-year-old Lin Huasheng.

Most of the sacrificial vessels used by the Lin clan are ceramics and bronze vessels, and these sacrificial vessels have been sealed for a year, and they have not seen the light of day for a year, and the dust has long been covered with a thick layer.

Moving as many as thirty or forty sacrificial vessels to a house, Lin Cheng's face drooped when he looked at the dust of these sacrificial vessels, he had always been a big lazy person, and he had always hated manual labor.

On the other hand, the two brothers, Lin Furong and Lin Fuyuan, felt honored to be able to take over the task of cleaning the sacrificial vessels, and they devoted themselves to this work with deep reverence for the ancestors of the Lin family, so the two of them cleaned very carefully.

Xiao Xixi, Qiaojuan, and Qiaofeng were still young, and at first they joined in the labor of cleaning the sacrificial vessels with a playful mentality, but they were young and soon couldn't resist dozing off.

The old mother and the second aunt took Xiao Xixi and them back to the old yard to sleep, so as not to let them fall asleep in the unfamiliar environment and be afraid, the old mother and the second aunt had to stay in the old yard to take care of them and could not come back to help.

With the departure of the two main labor forces, the mother and the second aunt, the work of cleaning the sacrificial vessels slowed down, but fortunately, Qiao Ling and Qiao Feng have suffered since they were children, and they are completely free of the work of wiping the sacrificial vessels, and they share a lot of Lin Cheng's labor.

Lin Cheng is the only one among the juniors at home, and he has been spoiled by the whole family since he was a child.

Lin Furong watched Lin Cheng squatting in the corner alone, clumsily wiping the sacrificial vessel with a rag, and after wiping a shallow layer of ash, he treated the sacrificial vessel as if it had been clean, but ignored the stains on the corner of the sacrificial vessel, so he couldn't help but come over and point out Lin Cheng.

Lin Cheng saw that everyone was cleaning very seriously, especially the hard work of his two younger sisters, which made him embarrassed, so he also began to wipe the sacrificial vessels seriously.

After working for more than an hour, Lin Cheng and the others finally cleaned the sacrificial vessels. However, after cleaning the sacrificial vessels, Lin Cheng and the others were not allowed to rest, and they were still responsible for the preparation of the sacrifices, but fortunately, these sacrifices had been prepared for a long time, and Lin Cheng and the others only needed to put the sacrifices in the sacrificial vessels to complete the task.

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On the fifth day of the first day of the Lunar New Year, the sky was in the darkest hour before dawn, but at this time, the ancestral hall of the Lin family was illuminated by torches as if it were day, and the sacrificial vessels that Lin Furong's family had worked so hard to clean were already filled with various offerings.

All the villagers of Linyang Village and the people of the Lin clan who came from home and abroad have already bathed in incense, changed their clothes and faces, and flocked to the ancestral hall to participate in the ancestor worship ceremony.

The ancestor worship ceremony was presided over by the patriarch Lin Huasheng, although he is 100 years old, he has presided over the ancestor worship ceremony for more than ten years, and he has long been familiar with various rituals.

Ancestor worship rituals include offering incense, reading blessings, offering rice soup, serving tea, offering silk, offering wine, offering food boxes, offering meat, offering speeches, burning blessings, and bowing to the gods.

Lin Furong, Lin Fuyuan, and Lin Cheng, who had just recognized their ancestors and returned to their ancestors, were the ones with the highest rank in the Lin clan, and they shared the beauty difference of the incense on the top. Of course, this is also related to Lin Cheng's donation of one million yuan to the Lin clan to repair the ancestral shrine.

Since ancient times, those who can make incense sticks on the top are often the ones with the most wealth.

Patriarch Lin Huasheng was able to find a way to make money for Lin Yang Village in the eighties, and he was a realist at first glance, and after getting Lin Cheng's one million check, the responsibility of offering incense to his ancestors fell on Lin Furong and the three.

In the past, the glorious duties of the incense sticks were all taken over by the Lin Shaoliang family from Indonesia, but this year, the Malay Lin family only got the responsibility of offering meat.

This year, the Indonesian Lin family came to Puyang to worship their ancestors is Lin Jifan, the second son of the Lin family, who donated 300,000 yuan to the Lin clan, but failed to grab the beauty of the incense for the family, and felt quite puzzled, and hurriedly sent someone to inquire what was going on.

To get back to the point, in the sound of ceremonial music played by classical musical instruments, the patriarch Lin Huasheng recited the ancient Chinese language and led the Lin clan to complete a series of rituals such as prayers, sacrifices, resignations, and bows.

About three quarters of an hour later, the patriarch led a group of highly respected elders into the main hall of the ancestral hall, bowed three times and bowed to the ancestral tablets and portraits, and offered three animal gifts.

The whole process of the ancestor worship ceremony was extremely solemn, solemn and grand, and even the bear children who were usually alive and kicking were infected by the serious atmosphere, and they were rarely quieted down one by one.

As a very senior Lin Cheng, at this time also had the honor to participate in the worship of the ancestors of the ancestral hall, although he was usually very out of tune, but kneeling down to worship the ancestors opposite, there was a complex and incomprehensible sense of sacredness in his heart, and he seemed to be pulled to the ancestors to send a message, asking him to complete the great task of reproducing children and grandchildren as soon as possible.