Chapter 8 Ancestral Hall

In the early morning, Li Junge opened his eyes to the sound of birds, listened attentively, and three of the most prominent voices among the chirping sounds were the most prominent, one called "Son-Sleep up!" and "Son-Sleep Tight!". One shouted: "Rice - expensive", "Rice - expensive". There is also a shout: "Cut the early bud valley", "Cut the early bud valley".

The warbler was smaller, with dark brown feathers on the back and whitish brown underparts, and looked like a sparrow, but with a pointed beak and a longer tail.

The eagle is called "Mi-Expensive", which looks like a pigeon, but is slightly slender. The peak of the mouth is slightly curved downward. Like cuckoos, they have the habit of nesting and parasitizing, and they do not nest themselves, but only parasitize their eggs in the nests of other birds.

The eggs are similar in appearance to the host eggs, and after hatching, the chicks kill the host chicks and are fed to maturity by the host. It generally inhabits mountain forests, mountain plains, and often goes to plain areas in winter, but only on trees.

It is called "cutting the valley of early buds" is a four-voiced rhododendron, the top of the head and the back of the neck are dark gray, the side of the head is light gray, the eyes, chin, throat and upper chest are lighter, the rest of the upper body and the surface of the wings are dark brown, the tail is the same color as the back, but the proximal end has a wide black spot, and the lower body is white from the lower chest onwards, mixed with black transverse spots, similar to the large rhododendron.

The cry is particularly loud, four sounds, and the sound is "fast cuckoo". It screams every two to three seconds, sometimes all night.

The four cuckoos are also called the sun finch, and the sentence in the dragon boat tune: "The sun finch is called wow, hug Ennago, wow, hold Ennago." "That's it.

All three species of birds are shy and usually live in seclusion among trees. Although Li Junge has heard it since he was a child, he has not seen his real body many times.

Three kinds of birds get together, one seems to be complaining that the elders are not diligent enough to get up, one seems to be telling the younger ones that life is not easy, and the other is directly instructing what farm work to do today, in short, there is one purpose: to urge you to get up.

Li Junge couldn't lie down anymore when he heard it.

So I got up quickly, walked to the back of the house and finished washing, and then walked around the house, and found that my parents got up early and had already gone out. Grandma sat in the old place at the door, holding a piece of wax to wax the cotton thread to prepare for the insoles.

Walking into the courtyard, the fresh air is filled with the fragrance of yellow cypress flowers, and the cold smell wafting from the bamboo groves and woods makes people feel refreshed. As soon as I breathed in, I felt that the dirt in my whole body was discharged, and every cell was full of energy from the mountains and forests, full of vitality.

Grandma looked at him with a smile and said, "What do you see, good grandson, hurry up, go to breakfast." ”

Li Junge walked to the hall and lifted the cover on the table, which contained a pot of corn porridge, a plate of kimchi, a plate of fermented bean curd, and a plate of cold salad shredded eggplant.

The shredded eggplant is shredded eggplant, add salt and mix for a while to let the eggplant come out of the water, then squeeze the tomato juice dry by hand, mix the sesame oil, chili oil, soy sauce with the dried eggplant shreds, and put some green onions, ginger and garlic shreds, there is a peculiar smell of vegetables, people who don't like it can't stand it, but people who like it can't love it.

Li Junge liked this bite, and knew that the old lady made it for him, so he sat there and drank three bowls of porridge with eggplant shreds, and ate very happily.

Grandma also likes to watch her good grandson eat the most, the more she eats, the happier she becomes, and when Li Junge finishes eating, she takes out two pairs of insoles and hands them to him, and asks him to bring them to the fourth grandfather.

A pair of lotus flowers and a pair of orchids, both of which are diamond-shaped rags with a base and dense stitches, are very delicate.

"Yo, grandma's craftsmanship is still so exquisite, this thing can be framed as a painting. Li Junge praised while taking his hand and looking at it.

"Good grandson is really good at laughing, if anyone hangs up the insoles, they must not be laughed to death by others!"

Li Junge laughed, didn't say much, took the insoles into his bag, and walked to the village.

Before going out, I took out my mobile phone and glanced at WeChat, and there were a lot of likes and replies under yesterday's photo message.

Qi Feifei: "Wow! Brother Pigeon, your hometown is so beautiful!"

Wang Wenqiang: "Master, it's a good place in my hometown, please take it in!"

Ye Xiaoqin: "Jianghua Zhu bamboo, beautiful!"

Feng Chongfei: "I have to come and play when I have time!"

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There are also fishing friends.

Baitiao is also a fish: "Emma's environment is so beautiful." ”

Chelsea: "This water is so good, isn't it? ”

Black Dragon True Water: "I can't sit still a little, and I'm addicted." ”

Platinum Hook: "Can you form a group?"

Lazy Fish: "Group, AA, let's go." ”

Crazy Yang: "Begging for it." ”

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Li Junge replied in a unified manner: "The scenery of my hometown is beautiful, the folk customs are simple, everyone is welcome to travel, cultivate, and taste the fresh mountain treasures of the river." Let everyone experience the enthusiasm of our villagers!"

Carrying his mobile phone, walking through the fish pond, and stepping onto the bluestone road, Li Junge walked towards the ancestral hall in the village.

Greeting the villagers all the way, I came to the center of the village, where there is a huge threshing floor, and in front of the threshing floor is an ancient building with white walls and blue tiles, which is the Li family ancestral hall.

The ancestral hall is the product of the patriarchal family system in the old days, the place where the clan worships their ancestors, and the place where the clan handles weddings, funerals, birthdays, etc., and is generally the place where the clan joins the clan, deliberates, decides, repairs, commends and punishes.

The ancestral hall enshrines the tablet of the ancestors, records the glory and tradition of the family, is the temple of the family, and is also the symbol and symbol of China's long history and culture.

Li Junge stood outside the gate of the ancestral hall and watched.

The gate and roof of the Li clan ancestral hall are carved from a large piece of large bluestone, demonstrating the strong economic strength of the Li clan at that time.

On the roof are two kisses that are intertwined with each other, with scales and claws, circling along the ridge of the roof, and then raising their heads to the sky at the two corners of the roof. The two mantis each guard a disc, one is the sun and the other is the sun.

The roof ridge is carved into a tiled roof pattern, drawing a perfect arc, and the bottom is made into a tile and dripping water pattern, each tile and dripping water is carved with auspicious flowers and plants.

The entire roof is supported by a nineteen-story stone carved bucket arch on two huge square stone columns. The weight of the roof is evenly and perfectly transferred to the stone pillars, and the bucket arch is also coiled with these small dragons, adding a lively atmosphere to the solemn ancestral hall and showing a bit of vitality.

Down are two huge square stone pillars, the bottom of the stone pillars is not an ordinary beast, on the left is a stone drum, on the right is a stone horn.

Li Junge estimates that this is also influenced by the local Dong and Miao ethnic minorities.

These two things are very magical, knocking on the stone drum, you can make a knocking sound, just like a real drum, and the stone horn can also blow a melodious trumpet, when I was a child, Li Junge and his friends often came here to compete who blew loudly.

Two square stone pillars are inscribed with a couplet: "Three provinces and doors, hundreds of generations of family voices".

Go forward to the entrance hall, facing the instrument door, among them are two black lacquer doors, there is a pair of divine beasts on the door to bite the door knocker, the door knocker has been rubbed by people for many years, it looks oily and shiny, and it has been covered with thick pulp.

There is a huge vertical door plaque carved above the door door, the door plaque is surrounded by auspicious rui such as gourd Ganoderma lucidum bats, the carving is very smart, and the middle of the door plaque is four big characters "Li Clan Ancestral Hall"

Entering the Yimen, there are two corridors with blue tile roofs on the left and right sides. In front is a shadow wall, and the shadow wall is inlaid with a stone tablet with a poem engraved on it.

"The court heard that Fangzheng, Tian Zelu was loyal, virtuous and thoughtful, and moral and prudent. ”

This is the Li family's poetry.

The characters in the family are called the word school in some places, so the word generation poems are also called "word school poems".

The main purpose of using the character generation is to prevent the confusion of the family members' generation, and to avoid the confusion of the family generation order caused by the absence of the character generation or the name not according to the character generation.

Like the ancestral hall, the characters are also the products of the patriarchal family system, or collective creations, or written by celebrities, and there are also those given by the emperor. The family family is a father-in-law, a person or something, often for the family to establish a word faction, a continuation of the faction. It is a subculture of Chinese Confucianism.

In order to facilitate the recitation and memorization, the character generation is generally written as a song formula, that is, written as a rhyming catchy verse, which is the origin of the character generation poem.

Character poems or four words or five words, seven words, can be long or short, long five or six crosses.

People who are named in the order specified in the poems, the elders and the young, and the people who share the same ancestry, can produce a sense of closeness and affinity, which is a concentrated expression of cohesion for the family.

The choice of words in the poems must be auspicious in meaning, clear in pronunciation, and can not be homophonic with inauspicious words, can not use rare words and easy characters, and cannot be complicated and difficult to recognize. There are many exquisitenesses.

Reading through the whole poem, it must conform to grammatical logic and be smooth and clear, elegant in meaning, and have literary brilliance. The content of the poem is generally the meaning of self-cultivation and family, peace and governance of the people, auspiciousness and health, and prosperity. It is usually the teachings or expectations of the clan for their own children.

Through the poems of the Li family, it can be seen that from the word "Shen" of Shen Qinggong to the word "Jun" of Li Junge, it has been a full thirty-six generations.

During the ten-year catastrophe period, when the "four olds were broken", the old people in the clan took down this stele and put it at the bottom of their own stove pit to protect it, and now there are traces of fire on the stele that have been burned.

Bypassing the wall is a small square, with six large water tanks on the left and right sides of the small square, in which some water lilies and cattails are planted, and a few swimming fish are raised.

In front of the small square is a stage, in front of which an old man is sweeping the floor with a long thin bamboo broom.

The old man's posture is still upright, his complexion is ruddy, there are no wrinkles, and his silver hair is combed back into a big back, which is quite a "crane hair and childish face".

It is not the same as the ordinary villagers, the old man is wearing a moon-white Tang costume, with black cloth shoes, and his temperament is elegant.

Seeing the old man in front of him, Li Junge couldn't help but feel excited, ran to the old man in small steps, and bowed respectfully.

The old man raised his head and saw that it was Li Junge, and he couldn't help but smile slightly at the corner of his mouth, his eyes were clear, full of kindness and love. It is Li Junge's fourth grandfather, Li Liangchu.