1154.Opening an Ancestral Hall (5)
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With the arrival of tourists eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, in order to meet the needs of tourists, the fishermen in the village tried every means to make delicious food and drink, and some people brewed rice wine, and then Ao Muyang drank mash porridge in the morning.
Rice wine is not a Hongyang specialty, or their fishermen do not have a tradition of making rice wine, it is generally sorghum wine and bud grain wine.
There are too few paddy fields that can grow rice, and fishermen grow some rice for food, and occasionally save some to make rice cakes during the Chinese New Year.
But that's nothing, how do tourists know what traditions the fishing villages have? Anyway, they believe whatever the fishermen say, as long as it has characteristics.
It is precisely like this, each fisherman's family has made some special food, brewing rice wine is nothing, some people fry stinky tofu at home, and some people make pig-killing dishes......
In addition to the detached fishermen's family to cook all kinds of food, the village committee also organizes activities, and there is an ancestral hall next to the primary school halfway up the mountain, which was opened again this year.
Most fishing villages in Hongyang have ancestral halls, but like the custom of rice cakes, with the weakening of people's clan concept, ancestral halls have long been abandoned, and genealogies have also been subdivided, which should be given to whom.
This change in customs began in the sixties and seventies, when people eagerly demanded the destruction of the four olds, and if the genealogy had not been subdivided and handed over to the family members for preservation, it would have been burned all together.
The ancestral hall was also smashed, in fact, in the past, Longtou Village and some surrounding villages could attach importance to the ancestral hall, just like the most majestic and brilliant building in a place is the government building, and the best building in the village is the ancestral hall.
Longtou Village Primary School was built with the ancestral hall as the main body, but after several generations of demolition and construction, there is no trace of the ancestral hall at all.
Many tourists from the city do not know why, they think that there should be an ancestral hall in the fishing village, and when it comes to the Chinese New Year, people in the village will gather together to worship the ancestors, so Ao Muyang conformed to the thoughts of tourists and reopened the ancestral hall.
Fortunately, the primary school was originally built to occupy the main body of the ancestral hall, and a side hall remained.
Compared with a few decades ago, the side hall at this time is not what it looks like, the wind and the sun are exposed, cats and dogs pee, and the reason why the elementary school has not used this house is because it is too bad.
When the dock was repaired, Ao Muyang asked Liu Sanyang to arrange someone to clean it up again, just fix it simply, and then he found someone to clean it, this is the ancestral hall.
On the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, the fisherman also has a New Year's ceremony, which is also a ceremony to worship ancestors.
This is one of the most solemn celebrations of the fishermen, and there is an open sea celebration after the year, the fishermen thank the gods of heaven and earth, and the sea god of Xie Long Wang bless the harvest of the year, and the open sea celebration is to pray for good weather in the coming year.
With the decline of the ancestral hall culture, the New Year's Ceremony is gone, because it has to be organized and carried out by the whole village. The reason why the opening of the sea celebration can be maintained is that after the New Year, the time for each fisherman to sail out to sea can be summed up, and it happens to set off firecrackers together to hold a ceremony, which is regarded as a joint activity.
Ao Muyang organized this celebration this year, but there was no need for the whole village to line up and kowtow according to their seniority like before, he just cleaned up the ancestral hall again and put the tributes on the table.
On the morning of the 27th, he, Ao Daodao, Ao Zhiming, Ao Zhisheng, and Ao Zhiyi gathered in the side hall of the ancestral hall and instructed the women and men in the village to place tributes.
Ao Zhiyi muttered beside him with a cigarette in his mouth: "Thank God and respect the ancestors in the side hall?
Ao Muyang said: "Second grandfather, do you think this place still looks like a side hall?"
After all, the house has been abandoned for a long time, and the roof can be repaired with red and blue tiles, but the crumbling walls cannot be repaired.
Ao Muyang thought of a way, he didn't care about the outside, just pasted paper paintings on the walls, and the paintings were all gods, ghosts, spirit beasts, fairies and birds, etc., after pasting the walls all over the place, there was also a bit of mystery.
Ao Zhiyi swept his eyes twice, and said dissatisfiedly: "This is a blind toss, how can there be a side hall?"
Ao Muyang spread his hands and said: "Isn't this enough? This is not a side hall, this is an ancestral hall, so it's no problem for us to thank God and our ancestors here." ”
"Nonsense. Ao Zhi's beard trembled.
But no one cares about him, so Ao Muyang still takes him seriously, and others have long stopped taking the former village chief and village party secretary seriously.
Ao Zhisheng looked at the house and said, "Village chief, this is a dangerous house, it's really okay to hold a celebration here?"
Ao Muyang waved his hand and said: "What kind of celebration is going on? This year is just to make a show, next year to pull this house, and build an ancestral hall, when the time comes, Mr. Ao, you will collect the scattered genealogies in the village and make a tidy, and then hold a celebration for the New Year next year, just make some atmosphere this year." ”
To put it bluntly, this is for tourists, and it is for tourists to take pictures and send them to Moments.
Although there will be no celebration for the villagers this year, the things that should be used to make offerings are just as indispensable.
Open the door early in the morning to welcome the gods, and then hang the Bodhisattva statue in the room, there are two tables of eight immortals below, and there are candlesticks on both sides, the candles on the candlesticks are one meter long, and the thickness of children's arms, which is called a strong one!
Next to the Bodhisattva statue is a birthday chart, which was supposed to hang the whole family tree, but now there is no such thing, so the birthday star is asked to be the representative of the ancestors, which is also a common thing.
There are more things on the table, and what Ao Muyang and a few people command here is to pay tribute.
He had ordered the tribute in advance, and when it began to be placed, Ao Daodao asked, "Hey, where is the pig's head?
"Mom, don't let anyone's child eat it. Ao Zhiyi laughed beside him.
Hearing the shouting, someone hurriedly ran over: "The pig's head was let me take home yesterday, I took it for a while, here." ”
Ao Mukang and Ao Xiaojun walked briskly with a big pig's head.
Seeing this, Ao Zhiyi laughed and said, "Xiaokang, did your son dispose of this pig's head with his mouth?"
Ao Xiaojun rolled his eyes and said, "Wise!"
Hearing this, Ao Zhiyi became angry, and he pointed at the young man and said, "Why are you so rude?
Ao Xiaojun said: "When I say wise, I mean smart and wise. ”
Ao Zhiyi instinctively felt that something was wrong, but he also heard it, Ao Xiaojun did say the word wise, and he knew that it was a word to compliment people.
However, he just felt that something was wrong!
No one cared about him, Ao Mukang lifted the red envelope, revealing a big pig's head inside, the corners of the pig's mouth were raised, it looked like a smile, not as cold as an ordinary pig's head, but with joy.
The group was suddenly surprised, and Ao Muyang asked, "Yo, Brother Kang, how did you get this?"
Ao Mukang smiled proudly: "It's just a little trick, I made a smoked cheek for the pig's mouth, and the meat was tight after being smoked, and then when I put it back, I smiled." ”
Ao Daodao stretched out his thumb and said: "Kangzi, you can do it, this pig's head lets you play with flowers." ”