Chapter Ninety-Five: Ancestor Worship Activities
After two days of rest, it was Chinese New Year's Eve, and the festive atmosphere permeated the village. Every house is lit up, and even some tourists from the hotel, they all come out to help together, which can be regarded as leaving a good impression on the New Year in a foreign land.
Two days ago, it was the first time I had such a long conversation with my parents, and after I was reborn, my heart was full of family care, especially after coming to my hometown, not only my parents, but also uncles and aunts, aunts and uncles, and the maintenance of a group of younger brothers and sisters. What this New Year means to yourself. It's not just a year older, it's more touching.
At eight o'clock in the morning, I was woken up by my mother from the bed, and after seeing that I was the only one in the bedroom, I began to get dressed. It's been like this for the past few days, and from early in the morning, the adults in the family are busy preparing for the New Year. And in their eyes, he is still a child, so he can't help with anything, and he doesn't pull himself to work.
However, Brother Xiang Hua was a little sad, and before dawn, he was driven to the hotel by his uncle.
I didn't sleep lazy today, because there was an important event today, that is, I went to participate in the ancestor worship activity for the first time as a descendant of the Yang family. After putting on the red Chinese-style clothes that his mother prepared for him, he lifted the quilt and pulled Xiaotian out.
Since this little guy has followed him, he doesn't have to work all day long to eat and drink spicy food, and he has lived a more comfortable life than himself.
"Hey, wake up, you lazy worm. Yang Ning dragged his feet and turned him upside down.
Xiao Tian reluctantly opened his eyes, raised his body, grabbed Yang Ning's hand, and looked at her innocently: "Master, what's wrong?
"Eat, you know how to eat, you tell me, since you went home with me, that round little belly has never gone down. ”
"Haha, this ,,, depends on what the master said, but I really didn't expect that the food of humans is so delicious and delicious now!
"Didn't you complain yesterday and shut you in the house all day, and today we went out together. ”
"Wow, really? Then I'll have to go and see how the big bird in the black box flies into the sky! ”
Xiao Tian looked at Yang Ning with excitement. Yang Ning was a little speechless;
This little guy is completely a representative of decoupling from the times. Two days ago, when I brought him back, the table in his bedroom could let him study for half a day, so in order to let him integrate into modern life, let him keep looking at the black box in his mouth, that is, the TV set to understand the world.
made my parents start to pay attention to themselves, because there are no good-looking TV series now, only those classics with a lot of slots, so after I was reborn, I rarely watched TV, it can be said that the time I watched in the past two days is definitely the sum of this small half a year.
"What a black box, that's a TV, pay attention to the name, this is the thirty-dozen times I've told you, and the big bird is not a big bird, it's an airplane, but we can't see it today, because this place doesn't have it yet. ”
"Ahh
"Hey, are you going or not? You can't see the planes, but the scenery outside is nice, and maybe you'll see something else interesting. ”
"Go, go, why don't you go, I'm suffocated to death every day in the house!"
As usual, he put him in his pocket, opened the door to the room, and walked out of the bedroom.
When I came to the living room, I found my father sitting in a chair waiting for me.
"Dad, I'm out. Yang Ning obediently thought about his father and walked over.
Dad Yang patted Yang Ning on the shoulder and said to her with a smile, "Well, let's go." ”
After going out, I called the uncle next door, as well as Yang Changxing, the child of the uncle's family, and walked to the ancestral hall in the east of the village.
Not far away, I saw many people pouring inside and outside the ancestral hall, large and small, some men, and some children playing at their feet.
Yang Ning followed Yang Dad and walked in together, looking around, there was only one woman herself, which attracted the attention of many people, but seeing that she was following behind Yang Shouxian, the strange expression on her face faded, and she looked at Yang Ning with a smile on her face.
Dad Yang is a college student who has only been out of the village for several generations, and he is still a university professor, so he is very respected in the village, and even some elders mention his name with a smile. And after Yang's father worked, he would take out some more money almost every year to help the children in poor families in the village, so that they could continue to go to school, and even the only primary school in the village was built by Yang's father back and forth in the Education Bureau, so that the children in the village did not have to walk more than ten kilometers of mountain roads every day.
So Dad Yang came back with Yang Ning, and he planned to let her enter the family tree, although some of the old elders were reluctant, but they couldn't withstand Dad Yang's persuasion, so they nodded and agreed.
Dad Yang took Yang Ning and introduced the elders of the clan one by one after entering the door, and Yang Ning just nodded and bowed for more than an hour. Fortunately, the introduction is finally over. But after that, it was not easy, because Dad Yang took her outside and began to wash some sacrificial utensils together.
When everything was ready, a few men in the prime of life brought six roast pigs to the front of the tablet, and the food was laid out, and everyone stood in order.
Since Dad Yang's generation is relatively large in the village, Yang Ning also followed Zhanguang to the first few rows, and he could clearly see the scene of the sacrifice.
The rituals of the sacrifice include offering incense, reading blessings, offering rice soup, serving tea, offering silk, offering food boxes, offering meat, offering blessings, burning blessings, and bowing to the gods. There were many complicated etiquette, but because it was the first time she had experienced it, she was not so impatient, but persevered with a lot of curiosity.
After a period of kneeling, busy until two o'clock in the afternoon, people of the same clan gathered in the open space behind the ancestral hall to eat together, Yang Ning sat with a few elders of the family, and kept touching a few glasses during the period, but she added a few times gently, after all, it was a girl, her father was distressed, and blocked the wine for her again and again. After a full meal, the crowd began to disperse.
Dad Yang didn't know if he was drunk and excited, or if he was happy, but Yang Ning couldn't see it. Along the way, Dad Yang took Yang Ning's hand, and with the support of Yang Shouye, he kept muttering on the road, saying some nonsense, and returned home in a daze.
Yang Ning watched his father grasp his hand, which was so large and powerful compared to his own small hand, tightly. It's as if the same blood is beating together. Dad Yang arrived home. I lay in the bedroom and slept, but before I went to bed, I didn't let go of my hand, and in the end, it was Mother Yang, who reluctantly said a few words of comfort and let go.
Yang Ning also exhaled lightly, and found that his mouth was full of wine, and his head was a little swollen.