On July 15, it is a major event in the entire Sang family that is second only to the New Year's Sending to the Family Hall.

In the Yingmu area, the most important ceremony for the New Year is not the fifth change of the Chinese New Year's Eve, nor the visit to the door on the first day of the first lunar month, but the family delivery hall on the afternoon of the second day of the first lunar month. Go to the grave, burn paper, fire cannons, kowtow, send the ancestors back to the tomb, and then all the children and grandchildren will go home happily and do what they should do.

In the Yingmu area, this ceremony is usually completed twice a year, once for the Chinese New Year and once on July 15. This shows the importance of this July 15 in the Yingmu area.

Early in the morning of July 15, Sang Zhiheng followed behind Sang Shoucheng, took the family hall fold, and went to ask the family hall. The excerpt is written on the deceased ancestors, and it is generally necessary to write five generations of ancestors, namely Taigao Ancestor, Gao Zu, Great Great Ancestor, Ancestor, and Father. The peasant offerings were not strictly in accordance with the Zhaomu system handed down from the Zhou Dynasty, but were arranged directly from right to left in high and low order.

Because Sang Shoucheng is still alive, the father written on the fold of the family hall is Sang Shoucheng's father. Under normal circumstances, if there is an uncle and an uncle, it is necessary to worship the uncle and uncle.

Sang Zhiheng's family has been passed down to Sang Zhiheng for five generations, so there is no need to think about worshipping his uncle and uncle.

Then on the right side of Taigaozu, there are also six words "three generations of Sang clansmen".

The meaning of inviting the family hall is to invite the deceased ancestors home and enjoy the offerings.

Facing the direction of the ancestral forest of the Sang family, set up the folds of the family hall, pour tea, fill it with wine, insert three incense sticks, and then Sang Shoucheng and Sang Zhiheng stood aside.

"Ancestors of the Sang family, your descendants Sang Shoucheng and my unfilial son invite you home for the festival."

The incense burned out, and Sang Shoucheng held his fist and kowtowed three times in the direction of the family fold. Sang Zhiheng followed behind his father and kowtowed three times.

Then, sprinkle the tea and wine in front of the family hall excerpt, hold the family hall excerpt, and the ceremony is over.

Hold the fold home and place it on a table of eight immortals placed in the main hall, then turn around and come back and place a long wooden stick at the gate, commonly known as a dog beating stick.

Then, the family places the prepared offerings on the offering table, and the second ritual of the day begins, called Shoujiatang.

This Shoujiatang means to stay at the table in the family hall and be responsible for serving the ancestors.

Of course, whether the ancestors have come back or not, and there are so many descendants of the Sang family, there are only a few ancestors, and it is impossible to say who they went to.

However, there is no surprise that Sang Shou became a family, because they have been passing alone.

Therefore, Sang Shoucheng's ancestors should be able to come back.

This Shoujiatang, to put it bluntly, is to serve the ancestors, watching the tea cool, pour out the tea, and then replace it with freshly brewed tea.

There is no strict limit on the number of people in the house, as long as there is someone in front of the table in the house, anyway. If there is no one in front of the family table, it is a snub to the ancestors, but it will be said that it is not filial.

What is filial piety? In the Analects, Confucius said, "When the father is there, observe his will, and if the father is not, observe his deeds." "There is some formalism, and it is still necessary to do it.

If you don't even have the filial piety to show others, you don't know how much real filial piety is.

In the afternoon, the dark shadow of the family hall begins, and the ceremony of sending the family hall begins.

The ceremony was very lively, and the whole family had to go out.

In the past, there was a patriarch in each family, and when it came to the family hall, the patriarch would generally check the number of people, and if anyone did not come to the family hall, they would definitely send someone to call. If there is really something and you can't come, when the patriarch burns paper to send the ancestors away, he has to read the last sentence by the way, 'Whoever has something to do, can't come to send the ancestors, I hope the ancestors don't blame' Yunyun.

Now, though, most people aren't that particular about it.

As long as a representative comes from one branch, sends the family hall fold, and then everyone sends the ancestors back together.

The history of the Sang family in Taizi Village has a history of nearly 400 years.

There is also a very legendary legend about the Sang family settling in Taizi Village.

The ancestor of the Sang family, named Sang Xinxuan, is a Taoist priest who travels. At that time, Sang Xinxuan and his younger brother Sang Xintong fled to Taizi Village, where there were few families living at that time.

At that time, this Taizi Village was not called Taizi Village, but Lijiagou. At that time, there was a large landowner surnamed Li, and there were several acres of thin mountainous land in Lijiagou. These mountain lands were leased to the ancestors of the three families surnamed Guo, Li and Qi. Later, for a period of time, this Li Jiagou has been haunting female ghosts, making very fierce trouble, and there are casualties in all three families.

Later, Sang Xinxuan traveled to Lijiagou and heard about it, so he planned to catch the female ghost here.

However, fleeing from the war, Sang Xinxuan did not bring enough magic weapons, especially without a robe, if he fought with the female ghost, it would be a great loss.

The Qi family had a very clever daughter, so they used paper and paste to glue a set of robes to Sang Xinxuan.

In this way, that night, Sang Xinxuan and his younger brother Sang Xin were the same together, and they fought with the female ghost on a high platform of earth.

The female ghost is very powerful, but Sang Xinxuan and Sang Xintong's Taoism is even more profound, seeing that the female ghost is about to be subdued, suddenly the wind is blowing, the thunder is rolling, and then it rains, and Sang Xinxuan's paper robe is instantly washed away by the rain.

When the female ghost saw it, her momentum was greatly boosted, and the situation on the battlefield took a sharp turn for the worse.

At the critical juncture, Sang Xintong and the female ghost died together, and Sang Xinxuan was also seriously injured, and since then all his mana has been lost. Later, he settled in Taizi Village, and his younger brother Sang Xintong was also buried in Taizi Village.

The daughter of the Qi family later married Sang Xinxuan, became the Sang Qi clan, and gave birth to five sons for him, named Sang Chuanjin, Sang Chuanmu, Sang Chuanshui, Sang Chuanhuo, and Sang Chuantu.

Later, the five sons born to the Sang Qi clan became the ancestors of the five branches of the Sang family after the family was separated.

The branch ancestor of Sang Zhiheng is the old five mulberry heirlooms. Sang Chuan was born Sang Shanwen and Sang Shanwu, Sang Shanwen gave birth to Sang Changqing and Sang Changming, Sang Shanwu had a daughter and no queen, and then succeeded Sang Changming. Sang Changming gave birth to Sang Huaide, Sang Huaide gave birth to Sang Jingdai, Sang Jingdai gave birth to Sang Xiucheng, Sang Xiucheng gave birth to Sang Chenglun, Sang Chenglun gave birth to Sang Shaoguang, Sang Shaoguang gave birth to Sang Shoucheng, Sang Shoucheng gave birth to Sang Zhiheng. In fact, since Sang Changming, this one has been passed on alone, and there have been seven generations of single transmission. However, there are not many people who know this secret, and others only say that Sang Shoucheng is not too close, and it has been passed down for three or four generations.

In the countryside, if you don't look at the family tree, many people can't figure it out themselves.

There are more than 500 people in Taizi Village, of which more than 280 are surnamed Sang.

When they were sent to the family hall, these more than 280 people surnamed Sang gathered together to complete the important task of sending their ancestors back to the tomb.

Among the more than 280 people surnamed Sang, they are divided into five branches: gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, and the population of the soil branch where Sang Shoucheng is located is very small among all the five branches, and there are only four people, that is, Sang Shoucheng, Sang Shouhai, himself and Sang Zhihan.

The most populous branch is the fire branch, with about 130 people, among which Sang Shouliang is the person of the fire branch.

In addition to the fire one, the most populous one is the water one, with about 120 people, and the people in this branch are particularly large, and there are three households with more than 10 million yuan. These three families don't usually come to Taizi Village much, and they only come once on the day of sending the family to the house.

Then the other two left, the gold one, had a population of more than thirty. And the population of the Mu branch has only one single seedling, and it is also a fool named Sang Shouping.

The Sang family sent to the family hall, generally in a vacant land called Taizi at the west end of the village.

Legend has it that this platform is the place where the ancestors of the Sang family practiced back then, and sending the family to the family hall in this place can be regarded as a kind of nostalgia for the ancestors of the Sang family.

Less than five o'clock, several old men from the Sang family's Shaozi generation came to the platform early, and then counted which branch of the branch came and which branch did not.

Then, the entire Sang family will come one after another.

Around six o'clock, basically all the Sang family arrived.

In the family, whoever contributes more to the family will receive more respect. The basis for judging the size of this contribution is to see the income he can bring to the family members. Although it is said that everyone will not share their hard-earned money with the people in the family, the people in the family can work with them to earn money and spend.

In this regard, the contribution of Sang Zhiheng, who is engaged in construction, can be said to be unparalleled.

His vineyards and peach orchards now employ more than 80 women to harvest the fruit during the harvest season. And most of these female workers are found from the Sang family. Moreover, on his construction site now, many of the people who work with Sang Shouren and Qi Zihong are members of the Sang family.

Because of these, when Sang Zhiheng drove his pickup truck and pulled more than 100 boxes of Earthquake Thunder to the platform, many clansmen stepped forward to help hold the Earthquake Thunder and greet Sang Zhiheng.

This kind of honor used to be a treatment that only Sang Shouli, who was a member of the Sang family.

Sang Shouli, 534 years old this year, was the first businessman in Taizi Village to go to Gangcheng County to engage in steel trade on the side of National Highway 205, and took advantage of the money to exceed 200 million or 300 million yuan. There are many people in the Sang family who work with him, and this person's reputation is also good.

He pulled more than 30 boxes of large and small fireworks to the stage, and when he saw that everyone was helping a young man he didn't know very well, he was a little puzzled.

"Whose family is that little offspring?"

"You said Zhiheng, it's Brother Cheng's family."

When Sang Shouli heard this, he patted his head and said again and again: "Oh, I remember, it's the Zhiheng who was admitted to Beijing University!" Zhiheng, come here! ”

Hearing someone call himself, Sang Zhiheng saw that it was Sang Shouli, the richest man in the Sang family, who called himself, and said with a smile: "Uncle Shouli." ”

"You kid, you just suppressed my limelight, hahaha, do a good job, Zhiheng, you have a lot more prospects than me in the future!"