Chapter 58 Qingming hanger
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Seeing that Qingming is coming, before and after this Qingming Festival, it is the most busy, the spring flowers are blooming, and the same is true of Baijian Village, in the fields, buffaloes, farmers, busy sowing seeds.
A few days ago, He Kun discussed with the villagers and agreed to allow them to go back to spring plowing and planting without affecting their work. After all, in the eyes of the villagers, land always comes first.
He Kun's family does not have many fields, and there is a paddy field on the left and right, which has been planted two days ago.
Yesterday when he was free, He Kun went down the mountain to buy paper and firecrackers according to the old man's instructions. Prepare to go up the mountain to visit the grave the next morning.
Qingming tomb sweeping, called the respect for ancestors, the village people generally do not talk about tomb sweeping, all say to do Qingming.
What does it do? It's just to prepare in advance.
One is to make a "hanger", and the other is to make a "bag". Do it a day in advance and be prepared.
"Hangzi" is a special paper flower, red, yellow, green and white, four-color paper, cut into the shape of a copper coin, about ten centimeters in diameter.
The legend of "hanging" is a kind of flag in the underworld, a flag corresponds to the identity of an ancestor, just like the current ID card, there must be a flag during the banquet in the underworld, as the identity verification in general, the ancestors of the Qingming Festival look forward to the descendants to insert the "Qingming hanger", with the flag they can drink and eat.
The money burned by the descendants is also claimed by the flag, of course, these are the legends that the old people say, let's listen to them.
"Package" means package. As a courier sent from the yang to the underworld, Baijian Village no longer makes large packages, and uses bamboo chips to make thin cards, on which the names of the ancestors are written, which is much simpler.
For example, in the past, Qingming had to prepare several days in advance.
After He Kun bought the paper, his grandmother took out the scissors to make paper money, put strings on the bamboo, and only after making the paper money did she start to make "Qingming hangers".
He Kun watched from the side, rarely intervened, worshipping ancestors, now it is not complicated, but it is simply done, which means something.
However, He Kun looked at it and thought it was very interesting, so he followed the scholars on the side.
Early the next morning, He Kun carried large and small objects, with the old man up the mountain to worship his ancestors, and the graves in Baijian Village were mostly in Chaoyang Peak, a mountain with very little slope.
Doing Qingming is generally done before and after Qingming, and will not be done on the day of Qingming, and I don't know why it is so.
Baijianshan Village is mountainous, so a mountain is set aside as a family cemetery.
In He Kun's opinion, the ancestors are quite wise, and if they are buried together like this, they will not look messy, otherwise they will be all over the mountains, with a hammer in the east and a stick in the west, and there will be graves everywhere, and it will be crazy to look at it.
He Kun stopped and picked some wild chrysanthemums all the way, and heard that his old lady's favorite thing was wild chrysanthemums, and He Kun always kept it in mind.
When he was a child, He Kun remembered that his grandfather always led him to have fun, as for the old lady who went earlier, He Kun had no impression, some things were said by his grandfather, he picked a handful of chrysanthemums, skimmed a vine and tied it up, it was quite like that.
It rains a lot during the Qingming Festival, the weather is a little gloomy today, He Kun followed the old man closely, the grave is still three or five miles away from the foot of the mountain, it is not like other mountains with shady trees, it seems a little desolate here, the weeds are messy, and a trail leading to the mountain can be seen slightly, it seems that someone here comes to clean it up every year.
Slowly along the mountain road, along the way, as the old man cleared some weeds, saplings and the like from time to time, and soon the two came to the grave.
He Kun looked at it, the feng shui was not bad, looking at the Qinglong River in the distance, backed by the mountains, of course, this was all He Kun's own blind look.
He Kun took out the best and put it on a ceramic plate, there was fish and meat, rice, and a pot of home-brewed rice wine.
"Don't pour the wine yet, don't cheap the wild ghosts next to you." The old man saw that He Kun was about to pour wine, and immediately stopped him, took out the tools, handed them to He Kun, and the two began to clean up the weeds and saplings on the grave.
After cleaning up, I started to dig some dirt and wrap the grave, and the strangest thing was to make something like a pipe hat and put it on the grave, of course, only the grandfather and the grandfather.
The old man looked at He Kun's puzzled look, and said with a chuckle, the He family has been inherited for thousands of years, and has been a great official of many dynasties.
After working for a while, watching the weeds and branches on the left and right clean up, plugging in the "Qingming hanger" is considered to mark the identity in advance, the old man began to incense, two bunches of incense to worship the mountain god and earth god, bless the peace of his ancestors' house.
He Kun's incense is what his old man enjoys, incense, pouring wine, burning paper money, and putting two stacks of paper money on each grave, He Kun followed his grandfather's appearance, drawing a circle, indicating that there are people here, and the ancestors went to the underworld government to receive money with the Qingming hanger, and the "bag" has been burned.
Another meaning of the circle is to protect the money from leakage, so as not to worry about some lonely graves and wild ghosts, these are also a reason why the mountain people attach importance to the continuation of incense.
He Kun understood a little at the moment that every time the fourth grandmother talked about her ancestors, the gloomy look on her face, people, her heart was uneasy, maybe it seemed a little superstitious today, but she could find peace in her heart, why not. It's like faith, but most Chinese believe in their ancestors.
He Kun's expression is becoming more and more serious at the moment, the cultural tradition left by the ancients actually has a good side.
Pick up the wild chrysanthemums you picked and gently put them in front of the old lady's grave, although I can't remember the appearance of the grandmother, but from the bits and pieces of grandpa's mouth, you can know how much the old man loved him before his death, and the death is not only a strong reluctance, but also the nostalgia of relatives.
After incense and paper, He Kun helped his grandfather untie the firecrackers.
Set off firecrackers, people in the mountains love to be lively, but there is nothing at this age, and Chaoyang Peak is originally a few forests, but I don't care about these. He Kun formed a circle along the graves of several ancestors, kept wine and food, and lit firecrackers.
The green smoke rose, and a group of birds suddenly startled in the mountains and forests, crackling for a long time, before returning to calm, He Kun respectfully kowtowed three times with his grandfather, patting the dust on his body.
My own Qingming can be regarded as a good job, grandpa took He Kun, with the continuation of the He family's incense, went home, grandma made breakfast early in the morning, rice porridge steamed buns and green vegetables, a plate of sauce beans on the side, simple and refreshing.
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