Chapter 161: Ancestor Worship
It is impossible for Liu Yi to sleep lazily on the first day of the new year, and the tradition of Liu Yi's family every year is to get up in the morning and go back to the countryside to worship his ancestors.
The new house in the countryside can be moved in after the construction is completed, so it is much more convenient to worship the ancestors, and you can get up a little later, which is only a little time at night.
Today, Liu Yi's second uncle will also come back, their family bought a house in the city more than ten years ago due to their wealth, and the second uncle's son, Liu Yi's cousin Liu Kun, has always grown up in the city, purely a city person. The family only returned to the countryside once during the Chinese New Year.
After breakfast, everyone packed up the things that went to the grave today, which mainly included incense candles, dark coins and firecrackers, and the uncle contacted other relatives in the family in the morning, and after everyone arrived, they worshiped their ancestors in unity!
At about 9 o'clock in the morning, even the second uncle, who was far away, also drove back in his own car. After the uncle saw that everyone had arrived, he began to worship his ancestors in order as in previous years.
This was a very favorite scene when Liu Yi was young, at that time, every family had to go to the grave to worship their ancestors, but each grave firecracker will leave a lot of squibs that have not yet been detonated, and a group of hairy children will see the adults go to the grave and leave, and use the speed as soon as possible to look for the squibs in the debris pile after the firecrackers are set off.
There was also an accident for this matter, that is, a child who was the same age as Liu Yi at the beginning, called Liu Sheng, because when he picked up a squib, the squib exploded when he picked it up in his hand, and the entire palm of the tiger was exploded, and the blood of the thumb and index finger exploded.
This accident scared several children, including Liu Yi, very much. immediately ran to report to the parents, and then sent to the town infirmary for treatment, fortunately, only the skin injury did not hurt the muscles and bones, but it still left a deep impression on Liu Yi.
But children are children after all, and they can't resist the temptation of firecrackers for a long time, and they still look for firecrackers that haven't been set off everywhere, but they just keep an eye on it during the period!
After the children searched for these squibs, the sound of sparse firecrackers could be heard everywhere in the mountain villages, and even the crops in the fields were ruined.
The children's New Year season is also a time of vacation, and the hairy children in the village are in groups. There's a lot of them running in their hands. When I'm bored, I aim for a lot of vegetables in the vegetable patch. In particular, Chinese cabbage has become the first choice for children to destroy with firecrackers.
Because the Chinese cabbage is very strong, the firecrackers are stuffed into the cabbage sum and a little fire, and the whole Chinese cabbage is fried in the middle to form a concave shape, which is very fun for children at that time.
It's not just running to the edge of the field with a little mud. The firecrackers are thrown into the mud at a moment's notice. When you point it yourself, you should choose a good position to dodge and run away. This kind of is generally the kind of idle panic. Sometimes I get covered in mud.
Anyway, Liu Yi didn't do less things when he was a child, which seems to be brainless now, but all the children in the village came over like this, and he is not a special exception.
Get back to business. Liu Yi's huge team first came to Liu Yi's grandfather's grave. A few years ago, the second uncle Liu Huangui made a lot of money outside, and decided to go home and wrap the graves of his grandfather and mother-in-law with cement strips and stones.
The reason why there is no grave of Bao Liuyi's grandfather's generation is because there are too many clansmen involved, and there are many people who do not agree with each other, so it has been dragged down like this, and there is still no consensus until today.
But no one can be blamed for this, you must know that Lu Dao is now especially the villagers in the countryside, everyone believes in Feng Shui very much, and seeing that the other houses are rich or talented, if he proposes to cover the grave, the other families will definitely not agree.
People from other families are also afraid that after the tomb, their own development will be affected, and they are afraid that the feng shui will change after the tomb is covered and they will share their luck with other people.
Anyway, there are a lot of taboos.
When they arrived at the cemetery, everyone went their own way, and a large group of people, old and young, made up of 2 or 30 people, and the younger ones pulled out the weeds from the grave, took out the firecrackers, and placed them around the grave in a few circles on the ground.
Others, on the other hand, have divided stacks of coins into stacks of plush pieces that make it easy to burn paper, while others have lit incense and candles, while the older generation has already bowed down at the grave.
Do all the preparations, the older generation has already worshipped, and then the younger ones are doubled, according to the age of the elder and the younger, kowtow again, and the last is the grandchildren or grandchildren.
After these are done, then most people can be far away, leaving one or two young generations to set off firecrackers around the grave, and suddenly the sound is everywhere, the more firecracker confetti on a grave, the better the conditions of the descendants of the family, so Liu Yi and other families have always been more and more in the matter of setting off firecrackers on the grave.
After the procedure of this grave is completed, it will be immediately followed to the next grave, anyway, as long as it is the grave of the elders of your immediate family who has died, you should go to the sacrifice to express your nostalgia for the elders.
After several turnovers, Liu Yi's family finally finished the grave of Liu Yi's grandfather's deceased relatives, and among Liu Yi's fathers, only Liu Yi's father died the earliest, so the elders of the same generation can not go, but the remaining brothers and sisters of Liu Yi's generation still have to continue to run.
When he came to his father's grave, Liu Yi found that the new grave was already overgrown with weeds, and after the cold winter, some withered yellow grass clothes were still left crawling on the grave. This grave has been changed from a new grave to an old grave.
However, Liu Yi can still recall his father's voice and smile from the bottom of his heart, Liu Yi's father is a very cheerful and talkative person, as long as people who have dealt with him undoubtedly do not say that he is humorous and decisive.
But such a usually capable person is now lying in the coffin and buried in the loess.
Liu Yi sometimes feels a little sorry for his father in his heart, one is that he did not marry his wife during his lifetime, and secondly, Liu Yi also lived up to his father's expectations of his son Jackie Chan, and he never mixed up with a person during his lifetime.
Countless times when he was alone, Liu Yi remembered that his father was still alive, and he couldn't help but burst into tears, especially after relying on his mother for his life, he always felt that it was so difficult for a man to support a family.
"Erwa, what are you still doing in a daze?" Liu Yi and his sister came to Liu Yi's side and pushed Liu Yi, dragging Liu Yi back to reality from his contemplation.
After following his sister's family, Liu Yi also stepped forward to bow down to his father, hoping that his father would watch the changes that Liu Yi brought to the family in the spirit of heaven and bless the whole family with happiness and health. (To be continued......)