Chapter 206: The Ancestral Hall in the Village

Seeing that the people in Hengshun Buzhuang were very lively, Liu Ximing took a few people to get into the crowd directly.

The sales area of the entire cloth village covers an area of almost an acre of land, and the design of four double sliding doors makes the interior appear very spacious.

According to Liu Ximing's instructions, the sales area made seven display cabinets in the shape of words, with all kinds of fabrics in the middle, and a bunch of daughters-in-law and daughters-in-law were randomly selected while talking and laughing inside.

As soon as they saw Liu Ximing and others coming in, the people in the cloth village brushed the ground and turned their eyes over.

In the past, there may have been newcomers who couldn't remember Liu Ximing's appearance, but after half a month of bittersweet reminiscences, the whole village engraved his appearance in their hearts.

As soon as I saw him at this time, all kinds of greetings suddenly sounded in the room, "Second Young Master", "Second Young Master is auspicious".

"Hahaha, you don't have to be nervous, you can buy whatever you want, I'll just come in and take a look."

Liu Ximing laughed heartily, now he knows why everyone likes to be famous, and it feels really cool to pretend to be forced at any time.

At this time, a person squeezed out of the crowd and walked up to Liu Ximing and gave a military salute, "Second brother."

Liu Ximing turned his head and looked happy, "De Rong, why are you here, do you come to buy cloth yourself?" ”

The person who came was Shao Derong, the head of the third song, his face turned red, and he pointed to a woman behind him: "Isn't this a holiday in the village, so I finally accompanied my mother out for a walk and bought some New Year's goods." ”

Hearing this, Liu Ximing hurriedly bowed his hand to Shao Derong and his mother: "It turned out to be Aunt Shao, I wish you a good New Year, how are you shopping today?" ”

"Happy New Year to the Second Young Master", Shao Derong and his mother were still a little restrained, but seeing Liu Ximing's warm smile, she slowly relaxed her heart, the second young master is really the big savior who came to save our poor.

"It's good to shop, usually Zhengyuan Township is not as lively as our Liujia Village, it looks like there are only a few grocery stores, but it's just ......"

Speaking of this, she hesitated for a moment, and Liu Ximing asked directly, "It's just what?" ”

Shao Derong and his mother turned her head to look at Shao Derong, and seeing that he didn't stop him, she gritted her teeth and turned her head and said: "It's just that we have a little less variety of cloth here, and our family's fine weaving is a treasure of the sky, and people are reluctant to wear it when they buy it." ”

"Hahaha", Liu Ximing should be the matter, "This can't be helped, we didn't get the cotton up this year, and the general muslin can't be made if you want to, and it may be better next year." ”

"That's right", Liu Ximing turned his head all of a sudden and asked Liu Xihe: "Didn't you say before that you would issue two cloth tickets to every family, didn't you do this?" ”

When Aunt Shao heard this, she immediately grabbed Liu Ximing's sleeve and raised the two pieces of paper in her hand at him, "It's been sent, if you don't send this, I'm afraid there will be fewer people who come to buy it, that is, the second young master, you are atmospheric, let's ......"

"Mother, the second brother still has something to do, you don't have to say more."

Shao Derong saw that his mother was about to turn into a neighbor's aunt again, so he hurriedly grabbed her and said a word.

"Hahaha, don't get in the way", Liu Ximing smiled politely, took this opportunity to say goodbye to Shao Derong and the others, and went to inspect the store by himself.

"There are indeed too few goods, the service attitude of the clerks needs to be improved, and there is a problem, most of the women in our village have to go to work, and there will be less time to stay at home to be a female celebrity, it seems that we will open a ready-to-wear store in the future."

Liu Ximing walked around and found a lot of problems, and while walking towards the sports field, he told Liu Xihe to write these down and remind himself when he turned around.

"Aren't all ready-to-wear stores selling used clothes?" , Liu Xixian asked with some curiosity.

"Hehe, do you remember what I told you about the social division of labor?"

Liu Ximing didn't plan to answer directly, but instead compared himself to his younger brother.

Liu Xixian thought about it seriously for a while, raised his little face and nodded back: "Of course I remember, second brother, you said that when society develops to a certain extent, there will inevitably be a division of labor, and everyone will engage in a specific job according to the technology they are good at, and then price the fruits of their labor through currency, and finally exchange currency for other necessary materials." ”

As he spoke, Liu Xixian figured it out himself, and he said to Liu Ximing excitedly: "Because the women in our village have already priced their labor, they can turn to buy the labor of people who specialize in female celebrities, and save all their energy to devote themselves to the work they are more familiar with, right, second brother?" ”

"Hahaha", Liu Ximing grabbed Liu Xi'an, who was still running around next to him, rubbed his little face and said, "See, your third brother has been able to learn and use it lively, and you only know how to fight." ”

Liu Xixian listened to his second brother's tone and knew that he was right, and a bright smile immediately appeared on his little face.

A group of people walked along Weigong Avenue to the ancestral hall in the center of the village.

The ancestral hall of Liujia Village is different from the ancestral hall of ordinary large families in the Meng Dynasty, and Liu Ximing built this not for the Liu family's own sacrifice, but to provide an existence similar to a church for the whole village.

Of course, we Celestial Empire people don't need religion to fool around, but we still need the comfort of our ancestors and saints.

Liu Ximing came from modern times, and at that time, Huaxia had basically lost all its traditions, such as life and death, which are the most important life nodes in traditional culture, and the people of the Celestial Empire could not find the corresponding rituals to express their emotions.

Comrade Liu attended the weddings of many friends, and what he felt at most of the scenes was the embarrassment of the screen, and all kinds of wedding ceremonies could be described as unconventional and weird.

Therefore, when he had this opportunity, the first thing he wanted to achieve was to innovate the ritual system of weddings and funerals, with the aim of making it more suitable for the needs of the future industrialized society.

These ideas are all reflected in his design concept for the ancestral hall, which is not walled, but is integrated with the People's Square to form an open environment.

The ancestral hall building is divided into four parts, the front and back, the left and right sides, the architectural style is more similar to the Japanese Tang style architecture, each part is connected by an open Lang Yuan, and in the middle is a large lawn and garden.

Of course, due to the construction period, only the main hall facing the People's Square has been completed.

In order to add some color to the village, Liu Ximing specially ordered the newly built glazed workshop to work overtime to burn a batch of blue glazed tiles, with the white walls of the main hall, the whole building looks unique.

Tomorrow is the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and Liujia Village will first worship the Chinese ancestors and the Ziwei Emperor in the ancestral hall, in order to ensure the smooth progress of the entire sacrifice activity, many people are busy here early in the morning.

The sacrificial activities should be presided over by the temple Zhu, and now it can only be topped by Zhou Liangcai, the counselor of the school, and he is also the first time to preside over the large-scale sacrificial activities of tens of thousands of people, and he has been directing and arranging on the spot with great interest in the past few days.

"Sir", no one needed to show the way, Liu Ximing saw at a glance Zhou Liangcai, who was holding a loudspeaker and loudly instructing the workers on the eaves to install banners.

"How's the preparation at the ancestral hall?"

Zhou Liangcai turned around with a smile, "It's almost the same here, the statue of the Ziwei Emperor and the Huaxia Ancestors have all entered the ancestral hall and returned to their places, and the incense burner case has also been fully prepared, just waiting for tomorrow's worship." ”

"It's that the Taoist priests you invited don't know how the rehearsal went, and tomorrow's Jiao can't be sloppy."

"Hahaha, this shouldn't be a problem, Master Ma Yuanjing is a high skill in Lingyun Mountain, if it weren't for my many requests, he wouldn't necessarily come to a place like ours."

Liujiacun is dedicated to the Emperor Ziwei, who belongs to Taoism, in addition, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Meng Dynasty, and Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Cheng Dynasty, both believe in Taoism, and also specially compiled the "Da Meng Imperial Xuanjiao Movement", so the sacrificial ceremonies are generally to find Taoist priests to beat Jiao.

Zhou Liangcai nodded and walked towards the main hall of the ancestral hall with Liu Ximing.

The dome of the main hall is nearly three zhang high, and the internal structure is still built with traditional techniques such as arch buckets, and the upper ends of the four walls in the hall are all wooden lattice windows of pasted paper, and the lighting effect is quite good.

Liu Ximing plans to wait until the process of making stained glass in Liulifang is mature, and then replace all the windows with stained glass windows, which is estimated to be the same as the white-skinned church.