Chapter 7: The Apprenticeship Ceremony
The grandson of the old patriarch of Chenjia Village worshiped under the Bajiquan Lin master's door soon spread in the Cangzhou martial arts world, and those Cangzhou martial arts people who originally had hope for Chen Sheng were now dead, after all, their status in the rivers and lakes is indeed a big difference compared with the Bajiquan Lin master, and everyone has nothing to say about Chen Sheng's grandfather's choice, after all, Master Lin's strength is well-known throughout Cangzhou, and he sees that Chen Sheng's talent is naturally impossible to let go.
After Chen Sheng's grandfather went home, he told Chen Jun the news that Chen Sheng worshiped under Master Lin's door, Chen Jun was also very happy to hear the news, he didn't expect his son to have such a good talent, so that the most famous martial arts in Cangzhou everyone was excited, and he was included in his own door, which surprised him very much, maybe his son would be able to go far on this road in the future.
As for Chen Sheng, he doesn't feel any big changes, but he knows that in the future, there will be one more person called Shifu in his life to control himself, and teach himself martial arts, he is not happy about Chen Sheng, he thinks there are many people who are in charge of him at present, as for teaching him martial arts, he is very curious, he now has a very strong interest in martial arts, he thinks it is very interesting, fun, and always wants to try it.
Master Lin is a person who pays attention to traditional etiquette, and thinks that if Chen Sheng enters the door of his Bajiquan, he must choose an auspicious day of the zodiac to hold a formal entrance ceremony, and only in this way can he be regarded as a real initiation apprentice. So now, although everyone knows that Chen Sheng is already the apprentice of Master Bajiquan Lin, in the door, because he has not yet gone through this procedure, he still does not recognize Chen Sheng's identity.
Grandpa Chen Sheng and Master Lin had carefully checked all the auspicious days of the zodiac in the last few days, and finally chose a very good day to handle Chen Sheng's introductory ceremony, which was on Saturday a week later.
During this period of time, Chen Sheng was happy, playing crazy all day long, and Chen Sheng's grandfather let the child play during this time, after all, Chen Sheng's future master is notoriously strict in Cangzhou, and when Chen Sheng really gets started, I am afraid that there will be no time to play like this, and there will be a lot of learning tasks every day.
In a blink of an eye, it was the day when Master Lin held an entrance ceremony for Chen Sheng, and early that morning, Chen Sheng came to Master Lin's mansion in the city under the leadership of his grandfather and some clan elders.
Today's apprenticeship ceremony is quite grand, Cangzhou called the famous martial arts people gathered in the Lin Mansion to witness Master Lin's apprenticeship ceremony, not only the martial arts people came, Cangzhou's local celebrities, political and business dignitaries gathered in the Lin Mansion today to witness this moment, all over the country Master Lin's disciples also rushed back to Cangzhou this day, to witness the entrance ceremony of the smallest apprentice of the master.
In the early morning, the Lin Mansion in the center of Cangzhou was already full of people, and the entire Lin Mansion was located on this street was people from all walks of life who rushed to congratulate them, and when they entered the Lin Mansion Courtyard, they saw that the huge martial arts arena in the courtyard and the surrounding area were groups of people from all walks of life, greeting each other and discussing. Some friends who haven't seen each other for a long time clasped their fists at a distance, and then stepped forward to communicate enthusiastically. Of course, there are also people who don't like each other today, and they raise eyebrows at each other, but they can still restrain themselves, after all, this is in Cangzhou Linfu, and they don't dare to be presumptuous.
Chen Sheng and his grandfather walked through the martial arts arena in the courtyard under the leadership of the housekeeper, and Chen Sheng was also very surprised to see so many people in the courtyard, wondering what these people were doing here.
And people from all over the courtyard also saw Chen Sheng and his grandfather passing through the courtyard, and they were all discussing in a low voice, "This child is the apprentice that Master Lin wants to accept this time, it is said that the talent is very outstanding, and he is a rare martial arts wizard in a hundred years, so Master Lin made an exception to accept this child to get started, you must know that Master Lin has not accepted an apprentice for ten years."
Hearing these discussions, some of the people in the field were envious, and some were jealous, it was definitely a very lucky thing to be able to worship a good master in the martial arts world, not only did he take a lot of detours, but also stepped into the society in the future, under the master's huge social network, he would do things with half the effort. Many people envy Chen Sheng's luck, but they can't envy him, after all, he doesn't have such talent. I can only sigh secretly, only to add to my troubles.
Chen Sheng and his grandfather soon arrived in the living room, and saw that many senior brothers were busy arranging the venue, which was the place where the apprenticeship ceremony was held for a while.
Chen Sheng looked curiously at this very solemn room, which was completely different from the last time he came here, there were several portraits hanging in the middle of the room, there were incense cases in front of the portraits, on both sides of the incense case were two mahogany Taishi chairs, and there were two rows of chairs on both sides of the room, there were dozens of them, and there were many old men who didn't know sitting and standing in the room, Chen Sheng found that they were all looking at him from time to time, and their eyes shone with approval.
Grandpa was taken by the housekeeper to another room next to him, and he was ready to do some things before the apprenticeship ceremony, leaving Chen Sheng still in the living room. Chen Sheng felt that it was not interesting to stay, so he went to the yard to play by himself.
Soon the time was almost up, and one of Master Lin's disciples came out to tell Chen Sheng and called back, and everyone in the courtyard began to think about the direction of the living room.
Chen Sheng was taken into a room next to the living room, and his grandfather was also in the house, beckoning Chen Sheng to come over, taking off the half-sleeved shirt and shorts he was wearing, changing into a neat dark cyan practice uniform, wiping the sweat on his face, and waiting for the ceremony to begin, at the same time, his grandfather kept repeating in Chen Sheng's ear the process he had told him at home before, for fear that he would forget, Chen Sheng nodded while listening, when he was at home in the past two days, Chen Sheng had completely previewed this apprenticeship ceremony many times under the leadership of his grandfather, This will be basically familiar to the chest.
The auspicious time had arrived, and Master Lin's eldest disciple came into the house to inform Chen Sheng and his grandfather that they were ready to go out for the apprenticeship.
Under the leadership of Master Lin's eldest disciple, the two walked out of the room and walked into the living room, only to see that the living room was already full of friends, everyone was silent, the living room was quiet, the living room was in the middle of the top position, Master Lin and Master Lin's wife were sitting on the two Taishi chairs, looking at Chen Sheng who walked in from outside the living room, and there was love in their eyes.
The master of ceremonies, who was standing in the middle of the living room, saw that Chen Sheng had entered the living room, so he announced loudly, "The auspicious time has arrived, and the apprenticeship ceremony of Master Lin Jianguo of Cangzhou Bajiquan has begun"
People from all walks of life who came to watch the ceremony in the living room began to applaud.
Master Lin, who was sitting at the top, stood up with his hands and clenched his fists to greet the people from all walks of life present: "Today is the day when I Lin Jianguo accepted apprentices, thank you very much for coming to the Humble House, here, I Lin Jianguo is polite."
The guests in the living room also stood up and clasped their fists to greet Master Lin. After greeting each other, Master Lin sat down again, and the master of ceremonies continued the next process.
Today's introductory ceremony is completely in accordance with the traditional rituals of the martial arts world, which is a very important link in the martial arts world, Chinese martial arts have been passed down in the mode of master-apprentice teaching for thousands of years, so in the martial arts world attaches great importance to the status of master and apprentice, pay attention to the etiquette of respecting the teacher, pay attention to the apprenticeship ceremony, only through the apprenticeship ceremony, can be considered the real disciple of the teacher, and the external can only walk the rivers and lakes as a disciple of this sect, and those who do not have an apprentice can only be regarded as ' Registered disciples', don't look at the many people who practice martial arts in Master Lin's academy, but there are few who can be called disciples, the vast majority can only be regarded as 'registered disciples', Chen Sheng is very lucky, many registered disciples outside are very envious of Chen Sheng's luck, so whether it is a master or a disciple, they all attach great importance to this ceremony.
With the announcement of the master of ceremonies, the apprenticeship ceremony begins
The first item is to hang the statue of the ancestor, and then put the incense case, incense, has shown that the incense is vigorous, and there are people who inherit it.
The statue of the ancestor in the middle of the living room has been hung high, Master Lin stepped forward to pick up the incense on the incense table, lit it and bowed to the ancestor three times, and then inserted the incense into the incense burner on the incense table. Then he returned to his seat and sat down, waiting for Chen Sheng's visit.
Next is Chen Sheng's apprenticeship, under the guidance of the master of ceremonies, Chen Sheng stepped forward and knelt in front of Master Lin, and the master of ceremonies next to him began to introduce Chen Sheng's situation, date of birth, place of origin and origin, etc.
Soon the master of ceremonies finished introducing Chen Sheng's basic situation, Chen Sheng heard that the master of ceremonies had finished the introduction, so he took out the apprenticeship sticker he was carrying and held it high above his head, presented it to Master Lin with both hands, and brought it to Master Lin to take it, Chen Sheng began to bow three times.
After kowtowing, the eldest disciple of Master Lin, who was standing next to him, picked up the gaiwan tea placed on the coffee table and handed it to Chen Sheng, who was kneeling, this is the tea that changed his mouth, Chen Sheng knelt down and straightened up, took the gaiwan tea handed over, respectfully saluted to Master Lin, and shouted "Master, please drink tea"
Master Lin smiled, took the tea from Chen Shengjing, took a sip to his mouth, and said that he accepted the apprentice's change of mouth and called himself a master, indicating that he had agreed and accepted this apprentice.
Seeing Master Lin drink the tea served by Chen Sheng, everyone in the audience applauded, and Chen Sheng's grandfather stood aside and applauded excitedly.
Then Chen Sheng continued to kneel to Master Lin to present the prepared apprenticeship red envelope, which was wrapped in the 8,800 yuan apprenticeship ceremony that had been prepared before, Master Lin stretched out his hand to take the apprenticeship red envelope, handed it to the master beside him, and said to Chen Sheng, "From today on, you are my disciple of Cangzhou Bajiquan, I hope you can study hard, respect the teacher, strictly abide by martial virtues, and carry forward my Bajiquan"
At this point, the apprenticeship ceremony was basically completed, Master Lin stood up and faced everyone in the arena and Chen Sheng, who was kneeling in front of him, loudly announced the door rules of Bajiquan, and asked his disciples to strictly abide by the door rules and abide by the law.
After that, he motioned for Chen Shengqi to take a group photo with his master and wife, and after the group photo was completed, the fellow brothers who were present were called in and took a group photo together.
When the ceremony was basically completed, Master Lin got up and thanked all the people who came to watch the ceremony today. Chen Sheng followed behind his master, and Master Lin introduced the Cangzhou martial arts people present to Chen Sheng one by one, not only to let these people know that Chen Sheng was his disciple of Lin Jianguo in the future, and he could have a response in society, but also to let Chen Sheng expand his horizons and know what major martial arts schools are in Cangzhou.
Next, Master Lin beckoned everyone present to go to the largest local hotel for an apprenticeship banquet, which was naturally a scene of singing and dancing, and everyone was happy.