As soon as the auspicious time arrived, Li Chuanrong's eldest brother announced the beginning of the New Year's festival. Li Chuanrong's eldest brother is called Li Musheng, and at present, in the entire Li family, Li Chuanrong's eldest brother is the oldest, and he is even older than Li Quansheng's. Although this Li Musheng is the oldest and can be regarded as the eldest grandson of the long house, because he is not a descendant, he will not have the opportunity to inherit the position of his parents in the future.

As the eldest, Li Musheng is the master of ceremonies of the entire ancestor worship ceremony today, responsible for presiding over the entire ancestor worship activities.

"Tangjiang Town Chasing Yuan Hall Li's ancestor worship ceremony began, and Li Yichen, the twenty-third grandson of the big room, Li Zhongyong, the twenty-third grandson of the second room, and Li Fan, the twenty-third grandson of the third room, were invited to enter. ”

Li Musheng stood in front of the shrine, and after announcing the start of the ancestor worship ceremony, he invited the representatives of each room to enter.

As the ancestor worshipper this year, Li Yichen handed over his crutches to the person next to him, and walked out of the original standing line step by step and stood in the designated position.

"Clean water!"

As soon as Li Musheng's words fell, the children who were originally standing on the east side of the hall holding water in their hands came out one by one and walked in front of Li Yichen and them.

After the boy holding the basin in both hands walked in front of Li Yichen and stood firm, he used the water in the basin to clean his face and hands.

"Clean towel!"

After seeing that Li Yichen and the others had already used the water in the basin to clean their faces and hands, Li Musheng sang loudly.

This is a boy standing on the west side of the hall walking over with a towel in his hand.

After the boys wiped the water off their hands, the process was completed.

"Prepare to light the candle and incense!"

Accompanied by Li Musheng's voice, Li Yichen walked in front, and Li Zhongyong and Li Fan in the second and third rooms followed closely behind, walking towards the east side of the altar, that is, the altar.

Although his body was still weak at this time, and he could feel the pain all over his body every time he took a step, Li Yichen still straightened his waist, endured the pain, and slowly walked east step by step.

Walking to the place where candles and incense were placed on the east side of the altar, Li Yichen picked up the three pillars of incense, and then walked to the everlasting lamp lit on the altar and lit the incense in his hand.

Li Zhongyong in the second room and Li Fan in the third room each picked up a candle and lit it and held it with both hands, standing on both sides of Li Yichen's back.

"Welcome to our ancestors!"

Seeing that Li Yichen and the others had already lit the candles and lit the incense, Li Musheng sang loudly and wanted to worship his ancestors and grandchildren to welcome his ancestors.

Under Li Musheng's guidance, Li Yichen walked to the door of the main hall of the ancestral hall, waved the incense he lit in his hand half a circle towards the door, and said:

"Today, when the zodiac is auspicious, we in Tangjiang Town, the Li family of Chai Yuan Hall, carry out the ancestor worship ceremony, and respectfully invite the ancestors and ancestors to come to Heng to eat fruits and vegetables together!"

After saying the words of respectful invitation to the ancestors and ancestors, Li Yichen walked towards the altar with the three sticks of incense in both hands, while Li Zhongyong and Li Fan followed closely behind with candles in both hands.

"Prepare for candles, incense, and music!"

With the sound of suona, Li Yichen, Li Zhongyong, and Li Fan faced the north with both hands holding incense and candles, and turned from north to east, south, west, and north to show them again.

"Candles!"

After Li Musheng's words fell, Li Zhongyong and Li Fan bent down, bowed to the ancestral tablet, raised the candle above their heads with both hands, and inserted the lit candles on the two candlesticks above the altar.

"Hatsukami!"

After hearing Li Musheng's words, Li Yichen gave the lit incense in his hand to Li Zhongyong and Li Fan, leaving only a stick of incense in his hand.

After distributing the incense in his hand to Li Zhongyong and Li Fan, Li Yichen walked to the front of the altar and stood up, bowed to the ancestral tablet, raised the incense above his head with both hands, and then inserted the lit incense into the incense burner above the altar.

"Agami Kami!"

Under the guidance of Li Musheng, Li Zhongyong handed the pillar of incense in his hand to Li Yichen's hand, Li Yichen took the pillar of incense, bowed, and held the incense above his head with both hands to insert the incense on the incense burner.

"Mikami!"

At this time, Li Yichen took the pillar of lit incense from Li Fan's hand and gave it to the ancestors.

"Bow to your ancestors and ancestors!"

After offering incense to the ancestors, Li Musheng asked everyone to make a big gift to the ancestors.

After Li Musheng's words fell, he saw Li Yichen, Li Zhongyong and Li Fan fall to the ground on their knees, and then put their whole bodies to the ground, and bowed to the ground with five bodies, and behind these three people, the other family members bowed to their ancestors and ancestors under the leadership of Li Quansheng to express their respect.

"Bow again!"

"Three bows!"

"After the ceremony, let's eat!"

After performing three major gifts, Li Musheng announced the completion of the ceremony and reminded that this should be the time to give food to the ancestors and ancestors.

At this time, three boys of about ten years old came in through the door of the main hall, each holding a red lacquered wooden plate in their hands, the one in the middle holding a wooden plate containing a washed pig's head, the boy on the left holding a chicken that had been stripped and washed, and the one on the right was a whole fish, the pig's head, the chicken, and the fish were covered with a red silk cloth.

The three of them walked through the crowd of ancestors to the front of the altar, raised their hands above their heads, and placed the red lacquered wooden plate they held on the altar.

"Offering fruits!"

After the three sacrifices were made, nine little boys came out and offered them to the altar with seasonal fruits on plates.

"The owner of the big house sacrifices Sun Chuxun to offer wine, and plays the first music!"

After offering fruit to the ancestors, Li Musheng asked to play music, and at the same time asked Li Yichen to offer water and wine to the ancestors.

According to the request, Li Yichen held a glass of water and wine in both hands, bowed and bent over, raised his hands above his head and offered the water and wine on the altar.

"The owner of the big house sacrificed Sun Xing's first tour to offer a wine ceremony, kneeling, one kowtow, then kowtow, three kowtows, flat body, reset!"

Rooting out Li Musheng's request, after Li Yichen finished toasting, he landed on his knees, knelt on the ground and kowtowed to his ancestors three times, then got up and stood aside.

"The second room accompanies the sacrifice of Sun Erxun to offer wine, and play Ya to offer music!"

After Li Yichen finished toasting, it was Li Zhongyong who toasted his ancestors.

"The second room accompanies the sacrifice of Sun Xing and the second tour of the wine ceremony. Kneel, kowtow, kowtow, kowtow, kowtow, flatten, reset!"

Following Li Musheng's words, Li Zhongyong repeated Li Yichen's actions again.

"The three rooms accompany the sacrifice of Sun Sanxun to offer wine, rice, tea, and music at the end!"

"The three rooms accompany the sacrifice of Sun Xing's final gift. Kneel, kowtow, kowtow, kowtow, kowtow, flatten, reset!"

In the end, it was Li Fan from the third room who offered wine to the ancestors and ancestors, and he also repeated the actions of Li Yichen and Li Zhongyong.

"The twenty-first grandson of Dafang, Li Quansheng, reads the sacrificial text!"

After offering tribute to the ancestors, Li Yichen's grandfather read the sacrifice to the ancestors.

"The Li family is in the lineage, originating from Gaotao, with the official as the surname, and Li Er is the ancestor.

All dynasties and dynasties, endlessly, the lord and the virtuous minister, meritorious service.

My great ancestors, with extraordinary hearts, overcame thorns and thorns, and pioneered mountains.

Build an ancestral hall, establish words and rules, abide by etiquette and righteousness, and respect virtue and virtue.

Govern the family with courtesy, be kind to the neighbor with peace, only read and cultivate, and be diligent and thrifty.

The ancestral teachings of the world, the family and the people, filial piety and loyalty, have been passed down from generation to generation.

The behavior is upright, the world can be learned, its virtue is clear, and the merit is like the sun.

From now to the New Year, the spring breeze is mighty, all things are recovering, and all industries are born.

In the bright sun, God is happy and open-minded, sincerely worship my ancestors, and my descendants will be together.

Announce the spirit, light candles and burn incense, bow three times, and calm the gods.

In modern times, my ancestors, Tang Jiang is famous, martial arts are world-famous, and he governs his family modestly.

Men stand up, do their best, women run the house, gentle and virtuous.

The vicissitudes of wind and rain, its heart is not easy, the world is long, and its ambition is the same.

The ancestors' achievements, the admiration of the mountains, the inheritance of the descendants, and the development of the ambition.

Keep my family motto, spread my family style, raise my family voice, and build my hometown.

The old I am old, the young I am young, a family of benevolence and filial piety, ten miles of virtuous lets.

Brothers and sisters are together, respect and understand each other, and help each other.

People-oriented, only virtue is respect, home and family prosperity, village and village prosperity.

Filial piety in the world, the family of goodness, honor and disgrace, and pro-farming.

Ancestor Deze, eternal love, wish the ancestors, eternal auspiciousness.

The ancestor worship ceremony was completed, and Fu Wei was still feasting.

Li Quansheng, the foolish son and grandson of the Li family, and others saluted their hands"

Li Quansheng stood in front of the altar, facing the ancestral tablet, and read the sacrifice aloud word by word.

"Bow to your ancestors and ancestors again, and bow down!"

After Li Quansheng finished reading all the sacrificial texts, all the clansmen once again bowed to the ancestors and ancestors, Li Yichen, Li Zhongyong and Li Fan bowed and bowed, while the others wanted to bow to their ancestors.

"Two bows!"

"Three bows!"

"Burn the paper money!"

After the ceremony, two strong men came in from outside the door of the hall carrying framed bills. When the two men entered, they placed the bamboo basket containing the paper money next to an iron basin in front of the altar and walked away.

The paper money in Tangjiang Town is a little different from that in other places, it is made of rectangular straw paper, after the cut straw paper is folded, a sharp iron tool with an arc is placed on the straw paper, and then the iron tool is struck with a wooden stick, the iron pierces the straw paper to form an arc print, after connecting these arcs into one, then the iron tool is turned around half a circle, and a relative arc is punched on the opposite side of the arc, and finally a small hole is punched in the middle of the two arcs. Generally, a dark coin has three, five, seven or nine arcs, and the number of lines can only be singular, and the number of arcs in each line can only be singular.

After the two strong men left, Li Yichen picked up a few pieces of paper coins in the frame, lit them on the lantern on the altar, and put them in the iron basin on the ground and began to burn them. After lighting the paper money in the basin, Li Zhongyong and Li Fan also accompanied Li Yichen to burn the paper money.

"The clansmen kowtow to worship on incense!"

When Li Yichen and the others burned the paper money, other family members began to incense their ancestors. Under the leadership of Li Quansheng, all the Li family members, whether they are old men in their seventies or eighties, or children who are just teething, lined up and kowtowed to their ancestors and ancestors in order of generation and age.

"Congratulations to the ancestors, guns, and music!"

When all the people had incensed and kowtowed to their ancestors, Li Musheng began to sing loudly to send off his ancestors.

As soon as Li Musheng's words fell, the sound of firecrackers came from outside the hall, and the suona also began to play.

In the sound of suona, Li Yichen, Li Zhongyong and Li Fan took the sacrificial text that Li Quansheng read just now, and the unlit candles and incense to the iron basin and incinerated them one by one.

After the fire in the iron basin was extinguished, Li Yichen took Li Zhongyong and Li Fan to bow three times to the square, and then bowed three times to the north after bowing.

"The New Year's ancestor worship ceremony is over!"

With Li Musheng's words, this year's New Year's ancestor worship finally came to a successful end.

The ancestor worship activity began at the beginning of the time, this process down, it took more than an hour, and by the time the ancestor worship ceremony ended, it would be past noon, the older and the younger ones were better, and the young children had already begun to shout that they were hungry.

"Now that the ancestor worship ceremony has ended, everyone will go to Wufu Restaurant by themselves in a while, and the entire Wufu Restaurant has been contracted at home, and our whole family will gather there at noon!"

Just when the big guy was talking about the end of the ancestor worship and would arrange a dinner there later, Li Quansheng informed everyone to go to the Wufu Restaurant in the town to eat together.