Chapter 16 Ancestor Worship Ceremony
Since Long Teng returned to the ancestral pavilion, he has not taken half a step in the month before the ancestor worship ceremony, and has lived a life of four to eleven every day, who is very tired, but very fulfilling. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoEvery day, I can feel the increase of Gu Long's true qi, the increase of knowledge, and the deepening of my understanding of things, which is very comfortable and pleasant. But the only thing that made Long Teng feel helpless and unhappy was that there were too many people who handed him over. These people have different personalities and teaching styles, and sometimes, Long Teng simply can't tolerate the changes and pressure, and can only adapt for the sake of greater gains.
Since entering the Ancestral Pavilion, the person that Long Teng respects the most is the Ancestral Pavilion Master, he has also been with Long Teng for the longest time, and has the best feelings, and more importantly, the Ancestral Pavilion Pavilion Master thinks of different ways every day to reduce the pressure on cultivation for Long Teng, and the Ancestral Pavilion Master knows that Long Teng has been given too much hope by the family. The result of the result, which does not explode in expectation, is to die in expectation. The Ancestral Pavilion Master didn't want to see those family elders who lived in seclusion in the Ancestral Pavilion to recuperate, and only taught what they thought was the best and most precious thing to Long Teng, without considering whether Long Teng needed it.
The ancestral pavilion master has been guiding Long Teng's cultivation, watching Long Teng's diligence, his heart is both happy and worried, happy that Long Teng continues to cultivate like this, the time to become a strong man is greatly advanced; what is worried is that once Long Teng has gained great strength, if he neglects ideological education, he will educate Long Teng into a reckless man with a simple mind and developed limbs, and he will do more harm than good if he has been preparing for many years and reviving the family's plan.
The ancestor worship ceremony is quietly approaching, the ancestral pavilion lord has a lot of things to do recently, and he often meets some, the heads of other families, every time he meets, the ancestral pavilion lord will take the dragon teng with him. And every time he comes back, he will ask Long Teng to talk about some things without comment.
Long Teng's father completed the list of witnesses in advance and was recognized by the president, the Long Wu Association passed, and the head of the family approved, and he lived a very comfortable life for half a month. After the vacation, I went to work and got off work every day to deal with some temporary trivial matters arranged by the Ancestor Worship Preparatory Committee. After stopping for half a month, the head of the family found Long Dazhuang and asked him to prepare for Long Teng's upcoming ascetic path cultivation. After hearing this, Long Dazhuang said: "Father, Xiaoxiao has been cultivating in the Ancestral Pavilion, isn't it better, it is necessary to practice ascetic cultivation like the children of other clans. ”
Long Teng's grandfather replied, "Ascetic path cultivation is a matter that has been carefully considered and decided by the Ancestral Pavilion Master. “
Long Dazhuang asked, "Xiaoxiao is still young, is it necessary to prepare so early?"
Long Teng's grandfather replied, "When you go out, you have to make sure, I am telling you to prepare the things that can be used in the ascetic path." ”
Long Dazhuang understood that ascetic path cultivation was logically a process that every child of the Long family had to go through. The purpose of the ascetic path is a process of spiritual training. Every child of the Long family, on the road of asceticism, has to go through the second difficulty in the cultivation process of "Ancient Dragon Decision", and the true qi is beginning to condense. Use spiritual power to condense the cultivated ancient dragon true qi into a war beast. These war beasts can be animals, plants, and people are rich in creativity and condensed into weapons, war beasts are like human guards, strange and strange, as long as you can think of it, you can almost do it. But most of the dragon family likes the image of the war dragon, because the first generation of the god of war, the cultivated war beast is the war dragon, and another reason, the use and tempering of the war dragon has a relatively complete system in the dragon family.
In "Ancient Dragon Decision", there is a cultivation method of war beasts, but there is a lack of training methods of spiritual power, so the Long family can only use the ancient method, so that everyone can go through trials and tribulations, temper themselves in the fire, and make up for the shortcomings of "Ancient Dragon Decision".
When Long Dazhuang returned home, he didn't mention it to his wife, for fear that he would worry, Long Dazhuang knew in his heart that Long Teng would never take shortcuts on the ascetic road, but could only take one step at a time and go by himself.
Knowing that Long Teng was going to carry out ascetic path cultivation, Long Dazhuang put everything aside, even the ancestor worship ceremony, which was a major event of the Long family, he didn't have the heart to pay attention to it, and concentrated on preparing items for Long Teng's long journey. Naturally, the ancestor worship ceremony will not be shelved because of Long Dazhuang's affairs alone, and it will still be held as scheduled.
The ancestor worship ceremony, mainly to the sect sacrifice, 48 auxiliary, 500 branches accompanied, another 200 witness seats, can attend the ancestor worship ceremony, are in the Long family, there are background, prestige and authority of the people, a large family with a population of millions, only 300 people are selected to ascend the ancestral platform.
Other members of the clan, with infinite grief and respect for their ancestors, stopped in the square in front of the building, watched the ancestor worship ceremony collectively through live broadcast, followed the ancestor worship team, and completed the ancestor worship ceremony. No matter where in the universe, at the ancestor worship ceremony every 300 years, the descendants of the Long family will try their best to rush back to the ancient dragon star with different feelings. In the interstellar society, there are few families that regularly hold such grand ancestor worship ceremonies, which is the best manifestation of family cohesion.
Human society knows that the Dragon Family, after each ancestor worship ceremony, the head of the family and the elders of the Dragon Martial Society must select two heirs from their own doors, and if you don't return to the Ancient Dragon Star, then you will give up the qualifications of the heirs. For the young members of the Long family, after the ancestor worship ceremony, it is possible to accept the inheritance of the God of War, which is what they are most concerned about, although they don't know the criteria for selecting people and the requirements for selecting people, but it seems that during the ancestor worship ceremony, the young children who come to the ancient dragon star have an equal chance.
In each ancestor worship ceremony, the current head of the family is in charge of the main sacrifice, and the forty-eight standing elders of the Longwu Society accompany the sacrifice. This ancestor worship is no exception, and it is presided over by Long Teng's grandfather. Long Teng's grandfather, who was dressed today as the head of the Long family, and the forty-eight standing elders of the Dragon Martial Society who accompanied the sacrifice, started fasting three days ago to prepare for the ancestor worship.
In the ancestor worship ceremony, the master of ceremonies is extremely important, and he is the focus of competition among those martial saint-level clansmen in the clan. Each master of ceremonies, infinite glory, in front of the family, show themselves.
At eight o'clock in the morning, the ancestor worship ceremony officially began.
The master of ceremonies sang: "The ancestor worship ceremony has officially begun." With this loud sound, the cannon salute and the ancestral music sounded at the same time, and the people standing in the square began to watch the large screen placed on the main building.
The salute and ancestor worship music are over. The master of ceremonies sang: "Please invite 200 spectators to enter the ancestral altar." After hearing the master of ceremonies, the observers who obtained the witness seats climbed the ancestral worship platform in an orderly manner, bowed down to the ancestral hall in front of the ancestral hall, and stood on the viewing platforms on both sides of the ancestral worship platform. On the viewing platform, you can witness the whole process of the ancestor worship ceremony up close.
The audience stands up. The master of ceremonies sang: "Please ask the master of the ancestral pavilion to announce the discipline of the ancestor worship ceremony." "The ancestral pavilion master walked in front, Long Teng and Long Yue stood on both sides, followed behind, walked quickly to the rostrum, stood firmly, Long Teng and Long Yue were like two guards, standing on both sides behind the ancestral pavilion master. The lord of the ancestral pavilion said loudly: "After the ancestor worship begins, you must keep a solemn and quiet manner, and you are not allowed to frolic, chase, except for the staff, you are not allowed to fly, and you are not allowed to stand on the stool and table. After the announcement, he left the rostrum, and Long Teng and Long Yue were arranged by the Ancestral Pavilion Lord in a conspicuous position on both sides of the gate of the Ancestral Hall.
The Ancestral Pavilion Master announced the completion of the ancestral worship discipline. The master of ceremonies sang: "The head of the family, the forty-eight standing elders and other participants in the ancestor worship are invited to enter the ancestral worship platform. After singing, the head of the family was in front, the forty-eight permanent elders were behind, and the other members followed, ascending to the ancestral altar. Ancestor worship platform from the foot of the ancient dragon peak to the top of the ancient dragon peak in front of the ancestral hall, there are three floors, accompanied by salute and ancestor music, each layer must kneel and bow before advancing, because everyone is cultivated profoundly, the speed of action is very fast but does not lose the etiquette, and soon came to the square in front of the ancestral hall.
When everyone was in place, the master of ceremonies sang, "Clean water." "A staff member brought clean water, and the people who participated in the ancestor worship began to wash their hands and faces.
The master of ceremonies sings: "Clean towel." "A staff member brought towels, and everyone wiped their faces and hands.
The master of ceremonies sings: "Light the candle." "A staff member brought candles, and after the head of the family and the other forty-eight elders lit the candles, the staff members put the lit candles on the long table in the dim ancestral hall.
The master of ceremonies sings, "Incense." "A staff member sent the incense to the head of the family, 48 elders and other people who participated in the ancestor worship. After receiving the incense, the head of the family led the forty-eight elders into the ancestral hall, lit the long incense, bowed three times, inserted the long incense into the incense burner on the offering table, and then took three steps back, and after kneeling and bowing, the forty-eight elders stood on both sides, the head of the family on the right, the ancestral pavilion master on the left, facing the ancestral altar and standing.
The master of ceremonies sang: "Please incense other people." "Other ancestor worshippers enter the ancestral hall in groups of forty-nine people, light long incense, bow three times, insert long incense, and return to their original position.
The master of ceremonies sang: "Fenghua." "There were staff who brought flowers.
The master of ceremonies sang: "Offering fruit." "There was a staff member who put fresh fruit on the table.
The master of ceremonies sang, "Please read the prayer to the head of the house." The head of the family came to the rostrum and read out the memorial text: "In the year 65479 of the ancestral star calendar, there is now the 986th generation of the Long family's grandson Long Xingyun....."
The master of ceremonies sang: "Bow to the ancestors." The whole group bowed.
The master of ceremonies sang: "The head of the family, the master of the ancestral pavilion and the forty-eight elders are invited." Then the hair was started, and after about half an hour, the hair was finished.
The master of ceremonies sang: "Then make a great salute to the ancestors." The whole tribe bowed down again.
The master of ceremonies sang: "The ancestor worship ceremony is completed." Then everyone withdrew from the ancestral altar and returned to the front of the Long family's building to make peace with the people who waited after them.
When I came to the square of the Long family's building, the head of the family announced: "The dinner party begins." "The dragon family from different star fields and all corners of the universe began a family dinner once every three hundred years, and at this time, for those well-known people, various branches of the family, began to toast each other, chat, negotiate, and have a dinner, which lasted until midnight. For children like Long Teng, there was no interest in this kind of dinner, so they returned to their rooms very early, and when they got up the next day, the square was restored to its former calm, and the young clansmen who came here to participate in the ancestor worship ceremony were anxiously waiting for the inheritance list, and the clansmen of other galaxies began to say goodbye.
Long Teng participated in the whole process of ancestor worship, and the magnificent and solemn ceremony that reflected the cohesion of the family touched him a lot.