Chapter 1 Qingming Ancestor Worship
Wucun Township is a poor village in the old area of western Guangxi, more than 30 years of reform and opening up, the spring breeze of reform has not been able to blow into the mountains here, the mountains are still the same mountains, and the roads are still the same roads. The reason why Wucun Township is called Wucun Township is because it is a township composed of five ethnic villages with surnames, and the population of the whole town is more than 70,000 people.
Qingming Festival is a traditional festival in our country, people worship ancestors and sweep tombs, mourn the deceased, remember the ancestors, and express sorrow on the Qingming Festival.
The Qingming Festival is an ancient festival with profound significance for thousands of years. According to historical records, during the Qin and Han dynasties, tomb sacrifices have become an indispensable ritual activity, and the "Han Shu Yan Yannian Biography" records that even if the Yan family is thousands of miles away from Beijing, they will "return to the East China Sea to sweep the tomb" in Qingming. With the increasing strength of ancestor worship and kinship consciousness, the tomb sacrifices that were not included in the norms in ancient times were also included in the "Five Rites", and the promotion of the imperial court also made the tomb sacrifice activities more popular.
This is because when winter turns to spring, plants and trees sprout, and when people go to the graves of their ancestors, they will personally inspect whether the tombs have collapsed due to the onset of the rainy season, or have been pierced by foxes and rabbits. During the ritual sweep, weeds are removed from the graves, new soil is added, pigs are burned as offerings, incense and wine are burned, paper money is burned, and simple rituals are held to express the memory of the ancestors.
"I bought a pig's head, I bought wine, I bought meat, I bought cigarettes, I bought paper money, what is missing? Alas! Why don't you make a phone call and ask? Forget it, the province will be scolded" In the bazaar, a man wearing a dark blue jacket, light blue jeans, a pair of Li Ning sneakers, and a short hair close to the scalp, if you look closely, you can find that there are a lot of white hair mixed in it, a face with the characteristics of the people of Guixi, big and bright, and a faint green beard on the upper and lower lips, looking very energetic. At the moment, he is squatting on the sidewalk on the side of the market street, smoking a cigarette in his left hand and muttering to himself with his mobile phone in his right hand.
"If I knew that Lu Dao was so troublesome, I would have let my eldest brother come! Alas!! who told you that you are still an unemployed otaku in your thirties! If you don't go to this kind of thing, do you still let your eldest brother go up!" "When I was feeling sorry for myself, the phone rang with a string of rooster crowing bells!" "Hey! Who?" "Oh! It's uncle, I've arrived, and I'm shopping in the town, when will Viagra arrive? I bought a lot of things here?" That's okay, hurry up, I'm looking to see if there is anything missing, I'm waiting for you at the door of the third sister guest house, well, see you again!"
"Let's get it!" Brother Lobby will come after a while, let him go to purchase, you can relax for a while" said and stood up, casually threw the cigarette in his hand into the garbage, "There are not a few roads to repair, and the capital has been greened, and the activity of cleaning Guixi is doing well here." It will take at least 40 minutes for people to come, well, put the things into the guest house first and let the waiter inside keep them first, and go outside for a stroll" with a lot of things in both hands and dragged into the guest house with heavy steps, so that it finally took 30 yuan to get it done.
Walking out of the guest house, looking left and right, I don't know which direction the road is going, so I took out a coin from my trouser pocket and threw it at the top of my hand, "Right Street, it seems that there is nothing to see just now, since there is nothing to attract me, then go to the left, hehe" His eyes looked firmly at the flow of people on the left, what will be the **, I am really looking forward to it.
People crowded with people, shoulder to shoulder, all the way to see this and that, but unfortunately there is no opportunity to slowly appreciate the things of the roadside vendors, just found some interesting things were squeezed away by the flow of people, the days of the market are really a lot of people! Suddenly, I don't know which uncle touched the road, was squeezed to the front of a small shop, there is no store name, like a commissary. Without looking back, he raised his feet and walked into the shop. The light in the shop is not very good, a small lamp of 25 watts is suspected to emit a dim light, which makes the store covered with a weak yellow light, what kind of business is such a shop? An old woman in the store is holding a rag and carrying a freezer, and the glass cabinet of the store is full of all kinds of cigarettes, it turns out that this is a tobacco shop.
When I was about to turn back, the old grandmother called, although I didn't say much, but I never forgot "Grandma, do you call me? I don't buy anything, just go" Grandma heard the Zhuang words and chatted with me very enthusiastically, "Oh! You are a young man from the Zhuang family, look at your dress and dress, I thought it was a foreign place to come to see the song party, (March 3 Ge Wei, the traditional festival of Zhuang Township) Qingming is coming, come back to worship the ancestors." What village are you from? Maybe I'm still your relative!" "Hehe! I'm from Da Bitun, and I'm here to pay homage to my grandfather." "Dabitun Huang Village, who is your grandfather, I must know Lu Dao" "Grandma, are you also from Dabi? My grandfather's name is Huang Dianen, he died in 88 and was buried on the mountainside of Tunli Peak" "You are Ah Feng or Ah Shu, you haven't come back for so many years, I don't remember your cousin, when I was a child, my grandma took your three brothers and sisters to "scratch your head" hehe...... I don't remember, I'm Ah Shu" "Just you, what about your Abba and Ah Ma and Ah Feng Ah Yan? Why don't you come to see me, I don't have a few years" "Uh! Grandma, how can it be? You are a hundred years old, they don't have time to come, just me when I am free" "Hehe...... Let's just say it's nice, I'm one hundred and seven, eleven years older than your grandfather, and you're about the same as him when he's alive. Why don't you bring your children here? They are all surnamed Huang, but don't forget Ben Ah" "Hehe, I'm not married yet" "Oh! That's it, Ah Feng and Ah Yan" "Both are married, but I don't want to ask you why you are not married, but as soon as possible, while I can still walk, I can still drink your wedding wine"
At this time, a string of rooster crowing bells rang, and when I saw that it was Viagra's phone, I hurriedly answered "Hey! It's me, I'm in my cousin's shop, I'll go over immediately" hung up the phone and said apologetically to my cousin, "Grandma, Viagra is here, I still have to buy something, I'll go first, and I'll accompany you when I come back" "Well, you go first, remember to come back and see me, I'll prepare food for you" "Well! I'll go first!Grandma, see you later!" As he spoke, he was about to walk out of the store, and he heard Grandma calling, "You wait, I'll give you something, if you don't have time to come to see Grandma after worshipping your ancestors, this thing will be considered a wedding gift for you in advance" As he spoke, he pulled up his sleeves and took off a bracelet on his hand, Grandma's withered hands stroked the turquoise bracelet, and her misty eyes revealed kindness, looking at me and saying" I picked up this bracelet when I was very young when I went up the mountain to chop wood, and I haven't taken it off for so many years, and I haven't even given it to my grandchildren when they get married. It's for you, I've been waiting for many years, you're finally here, and you've finally made a wish" "Grandma, it's too precious, I don't dare to accept it" "Grandma gave it to you, you just accept it, it's not a valuable thing, my daughter once let people come to see it, it's an ordinary jade carving, it's just a thousand dollars, you won't want cash, ......right? Okay, I'll take it, Xie Lu Xie Grandma, I'll definitely visit you when I come back, Grandma, see you again!"
Carefully put the bracelet into the inner pocket of the jacket, patted his heart, and walked in the direction of the guest house. In front of the guest house, there was an honest middle-aged farmer, who was looking left and right, from time to time with his hands folded, and when he saw me walking towards him, he immediately raised his hand to me and greeted me, and walked to me and gave me a strong hug, "Still so thin!" "You're still so short, Ha Lu Ha ......" "You are not tall, only one meter sixty-two, why do you always compare your height with me" "I am not tall, but I am taller than you, Ha Lu Ha...... Let's go, go and see what else I have missed, and I'll leave the leakage to you to purchase" "You use me as a coolie again, a hundred, or you can solve it yourself" "Okay, no problem"
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