During the Spring Festival, I went to the suburbs and happened to meet a family offering sacrifices to their ancestors in the ancestral hall. The clan relatives of this family have returned to their hometown from home and abroad, and some have traveled thousands of miles to cross the sea to worship their ancestors. On this day, the clans gathered in the ancestral hall to remember the grace of their ancestors and review their ancestors' teachings. The whole process was full of solemn atmosphere. After ancestor worship, some clan relatives who had been reunited after a long separation shook hands and talked freely about their relatives, and the scene was permeated with a strong peaceful atmosphere and cordial feelings.
For thousands of years, in the society of agricultural civilization, gathering clans and living in ancestral land, clans together; County Wangyan School, genealogical order, is the tradition of the Chinese nation. In the villages of the past, the scenes of four generations living together and five generations living together can be seen everywhere. Almost every village has ancestral halls, which go through the vicissitudes of the times and watch silently in the river of time. The ancestral hall is dedicated to the spirit position of the ancestors, the clan people through the sacrifice of ancestors, with the continuation of the blood relationship of the same surname as a link, connect the whole family members, and form the cohesion and affinity within the clan. The ancestral hall records the blood of a family, condenses the deep attachment of countless people, is the identity of all the people to the root, and contains a kind of simple spiritual strength.
Chinese people have strong feelings of family and country, and have always pursued self-cultivation, family unity, governing the country and pacifying the world. As early as Zhou Gongdan in the Western Zhou Dynasty, he once warned his incoming son Bo Jing: the virtue is broad and respectful, the land is abundant and frugal, the position is noble and humble, the people are strong and the soldiers are strong and the fear wins, the wise and wise is to benefit the foolish, the knowledgeable and knowledgeable and the shallow are wide. Since then, many ancestral teachings have played a role in respecting their ancestors, promoting good and good relations, promoting good and evil, and saving the world. Such as Zhu Xi's loyal housekeeping for a long time, the moral pursuit expressed by the master of poetry, Lin Zexu, as long as it is beneficial to the country, I can give up my life, how can I avoid the patriotic feelings it shows because of the risk? although Yan Fu has worked so hard, it must be really beneficial to the society, but the altruistic character shown by the law of later generations is the spiritual nutrition that people today are worth absorbing. These ancestral teachings nurtured excellent family culture and became the way for future generations to deal with the world and to deal with others; to cultivate and read the family and to become a talented person; to be harmonious and close to the neighbors and to manage the family to gather wealth; to be an official and to benefit the world.
The ancestral hall is not only dedicated to the spiritual seat of the ancestors, but also engraved with ancestral teachings on plaques and couplets. The inheritance of ancestral teachings plays a role in standardizing the behavior of the people, and it is more practical than other norms. There is no doubt that listening to ancestral teachings and family instructions in the ancestral hall has a certain sense of ceremony and solemnity, which is more intimidating and inspiring than receiving education in other places. The location of the family is not only the place of one's original life, but also the place of one's original self-cultivation. In the rural society, a family has a person who honors his ancestors, and everyone in a family is proud of it; when a family has a person who insults their ancestors, they are ashamed of it and are even excluded from the list. I remember that when I was a child, although the ancestral hall in my hometown was converted into a school, the values formed by the ancestral teachings handed down from generation to generation still dominate people's words and deeds with powerful power. In the era of extremely difficult material life, even if people starve to death, there are very few behaviors that people despise, maintaining the stability and stability of the countryside. It is necessary to say that Zude benefits future generations to a great extent.
Every baby is born with maternal blood, so in some places the place of birth is called cradle blood, and the color of this blood will never fade for the rest of his life. On the other hand, the ancestral hall in his hometown, which has survived through wind and rain, stores his blood, which becomes the symbol of the root of life. No matter where the kite of your life goes, it holds your thoughts in the ancestral hall, binds your drifting soul and becomes your soul Anchorage. The ancestral home of many Taiwan compatriots is in Fujian, and they always come to attend the grand ancestor worship ceremony, and the ancestral hall in their hometown has become a spiritual resort for them to search for their roots and visit their ancestors.
The ancestral hall is a lookout for the upward strength of advocating goodness, nostalgia and roots.
Author: Fu Yan
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