After the ancestral temple sacrificial ceremony, each tribe member had to wash his face and hands again. The heads asked the men to bring some fruits, food, drinks, meat, tobacco, wine, tea and other items, all paper money and paper products onto the carriage for use in the grave.

"Brother Rong Yao, I was stunned when I heard the sacrifice just now. The sacrifice is written so well and so talented." Ma Lin said after walking out of the gate of the ancestral hall.

"This is something from the heart. Besides, these old people, don't look at these old people, but the essence of Chinese culture is better than those of us young people, college students, and doctoral students." Ye Rongyao said.

In fact, the real reason is ultimately in education. The older generation, that is, before the 1960s and 1970s, in China, what everyone pays most attention to is the culture of China and foreign cultures, which are severely excluded.

Although this kind of exclusion is wrong, it has allowed the essence of Chinese culture to be passed down from generation to generation. In the past, scholars paid attention to piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and basically, cultural people with a little bit of culture can do this.

But now it is not possible. With more than ten years ago, the country put foreign language education to a higher level than Mandarin education. If the foreign language fails, he will not even get a bachelor's degree and vigorously promote foreign culture.

So much so that the culture of China itself was almost squeezed out of living space by Western culture. In the past, the elderly could write calligraphy and write a good article.

Nowadays, young people are not good at it. Not to mention that few people can write calligraphy, even the pen is written in a crooked manner. Sometimes they don’t make up their sentences.

These are not the most important things. The most important thing is that these traditional customs and cultures of China are gradually lost in the young generation. Not many young people in China remember clearly the traditional festivals of China. Everyone remembers the Western festivals very clearly.

Fortunately, the country has realized the seriousness of the problem in recent years and has added several holidays for traditional Chinese festivals. Young people will not forget that there are still some traditional festivals in China and the traditional significance of these festivals.

"This is true. The old people in the past are indeed very good at learning." Liu Qingqing agreed with her man's words.

"Brother Glory, where are we going now?" Ma Lin asked.

"Now we go to visit the graves." Ye Rongyao said.

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After a few people got on the bus, the car in front started driving, followed by a cannon car. Every time a certain distance was traveling, the cannon car would fire the cannon. Tell the people around that the Ye family was worshiping their ancestors.

In addition to inviting a cannon cart, the ancestral hall also invited a band. In the middle of the convoy, there were several singers sitting in it, singing songs constantly, making the whole sacrifice lively.

Ye Rongyao didn’t know when such a band began to emerge in the Wenzhou area. Anyway, many people have invited such bands in recent years, playing music, singing songs, and hired a band. It costs about three a day, which is about a thousand yuan.

"Husband, what should you pay attention to when visiting the ancestral grave to sweep the tomb?" Liu Qingqing looked at Ye Rongyao and asked.

"There are a few taboos." Ye Rongyao thought for a while and said.

"What are the taboos?" Liu Qingqing asked.

"First, don't go to too remote places, as it is easy to get evil spirits. This is because there are many tombs on the hills and heavy yin energy."

"The second is to be respectful to the tombs you encounter on the road. You should not touch the tombstone with your feet. It is best to have a more serious and solemn attitude. Never use your mobile phone to take a picture of the tombs. This is very taboo. There is nothing else."

Ye Rongyao said. When he followed his father to visit the grave together, the elders in the village said, and Ye Rongyao kept remembering it.

More than 200 vehicles in the convoy lined up in a long row towards Meiyuan Town, causing considerable traffic jams along the way.

However, in this way, the traffic police had no choice. There were many convoys of ancestor worship in the first lunar month. They were all vast and as long as there were no illegal traffic laws, the traffic police could not stop them.

Of course, I didn’t dare to stop me. I stopped people from worshiping ancestors for no reason. A large ancestral temple with thousands of people is likely to cause mass incidents, and the government is also afraid of it.

The convoy drove for about an hour and finally drove to a place called Wangjia Village, Meiyuan Town, where the ancestral tomb of the Ye Clan Ancestral Hall was here.

This Wangjia Village was indeed a veritable Wangjia Village hundreds of years ago. Everyone in a village has the surname Wang, but since the ancestor worshipped in the Ye clan ancestral temple set up the ancestral tomb here, over the past few hundred years, half of the people in this village have the surname Ye.

In ancient times, people attached great importance to Feng Shui, especially the Feng Shui of the ancestral tombs, because in the eyes of the ancients, the Feng Shui of the ancestral tombs was able to protect their descendants from prosperity.

Ye Rongyao heard from the old man in the village that the ancestor of the Ye clan ancestral hall resigned and retired and returned home, he specially invited Feng Shui masters to find his tomb. Fortunately, he could be buried in this Feng Shui treasure land a hundred years later to bless his descendants to flourish.

After five years of searching for a cave, the Feng Shui master found two Feng Shui treasure lands for the ancestor of the Ye family, one is Wangjia Village here, and the other is Xiaodan Village in He~xi Town.

The ancestor was very satisfied with the two pieces of land and could not bear to give up any piece of land. So the ancestor made a difficult decision, which was to buy both mountains. The ancestor and his wife were buried separately after a hundred years, and the fortune of the two pieces of land was to bless their descendants to flourish and prosper.

After buying the land, the ancestor asked his seven sons to choose two sons, one asked him to move his family to Wangjia Village and the other to Xiaodan Village, allowing them to spread their branches there, with the purpose of protecting the ancestral tomb. These two branches are called "mountain masters".

As time goes by, the Ye family's population is becoming more and more prosperous, and now it has been divided into many small branches, with an increasing population.

However, people will not forget their ancestors, nor will they forget their origins. They will visit tombs and worship their ancestors every year and pray for their ancestors' spirits in heaven.

After parking the car, Ye Rongyao and others got off the car and followed the crowd toward the mountain in front. The mountain was not high or large, but its external shape was like a head raised high by a swimming red dragon, with both form and spirit, and head raised to the east. Although it was not a real place for dragon caves, it was also a place with excellent Feng Shui.

In the past, there were only the ancestral tombs of the Ye Clan Ancestral Hall on the entire hill. However, with the changes of the times, no one would recognize the land deeds from hundreds of years ago, so many tombs can be vaguely seen on the entire hill, which are tombs of other surnames.

Who made this place a Feng Shui treasure land? Many people like this place. If the current government did not allow the construction of such private tombs, there would be more tombs on the mountain.
Chapter completed!