The Ye family worships ancestors is the most solemn family ceremony in the entire Ye family.
Large families attach great importance to ancestor worship, especially large families like the Ye family with a long history, with a profound historical heritage and many branches, and attach great importance to the ancestor worship ceremony.
In fact, many wealthy families want to hold special ancestry for ancestor worship, but the real ancestry for ancestor worship is by no means something ordinary families can do.
Some nouveau riche families cannot support this market even if they want to hold a ceremony for ancestor worship.
Because the ancestral tombs of these people may be buried in the last three or four generations of ancestors, and when they talk about their identities, they may be all farmers in the past few generations, and there is no high-end story that can be passed down to future generations.
Although the peasant class is also very respectable, in these upper class, the ancestors did not have a strong enough identity background, so they were indeed unable to show off.
Especially in the upper class in Yanjing.
In addition to comparing money and power, what we compare is family background and background.
There are many old and young people in Yanjing who were in the banner during the Qing Dynasty. The ancestors of these families were all nobles in the banner during the Qing Dynasty. Speaking of which, they were either princes or princesses, and even first-rate masters in the court that year.
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Such a family has a strong foundation. When the ancestor worship ceremony is held, they can read out the deeds of two or three ancestors and immediately give people a feeling of being so arrogant.
The ancestors of the Ye family were also appointed officials in the court at that time. In ordinary families, they even wanted to build a ancestral temple for the scholar in their hometown. In the Ye family, they had hundreds of Jinshi alone and ten of the top scholars.
Among the three A and the top scorer, thirty-one of them were produced.
The Qing Dynasty has a history of nearly three hundred years, and the imperial examinations have been held in a total of 112 examinations.
In nearly three hundred years, there have been more than 20,000 Jinshi and 114 top scorers.
The Ye family alone accounted for nearly one-tenth of it, which was an extremely amazing achievement.
It is precisely because of the emergence of talents among our ancestors that the Ye family has lasted for hundreds of years and has always been quite powerful. Even in the era of chaos, they are at least a gentry.
The Ye family has been growing up for so many years, and there are at least tens of thousands of descendants of the Ye family spread all over the world, and a considerable number of them have gone overseas.
Their ancestors, who have been traced back hundreds of years, were the ancestors of the Ye family.
However, in ancient times, the eldest son inherited his legitimate sons, and other legitimate sons and concubines had to separate their families and establish their own businesses. Therefore, more and more Ye family members became sideline families, leaving only the direct lineage as the real sect leader family.
It’s like Ye Chen’s father had three brothers. If according to ancient rules, after Ye Chen’s grandfather died, the three sons of the Ye family would be separated. At that time, the eldest son Ye Changkong would inherit most of the family business and mansion.
The second son and the third son should have taken his family to leave the original Ye family mansion after three years of mourning for his father and start a family and start a business by himself.
As a result, the second son and the third son's family also became the sidelines of the Ye family.
At this time, these two side-line families were still relatively close to the sect leader’s family. After all, the second, the third and the eldest were brothers of the same-child compatriots.
But by Ye Chen's generation, the one who inherited the legacy of the sect leader's family was Ye Chen's cousin, so the relationship between the two side families and the sect leader's family was further apart.
By the third and fourth generations, these two side-line families also spawned several more detailed side-line families, so they were even further apart from the sect leader's family.
If it lasts for five or six generations, the span may have been over a hundred years.
At that time, everyone might not know each other at all, and they could only find the names of descendants of other side-line families in the genealogy.
Therefore, as the sect leader’s family, it is necessary to use the ceremony of ancestor worship to summon people from the sidelines every once in a while.
After we get to know each other, we will become familiar with each other, and then strengthen the connection between our bloodlines.
This is also a necessary way for the large family to maintain their strength.
Therefore, the Ye family not only holds an ancestor worship ceremony every twelve years, but also revises the entire Ye family genealogy at the ancestor worship ceremony.
Between these twelve years and the previous twelve years, each family will have new offspring, the older generation will die, and young and middle-aged people will also marry.
Therefore, every twelve years, countless branches of the Ye family would report the population changes in their family over the past twelve years to the sect leader's family.
At that time, the sect leader's family will select a respected old man to personally renew the family tree, and write the names, deeds, etc. of these people one by one.
The existing Ye family genealogy records the names of millions of descendants of the Ye family, as well as the names of millions of their spouses, such as the son of the Ye family, who married his daughter, and the Ye family.
Whose son, the daughter married?
Every time the family tree is revised, it is very grand.
The mother book of the genealogy is stored in a safe with constant temperature and humidity, and is only invited by descendants of the Ye family when worshiping ancestors.
Please come out and after worshiping, you must immediately and respectfully invite your mother's mother back.
Subsequently, the new genealogy was renewed.
After the new genealogy is renewed, we must also grandly invite the new genealogy back and keep it with countless previous mother books.
All the Ye family members regard the genealogy as a family sacred object, which is sacred and cannot be blasphemed.
The sect leader family is the only family that has the right to retain the genealogy, so every time a side family comes to worship the ancestors, in addition to slapping three times and nine times, it will also have a natural sense of belonging to the sect leader family.
This is like the ancient emperors and ministers who strengthened the ministers' loyalty to the emperor through cumbersome etiquette, rituals and strict rules and inheritance.
This is also a major reliance for the sect leader's family to make the side families bow down.
However, Ye Chen had no impression of the Ye family's ancestor worship ceremony.
The last ceremony of ancestor worship was twelve years ago, when he was still in the Jinling Welfare House;
The last ceremony of ancestor worship was twenty-four years ago. At that time, he was so young that he had no memory of this matter at all.
However, although he could not find any memory of the ancestor worship ceremony twenty-four years ago, he was still very clear about the Ye family's ancestor worship ceremony, knowing that this was an extremely grand ceremony for the Ye family, and it was also for the ancestors.
The greatest worship ceremony for parents.
Therefore, Ye Chen couldn't help but feel a little expectant.
He was not looking forward to worshiping the ancestors of the Ye family, he was just looking forward to worshiping his parents in a just manner, dignified and grand manner.
The last time I followed Gu Yanzhong to worship my parents, I had to pretend to be Gu Yanzhong's driver. With his true identity as Ye Chen, I walked to my parents' grave and kowtowed and kowtowed. This has always been a regret in his mind.
So he said to Gu Yanzhong: "Uncle Gu, please convey my grandfather and say that I will go to the ancestor worship ceremony on the Qingming Festival!"
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