Door-to-door dragon son-in-law

Chapter 965 I will go!
The Ye family's ancestor worship is the most solemn family ceremony in the entire Ye family.

Big families all attach great importance to ancestor worship, especially a big family with a long history like the Ye family, which has a profound history and many family branches, and it attaches great importance to the ceremony of ancestor worship.

In fact, many wealthy families really want to hold special ceremonies for worshiping ancestors, but the real ceremonies for worshiping ancestors are definitely not something that ordinary families can just do.

Some nouveau riche families can't afford the stage even if they want to hold an ancestor worship ceremony.

Because in the ancestral graves of these people, there may be a total of three or four generations of ancestors buried in total, and when it comes to their identities, they may be farmers for several generations, and there are no stories of tallness that can be passed down to future generations.

Although the peasant class is also very respectable, but in these upper-class societies, the ancestors did not have a strong enough identity background, so it is indeed a bit difficult to do anything.

Especially in the upper class of Yanjing.

In addition to comparing money and power, the comparison is about family background and heritage.

Yanjing has a lot of old and young people who lived in the banner during the Manchu Qing Dynasty. When the ancestors of these families were in the Qing Dynasty, they were all nobles who lived in the banner. member.

Such a family has a strong foundation. During the ancestor worship ceremony, casually read out the deeds of two or three ancestors, and it will immediately give people a feeling of being arrogant.

The ancestor of the Ye family was also an official of the imperial court. In an ordinary family, a scholar from the ancestors would like to build an ancestral hall for this scholar ancestor in his hometown. However, the ancestors of the Ye family have hundreds of Scholars and ten champions. A total of 31 winners came out of the top three, including the champion.

In the nearly 300-year history of the Qing Dynasty, there were a total of 112 imperial examinations.

In nearly 300 years, there have been more than 2 Jinshi and 114 champions.

The Guangye family accounted for nearly one-tenth, which is an extremely remarkable achievement.

It is precisely because of the talents among the ancestors that the Ye family can continue to exist for hundreds of years, and has always been quite powerful. Even in the era of war and chaos, at least it is a noble gentry.

The Ye family has flourished for so many years, and there are at least tens of thousands of descendants of the Ye family all over the world, and a considerable number of them have gone overseas.

Their ancestors, going back hundreds of years, were the ancestors of the Ye family.

It's just that in ancient times, the eldest son inherited the mantle, and the other sons and concubines had to separate their families and start their own businesses. Therefore, more and more Ye family members were reduced to collateral families, leaving only the direct line as the real suzerain family.

It's like Ye Chen's father has three brothers. According to the ancient rules, after Ye Chen's grandfather died, the three sons of the Ye family would separate the family. At that time, the eldest son Ye Changkong would inherit most of the family business and the mansion.

The second son and the third son should leave the original Ye family mansion with their family members after three years of filial piety for their father, and start another family and start a business by themselves.

In this way, the family of the second son and the third son also became collateral families of the Ye family.

At this time, the relationship between these two collateral families and the suzerain family is still relatively close. After all, the second, third and eldest are still brothers of the first-milk compatriots.

But in Ye Chen's generation, it was Ye Chen's cousin who inherited the mantle of the suzerain family, so the relationship between the two collateral families and the suzerain family was another generation away.

By the time of the third and fourth generations, these two collateral families have also spawned several smaller collateral families, so the distance between them and the suzerain family is even further.

If it continues for five or six generations, the span may have passed more than 100 years.

At that time, everyone may not know each other at all, and the names of descendants of other collateral families can only be found on the genealogy.

Therefore, as the suzerain family, it is necessary to use the ceremony of the ancestor worship ceremony to gather people from the collateral families at regular intervals.

After getting acquainted and getting acquainted with each other, and worshiping the common ancestors together, the connection between the bloodlines will be strengthened.

This is also a necessary way for big families to maintain their strength.

Therefore, the Ye family not only held a grand ancestor worship ceremony every 12 years, but also re-revised the entire family tree of the Ye family during the ancestor worship ceremony.

Between this 12 years and the previous 12 years, each family will have new children born, older generations will die, and young adults will marry wives.

Therefore, every 12 years, countless branches of the Ye family have to report the population changes of their family in the past 12 years to the suzerain family.

At that time, the suzerain family will select a respectable old man to personally renew the genealogy, and write the names, deeds, etc. of these people in it one by one.

The existing Ye family tree 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 the daughter of the Ye family, or the Ye family The daughter married to someone's son so-and-so.

Every revision of the family tree is also very grand.

The female copy of the genealogy is stored in a safe with constant temperature and humidity, and is invited out by the descendants of the Ye family every time the ancestors are worshipped.

Please come out, and after worshiping, you must immediately invite the mother back again respectfully.

Then, renew the new family tree.

After the renewal of the new genealogy, the new genealogy should also be solemnly invited back, and kept together with the countless previous mothers.

All Ye family members regard the genealogy as a sacred object of the family, sacred and inviolable.

And the suzerain family is the only family that has the right to keep the genealogy, so every time the collateral family comes to worship the ancestors, in addition to paying homage to the genealogy, it will also have a natural sense of belonging to the suzerain family.

This is like the ancient emperors and ministers, through cumbersome etiquette, rituals and strict rules and inheritance, to strengthen the ministers' minds, the loyalty to the emperor.

This is also a major reliance for the suzerain family to make the collateral families bow their heads.

However, Ye Chen has no impression of the Ye family's ancestor worship ceremony.

The last ancestor worship ceremony was 12 years ago, when he was still in Jinling Orphanage;
The last ancestor worship ceremony was 24 years ago. At that time, he was too young to have any memory of this incident at all.

However, although he can no longer find the memory of the ancestor worship ceremony 24 years ago, he is still very clear about the Ye family's ancestor worship ceremony. The grandest worship ceremony.

Therefore, Ye Chen couldn't help but look forward to it.

He wasn't looking forward to worshiping the ancestors of the Ye family, he was just looking forward to worshiping his parents in a legitimate, dignified, and grand manner.

The last time he followed Gu Yanzhong to pay homage to his parents, and he had to pretend to be Gu Yanzhong's driver, so he couldn't walk up to his parents' grave to kowtow and kneel down in front of his parents' grave with his real identity, Ye Chen. This has always been a regret in his heart.

So, he said to Gu Yanzhong: "Uncle Gu, please tell my grandfather that I will go to the ancestor worship ceremony on Qingming Festival!"

(End of this chapter)