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Chapter 1000 I will go!

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    The Ye family's ancestor worship is the most solemn family ceremony in the entire Ye family.

    Large families all attach great importance to ancestor worship, especially a long-established family like the Ye family, which has a profound history and many branches, and attaches great importance to the ceremony of ancestor worship.

    In fact, many wealthy families really want to hold a special ceremony for ancestor worship, but the real ceremony of ancestor worship is by no means something that ordinary families can do.

    Some nouveau riche families can't support the stage even if they want to hold a grand ceremony of ancestor worship.

    Because in the ancestral graves of these people, there may be a total of three or four generations of ancestors buried, and when it comes to their identities, they may have been farmers for several generations, and there are no stories of greatness to pass on 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 somewhat difficult to do so.

    Especially in the upper class of Yanjing.

    In addition to comparing money and power, the comparison is 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.

    This kind of family has a strong foundation. During the ancestor worship ceremony, just take out two or three ancestors' deeds and read them out, and it will immediately give people a feeling of bullying.

    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.  There were 31 out of the top three, including the number one scholar.

    The Qing Dynasty has a history of nearly 300 years, and there were a total of 112 imperial examinations.

    In the past three hundred years, there have been more than 20,000 Jinshi and 114 champions.

    The Guangye family accounted for nearly one-tenth of it, 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, it is at least a noble gentry.

    The Ye family has spread branches and leaves for so many years. 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 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 had 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 mourning 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-born 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 a hundred 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 holds an ancestor worship ceremony every twelve years, but also revises the entire genealogy of the Ye family during the ancestor worship ceremony.

    Between this twelve years and the last twelve years, new offspring will be born in each family, and the older generation will die, and at the same time, young adults will marry wives.

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

    At that time, the suzerain family will select a highly respected old man to personally renew the genealogy, and thisThe person's name, deeds, etc., are written one by one in it.

    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.

    Later, 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 family sacred object, 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 their ancestors, in addition to paying respects to the genealogy, they will also have a natural sense of belonging to the suzerain family.

    This is like the emperor and ministers in ancient times, through cumbersome etiquette, rituals, strict rules and inheritance, to strengthen the minister's mind of loyalty to the emperor.

    This is also a major reliance for the suzerain family to let 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 twelve years ago, when he was still in Jinling Orphanage;

    The last ancestor worship ceremony was twenty-four 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 twenty-four years ago, he is still very clear about the Ye family's ancestor worship ceremony.  The grandest worship ceremony for parents.

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

    It's not that he's looking forward to worshiping the ancestors of the Ye family, he's 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!"
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