Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 8 Ancestral Hall
Chapter 8 Ancestral Hall

In the early morning, Li Junge opened his eyes amidst the chirping of birds and listened attentively. Among the chirping calls, three voices stood out the most. one shouted: "Rice - expensive", "Rice - expensive"; the other shouted: "Cut the early corn", "Cut the early corn".

The tree warbler called "Sleep!" is smaller in size, with dark brown feathers on the back and white underparts dyed brown and yellow. It looks like a sparrow, but with a sharper beak and a longer tail. .

The one called "Mi-Guiya" is the eagle cuckoo, which looks like a pigeon, but slightly slender.The peak of the mouth is slightly curved downward.Like the cuckoo, it has the habit of nest parasitism. It does not build its own nest, but only parasitizes its eggs in the nests of other birds.

The eggs are similar in appearance to the eggs of the host. After hatching, the chicks kill the host chicks and are fed by the host until they mature.It generally inhabits mountains and forests, plains beside mountains, and often goes to plains in winter, but only lives in trees.

The four-voiced cuckoo called "Cuzaobaogu" has dark gray on the top of the head and the back of the neck, light gray on the side of the head, lighter colors such as the eyes, chin, throat and upper chest, the rest of the upper body and the surface of the two wings are dark brown, and the tail and The back is the same color, but there is a wide black spot near the end, and the lower body is white from the lower chest, mixed with black horizontal spots, similar to Rhododendron grandis.

The cry is particularly loud, four times at a time, which sounds like "Quickly Cuckoo".It calls every two to three seconds, sometimes all night long.

The four-voiced cuckoo is also called Yangque, and the sentence in the Dragon Boat Tune: "Yangque calls wah, hugs Enna, hugs Enna, wow, hugs Enna." That's it.

These three kinds of birds are all cuckoo, shy type, usually hidden in the trees, the ancients regarded them as one kind, which was transformed by Du Yu.Although Li Junge heard about it from a young age, he didn't see his real body many times.

There are three kinds of birds together, one seems to be complaining to the elders that the younger ones are not diligent enough to get up, one seems to be telling that life is not easy, and the other is directly pointing out what farm work should be done today. In short, it has one purpose: to urge to get up.

Li Junge couldn't even lie down when he heard it.

So I got up quickly, went to the back of the house to wash up, and then walked around the house, and found that my parents got up early and had already gone out.Grandma sat in the usual place by the door, holding a piece of wax to wax the cotton thread and prepare the insoles.

Walking into the courtyard, the fresh air is filled with the fragrance of nanjue flowers and the cool breath from the bamboo grove, which makes people feel refreshed.After exhaling and inhaling, I feel that the filth in the whole body has been discharged, and every cell is full of energy from the mountain forest, full of vitality.

Grandma looked at him with a smile and said, "What are you looking at, dear grandson, hurry up and have breakfast."

Li Junge walked into the main room, lifted the cover on the table, and inside was a pot of corn porridge, a plate of kimchi, a plate of fermented bean curd, and a plate of cold raw shredded eggplant.

Shredded eggplant is to shred the eggplant, add salt and mix it for a while to let the eggplant come out of water, then squeeze the tomato juice dry by hand, mix the dried shredded eggplant with sesame oil, chili oil and soy sauce, and put some chopped green onion, ginger and garlic on it, which has a unique vegetable fragrance. Breath, those who don't like it can't bear it, but those who like it can't love it.

Li Junge liked this mouthful, knowing that his mother made it specially for him, he sat there and drank three bowls of porridge with shredded eggplant, enjoying himself very much.

Grandma also likes to watch her grandson eat. The more she eats, the happier she is. After Li Junge finishes eating, she takes out two pairs of insoles and gives them to Grandpa Fourth.

A pair of lotus flowers and a pair of orchids are made of rhombus-shaped rags with dense stitching and are very delicate.

"Hey! Grandma's craftsmanship is still so exquisite, this thing can be seen as a painting with a frame." Li Junge looked at it in his hand and praised.

"My good grandson is really good at joking, whoever hangs up the insole will be laughed to death by others!"

Li Junge laughed without saying much, put the insoles in his bag, and walked to the village.

Before going out, I took out my phone and glanced at WeChat. There were a lot of likes and replies under yesterday's photo message.

Qi Feifei: "Wow! Brother Pigeon, your hometown is so beautiful!"

Wang Wenqiang: "Master, my hometown is a good place, please take it in!"

Ye Xiaoqin: "The river flowers and bamboos are so beautiful!"

Feng Chongfei: "If you have time, you must come and play!"

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There are also fishing friends.

Baitiao is also a fish: "Emma's environment is so beautiful."

Chelsea Seat: "Isn't the water so good? If you sit by the water, it will be beautiful if you don't catch fish."

Black Dragon True Water: "I can't sit still anymore, my addiction has picked up."

Platinum Hook: "Can you form a group? Can Brother Shuibian receive you?"

Lazy Fish: "Form a group, AA, let's go."

Crazy Yang: "Please bring me."

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Li Junge replied in a unified way: "My hometown has beautiful scenery and simple folk customs. Everyone is welcome to travel, cultivate, and taste river fresh and mountain delicacies. I will let everyone experience the enthusiasm of our villagers!"

Putting his mobile phone in his hands, he walked through the fish pond and onto the bluestone road, and Li Junge walked to the ancestral hall in the village.

After saying hello to the folks along the way, we came to the center of the village, where there was a huge threshing ground. In front of the threshing ground was an ancient building with white walls and blue tiles, which was the Li Family Ancestral Hall.

The ancestral hall is the product of the old patriarchal family system. It is a place where clan members worship their ancestors.

The ancestral hall enshrines the tablets of the ancestors of the family, recording the glory and tradition of the family. It is the temple of the family and a symbol and logo of China's long history and culture.

Li Junge stood outside the gate of the ancestral hall and looked around.

The main gate and roof of Li's ancestral hall are carved from a large piece of large bluestone, which demonstrates the strong economic strength of the Li family in those days.

On the roof are two intertwined chi kisses with scales and claws, hovering along the ridge of the roof, and then raising their heads to the sky at the two corners of the roof.Each of the two chi kisses guards a disk, one for the lunar yin and one for the sun.

The ridge of the roof is carved into a tiled roof style, pulled out a perfect arc, and the bottom is made into tiles and dripping water. Each tile and dripping water is carved with auspicious flowers and plants.

The entire roof is supported by as many as nineteen floors of stone-carved bucket arches on two huge square stone pillars.The weight of the roof is evenly and perfectly transferred to the stone pillars, and there are many small dragons coiled around the bucket arches, that is, Wen Mang, which adds a bit of liveliness and vitality to the solemn and solemn ancestral hall.

Further down are two huge square stone pillars. The bottom of the stone pillars is not an ordinary auspicious beast. On the left is a stone drum, and on the right is a stone horn.

Li Junge estimated that this was also influenced by the local ethnic minority, the Miao.

These two things are very magical. When you hit the stone drum, it can make a thumping sound, just like a real big drum, and the stone horn can also make a melodious sound. When I was young, Li Junge and his friends often came here to compete who would play it. be loud.

A couplet is engraved on the two square stone pillars: "Three provinces, a hundred generations of families".

Going forward into the entrance hall, you will face the Yimen. In the middle are two black lacquered doors. On the door, there is a pair of sacred beast Jiaotu biting the door knockers. The door knockers have been rubbed by people for many years, and they look shiny and thick.

A huge vertical door plaque is engraved on the top of the door. The door plaque is surrounded by gourds, ganoderma lucidum, bats and other auspicious signs.

Entering the gate of Yi, there are two horse corridors covered with green tiles on the left and right sides.In front of it is a shadow wall, on which is inlaid a stone tablet with a poem engraved on it.

"The imperial court hears about Fangzheng, Tian Ze records his loyalty, virtuous thinks about the king's rain, and has a moral and respectful style."

This is the Li family's generation poem.

The character generation in the family is called Zi Pai in some places, so the character generation poem is also called "Zi Pai Poetry".

Character generation is the order of characters used in a family's naming according to seniority. The main purpose of using character generation is to prevent the confusion of family members' generation, and to avoid the confusion of family generation order caused by no character generation or not naming according to character generation.

Like ancestral halls, character generation is also a product of the patriarchal family system, or collective creation, or writing by celebrities, and it is also bestowed by the emperor.When a family member comes out of a family, or raises a person, it often establishes and continues a school for the family.It is a subculture of Chinese Confucianism.

For the convenience of reciting and memorizing, Zidai is usually written as gejue, that is, it is written as catchy poems that rhyme. This is the origin of Zidai poetry.

Character generation poems can be four-character, five-character, or seven-character.

Named according to the order stipulated in the poems of generation and generation, the elders and children are orderly, and people of the same clan and common ancestors can have a sense of intimacy and affinity. For the family, this is a concentrated expression of cohesion.

The selected characters in Zidai poems must have auspicious meanings, clear and clear pronunciation, and must not have homonyms with inauspicious words, and cannot use uncommon or easy-to-style characters, and cannot be complicated and difficult to recognize.It has many merits.

Looking at the whole poem, it must conform to the grammatical logic and be smooth and clear, with elegant meaning and literary talent. If it is written in classical quatrains or regulated poems, it needs to be further deliberated about the rhythm of the poem.

The content of the verses generally means self-cultivation and family harmony, peace of the people and governance of the country, auspiciousness and well-being, and prosperity.It is usually the teaching or expectation of the clan to its own children.

From the Li family's character generation poems, it can be seen that there have been 36 generations from the character "Shen" of Duke Shen Qing to the character "Jun" of Li Junge.

The elders of the family took down the stele and put it at the bottom of their own stove to protect it. Now the stele still has traces of being burned.

Around the screen wall is a small square, with six large water tanks on the left and right sides of the small square, in which some water lilies and cattails are planted, and a few swimming fish are also raised.

In front of the small square is a stage. In front of the stage, an old man is sweeping the floor with a long, thin bamboo broom.

The old man is still tall and straight, with a rosy complexion and no wrinkles. His silver hair is combed back into a big back, and he has a "childlike face with white hair".

The dress is different from that of ordinary villagers. The old man is dressed in a moon-white Tang suit and black cloth shoes, with a refined and subtle temperament.

Seeing the old man in front of him, Li Junge couldn't help being excited, ran to the old man in small steps, and bowed respectfully.

The old man raised his head and saw that it was Li Junge. He could not help but smile slightly, his eyes were clear, full of kindness and love.It was Li Junge's fourth grandfather, Li Liangchu.

(End of this chapter)