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Chapter 57 Family Ancestor Worship (Please collect and recommend)
When the group came to the town, they went straight to the market stalls.

There are a lot of people in the town today, even though today is not a market day, everyone wants to take advantage of this day to make more money.

After going to the street, you can hear all kinds of yelling, hawking, and bargaining.

Along the way, the fourth grandpa led the three juniors, and first came to a place at the intersection of the street that sold incense paper firecrackers.

Today these things are big, and there are a lot of them to buy.

In the end, I bought two big boxes of firecrackers and a lot of scented paper candles.

People in the mountains go to the mountains to worship their ancestors. There is nothing else to compare with. The only thing to compare is whose firecrackers are bought big and last for a long time.

Nowadays, most of the cannons bought on Jishang are earthen cannons, and they are relatively cheap. Unlike later generations, there are more electric firecrackers sold, and earthen cannons have also become very expensive for various reasons.

The fourth grandfather took four strings of earth cannons with a thousand rings alone.

After buying these things, we will start to buy vegetables. Uncle Jianzhong has learned to be a cook, and he often cooks big banquets for other people's homes in the village.

So what kind of food to buy next depends on his arrangement.

The first thing is to go to the butcher stall. You must buy meat. There are more than [-] people eating, so you always buy more meat.

The price of meat now is much cheaper than before the Chinese New Year. The price of three five yuan, bought more than ten catties.

Every family in the family grows a lot of vegetables, so there is no need to buy vegetables at home, saving some money.For example, garlic moss and fungus are not available at home, so you need to buy some.

Everyone's idea is that money should be spent wisely and not wasted blindly.

In the end, the 200 yuan that everyone collected was still left.

Originally, Zhang An wanted to buy more things, but this is a collective matter, and he can't just buy this or that if he has money, and other people will have opinions.

To others, it appears that you can.

So Zhang An finally bought a box of apples and brought them up the mountain as offerings.

Today, there is no loose wine on the street, because when it comes to baijiu, the glutinous rice wine and sorghum wine roasted in the village are better, and many people go to the village to buy them.

A few people drove to buy things, and finally sold out and didn't put much in the bucket.

However, when he met many people from the village on the road, Zhang An helped them put their things on the way, and they left together.

At home, Zhang An's mother, Wang Fang, took a few aunts and began to pick vegetables and wash rice for cooking.

The rice is brought by each family, because they are all in the village and are close to each other.No one needs to tell you about this. Anyway, no one has said that you must bring rice, but everyone brings rice by themselves.

This may be an unwritten rule developed by the older generation when they were still in a large group. At that time, they had to bring their own dry food when they went to other people's homes for banquets.

So until now, such a collective organization has to bring its own rations. After so many years, everyone has not forgotten it.

I also don't want to be pointed at by others because of this.

Zhang An fished two big grass carp from home to make braised fish. When the uncle on the street said he wanted to buy them, Zhang An stopped them.

If you say you have it at home, you can just go and catch it at home when the time comes.

Everyone knows that the fish in Zhang An's pond are well fed, so they are not polite.

These seven or eight catties of big grass carp are rare even in the river, and it is not easy to catch them.

A few women were busy at home, and then the family's fourth grandfather took the family's man and children to go up the mountain to repair the grave.

The second grandpa played paper banners at home.

Because every family has to hang one, as long as the separated family has to hang up, there are quite a lot of demands, so the second grandfather stays at home to fight.

In fact, there are sales in the town, but the second grandfather still wants to buy blank paper to type.

Because the ones sold in the town are too thin, there are only a few layers of paper streamers, and there is only a little bit of hanging.

In fact, at the end of the new year, everyone went to practice one.

But no one thinks that I have done this kind of thing too many times. This is mainly to express my respect for my ancestors.

Along the way, I followed the fourth grandfather over the mountains and ridges, repairing my family's ancestral graves one by one, shoveling grass, adding soil and so on.

When the adults are repairing the tomb, some children will help, and some will look for Mengzi everywhere.

In this season, there are already some Mengzi on the mountain that can be eaten, such as Baimeng, whose fruit is white. It is shaped like a strawberry, but much smaller than a strawberry.

The fruit of Baimeng is red when it is not ripe, but it turns white when it is ripe. It tastes sweet and is loved by adults and children.

When Zhang An was young, every time he saw Baimeng on the mountain, he liked to pick it up and take it home to eat with him. He was reluctant to eat it when he was on the mountain.

There is also a kind of Mengzi whose whole body is bright red, and its shape is not too different from that of Baimeng. Just eat it.

Most of the dolls go up the mountain to play, but more to let them come to recognize the ground.

Otherwise, when the old people are gone, they will not know their ancestral graves, which will make people laugh out loud.

This kind of thing is not unheard of. In later generations, many young people in the village have been working outside.

When I went back to my hometown to hang the paper, I ran to the wrong grave and hung it on someone else's ancestral grave.

In the end, the two families fought over the ancestral grave.

Except for the tombs of Zhang An's grandparents, other ancestral tombs of Zhang An's family are scattered all over the place.

So you have to run from one place to another.

They were all in the mountains, running down in a circle, and it was already afternoon.

On the way home, everyone also picked a lot of young bracken, which can be taken home to make a dish.

When Zhang An and his party came back from the mountain, the ingredients at home were all ready.

The young ferns that everyone picked were cut out immediately, and Uncle Jianzhong was in charge of the cooking.

Finally, the big pots brought from each house were filled with the dishes cooked by the uncle, and the rice steamed in several steamers were packed, and each person picked some by tying ropes.

Because this meal is not eaten at home, it has to be eaten at the graveyard.

This year, we spent time at the tomb of Grandpa Zhang An, so the adults picked up the prepared meals.

The children help to carry the bowls and chopsticks, and the rest have to take incense paper offerings.

All the old people were enshrined, and after the earthen cannons were set off, they finally went to Grandpa Zhang An.

Today's weather is very face-saving, although it is still gloomy, but there is no rain, so everyone can have a picnic on the mountain.

This is a local custom. First, it expresses the yearning and respect for the ancestors, and second, it also means a family outing.

But if it rains, then there is no way to go, only a few people go up the mountain to worship, and then return home for dinner.

In the morning, Zhang An and his team had already cut out the grass dam here, and now there is a flat land here, which is very convenient for everyone to have a picnic.

The old man sat around a table with the men, while the women and children of the family made a table.

Everyone ate happily, which completely diluted the gloomy atmosphere of the Qingming festival.

This may be the main meaning of the rise of this custom at that time, nostalgia but not sorrow, let the dead and the reborn witness the rise and fall of the family together.

By the time everyone finished eating, it was getting late.

Everyone helped clean up the pots and pans, kowtowed to the ancestors one by one, extinguished the mountain fire, and checked that there were no fire starters before the family went down the mountain and went home.

There are too many accidents of mountain fires caused by worshiping ancestors during the Qingming Festival, so in the past few years, all places have been focusing on forest fire prevention.

As the so-called set fire to the mountain, sit in prison.

Back home, everyone gathers together in the morning and disperses in the evening.

The hostesses of each family will go to wash the pots and pans, and then share their own things together.

And in the morning, everyone pooled up the money, after shopping, they have to settle accounts with each family in the evening.

For the missing part, everyone will gather together, and the extra part will be divided up.

As a result, there are still more than [-] yuan left today, and each family only has a little over one yuan.

So Zhang An suggested that they should not divide it up, and put it here with the fourth grandfather, and then get together to buy things together next year.

Anyway, there is not much for each family.

After everything has been dealt with, everyone will go back to their respective homes.

It is more convenient for Zhang An's family to be in the village.

There are many families in the village, and some branches have moved out to other villages, but they bring their families here every year.

This is probably the most important day of the year for everyone.

Even though the Ching Ming Festival was added to the legal holidays in later generations, fewer people organized ancestor worship.

As soon as the Qingming Festival passed, the rapeseed flowers all over the mountain began to fully bloom.

Many of the cherry trees on the mountain have already entered the flowering and withering period, bearing small cherries. A few days ago, there was a snow-white mountain, but now there are not many cherry blossoms in full bloom.

Wait a little more than a month for the cherries to hit the market.

I have a car this year, and the cherries in the space will be easy to deal with.

Zhang An has always felt that there are so many things in the space, which is a bit wasted.

Still have to find a time so that more people can enjoy such a good thing.

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