In the Nanwang WaterShed Hub Ruins Park, the gonggong of the Grand Canal was performed by song gong and baigong

The scene of the public festival

Oriental Holy City Network News (reporter Li Shuowei) "The two sides of the canal are in the same vein, drinking canal water, and we came here from Hangzhou at the southern end of the canal to be more like relatives." "Yesterday morning, in the Nanwang Water Diversion Hub Ruins Park in Wenshang County, dozens of descendants of folk water conservancy experts Bai Ying, descendants of Shangshu Song Li of the Ministry of Works, and more than 100 artists of the Hangzhou Opera and Dance Theater held public sacrifices for song gong and bai gong, who were heroes of the Grand Canal.

In the "Three Prayers" and "Lazy Prostrations" public sacrifice ceremonies, the descendants of the Song and Bai still follow the ritual process of thousands of years ago, and before liberation, the Song and Bai Ancestral Hall complexes in the ruins park began to be dilapidated because of their disrepair, and some of the rooms that could be used were also converted into schools. The 82-year-old Bai Xianzhang, the 20th-generation grandson of Bai Ying, has worked as a teacher in the reformed school. According to his recollection, when he was a teacher, whenever there was a large-scale sacrifice activity, the students would take a holiday, and the villagers who sacrificed would prepare three animals and wear bright clothing to collectively sacrifice the ancestors, a long and solemn process. With the passage of time, the Song and Bai ancestral halls were destroyed to varying degrees, and the descendants of the Song Gong and the White Gong had to stop the sacrifice activities because there was no place for sacrifice. "After 2012, we started worshipping our ancestors again." Bai Xianwei, 63, said that since the Restoration and Excavation of the Song and Bai Ancestral Halls in the Nanwang WaterShed Hub Ruins Park, the descendants of the sages like him have a place to worship their ancestors, and he believes that the ancestral hall is not only a place of sacrifice for them, but also a link that connects the Bai family.

Songzhuang was a village established for the shouciers from Henan after the Song Gong built the ancestral hall. Song Yinzhe, the 21st grandson of the Duke of Song, told reporters that when his ancestors moved from Henan to Wenshang, the emperor gave him nearly 46 hectares of land, which enjoyed the preferential policy of never paying grain in that dynasty.