New Year 17
Chinese New Year's Eve, the filial son and grandson will be written in the order of the ancestors of the "family ancestors" to pick up, the ancestors of the tablets are placed on the offering, and then to the field grave on the incense paper to invite the ancestors' souls home for the New Year, enjoy the sacrifice incense.
After the end of the year, fifteen and sixteen are over, the ancestors and undead who invited the family should also return to the tomb, the seventeenth day of the first month, the head of the family through the "wish", the family ancestor from the wall "please" (plucked) down, rolled up and solemnly stored, this process is called "the seventeenth volume of the first month of the ancestral oracle".
After breakfast on this day, the principal and the descendants of the clan prostrate their heads in front of the ancestral tablets, and then burn incense "wish words": grandparents, grandmothers, grandmothers, grandmothers, grandmothers... All the deceased people have been chanting one by one, the year is over, the festival is over, tonight should go down to the ground to send lights to burn paper, please return to the grave to collect your money, enjoy the lights, "wish", some take incense to the tomb, some leave behind to roll the ancestral words.
Picking the ancestral method should be respectful, dusting should be careful, the action is gentle, roll up the treasure, every year, it has formed the custom of picking the ancestral law, thirty or forty years ago, the ancestral edict is mostly paper, easy to fold, pick and then collect, must be rolled, so it has become customary, in recent years people are rich, the pursuit of sturdiness and durability, gradually changed to cloth, folded up when harvesting, but people still say that it is "scroll ancestors".
After the completion of the "scroll ancestors", some people bring incense foil to the grave, and the tomb is burned separately, and some people save trouble and burn it to a grave, and the "wish" is given to "you and a certain grandmother to tie the flowers." After more savings, burn together at night when bringing lamps to the grave.
Send lights to the grave
Every year, after dinner on the seventeenth day of the first month, every household lights or candles for all the graves of the dead, which is called "sending lamps". It is to light up and illuminate the undead, so that it is convenient to spread the bed.
On this day, everyone has to eat dinner in advance, it is a kind of relatively convenient and simple meal, the sun does not set before dinner, after the meal, the men lead their children and grandchildren to carry incense foil, candles, firecrackers and fireworks to the grave.
When you get to the ground, the sky is gradually dimming, first burn incense, and then light candles one by one to send to each grave, if there is a wind afraid of blowing out the candles, just plan a small pit in front of the grave, put the candle lamp into the pit, the wind will not be able to blow out.
While sending lamps, adults also have to "wish": "Grandmother, grandparents, or father or mother who wishes to speak who, after the New Year you return to the grave, today a seventeen grin, send you a lamp lighting, please take advantage of the bright bed, make a quilt, spread flat, sleep vigorously."
Burning foil before and after sending lights can be, if it is burned during the day, it can also not be burned at night.
After the lights are delivered, fireworks, cannons, whips, fires, fireworks, fireworks,
If a family has two cemeteries, some people with many hands can go separately, or go to this cemetery and then go to another cemetery, one cannot be left behind, and several common ancestors should go to every family.
There are many people in the same family, the ancestors of the same door and the ancestors of the same surname, every year there are generations, the elderly and diligent people, to the ancestors "filial piety", door to door to collect fireworks money, one is according to the head of the person, and then the rich can take more money, gathered, several people discuss what fireworks to buy, go there to buy, and act together, handle the purchase back, to the seventeenth night, in the ancestral land, and some craftsmen personally followed the scene, teaching the operation on the spot to ignite.
The happiest person this night is the ten-year-old child, the first few days look forward to the fifteenth (Yuanxiao Festival), over the seventeenth, to this day will eagerly look forward to the dark, early urging the adults to prepare, take this and that, busy non-stop, afraid of forgetting something, delaying what, to the field to light the fireworks are the busiest people are them.
Sending lamps to the graves of the dead on the seventeenth night is a custom handed down from generation to generation, passed down from generation to generation, and every year, even the biggest political movement, such as "breaking the four returns" and "anti-superstition", have not been able to eliminate this custom. During the "Canteen" and the "Cultural Revolution", it disappeared for a year or two, and then revived. Even under the extremely difficult circumstances at that time, there were also lights lit on the graves of the stars, and in people's subconscious, the sending of lamps and the scale of fireworks were regarded as the degree of filial piety to the ancestors, which was to make the ancestors prominent, but also to do their own filial piety.
There are also unwritten unspoken rules for sending lamps to graves.
Parents choose another place, of course, children and grandchildren should go to send lamps, their cousins are convenient, they can also go, is to give the face of the living, do not go to say.
The grandfather's cemetery, cousins should go, who does not go means that he is not filial piety, does not understand things, and is scorned.
Great-grandfather, high ancestor, high great-grandfather... In the cemetery, all the grandchildren, descendants, and younger grandchildren should go to the tomb to send lamps, so the ancestral records of the family hall have a symmetrical connection:
Although the ancestors are far away, sacrifices must not be insincere
Although the children and grandchildren are foolish, they must not fail to read the scriptures
It is used to educate future generations to fulfill filial piety, read the Scriptures, and be loyal to the family. There are many descendants of the graveyards, the money is collected, the varieties of fireworks and firecrackers bought are many, the number is large, the time of firing is long and dazzling, and the whole village is full of old and young women and children. Men and the old and the weak stopped and watched from afar, and the children ran to the front, drilling through the cracks of people, picking up wastes such as splashing flower tubes, paper tubes, and bamboo poles.
This night's fireworks are indeed competing to be fired, the farmers, families, clans of the graveyard ancestral ancestral, then almost all lit together, it is really beautiful, like each showing off their filial piety, and like climbing more fireworks, beautiful colors, showing strength, the family prospered in the two hours of darkness, the whole earth is in a bright and brilliant world, the explosion of firecrackers rises and falls, endlessly, colorful fireworks, accompanied by a pleasant sound, constantly lifting into the air, reflecting the sky, holding the sky, full of long sky, one after another, Colorful, colorful, dazzling, lingering, until the glitter is gone, people in the dark reluctantly return to their homes.
In the old days, fireworks were not as large as they are now. Most households just lit a few cannons and set off a few gas fires, and they coped with the past. At that time, there was no money, I couldn't afford to buy it, not to mention, even if I had money, I didn't have so many beautiful varieties today.