The shazhou diary | the ancient charm of the Chu Ancestral Hall

Friday, January 7 Light rain

"Shazhou Zhu Clan Ancestral Hall rebuilt Daji!" In a thunderous applause, everyone's eyes focused on the new ancestral hall, and it was difficult to suppress the joy and excitement in their hearts. As the president of the Shazhou Ancestral Hall Council, I was even more moved when I looked at this weathered and rejuvenated ancestral hall.

There is a vision in all of us, that is, to seek the survival of the family. Hence the family system. The ancestral hall is the externalized expression of the family system. For thousands of years, China's family system has been intertwined in the pastoral style of life ideals, this ideal of life, pastoral feelings, the attitude of returning to the basics, in a way to seek happiness and avoid disasters, interpreting the light happiness of life.

Shazhou Zhu Clan Ancestral Hall was built in the Ming Dynasty, wooden pillar stone foundation, green brick Daiwa, three bays, two into the two halls and a patio, sitting east to west, brick and wood beam structure, horse head gable, gate tower heavy eaves rest on the top of the mountain. The gate is painted with door gods, with stone drums on both sides, and the upper part of the gate tower is decorated with double dragon play Zhuhong gate beams. Walking into the ancestral hall, you can see the shrine set up in the upper hall, and the box room is built behind the ancestral hall, and a waist door is opened on the left and right gables between the upper and lower halls.

Family culture is the presentation of Chinese ancestral hall culture, family culture is reduced is the small family culture, enlarged is the national state culture, home and the country is harmonious, the family is prosperous, the ancestral precepts of the Zhu family in the ancestral hall have always been our standard for doing things.

"A porridge and a meal, when thinking is not easy to come by; half a silk and half a wisp, the constant thought of material strength is difficult." This is only a corner of the ancestral training, but it is the ancestors' expectations for the descendants, and now Shazhou Village has formulated the implementation rules of the village rules and regulations in accordance with the ancestral training, which is a new development derived from the change of the times, with the essence of the ancestral hall culture left by the ancestors, so that the ancient ancestral hall in the rural revitalization of the new era vitality, so that the ancestral hall becomes a new era cultural landmark and a new spiritual home that people recognize and are proud of.

(Author: Zhu Fenyong, President of the Council of Shazhou Ancestral Hall)