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Qingming Festival is one of the 24 solar terms in the mainland, and it is also a traditional festival for us.
Ancestor worship and tomb sweeping are the most typical sacrificial activities of the Qingming Festival.
As the saying goes: the leaves fall back to the roots, and the most recognized thing by the Chinese at present is to worship the ancestors and seek the roots.
With the improvement of the people's living standards, all kinds of ancestral worship and root-seeking sacrificial activities emerge in endlessly, "South China F3" began various sacrificial activities in March, and the hard-core ancestor worship method of carrying pigs up the mountain and burning incense underwater has made the masses in other regions dumbfounded.
Recently, the mainland women's Olympic diving champion Quan Hongchan's family Qingming ancestor worship scene has also aroused heated discussions, and some netizens commented that this is the real glory of the ancestors.
However, the comments on this family ancestor worship activity are also mixed, and some people even say that Quan Hongchan is too public!
Next, let's take an in-depth analysis of this family ancestor worship activity, why a family ancestor worship activity can cause such a strong reaction from netizens.
Quan Hongchan's family worships ancestors
Those who often watch sports programs, when it comes to Quan Hongchan, everyone should be very familiar with it, the well-known Olympic champion and Grand Slam athlete, this honor is not something that everyone can have.
This is not only a very glorious aspect for her personally, but also to earn face for the country, and the fact that an ordinary family can produce an Olympic champion is also to win glory for the whole family.
At the time of the Qingming Festival, Quan Hongchan's family also worships their ancestors like other ordinary families, and Quan Hongchan's hometown is in Guangdong, and Cantonese people pay great attention to these traditions.
Especially in Zhanjiang, on the day of the Qingming Festival, all her family members gathered together and held a very grand ancestor worship activity, with nearly 100 people participating in the sacrifice site, and even the costumes were very uniform.
The scene is also full of all kinds of sacrificial supplies, which can be said to be quite rich, the scene is very spectacular, and even a banner was pulled for Quan Hongchan at the scene, and the people of the whole clan were cheering for her, but fortunately, Quan Hongchan did not show up that day.
If you show up, it is estimated that there are more than 100 people at the scene, and many fans of star-chasing will come here, this is the sacrifice of other people's own families, and it is too casual for others to join.
Therefore, there are certain safety and convenience considerations for Quan Hongchan not appearing, but it is his own people who have caused questions and discussions about the cheering banner pulled by Quan Hongchan, and everyone thinks that this sacrifice is specially for Quan Hongchan.
There is even an unscrupulous title party that says that Quan Hongchan enjoys the best Qingming sacrifice treatment in the family, and I have to say that the Internet This forest is really big, and any bird can see it.
Some people think that Quan Hongchan is the only one who has attained the Tao, and the whole family is stained with light, thinking that the people of the family are hyping up through marketing, and it feels like they are afraid that everyone will forget that she is the champion.
In fact, these are all unscrupulous media using things to play a role in stirring up the heat, Quan Hongchan's Guangdong, has always regarded the Qingming Festival as a top priority, and the Zhanjiang family where Quan Hongchan is located now has 26 generations of descendants.
There are more than 100,000 people in the whole family, so this ancestor worship activity of more than 100 people is a very common thing for them.
And with her own efforts, Quan Hongchan entered the national team from a small county, representing China to compete in all regions of the world, which is to win glory for the country and the family, and it is natural to enter the glorious history of the family tree, and the ancestors and the world are proud of her, and use her as an example to inspire future generations.
There is nothing wrong with this, and it is very normal for such ancestor worship activities to be very large, so the point of controversy is not the ancestor worship itself, but the belief that Quan Hongchan was consumed, but in fact, this is not the case.
Quan Hongchan did win glory for the family, but it did not confirm the sentence that one person has attained the Tao and the chicken dog ascends to heaven, because in Quan Hongchan's family, there has always been a sick old mother.
Quan Hongchan also said many times in an interview with the media that her goal is to win more championships and earn more money for her mother's treatment, indeed as an ordinary family, if someone in the family is seriously ill, naturally this burden will fall on her father, but Quan Hongchan still has younger brothers and sisters, so she has to work hard to dive and win the championship, otherwise her mother at home will not have money for treatment.
And when her mother was seriously ill, she didn't see the help of the whole family, there was a lot of help, so Quan Hongchan didn't use her fame to consume, and her family didn't either, everyone is working hard and trying their best to win glory for this family.
North-South Ritual Difference
The reason why everyone thinks that Quan Hongchan is involved in the Qingming turmoil is that everyone thinks that this ancestor worship activity is too grand, this is because of the difference between the Qingming sacrifice in the north and the south, and the importance of ancestor worship activities is different Compared with southerners, northerners are relatively simple for ancestor worship activities such as tomb sweeping.
In the north, ancestral halls are relatively scarce, and the clan concept of northerners is not as strong as that of southerners, and northerners are more likely to pay tribute to their deceased immediate family members, and there are no requirements for those who participate in the sacrifice. In the south, the whole family is required to be present to pay tribute to the deceased relatives of the entire family.
Especially in mainland China, South China attaches great importance to the tomb sweeping of ancestors during the Qingming Festival, especially Yueguiqiong, that is, Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan.
Quan Hongchan is a native of Guangdong, and the whole family is relatively large, even if the identity of Quan Hongchan Olympic champion is abandoned, it is not uncommon for a relatively large family in Guangdong to hold a grand ancestor worship ceremony, so from this aspect, the ancestor worship activities of the whole family are just a normal regional Qingming custom.
The meaning of the sacrifice
The reason why there is such a big difference between the north and the south is that the north and the south have different understandings of the meaning of sacrifice.
And more people choose to travel during the Qingming Festival, in addition to paying tribute to their ancestors, it is also an annual day for the family to reunite, and the family can finally get together to relax.
The south is different, the southerners worship their ancestors more to reflect the feelings of the deceased, pray for the blessings of the living, the southerners use the way of burning paper and lighting candles to let the deceased relatives live better in the other world, so that future generations remember the road taken by the predecessors.
Now the happy life is on the basis of them, so that future generations do not forget the ancestors, always put the ancestors in their hearts, to be sincere to get the protection of the ancestors, to help the family and individuals grow stronger.
From the rituals held, the offerings reflect the living conditions of the living and pray for the blessings of the living generations.
As the Olympic champion, Quan Hongchan naturally adds glory to the family, and holding a grand ancestor worship activity is also a true reflection of the glory of the ancestors, relying on her own ability to improve the social status and family conditions of her family and family, and she should celebrate with her ancestors.
Secondly, Quan Hongchan still has a longer way to go in the future, and in a superstitious way, it is to let the ancestors of the Quan family bless Quan Hongchan in the spirit of heaven to go further in the future, achieve better results, and give Quan Hongchan a good omen.
Therefore, the best explanation for online comments that consume Quan Hongchan may be that they don't know much about the meaning of ancestor worship in the south, so there is no need to be too entangled in whether Quan Hongchan's family ancestor worship is consuming Quan Hongchan.
epilogue
Quan Hongchan family ancestor worship let us see more of its family's emphasis on tradition, but also let us see the Guangdong people as always attach importance to family cultural traditions, modern society is constantly developing, we pay attention to the modern while should pay more attention to the protection and promotion of the foundation of traditional culture, China as a large country with thousands of years of culture, there are many excellent traditions are very worthy of everyone to excavate.
We should learn more from the Quan Hongchan family, insist on inheriting and carrying forward the excellent family culture, and carry forward the cultural activity of worshipping ancestors, which is to respect the tradition.