What's the significance of repairing ancestral halls?

It's no stranger to ancestral halls. Almost every big family has an ancestral hall. The ancestral hall is a place for future generations to worship and mourn their ancestors, and it is also a place for families to inherit fine spirits. Let's take a look at the significance of repairing the ancestral temple. What's the significance of building ancestral temples? 1

Nostalgia and remembering ancestors are the first main reasons why the South is keen on building ancestral temples.

The ancestral temple is the bond of clan ties, and everyone has a sense of honor for his family, which is beyond doubt.

Ancestral temples are a way of comparison between clans. In the past, clans would gather together to keep warm and sometimes even fight because of the competition for land, water and other resources.

Finally, the thought that leaves fall to the roots is actually an instinct of many people, and the ancestral temple is precisely the continuation of this nostalgia. It's better to have faith than not to have faith. It's a kind of belief to miss one's hometown and recognize one's family.

"A towering tree must have its roots; No matter where you are, no matter how far you drift, wanderers are most concerned about it, and even dreaming about it is such a sentence-"Who am I?" where i was from? Where am I going? Where is my root? . . 。” This endless consciousness of seeking roots has enhanced the sense of identity, centripetal force and cohesion of the Chinese nation.

Ancestral hall is the spiritual center of a family, the center of belief, the center of worship ceremonies, meetings, friendship and all activities, and the center of our spiritual beliefs. Ancestral hall culture has always been regarded as a symbol of clan in China's traditional national culture.

There is a popular saying recently that some people, especially some foreigners, are all unfriendly foreigners. It is sad and short-lived to say that China people have no faith, lack faith and are a nation without faith. I think our Chinese nation is not short of faith, and it is a nation with firm faith.

Our beliefs are not gods, ghosts, Jesus or Sakyamuni, but real people and our ancestors. It is precisely because of this belief that our motherland and our nation have lasted for thousands of years without interruption. No country in the world can compare with our country and our nation. Incense continued for 5 years, spread and lived in 5 years, and stood on its own in the forest of the world in 5 years.

Ancestral hall has become a' core gathering place' for family inheritance, representing a belief, a heritage and a culture.

Ancestral temples have the functions of uniting clans, offering sacrifices, uniting and collecting clans, promoting culture and education, and cultural functions (public welfare). In the ancestral hall, clansmen get together for discussion, drink water and think about the source, remember the achievements of ancestors, praise the kindness of ancestors, and the feeling of thinking about ancestors is integrated into fine wine, and the concept of worshipping ancestors is further strengthened.

In the past, ancestral temples were mostly used for running schools and schools. For example, before liberation and the early days of the People's Republic of China, Zhaojia Ancestral Temple in Gurao Town, Lieshan District, Huaibei City, Anhui Province was a complete school from primary school to middle school.

In the old days, genealogy was also an important task in the daily management of clan management. Compile genealogy, record the directories of all the men and women in the clan, so as to comprehensively document, trace back to the source, know the root, distinguish the main branch, the Ming lineage, rank Zhao Mu, describe the clan style, cherish family ties, promote virtue and aspire to the present situation.

As Sun Yat-sen said on genealogy, "Genealogy describes the expansion of the Chinese nation from the unity of clans to the great unity of the nation. This is a good traditional concept unique to China people and should be used." "The relationship between the nationals of China and the structure of the state begins with the family and then the clan, and then the state."

nowadays, we can learn about the family name and descendants, the generation and development of the family name, and the arduous course of the family name from the hall tablets, couplets, lineage tables and family genealogy of the ancestors in previous dynasties. 2

What is the significance of building ancestral temples in rural areas? I think ancestral temples are equivalent to a root. Although they no longer live in the village under the same surname as before, there is an ancestral temple. When we meet at some festivals, we will remember where our roots are, and there is a genealogy in the ancestral temple.

From the genealogy, we can know which year our ancestors came to this land. Moreover, people in the clan can be gathered in the form of ancestral halls, and many resources are more convenient to integrate and often relatively United. Let's talk about this problem together.

1. Ancestral temples are popular in southern China, especially in Guangdong, Fujian and Hainan. In the city where I live in Hainan, there is a ancestral temple with a surname in the village, a temple built together in a town, and a general ancestral temple with a surname in Hainan. Basically, it can be traced back to the first generation of ancestors who came to settle in Hainan from the inland

, and then the descendants of the first generation of ancestors settled in various places in Hainan, and lived in a village with their surnames. Each village has its own genealogy, recording the year when their ancestors came to settle in this village. When there is an activity in a village ancestral temple, such as building a ancestral temple or opening a genealogy registration once in decades or hundreds of years, brothers with the same surname from other places will come to the ceremony to entertain.

Second, in Hainan, some ancestral temples with surnames will set up some foundations in the form of ancestral temples. When children of the same clan are admitted to universities and other things, they can allocate funds from the foundations to reward them, and when there are some major events in the clan, they can use these funds, so that while helping other people in the clan, some young people in the clan can pay more attention to the affairs of the clan and make some preparations for the future of the clan.

Third, the significance of establishing ancestral halls, in my opinion, is not only to let yourself know where your roots are, but also to gather other people in the ancestral halls in the form of ancestral halls, so that a lot of resources can be more conveniently integrated and things can be done in the form of a group. This way has benefited many people who are weak in society, and I think this is one reason why people in southern China have always admired ancestral halls in this form. Gather people in the form of ancestral temples, unite and cooperate, and create a better life together. What's the significance of building ancestral halls? 3

The main purpose of building ancestral halls is to offer sacrifices to ancestors, but apart from offering sacrifices to accidents, ancestral halls are also places where grandchildren of various houses can handle weddings, funerals, longevity and happiness.

The ancestral hall is the center of a clan, and it is the place for clan discussion, gathering and law enforcement. The construction of the ancestral hall can enhance the sense of honor, clan concept and cohesion of the clan internally, show its prestige externally and raise its clan status.

Extended information:

In ancient Confucian ethics in China, the concept of family was quite profound. Often, a village lived with one family or several families, and more temples were built to worship its ancestors.

Ancestral temples also often appear in Japan. This kind of family temple is generally called "ancestral temple", which can be divided into ancestral halls, branch temples and family temples. The name "ancestral temple" first appeared in the Han dynasty, when ancestral temples were built in tombs, called tombs; In the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhu Xi's "Family Rites" established the system of ancestral halls, and from then on, he called the family temples ancestral halls.

At that time, ancestral halls were built in grades, and people were not allowed to set up ancestral halls. In Jiajing, Ming Dynasty, "many people all joined the ancestral temple", but later they were called "family temple" after being an emperor or a marquis, and the rest were called ancestral halls.

Most ancestral temples have hall numbers, which are written by calligraphers of clansmen or foreign surnames, and made into gold plaques which are hung high in the main hall, with other plaques hanging beside them, such as the origin of surnames, the glory of clansmen, the chastity of women, etc.

If it is an imperial seal, a "straight plaque" can be made. The specifications and quantity of the plaques in the ancestral hall are the capital of the people to show off. Some ancestral temples have flagpole stones in front of them, indicating that the people have won fame.

Generally speaking, the ancestral temple has a surname and a shrine. In the old days, the clan rules were very strict, not to mention the foreign surname, that is, the women or underage children in the clan were not allowed to enter it at ordinary times, otherwise they would be severely punished.