Guangxi Hezhou Hakka Ancestor To Worship

The Hakkas is a Han Nationality people department's branch, Hezhou Hakkas is a Hakkas's part. Hezhou Hakka are mostly from Guangdong in the Qing Dynasty moved, they distribute to Hezhou conceal in the one area and the three county. Their social position relatively is higher than the native. Hezhou Hakkas folk belief to be extremely many, but speaking of Hezhou Hakkas ancestor to worship the belief, has constructs the ancestral hall, repairs the grave, repairs the genealogy, pastes the tanghao and tanglian, the title of a house and so on several aspects contentsThe ancestral hall is the ancestor worships one of content performance. The ancestral hall already existed in the pre-Qin period, but arrived the Song Dynasty only then to popularize in the folk. The ancestral hall is patriarchal clan's important constituent. The ancestral hall is the consanguineous descendants exchanges in the spirit with the ancestor, recalled the ancestor presents the first place. The ancestral hall representative patriarchal clan culture, is having the intense cohesive force, the affinity, simultaneously also has, exclusiveness limitation and so on the seal. Its root lies in the Chinese tradition the small peasant economy. The ancestral hall construction has come under many aspects influences and the restriction: One, receives Chinese tradition geomancy view the influence. Two, received at that time the legal restriction. Hezhou Hakkas generally all to move into in Qing Dynasty, their ancestral hall all is constructs in at that time, their ancestral hall generally is divides in half, has minority is only three standard widths. Hezhou Hakkas to construct the ancestral hall to offer sacrifices the object to have two kinds: One, or a nearer ancestor establishes take the ancestral home first ancestor as the object; Two, is enters celebrates the first ancestor or is celebrating the ancestor to construct. In order to maintain the ancestral hall sacredness and the dignity, protected the ancestral temple to be neat and the incense and candle has continues, Hezhou Hakkas extremely to take to the ancestral hall management, to formulate a series of management rule. The ancestral hall is the ancestor God in world of the living residence, in order to express the posterity not to forget the ancestor, does not forget the basis, they must offer a sacrifice to the ancestral hall. Offers a sacrifice to the ancestral hall to have after the preparation sacrificial offering, the sacrificial offering ceremony, to clarify the spectrum says teaches, gathers the food to meet for dinner four procedures. The ancestral hall offered a sacrifice to the process to manifest has Hezhou Hakkas to recall the ancestor, did not forget the origin, the cooperation unity, educated aspect the and so on posterity contentThe grave also is the ancestor worships mainly manifests one. Hezhou Hakkas to be in vogue two time buries the custom. In enters celebrated in front of the state, the Hezhou Hakkas...