A Study On Ancestor Worshipping Of Zhangzhou In Qing Dynasty

Zhuang Family has been about three hundred years since the ancestors in this family immigrated from Guangdong province,which really can be seen as an epitome of patriarchal clans’ development of Nanjing county in Ming and Qing Dynasties.The ancestral temples system of ancestral halls,atrial-branches temples,formed an important basis for the clan ancestor worshipping,and atrial-branches temples’ spreading and the prosperity of its ancestral worshipping in local places also witnessed the development of the Clan Family Zhuang;meanwhile,memorial tablets has become a vital bridge to contacting ancestral temples and ancestor worshipping together as well as an realization form for ancestor worshipping.The clan ancestor worshipping in Family Zhuang has steady material basis.Concretely showed by jitian,jiazufuhui and shalin.In Zhuang’s long-term business processes,they also tried out some special management methods,which ensured the long-term stable operation of thier clan business,but also provided a solid material basis for clan ancestor worshipping.In Family Zhuang’s genealogy,it directly manifested the contents of clan ancestor worshipping in the Qing Dynasty,such as ancestor worship-ceremony and so on.The specific processes and contents of ancestor worshipping in Zhuang Family not only partly inherited the regulation of the Chinese book,named Jialia,but also had some kind of self-adjustment according to this basis.For ancestor worshipping,content that was being the most the most ceremony-characteristic and typical was the sacrifice and funeral orations.The content is furnished by strict constraints from family etiquette.At same time,it showed out characteristics of conventionalization,and embodied the clan’s preciseness and much attention on ancestor worshipping.In Qing Dynasty,ancestor worshipping in Clan Family Zhuang features in relative circle expansion,etiquette conventionalization of ancestor worshipping and the worship of ancestors and gods together.With ancestor worshipping,the local clan organization gained a more powerful integration and cohesion to the clan members;in the clan,the gentry class also realized the derivation of the clan authority through the participation in the specific ancestor worshipping activities and the formulation of the relevant conventions,which played a civilizing role in township;what’s more,ancestor worshipping was also an important link to contact the members of Zhuang Family who were beyond overseas and in Taiwan.However,ancestor worshipping events or the fields for ancestor worshipping would lead to internal disputes or disputes among clans.What’s worse,because of frequency and too much cost of ancestor worshipping,it would lead to the reduction and loss of accumulation of clans and local property.Ancestor worshipping,as a popular cultural phenomenon in patriarchal society in China,with the pursuit of interests as its ultimate orientation,was essentially based on the confucianism that can be concluded in Chinese words Shen Zhong Zhui Yuan and Li Yi Xiao Ti.As for Yi and Li,Yi is the ethical basis to achieve groups’ pursuit of interests.However,only the pursuit of Li is under the condition of insistence on Yi,can it guarantee the realization on Chinese Li Yi,propriety and righteousness.