Chapter: 2133

Gou Yanzhong nodded and said, "Your aunt is notorious in Yanjing for being hard to deal with. Who would have thought that going to Jinling would be the right medicine?"

Leaf Chen spoke calmly, "If she wasn't so overbearing, I wouldn't want to have anything to do with her either."

Gou Yanzhong smiled slightly and said, "Your grandfather also wants me to persuade you. If time permits, go take a look at the Ye family once, after the Spring Festival and the Qingming Festival, it'll be almost three months, and he hopes you can come back for the ancestral worship ceremony at Ye Ling Mountain."

Leaf Chen asked in surprise, "Host an ancestral worship ceremony?"

"Yes," Gou Yanzhong said. "Your Ye family originally holds an ancestral worship ceremony every 12 years, and this year is just right. The Ye Ling Mountain development has been going on for three years, and the ancestor tomb was moved last autumn, so this Qingming Festival will be the first one at the new location."

"So your grandfather wants to hold a grand ancestral worship ceremony, not just for our Ye family branch, but also for several national Ye branches to attend. As the heir of the Ye family, he hopes you can come and pay respects to your parents as well."

The Ye family ancestral worship is the most grandiose family ceremony in our entire family.

All families value ancestral worship, especially a family like ours with a long history and many branches. The deeper the roots of the family, the more they emphasize ancestral worship.

In fact, many wealthy families wish to hold a grand ancestral worship ceremony, but truly hosting such an event is not something any ordinary family can easily accomplish.

Some nouveau riche families might try to host an ancestral worship ceremony, but it's hard for them to reach this level.

Because these people's ancestral tomb might be buried with ancestors from recent three to four generations, and talking about their identity might have a few generations of farmers with no high-flying stories to pass down to future generations.

Although the farmer class is also very worthy of respect, but in these high-society circles, ancestors without strong background wouldn't really make an impression.

Especially in Yanjing's upper society.

In addition to comparing wealth, power, and lineage, it's all about family origins and foundations.

Yanjing has many elderly and junior officials from the Qing dynasty era, whose ancestral families were once aristocrats under the Qing court, talking about which is like talking about which noble or princess, even with a high-ranking official in the imperial court.

Such families have strong roots, and when performing ancestor worship ceremonies, they can casually pull out two to three ancestors' stories and read them out, instantly giving people a sense of grandeur.

The Ye family's ancestors were once officials appointed by the court. Common families would often build ancestral halls for their sons who had passed the exams, while the Ye family has produced hundreds of candidates with only their ancestors being advanced scholars, including 10 first-rank scholar-bureaucrats and 31 successful examinees.

For nearly three hundred years, the Qing dynasty held a total of 112 times of imperial examinations.

In this nearly three-hundred-year period, there were over 20,000 successful candidates, with 114 first-rank scholar-bureaucrats.

Just one family, the Ye family, has taken up almost one-tenth of this achievement. This is an extremely outstanding accomplishment.

It was because ancestors were talented, so the Ye family could sustain existence for several hundred years and always had the means to do so, even in turbulent times. At least one branch would become a notable gentry family.

The Ye family has been scattering its branches over the world for many years, with at least tens of thousands of descendants, including those who have gone abroad.

Their ancestors, tracing back several hundred years, are the ancestors of the Ye family.

However, in ancient times, it was emphasized that the eldest son should inherit the family property, while other sons and younger brothers would divide their inheritance and establish their own households. As a result, more and more Ye family members became collateral lineages, leaving only one true main-line lineage.

Just like when Ye Chen's father had three brothers, after his father passed away, the three brothers would need to divide their property and inheritances, with the eldest son inheriting most of the property and estate. JrNovels.com