"Yes." Gu Yanzhong said: "Your Ye family originally held a grand ancestor worship ceremony every twelve years, which happened to be this year, and Yeling Mountain has been developed for more than three years, and it was just completed last spring, and the Ye family moved the ancestral grave there in autumn. So this year's Tomb-sweeping Day is also the first Tomb-sweeping Day when the Ye family's ancestral tomb is moved to Yeling Mountain."

"So your grandfather wants to hold a grand ancestor worship ceremony. At that time, not only you, who are surnamed Ye, but also dozens of branches surnamed Ye across the country will also go to participate. You are the descendant and grandson of the Ye family. He hopes that you can Come here, and formally pay homage to your parents by the way."

The Ye family's ancestor worship is the most solemn family ceremony in the entire Ye family.

Big families all attach great importance to ancestor worship, especially a big family with a long history like the Ye family, which has a profound history and many family branches, and it attaches great importance to the ceremony of ancestor worship.

In fact, many wealthy families really want to hold special ceremonies for worshiping ancestors, but the real ceremonies for worshiping ancestors are definitely not something that ordinary families can just do.

Some nouveau riche families can't afford the stage even if they want to hold an ancestor worship ceremony.

Because in the ancestral graves of these people, there may be a total of three or four generations of ancestors buried in total, and when it comes to their identities, they may be farmers for several generations, and there are no stories of tallness that can be passed down to future generations.

Although the peasant class is also very respectable, but in these upper-class societies, the ancestors did not have a strong enough identity background, so it is indeed a bit difficult to do it.

Especially in the upper class of Yanjing.

In addition to comparing money and power, the comparison is about family background and heritage.

Yanjing has a lot of old and young people who lived in the banner during the Manchu Qing Dynasty. When the ancestors of these families were in the Qing Dynasty, they were all nobles who lived in the banner. member.

Such a family has a strong foundation. During the ancestor worship ceremony, casually read out the deeds of two or three ancestors, and it will immediately give people a feeling of being arrogant.

The ancestor of the Ye family was also an official of the imperial court. In an ordinary family, a scholar from the ancestors would like to build an ancestral hall for this scholar ancestor in his hometown. However, the ancestors of the Ye family have hundreds of Scholars and ten champions. There were 31 out of the top three, including the number one scholar.

In the nearly 300-year history of the Qing Dynasty, there were a total of 112 imperial examinations.

In nearly three hundred years, there have been more than 20,000 Jinshi and 114 champions.

The Guangye family accounted for nearly one-tenth, which is an extremely remarkable achievement.

It is precisely because of the talents among the ancestors that the Ye family can continue to exist for hundreds of years, and it has always been quite powerful. Even in the era of war and chaos, it is at least a noble gentry.

The Ye family has flourished for so many years, and there are at least tens of thousands of descendants of the Ye family all over the world, and a considerable number of them have gone overseas.

Their ancestors, going back hundreds of years, were the ancestors of the Ye family.

It's just that in ancient times, the eldest son inherited the mantle, and the other sons and concubines had to separate their families and start their own businesses. Therefore, more and more Ye family members were reduced to collateral families, leaving only the direct line as the real suzerain family.

It's like Ye Chen's father has three brothers. According to the ancient rules, after Ye Chen's grandfather died, the three sons of the Ye family would separate the family. At that time, the eldest son Ye Changkong would inherit most of the family business and the mansion.

The second son and the third son should leave the original Ye family mansion with their family members after three years of filial piety for their father, and start another family and start a business by themselves.

In this way, the family of the second son and the third son also became collateral families of the Ye family.

At this time, the relationship between these two collateral families and the suzerain family is still relatively close. After all, the second, third and eldest are still brothers of the first-milk compatriots.

But in Ye Chen's generation, it was Ye Chen's cousin who inherited the mantle of the suzerain family, so the relationship between the two collateral families and the suzerain family was another generation away.

By the time of the third and fourth generations, these two collateral families have also spawned several smaller collateral families, so the distance between them and the suzerain family is even further.

If it continues for five or six generations, the span may have passed more than a hundred years.

At that time, everyone may not know each other at all, and the names of descendants of other collateral families can only be found on the genealogy.

Therefore, as the suzerain family, it is necessary to use the ceremony of the ancestor worship ceremony to gather people from the collateral families at regular intervals.

After getting acquainted and getting acquainted with each other, and worshiping the common ancestors together, the connection between the bloodlines will be strengthened. JrNovels.com