As soon as Patriarch Lin finished talking on the phone, he left with his hands behind his back.
Lin Wanwan quickly grabbed him and said, "Uncle Chief, what are you doing? Let's eat together."
Patriarch Lin waved his hand: "I don't eat this stuff. I won't be able to sleep well at night if I eat meat."
Lin Wanwan grabbed Patriarch Lin's arm, and together with Lin Mengbo beside her, pushed him inside. While pushing him, she smiled and said, "No, tonight, no one is allowed to be missing, everyone will eat."
The roasted whole lamb was not yet cooked, but the crowd waiting nearby had already begun to dance wildly, and their laughter could be heard far away.
The children naturally took to the water like a duck to water, and the adults were no less generous. People of all ages and genders sang, stamped their feet, and twirled around in the venue, turning the cold winter into a lively atmosphere.
Lin Wanwan had long heard that the passionate and unrestrained people of the Tang Dynasty loved to dance, and drinking and dancing were indispensable at banquets.
Li Bai once wrote a poem to his beloved brother Wang Lun: "Li Bai was about to leave in a boat when he suddenly heard the sound of people singing on the shore. The water in Peach Blossom Pond is a thousand feet deep, and it is not as deep as Wang Lun's love for me."
We should sing when we welcome you, and we should sing when we say goodbye.
Celebrating festivals, offering sacrifices and praying for blessings, outings in spring and autumn, working in the fields, etc., singing and dancing are all indispensable.
This time, Lin Wanwan finally saw it. As long as the people of the Tang Dynasty still had a little hope in life, they could sing and dance enthusiastically and put away their worries. There is wine today, and you will be drunk today, and you will be worried tomorrow.
After being dragged through three dances, Lin Wanwan quickly retreated and hid on the balcony on the second floor of the school.
She looked at the noisy and excited tribesmen below, and she didn't feel noisy at all, but felt peaceful inside.
When going to bed at night, Xiao Qingyu was too excited and danced in her sleep, making giggles from time to time. Lin Wanwan couldn't help but kiss her, cover her with the kicked-off quilt, and look at the bright moon outside the window.
, I didn’t fall asleep for a long time.
This is the life she wants, with family, no worries, and peaceful years.
At dawn the next day, Lin Wanwan was awakened by Huanong and Yun Shang. The time for ancestor worship coincided with the time of high tide. She was about to get up and go to the ancestral hall now. Lin Mengbo was already waiting for her outside the west door.
Xiao Qingyu was still young, not old enough to be included in the family tree, so naturally she couldn't enter the ancestral hall. Lin Wanwan asked Yun Shang to look after her, and then quietly, with Huanong's help, she got dressed and went downstairs.
After washing up, I put on my cloak and went out.
The sun was still hidden in the clouds, and the cold wind seemed particularly biting.
Lin Wanwan looked at Lin Mengbo wearing thin linen clothes and whispered: "Cousin Meng Bo, why don't you wear that rabbit skin cloak? It's so cold."
Lin Mengbo sniffed and said disapprovingly: "It's okay, I'm used to the cold. Of course I'd wear such a good cloak when visiting relatives. I'm going to burn incense today. What if I accidentally burn a hole in it?"
Lin Wanwan handed over the hand warmer she was holding and said, "Then you take this to keep warm. By the way, where is my sister-in-law? She's not going?"
Lin Mengbo replied: "She wants to watch over her two children and won't go."
Although the Hou Tao Lin family favors boys over girls, there is no rule that women cannot enter the ancestral hall. In fact, regardless of gender, as long as they are members of the Lin family, they must go in and kowtow to their ancestors. For women who marry into the Lin family, birth is
The death of the Lin family is the responsibility of the Lin family, and they are treated equally.
The more people who offer incense, the more prosperous the incense will be, and the ancestors will naturally be happier.
This is the thought of all Lin clan members.
Therefore, when Lin Wanwan climbed up the high slope in front of the ancestral hall, the place was already filled with men and women. Except for those with young children and elderly people to take care of, everyone else came.
Lin Wanwan was the last one to arrive. When everyone saw her, they all moved out of the way, saying hello to her and crowding around to let her come to the front.
"Master Lin, you are here. Come in quickly, the patriarch is waiting for you."
"You go to the innermost part. The clan leader said that you will be the one to give the incense today."
Lin Wanwan was greatly surprised. It was okay for a woman to enter the ancestral hall, but she was actually allowed to wear the incense. This was too high a regard for her.
When she walked to Patriarch Lin, Patriarch Lin nodded to her, motioned for her to stand behind him, and then began the lengthy sacrificial ceremony.
When it was her turn to burn incense, the first incense she lit was handed to her by Patriarch Lin.
Lin Wanwan looked at Patriarch Lin with a kind smile on his face, and in a daze, she saw the shadow of her late grandfather on Patriarch Lin's face.
"Do you really want me to be the first?" Lin Wanwan asked softly.
Chief Lin said: "Of course it is you. You are a blessing sent to us by the gods. You have brought high-yielding rice seeds and sweet potatoes to our Lin family. You should be the first to burn incense and let the ancestors know about it."
Know."
Lin Wanwan's mood changed, and she took the incense from Patriarch Lin's hand with a smile. With tears in her eyes, she knelt on the futon, bowed three times, and inserted the incense into the incense burner.
From this moment on, Lin Wanwan officially entered the clan.
In the entire Linjiazhuang, apart from the school built by Lin Wanwan, the best building is this large ancestral hall. There are tablets for ancestors of both branches and ancestors of the direct branch. Lin Wanwan even saw Lin Yousi inside.
With Xiao's memorial tablet, this ancestral hall is a real old ancestral hall.
The process of worshiping ancestors is not too complicated. Mainly because it is not a wealthy family and there are not many rules.
When the sun rises to the east, the ancestor worship is over. In the afternoon it is time to distribute money, and everyone is very excited.
The crowd dispersed in twos and threes, and Lin Wanwan discovered that several tribesmen had their feet and bodies covered with mud, looking as if they had fallen.
We are worshiping our ancestors today, so everyone should wear clean clothes.
She looked at Lin Mengjin who looked like he had a foot in mud, and asked strangely: "Cousin Mengjin, what's wrong with you?"
Lin Mengjin touched the back of his head and said sheepishly: "It was still dark when the tide was high, so I couldn't see the road clearly."
Lin Wanwan said: "Aren't you carrying a lantern?"
Lin Mengli explained to Lin Wanwan on the side: "When it gets dark, everyone is almost blind. It's the same whether there is a lantern or not."
Lin Wanwan suddenly realized that this was night blindness.
That's right, they are all poor people who cannot afford meat, so naturally there will be a large number of people suffering from night blindness. Not to mention the Tang Dynasty, even the Chinese people in the 1950s and 1960s still had a lot of night blindness patients.
Because there was no nightlife for everyone at night, as soon as it got dark, everyone would go back to their homes, close the door and sleep, not even willing to light an extra oil lamp. Lin Wanwan didn't realize that many of her tribe had night blindness, and she didn't find out until today.
It is urgent to improve the conditions of the clan. Next time I return to modern times, I will go to the drugstore to buy a few more bottles of vitamin A and give the clan members a good treatment.