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 attaches great importance to ancestor worship ceremonies.
In fact, many wealthy families want to hold special ancestor worship ceremonies, but real ancestor worship ceremonies are by no means something ordinary families can organize.
Some nouveau riche families want to hold ancestor worship ceremonies, but they can't afford it.
Because in the ancestral graves of these people, the ancestors of the last three or four generations may be buried, and when it comes to their identities, they may have been farmers in the previous generations, and there are no lofty stories to tell to future generations.
Although the peasant class is also very worthy of respect, in these upper-class societies, the ancestors do not have a strong enough identity background, so they are indeed somewhat unable to do anything.
Especially in the upper class society of Yanjing.
In addition to competing for money and power, what is also competing is family origin and heritage.
There are many old and young people in Yanjing who were in the banner during the Manchu and Qing Dynasties. The ancestors of these families were all aristocrats in the banner during the Qing Dynasty. Speaking of which, it was either an elder brother or a princess, and even a first-rank official in the court at that time.
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Such a family has a strong foundation. During the ancestor worship ceremony, just reading out the deeds of two or three ancestors will immediately give people a feeling of arrogance.
The ancestors of the Ye family were also officials in the imperial court. In ordinary families, if a scholar comes from their ancestors, they would like to build an ancestral hall for the scholar in their hometown. However, the ancestors of the Ye family have produced hundreds of Jinshi scholars and ten number one scholars.
Including the top three, there are a total of thirty-one winners.
During the nearly three hundred years of the Qing Dynasty, there were a total of 112 imperial examinations.
In these nearly three hundred years, there have been more than 20,000 Jinshi scholars and 114 top scholars.
The Guangye family alone occupies nearly one-tenth of the total, which is an extremely remarkable achievement.
It is precisely because of the numerous talents among the ancestors that the Ye family has been able to continue to exist for hundreds of years and has always been quite powerful. Even in the era of war and chaos, it was at least a powerful gentry.
The Ye family has blossomed over the years, and there are at least tens of thousands of descendants of the Ye family spread all over the world, and quite a few of them have gone overseas.
Their ancestors, dating back hundreds of years, are the ancestors of the Ye family.
It's just that in ancient times, the eldest son inherited the mantle, and other legitimate sons and concubines had to separate their families and establish careers. Therefore, more and more Ye family members were reduced to collateral families, leaving only the direct lineage as the real patriarchal family.
Just like Ye Chen's father has three brothers, if according to ancient rules, after Ye Chen's grandfather dies, the three sons of the Ye family will split up. At that time, the eldest son Ye Changkong will inherit most of the family property and the mansion.
The second son and the third son should, after serving their father for three years, leave the original Ye family residence with their family members and start a new family of their own.
In this way, the second son and the third son's families have become collateral families of the Ye family.
At this time, the relationship between these two side families was relatively close to the main family. After all, the second, third and eldest children were still brothers from the same mother.
But when it comes to Ye Chen's generation, it is Ye Chen's cousin who inherits the mantle of the patriarchal family, so the relationship between the two collateral families and the patriarchal family is another generation away.
By the time of the third and fourth generations, these two collateral families had spawned several smaller collateral families, so the distance between them and the main family was even further. The fastest update
If it lasted for five or six generations, the span might have been more than a hundred years.
At that time, everyone may not know each other at all, and the names of the descendants of other collateral families can only be found in the genealogy.
