As a family member of a new disciple of Guanyin Hall and an observer of the ceremony, Mr. Le Xiao was treated as a spectator throughout the whole process. When the most important part of the apprenticeship ceremony was over, he was invited to watch the ceremony in the ancestral hall of Guanyin Hall, and he went happily.
The ancestral hall of Guanyin Hall is on the west side. Go out from the ninth main hall, then go out from the small west door of the eighth main hall. Walk along the corridors between the buildings. You have made several turns and passed through several corridors and alleys.
, just arrived at the ancestral hall.
The ancestral hall is a large courtyard with two main rooms and two side rooms. The first main room after entering the road gate is the main ancestral hall, which worships the ancestors of Guanyin Hall.
The main hall is a five-chamber style hall with no partitions in the middle. It is a full-passage style. In the center of the ancestral hall are the tablets of the past heads. Next to the head tablets on the east side are the tablets of the elders who have made significant contributions to the sect.
On the west side of the memorial tablet are the tablets for the direct disciples, and on both sides are the tablets for the inner disciples, the Ji disciples and others.
The table where the memorial tablets are placed in the Guanyin Hall ancestral hall is in the shape of steps, arranged in the direction of the highest level toward the ground. The tablet of the originator of the Kaipai is almost at the same height as the beam.
If you are unfamiliar with the name of Guanyin Hall, you may think that it is a sect that believes in the Buddhist Guanyin Bodhisattva. In fact, it is not, it is an orthodox Taoist sect.
The sect began in the late Han Dynasty. The founder was a woman who believed in Taoism. It is said that her nickname was Guanyin. She did not establish a sect during her lifetime. She only taught some disciples, and her ideas and inheritance were inherited by the believers.
He inherited and carried it forward, and later the believers formed their own sect and regarded him as the founder.
The original name of Guanyin Hall was not Guanyin Hall. Later, in a certain imperial era, because the rulers promoted Buddhism and suppressed Taoism, and the sect was suppressed, the name was changed and the sect was named after the founder's nickname, thus blurring the eyes of the world.
Guanyin Hall has been passed down for more than a thousand years. The total number of disciples in the past generations is tens of thousands. The memorial tablets of so many people cannot be accommodated in one ancestral hall. In order to save space, starting from about the middle and late period of the Zhao and Song Dynasties, the direct descendants of each generation of disciples
Disciples, outer disciples and named disciples will each build a memorial tablet, while disciples who have made special contributions will have separate memorial tablets.
That is to say, all direct disciples are engraved on one tablet, all outer disciples are engraved on one tablet, and named disciples are engraved on one tablet.
Because of the methods that the descendants of Guanyin Hall came up with under duress, a lot of space was saved, and one-third of the place in the ancestral hall is still empty.
On the desk, the tablets of the disciples of the Guanyin Hall are lined up like a forest, and they are so densely packed that it can make people with trypophobia or timid people look creepy.
Li Zhang and the elders led the disciples into the ancestral hall courtyard. The disciples lined up from the courtyard to the entrance of the ancestral hall. The door of the main room of the ancestral hall was wide open, and there was a sacred desk inside.
The disciples who carried the pigs, cattle and sheep and the offerings put the offerings on the table. The head of Li and the elders took the direct disciples into the ancestral hall, burned incense, and offered sacrifices to the ancestors.
Disciple, now I am taking my disciples back to the sect to pay homage to their ancestor.
Leader Li and the elders first paid a grand tribute to the ancestors' tablets, and Lao Yi placed the genealogy with the names of his disciples on the altar table for worship, and then asked Xiao Leshan to offer incense and perform a grand ceremony.
After that, all the disciples of the sect bowed to their ancestors, and the ceremony ended.
After the sacrifice was over, a group of disciples collected the offerings and returned them to the kitchen of the main hall, and then carried other offerings to the bay to worship the Goddess of the Sea and the God of Earth.
Head Li and the elders led the other disciples straight to Hulu Bay.
Quan, a classmate from Le Xiao, regarded herself as a robot with no emotions. She walked with the disciples of Guanyin Hall and never said much. It was not that she was cold and cold, but that Elder Yi once said that she should be careful with her words before all the sacrificial ceremonies were over.
The more you say, the more likely you are to make mistakes. It is safest not to say anything.
So, in order not to inadvertently violate taboos, Le Xiaoxiao made up her mind to be mute and not say a word the whole time. The disciples of Guanyin Hall said please move, so she followed them and stood wherever they asked.
She's just standing there.
Headmaster Li and others left the Guanyin Hall building complex and met up with the disciples who had gone to carry the offerings. A group of people walked towards the bay without riding in cars.
The team's speed was neither fast nor slow, and they arrived at the bay facing the sea in about half an hour.
When heading to the bay, several disciples from the Guanyin Hall hurried back, tired of their travels. Before entering the sect's buildings, they dropped their luggage and caught up with the team.
The group of Guanyin Hall first worshiped the Goddess of Poseidon, and the headmaster and Mr. Yi made sacrifices. He said that he had accepted a certain disciple and brought him to worship the Goddess, praying that the Goddess would keep his disciples safe on both land and water, and not worry about floods.
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After that, Leshan paid homage to the God of Poseidon with a great ceremony, and then paid homage once more with all the members of his clan.
After the ceremony, go to the Temple of Wealth to worship the God of Wealth and the God of Earth.
Worshiping the God of Wealth Temple also represents the end of all the sacrificial rituals of the apprenticeship ceremony. The remaining part is just a link of identifying with the sect. That link is not a formal link in the apprenticeship ceremony, but belongs to the internal rules of the sect. Therefore, it also represents the apprenticeship ceremony.
Completely completed.
In order to ensure that the ceremony is completed within the auspicious time, a certain amount of time is scheduled for each step. Therefore, after worshiping the God of Wealth and the God of Earth, it is only ten minutes before nine o'clock.
There is no sacrifice anymore, so the ceremony must be completed before nine o'clock.
The ceremony was completed at an auspicious time, and Li Zhang and the elders were in a happy mood. When they walked out of the Temple of Wealth, the disciples of the Guanyin Temple changed their serious expressions and became lively in an instant.
The master's nephew snatched away his good disciple, and the old man floated to the little girl of the Le family. He couldn't control his hands and poked the little girl's head with his finger: "Little girl, you have this hairstyle, tsk tsk, there are twelve rings in total.
,Are your hands tired when you comb your hair?"
Head Li and his disciples laughed as they watched Elder Yi messing with the little girl.
"I'm not tired. I can comb more. It's no problem to comb more than thirty rings." Le Yun put her hands in her big sleeves and answered solemnly.
When she was in a royal palace in Dongchen, the embroiderers helped her comb her hair. The most brutal embroidery was when they tied a total of sixty-six rings on her head, with the rings overlapping each other, so that
If the height of her hair is also included, she is over 1.9 meters tall.
That kind of hairstyle has too many rings, and its density can kill someone with trypophobia.
It is said that that is not the limit. The embroiderer said that there was once an imperial concubine who was famous for her beautiful hair. She wore a bun with hundreds of rings and was extremely beautiful.
I don’t know how beautiful the hundred-ring bun is. Anyway, Le Xiao’s classmates don’t dare to care about it.
The old man laughed wildly, "Hey, hey, hey," and poked at the little girl's phoenix hairpin headdress: "Little girl, is it heavy for you to wear so many things? What's the reason for this phoenix hairpin? It's quite beautiful."
"To answer the first question, it's not too heavy. The total weight of the headdress is about seven kilograms and six taels. To answer the second question, Feng Chai is a Wen Jia Ke." Le Yun calmed herself down and ignored the old man's increasingly aggressive prodding.
Brain movements.
Wenjia is another name for tortoiseshell.
"No wonder, I always feel it's different. It's so sparkling, so it must be Lao Gu who understands." Mr. Yi studied the little girl's phoenix hairpin with great interest, but almost didn't pick it off to play with.
Le Yun rolled her eyes and ignored him. After a few seconds, she shouted towards her brother, who was two people away and was being held by Head Li but looking at her: "Le Shan."
The little girl opened her mouth to shout "Leshan", and the old man retracted his big hand and rubbed his hands in a sullen voice: "Little girl, complaining is only a child's behavior. You are not a child anymore."
All the disciples were overjoyed to see Elder Yi committing suicide. Elder Ant knew that the little girl didn't like having her head touched because of her size, and Elder Ant even knowingly went to mess with her. They simply didn't know what to say about him.
"You always call me little girl, it shows that I am still very young." Le Yun replied with a smile. Seeing her younger brother reaching out to her, she quickly ran forward and hugged her soft and cute younger brother from the hands of Master Li.
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Sect Leader Li originally wanted to carry his junior brother back to the sect by himself. After seeing that his forehead was red and swollen after a series of apprenticeship ceremonies, he also looked languid. So when the junior brother opened his hands towards his sister, he
Quickly let the little girl take the little junior brother away.
After taking her younger brother, Le Yun didn't care about anything else. She took out a handkerchief from her sleeve and wiped her younger brother's forehead. Then she took out a medicine bottle as big as a fingertip, got some medicine and applied it on the red and swollen area.
During the ceremony, he kowtowed more than a hundred times and moved from here to there. Even though Leshan had a higher IQ and better physical fitness than children of the same age, he was only three years old after all, and he was still dizzy.
He was sensible. He was hugged by his senior brother and worked hard to keep his spirits up. When he returned to his sister's fragrant arms, he no longer pretended to be strong. He lay softly in her arms and pressed his face into her neck.
, shouted feebly: "Sister~"
"It's great that Leshan has insisted on completing the ceremony. He is a strong little man, a handsome and smart little man, let my sister enjoy it!" Holding her baby brother who was almost exhausted, Leyun turned her face to his brother's face.
He kissed me twice.
I am also extremely glad that I have only appointed Mr. Yi as a master for my younger brother. If I had chosen several sects or families for my younger brother, my younger brother would have to go to become their master one by one, and he would have to kowtow.
Therefore, she decided not to find another master for her younger brother unless necessary, unless he liked it or wanted to learn someone else's kung fu.
Classmate Le Xiao, who felt sorry for her younger brother, hugged her younger brother with her left hand, reached into her left sleeve with her right hand and took out a glutinous rice and osmanthus cake wrapped in a handkerchief and oiled paper for her baby brother to eat.
The apprenticeship ceremony started after six o'clock and ended at nearly nine o'clock. It lasted for more than two minutes. The little food Leshan had eaten in the morning had long been digested, and his belly was full of hunger.
Smell the familiar scent of sweet-scented osmanthus cake, Le Shan's spirit perked up, he raised his head and took small bites of the cake as his sister fed him.
He ate very elegantly, and because his stomach was so hungry, he ate very quickly.
The elders of Guanyin Hall and Master Li smelled the fragrance, and then saw little Leshan eating in his sister's arms, and finally realized that Leshan was hungry!
They are adults, so it's okay if they don't eat for a whole day. Little Leshan is still a baby. She didn't have breakfast in the morning and worked hard for so long. How can she not be hungry?
They haven't taken care of the baby for so long that they have forgotten how to take care of a child!
Mr. Yi: "..." He really didn't expect that his little disciple would be so hungry!
