Dear members of the Tuanshan family, good morning!Today is the day of the ancestor worship tradition of our Tuanshan Wen clan, and just now President Shuxiong expressed his warm welcome and gratitude to you for coming to participate in the ancestor worship activities despite the severe cold and the complexity of the world, and made a brief report on the construction of the ancestral hallI would like to take this opportunity to talk about three specific things, and I hope you will listen carefully, and I will feel great honor if I can play a role in the starting point of my family's business!1. About the revision of the score:The genealogy of the Wen clan of our Tuan Shan has always been a relatively complete one, which can be confirmed from Jiangxi or other old genealogies, but since the first 20 years, that is, after 1931, in addition to a small branch of the genealogy in the 92nd year of the sixth room, there is no systematic repair of the genealogy, and it will be difficult to recover the defects of the broken generations if it is not repaired for decades, for this reason, we do not take our own ability level as insufficient, and resolutely compiled three copies of the Tuanshan Wen family tree (200 sets were printed) in 16 years For this reason, I have mentioned the rebuilding of the family tree at many family meetings, although the construction of the ancestral hall has been the center of our work in recent years, but we have not given up the original intention of constantly improving the family tree. However, the truth is still far from our vision, and although there has been an increase in information over the years, there are few of them. And these people who participated in family activities are still the same people, so we are also confused, what to do with the family tree?Now there are two voices: one is that the family tree should be completed as soon as possible and printed immediately. These family members have strong family feelings, but if the information is not perfect, it is really unnecessary to waste the fee by printing casually, although there is a plan, it needs to be adjusted realistically. The second is that it is meaningless for you to register your family tree, we have a household registration and identity information, which is much better than your family tree, and even more so that you do not pay for registration!I can only tell you today that we will not send you money when we register our family tree, and we may have to make some money and efforts, and our family tree will not replace your ID card and household registration bookBut our genealogy remembers your ancestors far beyond eighteen generations, and will also let your heirs remember you forever, our genealogy can let you know where you came from, and we will also know how close we are to the Wen familyIt is also possible for us to respect each other to help each other, and we will know what kind of cultural heritage we have!Some will say, I only care about my cubs to my grandchildren, and I don't care about the rest, so I ask you what you do when you raise cubs and grandchildren?What is the point of saving food and clothing for the cub and creating conditions for the grandchildren, according to your example, your cubs, grandchildren's grandchildren, he will not know who you are, so we have to leave a good example of the descendants, even if you don't feel anything, you do teeth, do a lot of people for your children and grandchildren, it's always okay!My Wen family's size is at least one of the big trees that your descendants will grow up in!If you don't register, you are cutting off a road to development for your children and grandchildren, please remember!Those who understand should know more and tell those who don't understand!If everyone's enthusiasm comes up, my genealogy will be completed soon!2. About the ancestral hall. The ancestral hall is a place for family reunions and a place for ancestral tablets. My Wen family ancestral hall was originally on the side of the Dinggong Bridge River, three before and after, in addition to the ancestral tablet hall there is also my Wen's private school, every year on the winter solstice to hold a large-scale ancestor worship activities, two days before the winter solstice to clean up to prepare, the day before the ancestor ceremony, please ancestors in place, the winter solstice day to worship the ancestors!It's just a pity that my Wen family ancestral hall was demolished in five or eight years, so this custom has not been inherited!Until 2018, when we had neither funds nor policy support, nor did we have any land, President Shuxiong led the initiative to advocate that everyone work together to finally build the ancestral hall in a decent way. Since we have an ancestral hall, of course, we have to return to the old habits, we had a party in 2019, and then we encountered the epidemic for three years, there is no way. This year, we are holding it again!But then again, the winter solstice ancestor worship is to ask you to kowtow to your ancestors to give thanks, the wine party is secondary, of course, it is rare to come once, and a dinner party is also necessary. Others will say, do you make money by doing winter solstice wine and collecting money?President Shuxiong said earlier that the construction of the ancestral hall is basically completed, but there is still a gap of hundreds of thousands, and the donations for the winter solstice ancestors will be recorded in the merit book, in addition to the cost of the winter solstice cocktail party to make up for the construction deficit, there are accounts to check, and no one will and dare not take this money!Therefore, in the future, the winter solstice ancestor worship activities will be carried out all year round, and we do not make any requirements for donations, and we are welcome to respect our ancestors!In addition, the ancestral hall holds small sacrificial activities during the Qingming Festival and the Midyear Festival, and the clan relatives are also welcome to participate!At the beginning of each month.
1. 15 Conditional clan relatives can go to the ancestral hall to put incense on the pillar for their ancestors, and the ancestral hall is prosperous, which will definitely ensure the prosperity of our descendants. 3. About the gods. Our ancestral hall used to be called a family temple, since it is a temple, then there must be a god, and the god of the ancestral hall is our ancestor!Buddhism and Taoism all say that the biggest bodhisattva is your parents, and it is better to respect your parents than to worship the Buddha!By extension, the parents of your parents who respect your parents are those who respect their ancestors and revere their ancestors, and they will also respect their parents, and if you do a good job, your children and grandchildren will learn from you, and he will respect you, and your family will be respectful and courteous, and your family will be harmonious, and everything will be prosperousYou said that your family would not send it, and you said that our ancestors were not spiritual. So when we come to worship our ancestors, we will bring more of your cubs and grandchildren to participate, and we will definitely pass on filial piety, and our ancestors will definitely bless you. In addition, some of our clan relatives like to go to other temples to ask the gods for hexagrams, and I have no objection to it. I'm just saying that I have a hexagram to ask in the Wen family temple, just in front of the ancestral tablet. Another clan relatives asked if the spirit was not spiritual, I will tell you, Zhou Yi has three sages, Fu Xi, King Wen, and Confucius, one is to draw gossip, one is to play sixty-four hexagrams, and one is to make auspicious solutions, the largest tablet in my ancestral hall, have you seen it?Who is it?King Wen of Zhou, my surname is ** Ji, I am a descendant of King Wen, there is King Wen sitting in the battle, you say that the spirit is not spiritual!My ancestral hall is 64 hexagrams, and it is not unhelpful to draw lots with sincerity, don't believe it!I have delayed everyone for some time, and it is also my heartfelt words, please understand, I wish my relatives a happy winter solstice, and all the best!December 22, 2023
Editor: Wen Xiang.
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