During the Qingming Festival, Chinese people will participate in ancestor worship activities on this day. When it comes to ancestor worship, this is not a tradition unique to our country, and there are also forms and activities of ancestor worship abroad.
However, foreigners' practice and importance of ancestor worship cannot be compared with China. As a country with thousands of years of cultural accumulation, it is bound to attach great importance to the inheritance of the family, which is something that our ancestors have engraved in their bones.
If these concepts do not exist, it would be delusional to want to spread Chinese culture for thousands of years. We Chinese not only attach importance to blood inheritance, but also attach great importance to family inheritance, and the seven aunts and eight aunts in the family are also members of the family.
Young people in the present day may not know what "five suits" are, but this is the case now, and it was not the case before. In thousands of years of cultural inheritance, the "five suits" are regarded as quite important by the Chinese.
In the eyes of the Chinese, only those who are within the "five suits" will be regarded as their relatives. What kind of attention is there?
You can think about it, in the previous TV series or film and television dramas about the rule of feudal dynasties, we often saw such a punishment as sitting together.
If a person in the family commits a serious crime, the relatives related to him will be punished, so what is the basis for judging the intimacy? Have you ever thought about this question?
The so-called punishment system of joint and joint sitting, there is a clue in general. If you don't have a clue, the sin of that strain together will be too big to deal with. Because it is an established fact that everyone has relatives and people who are close by blood.
It is impossible for one person to commit a crime and thousands of people will be involved. And at this time,The "five services" have become a concept for setting standards and guidelines. With this standard, everyone will know who is whose relatives.
People within the "five suits", even if they are their relatives, people in this range generally have a closer relationship with themselves. And those who are outside the "five suits" are not counted as their relatives, and those outside this range have a very distant relationship with themselves.
The formulation of the "five services" standard is very important. How important is that? Let's take an example, and everyone will understand. Chinese have a tradition of visiting relatives, and generally speaking, they will carry gifts to their relatives' homes every New Year's holiday.
This visit to relatives is nothing more than to get closer to the relationship between relatives and friends, but you can't finish your grandparents and relatives.
Not only would that be too numerous to achieve, but it would also be a waste of time and simply pointless. Therefore, people often take a walk around their relatives within the "five suits" and take a look. If it is someone other than the "five suits", then there is no need to go to relatives.
If you don't have relatives within the "five suits" for the New Year's holiday, you will definitely be gossiped about by others. But if people outside the "five suits" don't leave, then no one has the right and meaning to blame themselves.
Of course, this is only one of the examples of the standard of relatives within the "five suits", and there are various theories about the establishment of the "five suits" standard. When relatives have happy events, relatives within the "five suits" need to help and add popularity.
Although it is not illegal to not go, in the impression of Chinese, it is not like a word if you don't go.
Note that relatives within the "five suits" have the obligation to help when family members do these big things. This is the old rule, of course, when you do your own errands, relatives will also come, and it's all mutual.
But when the red and white wedding banquet is held, there is no need for people other than the "five suits" to go. However, you can go if you want to, as long as the relationship is good, others are still welcome.
Having said all this, how did the "five suits" statement come about? What exactly does "five suits" refer to? What kind of relatives are included in the "five suits"? Don't worry, let's explain them to you one by one.
In fact, the original "five suits" standard originated from Confucianism。It is the Confucianism founded by Confucius in Qufu, Shandong. Confucianism pays attention to "monarchs, ministers, fathers, and sons", which means that Confucianism attaches more importance to the status and hierarchy of individuals.
In Confucianism, what is one's status, then you must follow the corresponding way of doing things. The word "five clothes" is the mourning service, and the term "five clothes" is naturally related to mourning.
When someone in the family dies, relatives are required to mourn the deceased. There are rules for this mourning, you can't come casually, if the funeral rules are wrong, this is to make outsiders laugh off their big teeth.
There are three types of people who need to mourn the deceased, one is the wife or husband of the deceased, and the children of the deceased. They are the closest to the deceased and are the ones who need to mourn the deceased the most.
By analogy, the second type of person who needs to mourn is the grandchildren and relatives of the deceased, which can also be regarded as immediate family members. Such people are closely related to the deceased. It is often said that the importance of three generations of grandparents is reflected in this.
When the people of the ancestors pass away, the grandchildren must be valued. The third type of mourner is a cousin or cousin who is close to each other and also needs to mourn.
The fourth type of mourning for the deceased is the juniors of the deceased, and the fifth type of mourning is the descendants after the grandchildren. Except for these five types of people, others do not need to mourn in white mattersOf course, there are other friendships that I won't go into detail here.
And within these "five clothes", it contains these people who need to mourn the deceased, and the two are the same. Of course, in the vast Chinese culture, the standards of the "five suits" are extremely harsh, and sometimes they need to vary from matter to case, and they cannot be clearly introduced in a few words.
Now there are more and more emerging trends of thought in society, and this trend of thought of "five suits" is no longer popular in many areas. And the mourning system is also changing again and again, and now it has become quite simple, and sometimes you don't even need to wear mourning clothes.
However, this does not mean that the system of "five suits" is no longer useful, and it can still be used on many key occasions.
The "five suits" system and the "five suits" standard are only a microcosm of the vast Chinese cultural heritage, but not everyone knows the saying of "five suits". Perhaps in the near future, the saying of "five suits" will be exhausted.
This is China's excellent traditional culture, and we must understand and inherit it, so as not to let Chinese culture fall into a desperate situation of no development.