Significance and Prospect of Ancestral Shrine Cultural Inheritance

Significance and Prospect of Ancestral Hall Cultural Inheritance

The significance and prospect of Ancestral Hall Cultural Inheritance, in the real life, the ancestral hall is a sacrosanct and inviolable place in the eyes of many people, it is solemn and solemn, and the existence of the ancestral hall in feng shui has some sayings to share the significance and prospect of Ancestral Hall Cultural Inheritance for you.

The significance and outlook of the heritage of ancestral hall culture1

Ancestral hall culture, as an important part of the traditional national culture, began to sprout thousands of years ago during the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and formed a more complete system in the Song Dynasty, and reached its peak in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Ancestral shrine is a reflection of the ancient Chinese farming society people fear of nature, respect for ancestors, but also subordinate to the service of the majority of historical dynasties "filial piety governance" of the major political strategy. In times of prosperity, we build ancestral halls. The prosperity of the ancestral culture is also a reflection of the side of social stability, economic development, political and human harmony, the reality of the country.

Zongzhi, commonly known as family temple, ancestral hall. It is a product of Confucian etiquette, is the place of filial piety and respect for ancestors, is a treasure of folk architecture. In the old days, the ancestral hall was also known as "family temple", "ancestral temple". According to the provisions of the Book of Rites, the ancestral temple for the emperor exclusive, followed by the vassals, the great masters can set up the ancestral temple .

Later, Zhu Xi of the Song Dynasty began to advocate the establishment of family shrines. Each family can establish a shrine to worship high, great, ancestors, Kaoshi four generations of God Li's ancestral shrine. Until the Ming Dynasty, the court allowed folk people can also build family temples. The ancestral halls were built in the center of the family settlements, and with the prosperity of the clans, the big families were divided into clans to build ancestral halls or branch ancestral halls.

Ancestral halls and temples are mostly magnificent in architecture and exquisite in craftsmanship, integrating architecture, carving, painting, calligraphy, and literature, and embodying deep historical deposits and long-lasting traditional customs, which have been valued by the people for thousands of years. It can be said that the ancestral temple culture is the most prominent classic of the profound folk culture.

Ancient surnames have spared no expense to hire feng shui masters, repeated surveys, generally choose the front of the Jing, "the front of the water as a mirror", artificial excavation or water into a pool, after the peak, "after the trees as a screen", if there is no peak, it is piled up into the mound, planting trees; left lion Right elephant for symmetry, the front view is open, easy access, the front mountain cascade stretches, for the shrine site of the ground.

Now the ancestral temple, most retained since the Ming Dynasty to extend the architectural style. Although the architectural scale of some ancestral halls is not necessarily large, their structures are delicate and dignified, simple and solemn, with strong local characteristics, basically maintaining the basic features of Ming and Qing architecture.

Ancestral halls are generally divided into two categories: one is the ancestral hall of the family name, i.e., the ancestral hall; and the other is the ancestral hall of the historical personalities, i.e., the ancestral hall in memory of the historical personalities.

The most important feature of ancestral halls is that they are equipped with a main hall, which is dedicated to the ancestors of the family, and there are incense burners, candlesticks and other sacrificial vessels in front of the niches, and there are paintings and bas-reliefs on the walls around them, and there are couplets on the pillars, and there are plaques on the beams and walls, the contents of which are either to praise the merits and virtues of the ancestors or to publicize the loyalty, filial piety and morality of the ancestors. Most of the ancestral halls have a stage, rooms for entertainment and education. Outside the main door painted door god.

And the Hall of Fame is the official or civil memorial hall, hall of fame statues or portraits for posterity, display celebrities about life, information, writings and cultural relics. Most of the ancestral halls of historical celebrities are now listed as cultural relics protection units or patriotic education bases.

The main function of the ancestral temple is to worship ancestors, clan association. Ancestral shrine is a bloodline identity, and clan harmony; remember ancestral virtue, inheritance of civilization; promote positive spirit, inspire children and grandchildren; awards and scholarships, and so on role. If we say that the roots of the ancestors is "following the past", then motivate the children and grandchildren is "open", it can be said that the ancestral temple that is following the past to open a "spiritual shrine".

As we all know, China's family name culture has a long history, is an important element of Chinese culture. As everyone has a family name, in the form of blood culture records the formation and development of the Chinese nation, and with the continuous continuity, strong cohesion, national integration, national unity plays a special role.

With the family name as the emblem, the Chinese people have been inherited from generation to generation *** ancestor Yanhuang, the people of the concept of a family and the blood is thicker than water, the split can not be separated from the emotions, but also carried the "harmony" as the core of the human spirit.

The manifestations of these spirits, such as genealogies, maxims, family rules, family traditions, and family temples, temples, ancestral halls, etc., are important tangible carriers of inheritance, and play an irreplaceable and important role in the transmission of these valuable spiritual wealth for generations.

Nowadays, the general public has shown a deep interest in exploring the above cultural forms, which fully demonstrates the need for social development and humanism, and this should rightly attract the attention of each and every one of the descendants of the Yellow Emperor.

Modern value of ancestral temple culture

Ancestral temple culture is a reflection of a family's moral sentiments, spirituality, cultural heritage, and quality of production and life, and in the final analysis, it is a kind of folk culture. We should have a sense of responsibility to comprehensively consider the phenomenon of the ancestral temple culture and the essence of the phenomenon, scientific and dialectical understanding of the culture of the ancestral temple. We should have a sense of historical responsibility to comprehensively consider the phenomenon and essence of the culture, scientifically and dialectically recognize the positive role of the culture of the ancestral temple, distill its essence, explore its modern value, and actively apply it to social development and social management. The modern value of the culture of the ancestral temple is worth exploring.

The inheritance of ancestral temple culture is conducive to the promotion and development of national culture. Folk activities based on the specific space of the ancestral temple are the crystallization of the masses' knowledge of nature, society and people themselves over the centuries. Rhythmic group activities are of high cultural value, as they support people's beliefs, regulate people's mentality, release people's emotions, and express people's feelings. The protection and inheritance of ancestral activities is conducive to the promotion and development of outstanding national culture.

The inheritance of ancestral temple culture is conducive to the ideological and moral construction of the masses. Since the reform and opening up more than 30 years, in the spirit of the negative impact of more and more, "fairness, justice" concept diluted, the traditional excellent ethical and moral accelerate the loss, although the legal system has made progress, but far from effectively regulating the degree of individual action. When people feel "moral failure" and lead to more and more social problems, found that the culture of the ancestral temple just at this time can play an effective role.

Each ancestral temple has its own family rules and customs, which include respect for elders, filial piety, respect for teachers, respect for frugality, abstinence from extravagance, prohibition of gambling, and other ethical norms, which are the same spiritual space of the community*** and have become a natural resource for moral discipline within the community. In addition, through the activities of the ancestral temple, show, promote the region, the brilliant history of the family name and outstanding people, is conducive to the masses to enhance the sense of identity and belonging to the local culture to highlight the contribution of the community to society, and in this way to inspire the descendants of the clan to be upright, hard work and study.

The inheritance of the ancestral temple culture is based on the Chinese "harmony" culture can form a simple culture of covenant, which is conducive to social harmony and stability. Since 1982, when villagers' autonomy was first enshrined in the Constitution, the central government has been promoting rural governance with the goal of "self-management, self-education, and self-service".

But in practice, village-level organizations have become the natural spokespersons for the government, and farmers have been left out of the loop. When the two groups have more conflicting interests, there will be a "government failure" embarrassment. Ancestral shrine culture can play an important role in such a vacuum, promoting the harmony of the people at the grassroots level***.

Significance and Prospect of Ancestral Shrine Culture Inheritance2

Ancestral Shrine is the place where clansmen worship their ancestors or sages, and it is the ceremonial building of China's vernacular architecture, the root of vernacular culture, the symbol and center of the family, and also the symbol of the level of local economic development and the representative of folk culture. From the folklorist's point of view, the ancestral hall is "the way to interpret the civilization of the times with its own existence".

As one of the best-preserved ancient architectural groups in China, ancestral halls have left many precious historical and cultural research values for future generations. The ancestor of China, from the ancestral hall, can know the genealogy of the order of transmission.

Origin of Ancestral Halls

Ancestral halls originated in the gradual disintegration of the clan society, and they were built independently outside the residence to offer sacrifices to the ancestors, honor the virtues, and pray for the gods by the clansmen who were born from the same ancestor, and who formed a self-contained system of kinship groups and geoorganizations. The name of the ancestral hall officially appeared in the Han Dynasty.

The clan through the ancestral hall to honor the ancestral function to reflect the fundamental principles of feudal patriarchy, showing the clan's supremacy of the right of the clan. The ancestral hall also becomes a sacred place of worship for the clan, which symbolizes the unity of the clan. Of course, some people usually understand the ancestral hall as simply the home of the dead ancestors, the place where the gods gather, and the place where the spirits of the ancestors are worshipped.

Main Functions of Ancestral Hall

Since the ancestral hall is the place where the spirits of the ancestors live, and where the gods of the ancestors are set up, ancestor worship is the main function of the ancestral hall, and another important function of the ancestral hall is to collect genealogical records and to compile and repair genealogical records.

The ancestral hall is also a meeting place for discussing the affairs of the clan, a place for teaching and education, and a family court. Whenever there is a customary annual festival or a major celebration in the clan, the ancestral hall is a place for the whole clan to celebrate or have fun.

Cultural Significance of Ancestral Halls

Ancestral halls are the symbols and signs of the power and economic culture of the family or clan. It has played a central role in the thousands of years of feudal rule in our country, the national ruling group, and the clan territorial group and family bloodline organizations have also played a certain historical role.

They play an important role in assisting and supplementing the feudal legal system, maintaining the stability of feudal rule, and also play a long-term role in the so-called social role of ruling the country and securing the state, so it is still a kind of auxiliary rule recognized by the rulers of all generations.

Significance and Prospect of Ancestral Shrine Cultural Inheritance3

I. Origin of Ancestral Shrine

Ancestral Shrine originated from the gradual disintegration of the ancestor society, which was a clan organization unified by the same ancestor, self-contained systematic blood kinship group and geographic organization, and built independently outside of the living room to offer sacrifices to the ancestor, to honor the virtuous and to seek for the gods, and it was formally named Ancestral Shrine in the Han Dynasty. The name of the ancestral hall appeared formally in the Han Dynasty.

The clans reflected the fundamental principles of feudal patriarchy through the function of ancestral halls to honor the ancestors and show the privilege of clan supremacy. The ancestral hall also becomes a sacred place for clan worship, which symbolizes the unity of the clan. There are also people who understand the ancestral hall as the home of the dead ancestors, the place where the gods are gathered, and the place where the ancestral gods and spirits are worshipped.

Where the ancestral ancestral temple of the emperor's ancestor, and the sacrifice of public officials and sages known as the ancestral temple, these ancestral temples are official temples and public shrines. Only the ancestral temple built by the clan for the ancestors, is usually the true meaning of the ancestral hall.

Each family must build a shrine, must be an obvious ancestor, the famous family also built a number of ancestral halls. Such as: Yang, Gu, Zhu, Wang and other surnames, and there is a general ancestral hall, branch ancestral hall, branch ancestral hall. More ancestral halls nearby, is their ancestral field, ancestral property.

Second, the composition and distribution of the ancestral hall

(a) Ancestral architecture: it is a place of worship for the whole clan, is used to the clan for the theme of honoring the ancestors as a ritual missionary, heavy in the spirit of indoctrination of the clan.

(2) ancestral property, is the public property of the whole clan, mostly by the clan from all walks of life fund-raising charity, there is also a person's heritage within the clan or the virtuous by the title, a part of the bounty of the estate, ancestral land varies in number, Wuxi area, some clans are rich, ancestral land is as wide as thousands of acres, one of the main purposes of the clan is to be used to relieve the family, the relief of the poor and needy clansmen, which is a form of social welfare in ancient times, focusing on the material economy from the primary forms of social welfare. It is a primary form of social welfare in ancient times, focusing on the material and economic reunion of the clan.

(3) genealogy, genealogy, family history and other genealogical literature. Genealogy most directly reflects the history of the clan and its members, it is through the clan's ancestral hall organization, functional institutions, bloodline, lineage, sacrificial activities, clan rules and family traditions, clan property, shi yi school and other basic content, for a complete history of various aspects of the record, so that the same people Ming root of the generation. The focus is on maintaining the blood ties of the clan.