How does clan culture regulate clan relations, clan conflicts and community autonomy?

The culture of ancestral halls is the culture of the same clan that has been refined and organized over thousands of years, and it also refers to the spiritual and cultural phenomena such as primitive beliefs, patriarchal ethics, and value orientations embodied in the construction, reconstruction, and repair of ancestral halls of a clan, as well as in the activities of the ancestral halls. The culture of ancestral halls has its reasonable kernel, which should be selectively excavated, promoted and inherited in order to continuously enrich the treasure house of Chinese culture.

Chizhou is located in the south of Anhui Province, with a long history and rich cultural heritage. The ancestors living on this land were grateful for the historical process of migrating, reproducing, avoiding wars, and starting businesses, and accumulated culture and built many family ancestral temples. Guichi's hill area, traditionally gathered and living, along the way, gradually into the Maotan Du, Ancestral Hall Bao, Dalu Sun, four chapter of the Yuan, Xiachuan Ke, Liu Street, Yao Street, Cao Village and other clan villages, the formation of a more typical ancestral halls and ancestral cultures. The villagers in the polder, on the other hand, are mostly dispersed, and their homes enshrine the tablets of their deceased direct ancestors. In the countryside of the miscellaneous surnames, but also local organization of fellow villagers, elected a respected person as chairman, responsible for dealing with major issues in the fellow villagers.

The main function of the ancestral temple: First, ancestor worship and ancestor honoring, held ancestor soul-saving ceremony. The second is to meet and deliberate, as a place to manage the internal affairs of the clan. Third, the clan relief, the use of ancestral funds to relieve poverty, or for the clan to provide shelter for the homeless. Fourth, clan fellowship activities, such as drinking ancestral hall wine and singing ancestral hall opera, to strengthen clan unity and enrich clan life. Fifth, the clan indoctrination, the clan rules in the clan education, or public rewards and punishments, such as loyalty, filial piety and righteousness model, excellent readers to give a plaque, hanging joints in recognition of the violation of the rules of the clan, the clan law, to be condemned, punished, and so on.

The clan relationship of each family has a shrine, enshrining the ancestors, compilation and repair of genealogy, in order to recount the human needs of the group, the provisions of the high, great, ancestor, Kao, has been, children, grandchildren, had, Xuan for the nine clans, nine clans within the inferiority and superiority shall not be the same name, or taboo. Ancestral halls of each family name are dedicated to the first generation of account ancestors. Branch Ancestral Hall, also known as Xiangtang, dedicated to the second or third generation of ancestors. Among those of the same family name, they are divided into a number of gongs or strands or houses. Each ancestral hall and hengtang has a public field, which is handed over to people for cultivation, and the income from it is used as funds for the Qingming and winter solstice festivals. In addition, a person of high moral standing and seniority was elected to manage the affairs of the whole clan and to be in charge of the rules and regulations of the clan, known as the head of the household; the leader of the following branch ancestral halls was known as the head of the house.

The rules and regulations of the clan are strict, and each clan has a set of rules and regulations that govern the future generations of the clan. If a person violates the law, he or she will be detained at the ancestral hall and beaten, or sent to the police for punishment. If there is a person who is afraid of absconding, the head of the family will announce that the offender will be canceled from the family register and will not be allowed to go home from now on, and will file a record with the government or ask the government to search for the offender.

Family conflicts between different surnames once the conflict, each clan are gathered in their own children, and the other side of the knife and stick to see the big fight, generation after generation of hatred. Each clan's head of household, room Zong sitting command, take responsibility. Within the family, there are also affinity, East Unit, West Unit, the big house and the second house disputes, but also each unit to help each unit, each house to help each house. Maximize the maintenance of the rights and interests of the clan, the branch and the house. This also shows the limitations of the clan culture, which must ultimately rely on legal adjustments.

Refer to the "Anhui literature and history data book Chizhou volume"

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