Scattered Han Books: Sacred Family Hall and Family Hall Plaques of Tengchong People

Jiadang is the most important and sacred architectural space in Tengchong people's home, generally located in the upper part of the inner most part of the main room, usually the most decorated part of the home, with exquisite craftsmanship and exquisite materials.

The family hall is a sacred hall for Tengchong people to convey their value system, record their family origins, pray for blessings and wishes, and educate future generations.

The family hall is generally divided into three parts: in the middle is the "Five Fortunes Hall", which is the "Heaven, Earth, Country (King), Parents and Teachers" god, expressing the truth of the sky and earth and the self-improvement, virtue and respect for heaven and earth, expressing the patriotism and loyalty to the king, filial piety and respect for teachers. It expresses the traditional thought of patriotism, loyalty, filial piety and respect for teachers. The left is "Liufang Hall", is enshrined in the ancestral tablets, tablets marked the origin of our ancestors, "Gong Shang Angle徴羽" one of the five tones at the beginning, I do not know why, I just feel that their knowledge is too shallow. On the right is the "Zaoxian Hall", dedicated to the "East Kitchen Secretary Zaoxian Zaojun" and "in the Palace of the land Fude Zheng Shen" God, fully embodies the core of the people to food for God. Some of them also enshrine the God of Wealth. The columns of the family hall and the perimeter of the tablets are also equipped with couplets of educational or wishing significance. The whole family hall looks solemn and sacred.

The house hall tablets used to be written on red paper. The family hall card is also called the heaven and earth card or blessed God card, must be asked to character integrity, writing neatly and know the rules of the family hall card writing, in the local can undertake this work is also a rare person. My father used to write house cards for the villagers in his spare time. Once, an uncle in the village told my father that he would write a family hall plate for his family. Back then, during the production team period, my father was in charge of the production team's sheep in the mountains. On that day, after he had turned off the sheep, he saw that it was still early in the day, and remembered that he had helped that uncle to write a house sign, so he brought along his ink and pen and went down the mountain to his house. As soon as the uncle saw my father, he smiled and said, "You have broken my dream. When I asked him about it, I realized that the uncle had dreamed that someone had told him, "Many people are coming to your house tomorrow, so you have to clean up your house. After waking up, this uncle was puzzled, his family did not have any activities that day ah, how could there be a lot of people to come, until the afternoon did not see outsiders came, until he saw my father, he suddenly realized, know that the family hall on the sign of the various gods will be at home! My father heard him finish, also feel very magical, at the same time more feel his pen is a mission.

Afterwards, people felt that there were a lot of "disadvantages" of writing on paper, one is that it has to be renewed in one to two years, and the second is that fewer and fewer people know how to write on a house sign, especially when most of the people in the city are using Plexiglas plates engraved with a fashionable and durable one, and then they feel that it is rustic to use paper to write on it. With the improvement of economic conditions, many people with good wood carving, both fashionable and elegant style, plexiglass made gradually eliminated, but some of the traditional still insist on writing on red paper.

Butler Hall card production materials how to change, but Tengchong people regardless of the city and countryside regardless of the size of the house, will be the most important position left to the family hall, hung with the sacred mission of the family Hall card, so that the family Hall of culture from generation to generation to carry on, which is why people call Tengchong, "scattered side of the Han Shu" a reason. This is also why people call Tengchong "scattered border book of Han" a reason.