Beijing, 4 Apr (Zhongxin Net) -- The atmosphere is clear and bright, and everything is visible. With the Qingming Dynasty approaching, it is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation to pursue the long term with caution and respect for the clan and harmony, and worshipping ancestors on Qingming Festival is also a common custom of compatriots on both sides of the strait.
The two sides of the strait share the same roots, the same language, the same species, and have uninterrupted blood and family affection, and common national and cultural identity is an innate gene. Ancestor worship ceremony is an important link to enhance the feelings and consensus of compatriots on both sides of the strait, and through the cultural inheritance of common sacrifice, compatriots on both sides of the strait can unite and walk together with one heart.
Data map: The 2014 (First Sino-noon) Public Festival of the Chinese Humanistic Ancestor Fuxi Grand Ceremony was held in Tianshui. At the same time, the Datiangong in Chiayi City, Taiwan also held a local Fuxi festival. Photo by Ding Si
The "descendants of the dragon" may be derived from the Fuxi culture
According to historical records, Fuxi's mother was Huaxu, who was pregnant when Leizeng stepped on the footprints of giants, and "gave birth to Fuxi in twelve years" in the Cheng Dynasty. Chengji is now Qin'an County, Tianshui City, where a large number of relics and legends of Fuxi, Nuwa and their tribal activities remain.
As early as more than 2000,1988 years ago, there was a tradition of worshiping Fuxi in the Weishui Basin. In 2014, Tianshui resumed the public sacrifice of Fuxi, and in <>, the two sides of the Taiwan Strait realized the joint sacrifice of Fuxi for the first time.
It can be seen from the stone carvings and silk paintings in later generations that Fuxi and Nuwa are the images of the head of the snake, indicating that the Fuxi tribe originally used the snake as a totem. With migration and clan fusion, the Fuxi clan incorporated the totems of the tribes that gradually conquered and allied into the snake totem, thus forming a dragon totem based on the snake body, with a multi-totem combination of ox-eared horse teeth, deer antlers and shrimp whiskers, fish scale snake bodies, and lion-nosed tiger claws.
The dragon totem is a dragon that is composed of biological snakes and mixed bloods into virtual creatures. For thousands of years, dragon totem worship and dragon cultural customs have been passed down from generation to generation and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the sons and daughters of China are called "the descendants of the dragon".
Data map: On April 2019, 4, the ceremony of paying homage to the Yellow Emperor of Xuanyuan in Taiwan was held in Zhongshan Hall Square in Taipei City. Photo by Lu Mei
"The First Mausoleum of China" - the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor
The Yellow Emperor is revered as the ancestor of the Chinese nation, but the confirmation process has been accumulated over thousands of years. First oral legends, then ancient historical descriptions, Sima Qian and other historians agree that the Yellow Emperor is the ancestor of the Chinese nation and is an expression of national identity.
The Yellow Emperor has a long history of sacrifice. About 5000,4000 years ago, the Yellow Emperor died, and his minister Zuo Che "cut wood into the statue of the Yellow Emperor, and the princes worshipped it". About 110,18 years ago, both Shun and Yu sacrificed to the Yellow Emperor. In 770 BC, Emperor Wudi of Han led an army of <>,<> to tour the north of Shuofang, and also sacrificed the Yellow Emperor's tomb at Qiaoshan. The Yellow Emperor sacrifice became a national ceremonial event. In the fifth year of the Tang Dynasty Dynasty (<>), Zang Xi made Zang Xi let him play: "Fangzhou has the mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor of Xuanyuan, please set up a temple, enjoy the sacrifice at four o'clock, and list it in the ceremony", which was approved by Emperor Daizong, and since then the Yellow Emperor's mausoleum sacrifice has become an official festival.
In modern China, the consciousness of the Yellow Emperor has further developed into a powerful spiritual force that unites the sons and daughters of China and revitalizes China. In March 1912, Sun Yat-sen sent a delegation to the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum to pay homage to the ancestors, and personally wrote the inscription "Five thousand years after the founding of China, Shenzhou Xuanyuan from ancient times". On April 3, 1937, Qingming Day, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party paid homage to their ancestors, opening a new era in which the two parties united to resist Japan and unanimously fight against Japan. Nowadays, the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum holds public and folk sacrifices every year in Qingming and Chongyang, and Chinese sons and daughters on both sides of the strait actively participate in remembering the kindness of the ancestors and sharing the friendship of compatriots.
Data map: On May 2019, 5, the fourth "Ask the Ancestor Yandi and Find the Roots of Gaoping" compatriots on both sides of the strait Shennong Yandi Hometown Folk Ancestor Worship Ceremony was held in the Mausoleum of the Yandi in Gaoping, Shanxi. Photo by Zhang Yun, reporter of China News Agency
The Yandi Shennong clan tasted hundreds of herbs to cure the people
According to legend, the Yandi Shennong clan is the founder of the Chinese farming civilization, and together with the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan clan, it is known as the two ancestors of the Chinese nation. Zhuzhou Yandi Mausoleum is the sleeping place of the Yandi Shennong clan. According to historical records, there was a tomb in the Western Han Dynasty of the Yan Emperor, and the Tang Dynasty worshiped Yichang. In the fifth year of Song Qiande's "erection of the temple and mausoleum, portrait and worship" and "three years old in one move, the rate is normal", forming a rule. In the more than 150 years of the Northern Song Dynasty, more than 50 sacrifices were held, and the sacrifices of the Yuan and Ming dynasties continued, and the Qing Dynasty was more frequent and prosperous. There are as many as 53 sacrificial inscriptions from previous dynasties.
After the reform and opening up, with the continuous increase of the influence of the Yandi Mausoleum on both sides of the strait and among overseas Chinese, participating in the "Yandi Mausoleum Ceremony" has become one of the important measures for the sons and daughters of China to find national identity and hope for the reunification of the motherland. In 2006, the Yandi Mausoleum Festival was selected into the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list, in 2012, the Yandi Mausoleum Ancestor Worship Ceremony was ranked among the "World's Top Ten Most Influential Root Family Cultural Events", and in 2013, the Yandi Mausoleum in Yanling County, Hunan Province was officially approved as a cross-strait exchange base.
Data map: On September 2006, 9, compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait paid homage to the most holy teacher Confucius for the first time in Qufu, Shandong, the hometown of Confucius, to commemorate the 28,<>th anniversary of Confucius's birth. Photo by Hao Rujuan
Confucius Thought embodies the common values of all mankind
Every year, the Confucius Temple on both sides of the strait holds a Confucius ceremony to commemorate the great thinker, educator and founder of the Confucian school, Confucius. The Confucius ceremony has also become an important link for compatriots on both sides of the strait to maintain close feelings and enhance consensus.
According to records, the earliest Confucius ritual dates back to the year after Confucius's death, and has not been interrupted for more than 2006,9 years. On September 28, <>, the Confucius Temple in Qufu, Taipei Confucius Temple and Tainan Confucius Temple simultaneously held the "Same Root, One Vein, Two Sides of the Strait to Worship Confucius" Confucius Festival, which was the first time that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait joined hands to worship the cultural pioneers of the Chinese nation.
Qufu Spring and Autumn sacrifices Confucius, while the Confucius Festival in Taiwan is set on Confucius's birthday (September 9), which is also Taiwan's Teachers' Day, to commemorate Confucius, known as the greatest teacher in human history.
Confucius thought has great universality, and the ideas of faithfulness and forgiveness, the spirit of joy, and the teaching of all mankind embody the common values of all mankind. Therefore, Confucius is respected not only by both sides of the strait, but also by the whole world.
Data map: On September 2017, 9, the "Poetry in the People" Qu Yuan's Hometown Chu Ci Chanting Meeting was held in Qu Yuan's Ancestral Square in Zigui County, Hubei Province, where more than 13 poets and writers from Beijing, Yunnan, Chongqing, Hubei, Henan and Taiwan gathered together to remember Qu Yuan, the "ancestor of Chinese poetry". Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Kang
"Patriotic spirit" is the core of Qu Yuan's spirit
Qu Yuan is a great patriotic poet in China, the founder of romantic literature, and the soul of Chinese poetry, the soul of the country and the soul of the nation. In 1953, Qu Yuan was listed as one of the world's four major cultural celebrities and was solemnly commemorated by the World Peace Council and people all over the world.
The essence of Qu Yuan's spirit is to worry about his family and country, be unswerving, have affection for the people, have the courage to explore, and are not afraid of evil. A large number of verses in "Departure" and "Chapter Nine" can make people feel Qu Yuan's deep feelings for the motherland.
Qujia Village, Baobuli in Changhua City, Taiwan, is the only Qujia village in Taiwan, and Wangusi Village, Zigui County, Hubei Province, Qu Yuan's hometown, is known as the "first village of the Chinese Qu family". In 2010, Zigui County found Qujia Village through Taiwan's Mingdao University, and since then, the descendants of the Qu family have been increasingly frequent.
Data map: On September 2017, 9, Mazu Jin, Meizhou, Fujian, got up and drove to Taiwan to patrol the border. Photo by Zhang Bin
"Officials do not understand the people, and the people do not understand Mazu first"
The Mazu faith originated in the Song Dynasty and has a history of thousands of years. According to historical records, Mazu did have a person, a descendant of the Jiu Mu Lin clan of the Putian Wang clan of the Song Dynasty, because he did not cry until the full moon from birth, he took the name Mo, known as Mo Niang. She helped the needy and was deeply loved by the people, and was martyred at the age of 28 for rescuing shipwrecks, and legend has it that she flew into the sky.
For thousands of years, Mazu followed followers to the world. At present, there are more than 49 million Mazu believers and more than 3,1 Mazu temples in 21 countries and regions around the world, and Mazu culture has become a spiritual bond of people-to-people connection and mutual integration between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and along the "<>st Century Maritime Silk Road".
The Mazu Festival, together with the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum Festival and the Confucius Festival, is known as the "Three Great Chinese Festivals", which are very important sacrifices in traditional Chinese culture. In 1987, Mazu believers from the Lan Palace in Dajia Town, Taichung detoured through Japan to the Meizhou Ancestral Temple to enter incense, which became one of the measures to break the "solid ice" separated by 38 years between the two sides of the strait, and promoted the wave of incense incense for Taiwan compatriots to come to the mainland to find the source of their beliefs, realizing that "officials do not understand the people, and the people do not communicate with Mazu first." (End)