A detailed description of the family auditorium

Mother helped a lot, but she didn't want to go home. "

(2) This refers to the house where the ancestors were kept, and more refers to the ancestors.

The third fold of Yuan's anonymous Peach Blossom Girl: "Get up today, pay a New Year call to my family, bid farewell to my father, and ask him not to send me to the car, lest he fall into his evil." The thirteenth journey to the west: "The elders wash their hands, burn incense in front of the Taibao temple and worship the temple." Li Yu in "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix" in Qing Dynasty: "Facing my family, I pray for my private wishes, change his mind, make my misfortune move, and hope to give priority to my family and pay justice to others." During the Spring Festival in Binzhou, Dongying, Dezhou and the central and western areas of Jiaodong Peninsula (Changyi-Laixi, east of Weihe River, near Jimo), large-scale pictures of ancestor worship were hung. Weifang gaomi city also has such a custom.

(The size is generally 3m× 2m. Auxiliary connections are usually half a meter wide)

Please hang the monk's hall in the north of the living room after the grave-sweeping and ancestor worship on New Year's Eve. Give a tribute. This is an object in memory of our ancestors.

It is worth mentioning that the overall layout of the image is usually a big courtyard. On the right outside the courtyard is the portrait group of the Ming Dynasty, and on the left outside the courtyard is the portrait group of the Qing Dynasty. The house was prepared by an old man with a man and a woman dressed in ancient costumes for their ancestors. There is a square on the left and right, and each square has the name of the deceased ancestor, which has been handed down from top to bottom from generation to generation.

Portraits of middle-aged people in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, dressed in official uniforms, are lifelike, with different expressions of old and young. Auxiliary images are usually a pair of lotus flowers and a pair of peony.

Most people in this area have the habit of hanging out at home, which is related to the great immigrants from Shandong during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty. This is a good subject for studying folk customs.