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Ancestor worship ceremony
The
ancients listed the filial piety as the first thing of
ethic, blazoned forth that the carnality was worst in
all of evil and the filial piety was best in all of benevolence.
The ancestor worship ceremony of Hu¡¯s Family was comparatively
scared and ceremonious, all of people who had surname
Hu would centralize at Benshi Hall to worship the ancestor
in the fifth of January of Chinese lunar calendar. They
kept to teaching of the deceased of forefather.

It was
the day for worship ancestor Hu Sangong in the fifth of
January of Chinese lunar calendar. The branch of Hu¡¯s
family would centralize at Benshi Hall to worship Hu Changyi
in the fifth of January of Chinese lunar calendar, at
the same day, the offspring would worship Hu Lianggong
in 13th January of Chinese lunar calendar. The representative
would worship seven experts on book of changes who lived
in Song and Yuan Dynasties.
Folkways
and customs passed down generation by generation. At present,
worship ceremony celebrates annually three times. Respectively,
pay respects to ancestors at their tomb at Tomb-sweeping
Day and worship ancestors in the half of July and in the
twenty-fourth of December of Chinese lunar calendar.
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