Information: the sounding of cannons, incense, offering wine, recite the text of the sacrifice, bowing ...... On the morning of March 30, Danbei Town Beicheng Bailong Temple Ecological Park, near the post of a piece of land called Bird Meidun extraordinarily lively, a descendants of the Yin family public worship ancestor Bingchang 915 anniversary of his birth Ceremony was held here. More than 220 representatives of Yin descendants from Zhenjiang, Suzhou, Xuzhou, Suqian and Shanghai attended the ceremony.
Ancestral tombs affect the four sides of the clan
The bird plum dun village is a very small natural village in the Danbei town Bei Cheng area, because it is the Southern Song Dynasty right martial arts doctor Yin Bingchang's tomb location, has become the heart of many people in the southern region of the Yin family name of the "holy land". The village's 78-year-old Yin Yunpeng told reporters, Yin Bingchang is originally from Taizhou, the Southern Song Dynasty with the Song emperor south, and then settled in Zhenjiang New District Dagang. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, due to the cemetery near the Yangtze River, Yin Zhengmao, Minister of the Household Department will be moved to Danyang by the mountain springs Bay sparrow plum dun. Yin Yunpeng said his grandfather was originally from Dongmao Tangli Village in the town of Visit Xian, and then the whole family settled here because they were guarding their ancestral tomb in Qimeidun.
Reporters in the festival site to see, this place lush, Yin Bingchang tomb well-preserved, the tomb in front of the Chinese alabaster monument is particularly striking. The reporter learned from the city cultural relics department, Yin Bingchang tomb has been formulated as a municipal cultural relics protection unit.
Yinshang cultural association, Yin Yunfei told reporters, Yin Bingchang descendants in Jiangnan distribution is very wide, and celebrities. Huashu (now demolished to Zhenjiang New District Pingchang New City), Kirin (now belongs to the Danyang Development Zone, the village of its forest), Huang Hui (now belongs to the Dantu District Xinfeng Town), Shangli (now belongs to the Shexian County, Anhui Province) is the main branch of the descendants of the Zhenjiang area and Jiangyin Shengang, Longsha, Suzhou, Jiangsu Zhen, Changzhou Beimen, Yixing Xushe, etc. From 2010 to 2012, the Yin people to raise funds for the maintenance of the tomb of the Yin Bingchang, resuming the ancestral activities this year, the Yin Bingchang tomb, the Yin Bingchang tomb, the Yin Bingchang tomb. resumed ancestor worship activities, this year's scale is the largest ever.
Six generations in one day
In all parts of the Yin family to Dan ancestor worship personnel, there is an 88-year-old man in the speech because of full of deep feelings and touched everyone present. The old man named Yin Baoguo, is a retired teacher in Suqian City. The old man told reporters, Danyang trip to fulfill the dream of his family for several generations, so the mood is particularly excited.
Originally, Yin Baoguo's great-grandfather fled from Dantu to Suining County in northern Jiangsu Province during the war of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom at the end of Qing Dynasty, and later settled in Suqian. Yin Baoguo told the reporter emotionally in the interview that when he was 17 or 18 years old, his grandfather was already in his eighties, and his grandfather told him that his ancestors were in Dantu's Mashu Mountain area, and he wanted to go home to see them in his lifetime. However, because of the loss of contact for many years, from his grandfather to his own generation, the whole six generations, Yin Baoguo many times want to return home to pay homage to their ancestors, but has not been able to do so.
Just two days ago, Yin Baoguo old man's son learned from the Internet that the descendants of the Nandu Yin clan will come to Danyang ancestral tombs on March 30 to pay homage to their ancestors, so Yin Baoguo took his son, on March 29, stayed in Danyang Pi City, a hotel.
The 30th is a day Yin Baoguo will never forget, this day, he learned from Yin Weiguo clan, according to the genealogy, his ancestry is Dantu Huangxu mountain north of Daxu village, he rushed to the village early in the morning to visit his relatives, feel extraordinarily close.
"Water has a source, trees have roots, finally found his roots, my heart is so excited that it almost popped out of my mouth!" Yin Baoguo expressed his uncontrollable excitement as such.
Clansmen fellowship *** to promote social harmony
This time to come to the ancestor of the Yin descendants, from most of the areas of southern Jiangsu and northern Jiangsu part of the region, across the province, and Shanghai and other places of the clan, can be said to be a strong lineup. The majority of Yin's descendants in the ancestral activities have expressed the need to harmonize the clan, strengthen the contact and communication between clansmen around the world, strengthen the fellowship, and promote social harmony, only the family unity, harmony, in order to promote social harmony, and to contribute to the realization of the "Chinese dream".
Yin Ruodong, president of the Shengang Yin genealogy committee, led by the Jiangyin Yin delegation this trip to more than 60 representatives, divided into two buses to Danyang. According to Yin Guorong, Yin Guoshu and other people, Jiangyin Shengang area of the first ancestor of Danyang Kirin faction of the tenth ancestor Yin Deyu, in the early years of the Ming Hongwu to Shengang to visit the tomb of Jizi, began to settle here, the current Yin descendants of more than 5,000 people.
They said they will often come to Danyang to visit their hometown in the future.
Yin Shangzheng, who now lives in Nanjing, is originally from Wujiang, Suzhou, he told reporters, Suzhou Yin's celebrities, the most famous is the famous minister Yin Zhaoyong in the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China star Yin Mingzhu. He said that the year for the renewal of the genealogy and contact with other parts of the Yin clan in Jiangnan, every year on the eve of the Qingming Festival to the ancestral tombs of Danyang ancestral activities have become his "mandatory course".
Zhenjiang New District, Pingchang New City in the Huashu horse lamp art team in the ancestral activities in the dress is very attractive, the art team Yin Wanlin told reporters that although Huashu village has been demolished, but the horse lamp team is Huashu Yin intangible cultural heritage, he is currently in Yin young people to absorb the members, so that it will be inherited and carried forward.
>>>>>>Related links: !!!! Danyang Yin Clan Origin The Yin Clan originated in the Yin Dynasty (Shang Dynasty), and was named after the state. Danyang is one of the main settlements of the Yin Clan, and is also the main birthplace of the Yin Clan in Jiangnan. According to historical documents and genealogical records, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Yin Feng, a doctor of counseling, abandoned his post and lived in Danyang with his family in order to avoid the scourge of party confinement, which was the first source of the Yin Clan in Danyang. Eastern Jin Dynasty, Jingzhou assassin Yin Zhongkan buried Yanling Jizi Temple side, his son "Lulu tomb and live", become Yanling Lvzhuang branch of Yin's ancestor, its descendants are mainly distributed in Danyang Yanling and Dantu, Jintan and other places.
The third source is the Southern Song Dynasty, the right martial arts doctor Yin Bingchang moved to Zhenjiang Dagang, his second son and then moved to Huashu, the descendants scattered in Zhenjiang and all over the south of the Yangtze River, become the south of the famous family.
Yin Zhengmao should be buried here, from the word can be analyzed here is the ancestral tomb