Ancestral Hall

httpent.sina.com.cnv2006-07-3114111179588.html The ancestral hall is the holy place of the family. In an era when men were superior to women, the ancestral hall was also a forbidden place for women. And our story about the ancestral hall begins, develops, and finally reaches an unpredictable ending around a woman. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Xie family's ancestral hall in Linyuan, Huizhou Prefecture, symbolized the unity of the clan and the harmony of brothers. Xie Zhiqing, the grandson of the former Xie family, and Xie Zhicheng, the grandson of the latter Xie family, who share the same ancestor but different clans, held a wedding ceremony in the ancestral hall. Amidst the commotion, the ancestral door suddenly collapsed and injured the former Xie Zhiqing, casting an ominous shadow on the hearts of the two Xie clansmen. Zheng Xiuyun, the daughter of the troupe leader Zheng Zhimeng, had been childhood sweethearts with Xie Zhiqing since childhood, but accidentally married Xie Zhiqing. Not long after their wedding, Zhiqing and Zhicheng went out to do business together. Xiuyun began the long and lonely wait of Huizhou women's "three and a half years as husband and wife". The former Xie, represented by Xiuyun's father-in-law Xiucai, and the latter Xie, with the third master as the head, have been fighting openly and secretly for the right to control the ancestral hall. The scholar failed in repeated tests, so he devoted all his hopes of honoring his ancestor Guangzong to his youngest son Zhixiang, who was regarded as a child prodigy by his neighbors. Later, although Mr. Xie had three sons, he still made the eldest son his wife.