Recently, Fuchun Longmen Sun’s Wuxu Year and the 1836 Anniversary of Emperor Da of Wu Autumn Festival was held in Longmen town, Fuyang District, Hangzhou. More than 200 of Sun’s descendants from all over China came together, offering incense, knelt down, and made solemn offerings to their ancestors.
It is understood that the ancient town of Longmen in Zhejiang is the hometown of Sun Quan, the founder of Eastern Wu during The Three Kingdoms period, and is the largest settlement of Sun Quan descendants in China. Among the local population of 7,000, more than 90% of the villagers are descendants of Sun Quan. In order to commemorate their ancestors, the descendants of Sun have resumed the tradition of the Golden Autumn Festival, which has been stopped for more than 60 years until 2005 and has jointly guarded the family memory that lasted for thousands of years. They dressed in Hanfu (Traditional Han ethnic clothing) and sincerely worshipped with reverence. Accompanied by ancient music, Sun’s descendants mourned with a chapter of rituals and a few cups of thin wine and listened to the Sun’s Family Training to show their gratitude. Among them were children who had just learnt to speak, energetic young men, and many grey-haired old people.
It is reported that the current Longmen Sun’s descendants have been proliferated to the 65th generation of Sun Quan. The oldest generation in the town is the 56th generation of descendants, with an average age of over 80 years old. At the ceremony, Sun Ruisheng, a 56th generation descendant of the local generation, was full of energy. At the age of 92, he held the banner of ‘Weighing the World’ to commemorate the great achievements of their ancestor, Emperor Da of Wu, Sun Quan.
Later, the representatives of the descendants from the other nine generations successively put on the flag to showcase the thousands of family trainings such as Sun’s good deeds and farming and reading. Living in an ancient town together, sharing the same blood, the characteristics of one thousand people with the same surname, ten generations with the same town are vividly displayed in Longmen.
“I am a native of the Longmen, and I am very affectionate about every blade of grass and every tree here. In Longmen, you can meet your family wherever you go.”, Sun Wenlin, vice president of the Longmen Sun Culture Research Association, is the descendant of Sun Quan’s 59th Li generation. He said that Sun’s Family Training affects generations upon generations of grandchildren from all kinds of aspects. The family tradition of filial piety and diligence makes him honor his parents and be frugal. The family training of having gratitude made him remember his ancestors and his duty.
This was not all, at the scene, the reporter also saw many Sun’s descendants from Shandong, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, and other places. Sun Zesheng from Shenyang, Liaoning Province is the secretary general of the Shaoguan Dong Sun Research Association. At 69, he crossed the distance of more than 1,800 kilometers and arrived in Hangzhou late at night on the 27th.
“No matter how far, worshipping one’s ancestors is a must. I have returned every year since I started to worship my ancestor in 2005.” Sun Zesheng said, “The Industrious and Honest is a fine tradition left by the ancestors, and it is also the key to the people that the descendants of future generations are observing. It is the responsibility of every grandchild to carry on the family tradition from generation to generation. I am also strict when it comes to my children doing so.” (End)
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