Records of Old Customs of Qilu

If the ruler is broken, the context cannot be broken. On the day Qi Yan returned to Qili Village, the Shangma Stone at the entrance of the village was being moved away by outsiders. Grandpa was critically ill, so he handed an ancestral ruler that was broken into two parts into his hand: "If the ruler is broken, the cultural context cannot be broken." Taking the broken ruler into his hands, the afterimages of countless gift masters over the past six hundred years appeared in front of Qi Yan's eyes. They held the ruler to conduct sacrifices and guard the village and the people. They put their whole life's weight on this three-foot-three-inch old ruler. He had to fix it. If it is not repaired, the cultural context of Qili Village will be cut off. But as he continued to repair, he discovered that this ruler was broken by his grandfather thirty years ago. In order to protect the blood of a village, the old man cut off his ruler and cut off the blood, and he has been guilty of this for thirty years. Now that the ruler is in Sun's hands, the old customs in the village are almost extinct. Foreign capital wants to transform the last intangible cultural heritage into the "River God Water World". The "Master of Chinese Studies" with millions of fans describes the bald-tailed old Li as an alien creature. With a pair of eyes that can see the "remnants of cultural context", Qi Yan, starting from the pair of missing Shangma stones at the entrance of the village, retrieved the lost old customs one by one - visiting the aunt on the seventh day of the first lunar month, the ceremony of returning to the village in the twelfth lunar month, the sacrifice of the Yellow River King, and the chivalrous ceremony of Qin Qiong. Behind every old custom, there is a forgotten past, and etiquette and righteousness engraved in the bones of a place. "I want to find everything I lost." No ghosts, no fantasy. There are only the simplest and most important things that take root in the soil and grow in people's hearts: filial piety, righteousness, propriety, trust, and roots. The guardian of the old customs on the land of Qilu, with a broken ruler, renews the cultural heritage of six hundred years.