Southerners have ancestral halls, but northerners generally do not.
On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, Jiaonan holds its most important sacrificial rites of the year.
Descendants bring offerings and paper money to kneel and worship at their ancestors' graves, adding a fresh layer of soil to symbolize that the family line continues unbroken. They pray for the ancestors to bless them with abundant offspring and lasting prosperity.
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