The Man in Power After Being Married into Her Family by Adela

Therefore, as the main family, it was necessary for them to use the ancestor worship ceremony to gather people from the collateral family together at regular intervals. 5

After getting to know each other, getting acquainted with one another, and worshipping their common ancestors together, the connection between the bloodlines would naturally be strengthened. This was also a necessary means for large families to maintain their strength.

Therefore, the Wade family would not only hold an ancestor worship ceremony once every twelve years, but they would also revise their entire Wade family genealogy chart at the ancestor worship ceremony. During this period between the current twelve years and the past twelve years, each family would have already given birth to a new heir, an older generation would have died, and some young adults would have already gotten married.

Therefore, every twelve years, the countless branches of the Wade family would have to report the population changes in their family over the past twelve years to the main family. 5

At that time, the main family would select a respected elder of good moral standing and reputation to

personally renew the genealogy chart. The elder would have to write down the names and deeds of each and every one of these people, one by one.

The existing Wade family genealogy chart consisted of the names of millions of Wade family descendants as well as the names of millions of their spouses. For instance, a certain son of the Wade family could have married the daughter of another family, or the daughter of the Wade family could have married the son from another family and so forth. 4

the genealogy

was stored in a safe with constant temperature and humidity, and it would be brought out by

the genealogy chart out for the ancestor worship ceremony, they would have to immediately and

renew the new

they would also grandly store the

the Wade family members regarded the genealogy chart as a

main family was the only

retain the original genealogy chart. Therefore, every time a collateral family came to worship their ancestors, in addition to performing the great kowtow ritual to the genealogy chart, they would also develop a natural

his ministers who had to endure cumbersome etiquette, rituals, strict rules, and inheritance to strengthen the idea of loyalty to the king in the ministers' minds. 6 This was also a great support from the main family

the Wade family's ancestor worship ceremony

had been held twelve years ago when he was still

twenty-four years ago. At that time, he had been too young, and he had no memory of that incident at