Zhang Zhaohua successfully passed the third round of selection, this time the number of people who brushed down was really large, more than 700 people were only about 180 people left, and the noisy scene in the garden finally became sparse. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

I'm afraid I've seen the cruelty of the selection, all the ladies who stayed behind have both a sense of happiness and a kind of fear, this time does not mean that the next time can pass well, and in the next two months, they have little time to play, instead of a strict learning mode, because it is said that the ladies left from the third round of selection will not be put back, and at worst, they will be filled with court maids.

Every day, they had to listen to a lecture in the open courtyard, and what kind of lesson they were listening to—a lesson in correcting pronunciation.

The official dialect of the national dynasty is the official dialect of Jinling developed into the official dialect of Jianghuai, and the ladies from Jianghuai here hardly need to learn, and they speak more authentically, but there are still some tones that need to be changed, but for the ladies from the north, it is indeed a very painful learning process. It stands to reason that Kaifeng, Henan Province, where Zhang Zhaohua is located, is the most standard official dialect inherited from the Northern Song Dynasty, because the Northern Song Dynasty was based on the pronunciation of the Bianluo area of the Central Plains as the standard pronunciation, and Bianjing was Kaifeng. Even after the Southern Song Dynasty moved its capital, it was still orthodox with the Central Plains Yayin.

Later, the Jin soldiers invaded, and a large number of people from the Northern Song Dynasty went south, bringing the voice of the Central Plains to the south. In the north, the voice of the Central Plains was mixed with the Khitan and Jurchen for a long time, and in the Yuan Dynasty, the Central Plains Yayin was a widely spoken official language.

Therefore, there are basically three kinds of official dialects spoken by Xiunu at present, some speak the official dialect of the south, that is, the official dialect of Jianghuai, and some come from Shudi, Sichuan, and speak the official dialect of the southwest; some speak the official dialect of the Central Plains, like Zhang Zhaohua, of course, this official dialect of the Central Plains also has a unique branch, which is the official dialect of Lanyin in Yinchuan, Lanzhou; and finally, the official dialect of the north is the official dialect of Jiaoliao, Beiping, and Shandong.

Zhang Zhaohua, the official dialect in the north, sounds too kind, almost Beijing dialect, and the words are correct and round, and it is comfortable to listen to. Zhang Zhaohua can also understand the official dialect of Jianghuai if he listens carefully, because in history, the Central Plains region immigrated to the north and the south, which was the basis for the formation of the official dialect of the north and the south.

The ladies began the process of learning sound rhyme, and at first they learned it a little simpler, each of them had a copy of "Rhyme is Slightly Easy to Pass", which was marked with twenty initials in early plum poems, and recited every day under the supervision of female officials.

After systematically studying the official rhyme book "Hongwu Zhengyun", you can hear a crisp female voice in the morning, reading like a chorus: "Responsibility-Quality-Loss-Color-"

You can read it in the morning, and then read it one by one in front of the female officials, and only those who read well can go to dinner, and those who do not read well will be left to open a small stove, and the female officials at this time are very strict, teach you three or five times, and you still can't learn, so they will take you into the dark room, lift your skirt, and then beat your calves with branches.

Mama and female officials generally don't slap their faces, probably because their faces are a woman's capital, and most of a woman's life is rich and prosperous on her face. Slapping the mouth is a common thing for eunuchs, but in the palace, women are not allowed to slap their faces, unless they do something cheap.

Zhang Zhaohua didn't dare to risk herself, because she saw that Lu Shi was called in once, flogged ten times, and her legs were swollen at night, and she screamed in pain.

In addition to learning the correct rhyme, the etiquette of standing, sleeping and eating also made the ladies suffer.

There is a particularly strict rule, you are not allowed to sleep with your back facing the sky, you must lie sideways and fist your legs. It is said that this is the basic etiquette of the palace maid, and everyone learns the etiquette of the palace maid together, because among the two hundred people, only about seven or eight people are lucky enough to be selected as the princess, and if the rest are selected by the emperor himself, it is also a great creation - but how many people can have such a great creation? The rest can only be palace maids, so teach you the etiquette of the palace maid.

At this time, five or six ladies were assigned to an older maid, and everyone called her an aunt, and at night the aunt would come to their sleeping place and show them the correct sleeping position.

Lie on your side with your legs curled up with one hand on your side and the other outstretched. Everyone can't help but ask, "Why do you sleep like this?" But my aunt was very strict, and generally in her chat, everyone did not dare to interject, and if she didn't know which sentence did not go her way, she would coldly stop talking.

Sleeping on your side is really a very hard thing, because you have to sleep according to her, and then after falling asleep, you will unconsciously lie flat or stretch your hands and feet, and you will be woken up by the aunt who is staring at you, and you will readjust your sleeping position and fall asleep.

In this way, she can be woken up thirteen or fourteen times in one night, and she has not rested well at all, and the rest of the show girls are the same, they all have blue and black circles under their eyes, and they can't be covered with a layer of makeup, and they have to go up to another layer.

In addition to this, on weekdays, my aunt also stares at the behavior of all the show girls, and she is not allowed to hold her cheeks, saying that this is crying, and she will never be lucky. It is not allowed to scratch one's head, saying that it is not dignified, it is not allowed to run and jump, it is not allowed to raise one's voice, it is not allowed to pick one's nose and rub one's eyes, it is forbidden to turn back slowly, and it is said that people who walk and move their shoulders are also inferior, and they must be punished if they see it. Zhang Zhaohua felt that he especially admired these women who walked without shaking the corners of their clothes, and they could practice such skills.

However, the reason why they are so strict with them is that they are indeed formal palace maids now, and they are selected to tuck the court and pull them one by one to the house in the east to tailor their clothes, from head to foot, including shoes and socks. Because they are young and grow fast, when they measure their size, they are all one size larger. I heard from the grandmothers that once a quarter in the future, you can send new clothes. Now two sets of summer clothes have been issued, and it is said that the winter clothes can be made in September, and pants and knee socks have also been issued.

The two sets of clothes are not the same. A set of dresses with a group neckline, narrow sleeves, and small sunflower folded branches, and a red dress with beaded sewn gold and bow-like shoes with small gold flowers underneath. It's just that there is no crown on the head, and it is said that it is only worn by a high-grade palace maid. There is also a set of clothes with a jacket skirt with a bright red white collar on top and a blue horse-faced skirt below. This set of clothes has a hat, but it does not have beaded flowers and hairpins like other palace maids in the palace.

This kind of clothing is particular, within three layers, or gown or jacket, no white cuffs are allowed to be exposed, no neck collar is allowed to be exposed, and no buttons are allowed. The white underwear inside is not allowed to show from the neck and cuffs, and you should check it carefully before going out, if you don't pay attention to showing it so that your aunt can see it, it will be a good fight.

At this time, there were high-grade female officials and monks in the palace, all wearing short jackets with straight collars and large plackets, and some were also covered with a square-necked placket vest, and most of them were decorated with a button at the neckline. And they have auspicious clothes to wear, and ordinary palace maids do not have auspicious clothes to wear.

What does the auspicious dress look like Zhang Zhaohua has seen, that is, during the Qixi Festival, he saw the female officials wearing it, and it was a cloud shoulder sleeve and knee pattern. The body is decorated with persimmon-shaped "cloud shoulders" on the chest, back, and shoulders, which is a bit similar to Zhang Zhaohua's new clothes, but Zhang Zhaohua's clothes only have plausible cloud shoulders on both shoulders, and there is no front and back. In addition, they are decorated with sleeve shirts from the left and right shoulders to the sleeves, the front and back hems are decorated with knee pads, and there are patches on the chest.

Speaking of this complement pattern, Zhang Zhaohua was very surprised, she had seen in later film and television works that the official robes of officials had auspicious birds and beasts complement patterns, but she never knew that there were women in the Ming Dynasty who could wear complement clothes, and obviously the workmanship was very beautiful and exquisite, and they had different complements according to different festivals.

For example, the aunt of the palace maid told them that from the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month to the New Year, the gourd scenery pattern is used, also known as the Daji gourd, and the gourd scenery used in the palace is mostly decorated with dragons and pythons.

On the fifth day of the fifth day of the fifth month of May, the Duanyang Festival was replaced with the pattern of five poisons, and at the same time, the image of the tiger and wormwood was added to the pattern, and the name was "Five Poisons and Wormwood Tiger Fang Bu" - these Zhang Zhaohua had not seen it with her own eyes, but she saw it with her own eyes when the female official wore the Cowherd and Weaver Girl pattern Fang Bu during the Qixi Festival, but on the two palm-sized patches, four or five characters were vividly embroidered, which looked really beautiful works of art.

Other Chongyang, Winter Solstice and Halloween have different complement replacements, but this has nothing to do with Zhang Zhaohua, they have to mix in the position of female officials to be able to wear them.