On this day, Zhang Zhaohua finally performed all the wedding ceremonies smoothly, which was affirmed by the female official and gave her half a day to rest. www.biquge.info Of course, Zhang Zhaohua feels that she doesn't need this rest time, she seems to have a fire burning in her heart, she is like a high-pressure simmering pot on the fire, not only closing the valve, but also making the firewood under it more and more vigorous, and she can only hear the "snort" sound of the pot constantly tumbling every day.

"Xuanxuan, jade silk, riding a horse, and the text is like a ceremony-" Next to him was a female official reading the gift list, Zhang Zhaohua seemed to be awakened by her voice, so he asked: "Mama, what is Xuanxuan?"

"Xuanxuan," the female officer closed the silk book and explained to her, "it is black and reddish-yellow cloth. ”

Under the explanation of Mama Qian, Xuan and Xuan are both color names, and the two colors of Xuan Xuan are seen in the "Yi Zhi Ci" - the Yellow Emperor Yao Shun hangs his clothes, and he takes all the things. Dry is the sky, its color is mysterious, Kun is the earth, its color is yellow. But the soil is not in place, and it is located in the south. The color of fire is red, and red and yellow (together) are the color of the fire.

Xuanqi symbolizes heaven and earth respectively, so they are often called together. Marriage is the intersection of yin and yang, so since ancient times, Xuan Qi has been used as a dowry. At the same time, there were also jade silks sent to the woman's house, as well as horses raised by the royal horses in the palace.

"And horses?" Zhang Zhaohua was puzzled: "Send horses, the original Son of Heaven married women, all of them were noble daughters from the princess's family, and they sent horses to the princess's family, and the family had a place to raise them;

"There is no way to do this, where is the reason for the acceptance given by the Son of Heaven?" Mama Qian said: "Princess, don't worry about the shallow door of the family, since you are married to the royal family, the family will naturally prosper." ”

Mama Qian is really smart, obedient and obedient, knowing what Zhang Zhaohua is worried about, she said: "Your family has a nobleman, if you don't come to Beijing with a false title, there will be many people who will go to donate land and send it in the name of your family, and within three or five years, your family will be the richest in the local area." If you are in Beiping, according to the usual rules, the prince and princess will give preferential treatment to foreign families, and will allocate land and land for your family, so that the family is close to each other and can take care of it better. ”

"Beiping," Zhang Zhaohua seemed to be touched by the word: "Mama, your family is also in Beiping, Beiping—okay?"

Qian Mama, originally from Beiping, entered the palace when the female official was selected in the fourteenth year of Hongwu, and it was also because after being widowed for five years, both parents died of illness, and no clansman could rely on her to sign up for the election.

"Beiping," Mama Qian's voice seemed to have become longer: "I have been away from Beiping for 14 years, and I don't know that the current Beiping is not like the Beiping in my memory. ”

In Mama Qian's memories, in the western suburbs of Beijing, there are continuous beautiful peaks in the western mountains, artesian springs everywhere, and in the low-lying places, they converge into lakes and marshes of all sizes. In particular, in the 29th year of the Yuan Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty excavated the Tonghui River, diverted the spring water of Changping Shenshan and the flowing water along the way and the spring water in the Xishan area into the lake, which became a reservoir for diverting water from the capital.

"Because there is a mountain, called Weng Mountain," Qian Mama said: "So these Haizi, all called Weng Shanbo, in Beiping people are called West Lake, because there are lotus flowers everywhere, more beautiful than the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, there are temples and pavilions next to the lake, there are also paddy fields around, rice is planted, every year when the peach and willow are green, the people of Beiping will help the old and bring the young, and strive to go to Weng Mountain to enjoy the spring; in summer, there are boating and fishing, around the lake for ten miles, are bustling people. ”

Zhang Zhaohua didn't know what kind of mountain Wengshan was, and she didn't know what kind of lake Wengshanbo was, but she knew what the western suburbs of Beijing were, and wasn't that the place of Xiangshan and the Summer Palace in the later generations-

The Three Gardens of the Old Ming Dynasty in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, like the stars and the moon, occupy a good place in the western suburbs - but now, it is really a place for the common people to enjoy and play, I heard that King Yan also built a garden there, but it does not occupy a large area, and the common people are also allowed to go there to play, and they are not all enclosed as forbidden gardens.

"The layout of Beiping City is different from the capital, it is the left ancestor and the right society, facing the back market," Qian Mama said: "The palace was burned, but it is impossible to burn the entire Beiping city, and it has always retained the pattern of the Yuan capital, which is called by the fang, the city, the lane and the alley, for example, the Nanluoguxiang of the Houshi is the axis that best distinguishes, the east side area belongs to Zhaohui Fang, and the west side area belongs to Jinggong Fang. ”

"The imperial palace of the Yuan Dynasty was burned?" Zhang Zhaohua was surprised to remember, it is true, the Forbidden City is the Forbidden City of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the Yuan Dynasty also set the capital of Beiping, why is there no imperial palace of the Yuan Dynasty left?

"When the King of Zhongshan led his troops into the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, he obeyed the will and destroyed the palace of the Yuan Dynasty," Qian Mama said: "It has eliminated the royal spirit of the Yuan Dynasty." ”

There is a very bad tradition in ancient China, that is, the new dynasty must destroy the palace of the old country, that is, the so-called "selling the king's spirit". This kind of behavior should have started when Qin Shi Huang destroyed the palace of the Six Kingdoms, and the Afang Palace was burned down by Xiang Yu, but later dynasties followed suit and destroyed the capital palaces of the previous dynasties to eliminate their potential threat to the regime. In history, only the Tang and Qing dynasties inherited the imperial palace of the previous dynasty, except for these two exceptions, the rest of the palace cities were destroyed after the death of the country, believing that only in this way could the royal spirit of the previous dynasty be eliminated, so that it would never have any hope of restoration.

"Why bother," Zhang Zhaohua sighed, "From ancient times to the present, there are no good things that can really be handed down, and they have all been destroyed." ”

"In the royal family, you must always know the taboo, and you must know the taboo of the emperor. Seeing her like this, Mama Qian reminded: "If the emperor believes this, others can't believe it." ”

She mentioned another one, saying that there was a pig Polong in the coastal place, because the emperor's surname was Zhu, which was the same as "pig", and everyone did not dare to report it truthfully, so they said that it was the turtle that was making trouble, because "turtle" and "yuan" were the same sound, and the emperor was disgusted, so he ordered all the turtles in that place to be hunted and killed.

The turtle is innocent, and it is not the turtle that harms people, but no one dares to violate the emperor's taboo to identify the pig dragon, so the unlucky one can only be the turtle.

Mama Qian reminded her, Zhang Zhaohua naturally wanted to appreciate it, she knew that after the wedding, Mama Qian would also go to Beiping with her, and she would be the person who would accompany her for a long time in the future, so she was naturally very close to her.

"Mama," Zhang Zhaohua said: "Since you chose to come to Beijing from Beiping back then, it can be seen that Beiping can't get by, so why do you want to follow me back to Beiping this time?"

"I was really desperate back then," Mama Qian said: "But Beiping is the root, I don't want to leave and leave, I have Beiping in my heart, and everywhere else is like a guest house." ”

Mama Qian talked about the Beiping she was most familiar with, and when she closed her eyes, she seemed to be able to see the people, scenery, and tastes there, and she could imagine an extreme Beiping. However, her depiction is incomplete, Zhang Zhaohuayang said it again, she was reluctant to say it.

Zhang Zhaohua knew what she meant, the goodness of Beiping was only experienced by herself. Mama Qian gave her a chance to realize herself, and also tickled her heart, she wanted to see what were the similarities and differences between Beiping at this time and the Beiping written by many people in later generations.

"When I left home and went back, my hometown voice has not changed, and my sideburns have declined. Mama Qian touched the gray hair between her temples, and her expression was actually captured by Zhang Zhaohua with a little shyness.

Zhang Zhaohua said: "If you have affection and hope for your hometown, who can keep your sideburns unchanged?"

It means that people who have a sense of homesickness and miss their hometown every day, how can they not have gray hair?