Sent the county lord of Jiangdu out of the palace gate, several princes and princesses went to the harem to meet their mothers, Zhang Zhaohua and the Lu family couldn't get close to these concubines, and they didn't want to go back to the Zhuwang Pavilion, because the Zhuwang Pavilion had a long way to go to Geng's Mansion, and they had to go to Geng's Mansion to watch the ceremony in less than an hour after returning to the pavilion, and the time was too tight. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhang Zhaohua saw that the prince and princess had their mothers to visit, but he and the princess of Zhou had nowhere to go, so he didn't know what to feel in his heart. She suddenly had an idea and said to the Lu family: "Let's go to the Taimiao Temple otherwise." ”

The center of Nanjing City is the Imperial City, which is backed by the Fugui Mountain of the Purple Mountain, the shrine altar dedicated to the earth god and the grain god on the right, and the Taimiao temple dedicated to the ancestors on the left. This is designed according to the feudal capital system of the Zuozu Right Society, and the Temple of Heaven and the Temple of Mountains and Rivers were built in the southern suburbs according to the traditional regulations, all of which are the same as the planning of the Beijing City of later generations, or in other words, the Beijing City is modeled on the establishment of Nanjing.

When they came to the temple in a sedan chair, they found that there were guards in front of the temple, and there were many of them, and they were as strict as the guards of the palace. The leading sergeant saw her and could be said to be very surprised.

"Who's coming?"

"I, the princess of King Yan," Zhang Zhaohua regretted a little in his heart, so he asked the palace maid to send her a message: "I want to come to visit the Taimiao." ”

"Dare to ask the princess and concubine," the military attache said unhurriedly: "Do you know what the Taimiao is for?"

"Respect the heavens and ancestors, worship the ancestors. Zhang Zhaohua said.

"Then the princess knows," the military attache said sternly, "the temple does not allow three kinds of people to enter. ”

"Dare to ask. Zhang Zhaohua said.

"Those who are disloyal to the ministers are not allowed to enter the temple. The military attache said: "Those who are not filial to their sons are not allowed to enter the temple." Women are not allowed to enter the temple. ”

Zhang Zhaohua was silent. She came here to humiliate herself, she knew that the Taimiao at this time was not the working people's cultural palace in her previous life, why did she come here to be reprimanded.

She didn't take the female official with her when she came out, and Mama Qian was left in Tiren Hall by her, and no one reminded her that Taimiao was a forbidden place. And these female palanquin bearers and palace maids who serve around them do not know the majesty of the Taimiao. Now they were frightened by the armor soldiers with knives around them, and they all trembled.

Zhang Zhaohua felt that if she just left in such a gloomy way, she wouldn't know how to be laughed at and rude and unetiquette after she went back - she already had a hard injury in her background, and now she was going to let someone with a heart grab the handle.

"What I want to worship is the family temple. Zhang Zhaohua said: "This is my family's ancestral hall, how can there be a family temple that is not allowed to enter the clan?"

"In my family's temple, there is the goddess of Empress Xiaoci," Zhang Zhaohua simply pulled up the banner and said: "I, the granddaughter of Empress Xiaoci." As a descendant, how can it be called filial piety if you pass the temple without worshiping? Besides, today I am not alone, I have come to pay tribute, and entrusted the will of King Yan and His Royal Highness the Princess. King Yan is far away in Beiping, can not worship in front of the spirit of the Empress Xiaoci every day, selfishness often regrets, today by me to sacrifice, is the whole descendant of life love and respect, death mourning. ”

"As for the Son of Heaven, filial piety has no end," Zhang Zhaohua pointed to himself: "The wife of my loyal minister, the wife of the filial son, when the Empress Xiaoci was born, she failed to fulfill the foundation of the people, and now she should fulfill the righteousness of life and death." If you are also a loyal and filial son, you should not stop me. ”

Not to mention that the ancients were easily moved, the seven-foot man in front of him and his subordinates had a look of emotion on their resolute faces. It's just that the heavy armor on his body is a duty that he can't easily overcome.

But at this time, from inside the small door, an elderly eunuch came out, and he seemed to have heard everything that happened at the door, raised his left hand slightly, and signaled to the guards.

The guards quietly retreated.

The old eunuch bowed down and made a gesture of invitation, asking Zhang Zhaohua to come with him. Zhang Zhaohua carried his skirt, walked to the front of Lu's sedan chair first, and knocked on the sedan body twice.

No response.

Zhang Zhaohua knew that the Lu family did not dare to enter the temple.

Can't blame her, after going in today, the emperor is likely to blame the crime, although Zhang Zhaohua is sure that when he faces Chen, the emperor will change his mind, but after all, the Lu family is still a native, everything today has actually frightened her, and in the final analysis, Zhang Zhaohua is to blame for dragging her down.

She followed behind the old eunuch and entered the temple alone.

The old eunuch walked with a great lameness, and his legs were not good, and it should be a very difficult thing for him to walk. Moreover, Zhang Zhaohua also noticed that his right arm was twisted throughout, which is a typical appearance of a broken bone but not being connected. Such a person, guarding in the Taimiao, must have unknown secrets, and must also be involved in a bad thing in the royal family.

Zhang Zhaohua decided to pretend to be obedient and not ask anything.

The main gate is the gate that the emperor walked through when he worshiped the temple, and they entered through the side door next to it. After entering, there are warehouses on both sides, and then go forward to see the well pavilion, go straight into the halberd door, this door is the yellow glazed tube tile roof, the top of the single eaves palace, the front and back of the pedestal. Because the emperor went out, he inserted a halberd as a door at the accommodation, so there are eight halberds displayed under the base of this door, and the halberd frame was silently counted by Zhang Zhaohua, and there are fifteen halberds, so a total of one hundred and twenty halberds of Chen.

The Taimiao she had seen in her previous life had a halberd gate but no halberd, because the Eight-Nation Alliance came to Beijing and stole it. The halberd she saw now had rust stains on it, and there were obvious potholes, this was a halberd that had really seen blood.

Entering the front hall from the halberd gate, this hall is very empty, only the two gods of wooden gold lacquer enshrined in the center, the emperor seat carved dragon, and the back seat carved phoenix. In the true sense, this temple is called Taimiao. Because whenever there is a sacrifice, the gods in the back nave are moved to this hall to hold the sacrifice.

In front of the seat, there are offerings, incense sticks and copper stoves. The old eunuch handed her incense, and Zhang Zhaohua knelt on the futon to incense the divine seat. The side halls on both sides of here, set up the tablets of the royal family and the heroes, the east side hall is dedicated to the clan, such as the early death of the king of Zhao and the king of Lu, the god is inside, and the west side hall is dedicated to the meritorious ministers, which is the meaning of the meritorious heroes to enjoy the temple - but Zhang Zhaohua finished worshipping from the east side hall, but the old eunuch did not let her enter the west side hall.

Zhang Zhaohua had a little epiphany in his heart. The emperor not only enjoyed the temple with meritorious heroes, but also ordered the temple to be erected on Jilong Mountain. There is one person in the twenty meritorious deeds, the statue of the dead, and the living in a vacant position - the point is that the emperor never announced who the deserving person was.

What an honor it is to enjoy the Taimiao, it is almost a more secure guarantee than the world coupons, such a meritorious hero, if the descendants do not rebel, they will rest with the country from generation to generation.

In the side hall on the west side, the door is not tightly closed, and there is even a slight light inside, and you can see the yellow curtains inside, but such a bright color cannot bring Zhang Zhaohua a warm feeling, but there is a kind of depression, unconsciously and overwhelmingly.

Zhang Zhaohua glanced at it, but didn't dare to look at it anymore, and obediently followed the old eunuch through the front hall and into the middle hall.

At this time, the nave should be called the sleeping temple, the hall is also very empty, there is a god without a name left in the middle room, Zhang Zhaohua knows that this is what the emperor left for himself, because there is still the god of Empress Xiaoci next to it, and next to it, it is Prince Yiwen's.

The crown prince can also enter the temple - when the grandson ascends the throne, he will posthumously honor his father as the emperor, so it is also appropriate to put the god of Prince Yiwen here.

Zhang Zhaohua respectfully bowed eight times, then stepped forward and knelt down again, touching the legs of the two divine chairs placed in front of the god master.

In front of the shrine is displayed the same number of gods and queens, for the queen's sacrifice, the Ming Dynasty is only for the original match, that is to say, only the emperor's first wife, can enjoy the etiquette of the temple, and then whether it is the successor or the birth, can not ascend to the temple.

So one of these chairs belongs to the emperor, and the other belongs to Queen Ma.

She actually wanted to meet the virtuous queen who was full of praise in this book, but she couldn't meet it. She knew that there was a etiquette in Anhui at this time, after the death of the old man in the family, the children and grandchildren would keep the chair where the old man sit, if she missed the old man, she would touch the leg of the chair, as if she was back in Chenghuan's knees.

It seems that this ritual will no longer exist in the future, but now, there is always an opportunity to practice it.

Zhang Zhaohua gently touched the leg of the chair, and felt that the candlelight here seemed to be much gentler.