mentioned earlier that Zhang Tianyuan was getting married, but he didn't even understand the number of wedding ceremonies, so he was urged to pick up the bride in a daze, but fortunately, his parents still knew more about this, not only prepared a qiē for him to prepare, but also deliberately found a bride.

A bride is a woman who is well versed in etiquette hired by the man's family at the time of the wedding. She is eloquent and social, and her main responsibility is to guide the arrangement of wedding etiquette.

In fact, this is in Zhang Tianyuan's hometown, which has been gradually replaced by a matchmaker, even if there is no matchmaker, when you get married or engaged, you have to find someone to replace the matchmaker to be responsible for the affairs of the two families.

Interestingly, this time the bride is none other than Dou Xiaoling.

It is said that Dou Xiaoling volunteered to do this, and when Zhang Tianyuan first heard about it, he was shocked, he was really afraid that Dou Xiaoling would mess with him during the wedding, in that case, it would ruin his wedding.

But he was obviously worried about this matter, not to mention that Dou Xiaoling didn't dare to do that, even if he really dared, it wasn't worth it.

In fact, the matter of marriage seems very simple to Zhang Tianyuan, but it is actually very complicated.

The marriage of men and women, according to the order of their parents, was matched by a matchmaker, and they thought that the door was right, and they exchanged "Geng stickers", that is, the eight characters of age and birthday, and pressed on the bottom of the teacup in front of the statue of the god of the stove to measure the will of the gods.

If there are no "abnormal" situations such as broken bowls, bad food, noisy family members, and uneasy cats and dogs at home within three days, please ask the fortune teller to "row the eight characters" to see if the Nian Geng is compatible and whether the zodiac is compatible.

In the old days, some people were superstitious about the so-called six-year big chong and three-year small chong; men were married at a double age, and women were nineteen years old; it was said that chickens and dogs (chickens and dogs were not in harmony), dragons and tigers (dragons and tigers were fighting), tigers and sheep (sheep fell into the tiger's mouth), and snakes and rats (snakes and rats) were difficult to match.

Some may have said it. These are all superstitions in ancient times, and they are all bad customs. Don't worry about it, but don't believe it. Many people believe this, Zhang Tianyuan also had a blind date when he was in college, but because others said that it was incompatible, so he didn't even carry out the later things at all, and he was directly interrupted.

This feels almost, that is, the marriage, when Zhang Tianyuan got engaged, in fact, many processes were omitted, after all, in modern times. Some complicated processes are troublesome for the older generation, and there is no need for that.

Now that I'm getting married, it's called getting married, and there's still a lot to do.

For example, looking at the dowry, the man goes to the woman to move the dowry (dowry), and the woman puts the dowry in the hall for people to watch, which is called "looking at the dowry". The utensils are draped with red threads, and the clothes are scented with sandalwood. At the bottom of the box are placed several silver dollars, commonly known as "pressing box money". The dowry is moved to the man and displayed in the hall for people to see, also called "watching the dowry". The grandmother will take the woman's key bag. Take the key to unpack, commonly known as "unboxing".

But they also save this, what else to see. The dowry that Old Man Liu gave to his granddaughter Liu Mengxun was absolutely satisfying to Zhang Tianyuan.

There is also the best man who makes a bed, and welcomes the relatives one day before. The man is to be "bedridden" by a "fully blessed" woman. Take 24 pairs of chopsticks to tie the red thread and place them under the groom's mat, which is called "Anbed".

For one to three nights before the marriage, a boy with both parents sleeps with the groom and sleeps in the bed, called "best man". At night, I want to give this little girl buns, peanuts, and eggs, which means "Bao Shengzi", and when he leaves in the morning of the "good day", he should give a red envelope, commonly known as "taking out the urine bottle".

This is also exempt, otherwise others will definitely think that Zhang Tianyuan has any bad habits, and if he has any special interest in boys, it is a crime.

There is also the first, a good day before one or two days, the male family to the sedan chair and wedding utensils to the sedan chair shop, hanging lanterns and colors, the above feast to entertain the guests, called "fine rice". On a good day, at the time of the fifth watch, the male family offers the "Heaven and Earth Monarch Teacher" in the hall with a full set of pigs and sheep or five animal blessings and fruits, commonly known as "enjoying the first". For breakfast, I want to eat "Xiangxian soup fruit".

Although this has been done, it has simplified a lot, for example, all pigs and sheep are directly exempted and replaced with other simpler things.

After getting these, the next thing is naturally to greet the relatives, if according to the ancient times, then most of the natural sedan chairs are to be sedan chairs.

Legend has it that the well-off king of the Southern Song Dynasty (Gaozong) fled to Mingzhou, the Jin soldiers chased after him, and a woman was rescued by Lai, and then he could not find his daughter, and the woman of Zhaomingzhou could enjoy half a pair of Luan driving treatment when she got married, and sat in a sedan chair.

The sedan chair, commonly known as the "big red sedan chair", is carried by four people and eight people.

In the 20s, the son of the owner of Ningbo Meiqiu Knitting Factory surnamed Zhao became married, and the special ware shop made a high-class sedan chair, and there were more than 300 characters in the story of Seiko fine carving, named "Meiqiu sedan chair", and the cost of the store was 5,000 yuan, and the Zhao family paid 500 yuan for the first time. This eight-person sedan chair bears a sedan chair, and the sedan chair bearer wears a special satin horse coat of one color to show off for a while.

Sitting in a sedan chair still contains the meaning of the Ming media being married and the original wife, and the woman can only sit once in her life. Therefore, the husband and wife quarreled, and the wife brought a sentence to her mouth: I was carried into the door by the big red sedan chair, not by the door, in order to show off my nobility.

On the wedding day, the sedan chair goes out to provide the "sedan chair god" with clean tea and four-color pastries. Guns and artillery battles were fired, and the red lanterns opened the way, blowing and blowing along the way. The groom does not go to his father-in-law's house to greet his relatives, and takes the bride (sending the mother) as a messenger and goes with his name sticker.

But now I don't sit in a sedan chair, most of them say to take a car, this car naturally has to have a grade, like the sedan chair in the past, it is nothing more than a show of pomp.

Zhang Tianyuan's wedding car can now be said to be the most expensive sports car in the world, worth 47 million, although he borrowed it from Wang Siyuan, he can afford it.

After being urged by Old Man Liu, Zhang Tianyuan had no choice but to take the wedding car, and then followed by the welcome car, and went to the hotel where Liu Mengxun lived.

When I arrived at the hotel, the firecrackers rang out suddenly, in order to set off the firecrackers, it took a lot of effort, after all, this is the imperial capital, and many things are really difficult to do.

When Zhang Tianyuan wanted to go in to pick up the bride, he was stopped by the other party's relatives, and he was a little unhappy in his heart. Fortunately, Dou Xiaoling, the bride on the side, stopped him and smiled: "You, the groom, you really didn't do your homework." I don't understand anything. The sedan chair is coming to the door, and the women's family fires a cannon to welcome the sedan chair. Immediately, the door was covered and the car door was opened, and it was opened after the red envelope was stuffed. Now it's time to stop the car, hurry up and give the red envelope, this should be ready. ”

Zhang Tianyuan smiled awkwardly, touched it in his pocket, and sure enough, his mother prepared the red envelope for herself, I don't know how much money was in it, but it must not be too cold. I hurriedly handed it over, and sure enough, those relatives let me go with a smile.

It turns out that there is a rule, the sedan chair is parked and the door of the sedan car is facing outward, and someone in the female family burns a red candle and holds a mirror, and takes a look into the sedan chair, which is called to expel the unjust ghost hiding in the sedan chair, called "search the sedan chair". The women's family is the main banquet wine at noon, commonly known as "open noodle wine", also known as "wedding wine".

There are still some places that insist on doing so. But the sedan car was replaced by a car.

"I'll go, it's really troublesome, now it's okay to take Mengmeng away, right?" Zhang Tianyuan was simply convinced, how could there be so many rules for getting married. I haven't been married, I really don't know the pain of marriage, but I think I can sleep with that mutton fat white jade body at night. Zhang Tianyuan couldn't help but cheer up again.

"Don't worry, it's not over yet. Dou Xiaoling shook her head. Then let Zhang Tianyuan wait outside, and he entered the hotel first.

According to the rules of antiquity. Before the bride gets on the sedan chair, the man is urged by the bride three times, pretending not to marry, lazy to groom (of course, there are feudal marriages that do not want to make), and then sit on the mother's lap, and the mother feeds the sedan chair for her daughter, which means not to forget the grace of jì nursing.

But now it's much simpler, Zhang Tianyuan and Liu Mengxun are willing to do so, so not long after Dou Xiaoling went in, Liu Mengxun, who was covered with a red hijab, came out and got into the car.

Then their relatives also got into the welcome car, followed by the wedding car, and went to Zhang Tianyuan's courtyard in a majestic manner.

Zhang Tianyuan breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, this is finally over, otherwise he would have to die of exhaustion.

However, he apparently rejoiced too soon.

When he arrived in front of his courtyard, firecrackers and drums rang out again, which startled him.

He used to watch the children in the village get married, and they all carried the bride into the house directly from the wedding car, or pulled them into the house by hand, but this time, because the rules were set by the old people, he could only obey, in fact, he also thought this was quite interesting, but it was a little complicated, and there was no preparation, and the result was very hasty, and he was in a hurry.

After the wedding car stopped, Zhang Tianyuan got out of the car, and then didn't do anything according to the words of the bride Dou Xiaoling, and then saw his sister's youngest daughter Lin Peipei welcoming the bride out of the sedan chair, pulling the bride's sleeve three times with her hand, and starting to get out of the sedan chair.

Lin Peipei is dressed up, feeling like a little actor in a movie, this should be the legendary sedan chair girl.

After the little girl was done, she stood there and didn't leave, but followed the bride to watch the excitement.

The bride stepped out of the sedan chair door and stepped over a vermilion lacquered wooden "saddle", stepping red felt, and standing on the right side of the wedding hall with the help of the bride. At that time, Zhang Tianyuan, the groom official, was arranged to hide elsewhere, and was invited (found) by the bouquet and candle Xiaoyi to stand on the left side of Liu Mengxun, and then entered the wedding hall together.

The trouble is indeed a little troublesome, but not to mention, this is strangely interesting.

In the past, the decoration of the wedding hall was the same as in other places, but the worship ceremony was slightly different, with the main incense father-in-law, mostly performed by the groom's grandfather or grandfather. The officiant, the bridegroom, and the bride and groom all perform the salutation.

The saluters shout: "Go to the temple to see the salute, play music!" The main celebrant kneels before the incense table, all kneel! Incense, two incense, three incense! Kowtow, then kowtow, three kowtows! The salute then chants: Rise, flatten, reset! Kneel, all crisp! Sing: Rise, worship, rise, worship! Sing: Kneel, all crisp, read the blessings! A thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy kneeling on the right side of the Buddha stool to read. The salutant sings: Ascend, worship, rise, worship, worship, worship

At the end, the salute is sung: After the salute, quit the class, and send it to the cave room!

In the meantime, when the bride and groom are in the church, there is a custom of kneeling in front of the head, saying that whoever kneels in front can control the latter in the future, resulting in a joke that the groom brushes his sleeves and refuses to bow while worshipping.

And today's wedding of Zhang Tianyuan and Liu Mengxun was basically carried out, and the process was really a bit strict and a little much, but the interesting thing is that when the two of them worshipped the church, because they didn't know what it was about, they actually knelt side by side in a very harmonious way.

After the complicated worship ceremony, two young people held dragon and phoenix candles to guide, and Zhang Tianyuan, the groom's official holding a colorful ball ribbon, led the bride Liu Mengxun into the cave room. Feet must step on the sack to walk, generally 5, there are 10 sacks, walk through one, the bride Dou Xiaoling and others passed on to the front to pave in the road, which means "passing on the ancestry", "five generations to meet". (Do you want to know more exciting news about "The Secret Art of Treasure Appreciation"?Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right, select Add Friends to add the official account, search for "Qidianzhongwenwang", pay attention to the official account, and never miss every update!qdbook) (To be continued......)