Wedding
The night is like water, not only taking away time while flowing, but also taking away the body temperature of sleepless people in the middle of the night. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Gongsun just like this, carrying a sword on his back, under the faint starlight, quietly stood behind an open wooden door. As the night gradually thickened, it seemed that the starlight had been released more brightly on the Xuanyuan Sword behind Gongsun. However, Gongsun's body temperature seemed to be gradually losing temperature as the night became stronger.
Thanks to the fact that in the courtyard of Gongsun at this moment, there are no irrelevant idlers and so on. If someone is secretly peeping at Gongsun, maybe Gongsun only needs to rely on the chill emanating from his body to directly freeze any eyes that attempt to peep at Gongsun.
Everything in the world has a limit, and when things reach the limit, they must be reversed. No matter how dark the night is, there will be a moment when it will gradually fade. The arrival of that moment means the dawn of dawn. Perhaps, few people have experienced the intensity of the thickest night before dawn. However, there are also few people who do not know the preciousness and tenderness of the sunshine when the dawn comes.
As the night receded, the two wooden doors that had creaked at the same time once again coincidentally groaned at the same time. Just like last time, the two wooden doors are still open and closed. It's just that this time, the open door and the closed door have changed places.
Lieshan, who was dressed in black, finally left the woman's tired residence before the night completely subsided. Just as almost no one knew about Lieshan's departure, Lieshan's departure was so quiet that almost no one could notice it. Coming quietly with the Lieshan, going quietly. Between the mountain and the woman, what kind of words were said, what kind of things happened. Like the fading night, it dissipated into the gentle but stubborn light when dawn came.
The advantage of being a practitioner is that you don't sleep all night and you don't have dark circles under your eyes. Finally, on the day of the wedding, the grandson and the daughter walked out of their own house separately, but no one could see that the couple had not slept at all the night before. Gongsun gently untied the Xuanyuan sword he was carrying, cleaned his body under the service of the clansmen, and changed into a bright red wedding dress.
At the same moment, the woman only opened the door by herself, but did not enter the courtyard. The girls, who had been waiting in the courtyard for a long time, hurriedly sent the things they were holding into the women's tired room. Gently helped the girl to cover the door, and the girls waited for the girl to bathe and change their clothes, and changed into the same red wedding dress as the grandson. Unlike the grandson who is the groom, the woman who is the bride is tired, and changing into a wedding dress is not the end of dressing, but the beginning of dressing up. After a long and elaborate dress by more than a dozen girls, just when Gongsun was a little impatient to wait, the female tired finally walked out of the courtyard where she lived.
At that time, there was no such thing as receiving relatives and sending relatives, even if Gongsun was the patriarch of the Jiuli tribe, he must not knock over a certain girl with a stick, and take this girl home to cook for him and give birth to children. It's just out of respect for the identity of the descendants of Nuwa and the Yellow Emperor, that he deliberately went to the Wa tribe to finalize the marriage. On the day of the wedding, the most important thing about the grandson and the daughter is to come out of two different courtyards. It's just that these two courtyards are still so close.
Not only that, but unlike our weddings today, there were no three prostrations at that time. It's like there is no Wending gift, Gongsun casually promised a dowry, and did not ask the nuti to carry the dowry, so he brought the nuti back to Jiuli City. In fact, there is only one wedding procedure for public grandchildren and daughters, which is to sacrifice to the ancestors and heaven and earth.
This is still to say that the identities of the grandson and the daughter are very noble, and only these rituals exist. If Rubo and Ling were married, even if Bo was a famous sage and Ling was the saint of the Sanmiao Kingdom, it would just be a big meal for the clansmen, even if it would be announced to the world.
To say that when they got married at that time, the husband and wife jointly sacrificed to their ancestors and heaven and earth, in the sense of what we call the three bows of "one worship to heaven and earth", "two worship to the high hall", and "husband and wife to worship", its meaning is basically the same. It's just that the wedding at that time brought these three worships together. Perhaps, this is related to the concept that the ancestors of the human race at that time believed that the ancestors were with heaven and earth.
However, at that time, the human race did not have any innovative ideas when worshipping their ancestors and heaven and earth. Sacrifice, as the most sacred and serious thing of the human race, basically starts from the historical inheritance of the human race, which is to prepare the three animal wine ceremony. Directly on the altar in front of the ancestors, let the heavens and the earth witness the killing. The difference between Gongsun as the head of the Jiuli tribe and ordinary people is that Gongsun must also recite a few sacrificial texts under the leadership of the shaman, and sincerely express why he came to offer sacrifices.
However, this kind of behavior may be more binding than the so-called marriage certificate today. After all, you are witnessing from heaven and earth, saying in front of your ancestors that you are going to marry each other. The daughter-in-law was brought by yourself, and the marriage was also married by yourself. If you regret it one day, you have to find a realm where there is no heaven and earth, and you have to prevent your ancestors from being happy that day and running up to you to ask where your daughter-in-law has gone.
I don't think most people can find this kind of place that doesn't touch the sky. Even if he could find it, he probably wouldn't dare to meet his ancestors casually. In that case, divorce is much more difficult.
Because of the complexity of the sacrificial procedure, just the sacrificial part lasted all morning. At noon, it is natural to usher in an exciting time to eat and drink. At that time, there was actually nothing special about the banquet, because the recipe of the human race at that time was very simple, either barbecue or stew. However, no matter how tender and sweet your meat is, you won't feel so delicious when you eat it all the time. Therefore, wine became the most important role in the banquet at that time. After all, as long as you drink too much alcohol, let alone what the food you eat, your tongue can make you speak clearly, and it is not easy. Therefore, there is a saying that "no wine is not a feast".
It's just that, just like today's dinners, drinking while eating is too much time-delaying. Often, the feast that begins at noon must wait until it is dark to finish the feast.
Fortunately, the wedding at that time, in addition to sacrifices and eating and drinking, also prepared a third link, that is, carnival. All the people involved in the wedding, whether they were too drunk in the afternoon to stay on the line, or they were smart enough to go home and sleep first when they were full. When it was just getting dark, they would gather in the square and start the party.
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