Neon weddings come in a variety of forms, including traditional "jinzen-shi" (held at a shrine or at home), "budzen-style" (held at a temple), and Western-style weddings that have been localized with neon. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info But for foreigners, it is naturally the "Kamimae style" that is the most ornamental, and most of the rich people who are neon now are also holding the "Kamimae style".

The Kamima-style marriage ceremony began in the neon room nail era, and it was the most popular kind of marriage ceremony for military attache families at that time.

Prior to the Edo period, each feudal clan had its own unique culture, and wedding ceremonies and rules were different from place to place. Today's "Kamizen-style" combines the traditional wedding ceremony of a wedding held at home, the rules and procedures of ceremonial families such as Ogasawara-ryu and Ise-ryu, and the traditional thinking of neon established by the imperial family in the Meiji period.

The neon royal family naturally held a "god-style" wedding, which is actually a religious wedding, and the so-called tradition is the tradition of Shintoism.

Cheng Xiaoyu has already got into the car that came to pick him up at this moment and went to Tokyo Daijingu, although this shrine is not as famous as Meiji Jingu, it is indeed one of the five great neon shrines, formerly known as Hibiya Shrine, the main priest god is Amaterasu Emperor Okami (Amaterasu Okami) and Toyo Okami, or the first shrine to hold a "modern god-mae" wedding, and has always been famous for seeking marriage luck.

After the Iidabashi Tokyo Daijingu is close at hand, it is not very far from the Imperial Palace, through a few very narrow alleys, after the car stopped, Cheng Xiaoyu arrived at the gate of the Tokyo Daijingu, he heard the driver in a black suit say respectfully to him: "Sakura Garden a bunch of mulberries, when you arrive, you can take the invitation card and enter from the main gate, naturally someone will receive you." ”

Cheng Xiaoyu nodded in thanks, and did not speak, the driver got out of the car and opened the door for him, Cheng Xiaoyu got out of the car and saw a man in a tuxedo in a suit and leather shoes, a woman dressed gorgeously in a kimono suddenly stopped in front of the stone pillar of the "Tokyo Grand Shrine" in a hurry, went up the steps to the shrine and bowed, clapped his hands, prayed, and bowed again, some stayed for about 1 minute, and some only spent about 10 seconds, and then walked up.

Cheng Xiaoyu also did the same, bowed twice and walked up with the flow of people, because today is still July 7th, there are many activities of the Tanabata Festival, most of them are held in the shrine, on this day, girls will wear kimonos, come to the shrine to worship and write their wishes on the Yanxing (Cowherd) short book or Orihime (Weaver Girl) short book, and then by the priest and the shrine maiden knot on the Sasa bamboo (small bamboo), decorated in front of the worship hall, but these activities are in the evening, and there will be grand fireworks at night, because today is the crown prince's wedding, There will also be fireworks displays in Tokyo.

Cheng Xiaoyu felt a little weird wearing grass shoes, he lowered his head and didn't dare to look around, walked towards the main gate of the shrine with the invitation in his hand, and found that someone would look at him with a little red face, and finally walked quickly to the main gate of the shrine, where there were many guards wearing black suits and white gloves, there was a platform after entering the door, and there was a flag next to it that said "Participants enter", after Cheng Xiaoyu handed over the invitation, he waited for Rina Ishida who was arranged by Shizumi in Ijiin and connected with him, Rina Ishida greeted Cheng Xiaoyu and looked carefully, sighed: "Sakura Garden, a bunch of mulberries, you are so beautiful........."

Cheng Xiaoyu felt that his face was a little feverish, he was wearing a very solemn kimono with a pink cherry blossom pattern on a black background, the belt was peach, playing the traditional and formal Taiko Festival, the whole person looked noble and elegant, and Su Yuxi was a little godlike, if Xu Qinning was here, I was afraid that he would go berserk.........

Although he was a little nervous, he looked at himself in the mirror, and it was estimated that he didn't know his body, or he suddenly spoke, it was difficult to find that he was actually a man, he bowed slightly and thanked him, so that he would look very gentle, fortunately, the kimono Zhensleeve actually does not have high requirements for a woman's figure, plus Cheng Xiaoyu is very thin now, so he looks tall and graceful, because he didn't dare to speak, he could only smile and thank him.

That's right, today's Cheng Xiaoyu wore a women's kimono to attend her wedding under the repeated pleas of Ijiin Shizumi, as for what the hell Ijiin Shizumi was going to do, he didn't know, but he couldn't resist Ijiin Shizumi's tears last night, and the sincere statement of "The most important experience in her life can't live without him", and Yijiin Shizumi really paid a lot to get him out, so Cheng Xiaoyu could only wear women's clothes against her will.

Cheng Xiaoyu was a little surprised to the Jingmei of Yiji Courtyard last night, and just now someone secretly looked at him all the way, but Cheng Xiaoyu was very helpless.

Rina Ishida knew from Shizumi Ijiin that she, a model friend who came back from the United States, had damaged vocal cords and couldn't speak, and she didn't feel strange, and said with a smile: "The wedding starts at half past nine, and we have to go over immediately." Cheng Xiaoyu nodded, and Rina Ishida took Cheng Xiaoyu, who was alias Sakuraba Ichibou, towards Ise Jingu.

Ise Jingu is located in Ise in Neon Mie Prefecture, but it has to be relocated every 20 years, and the demolished things can be used as 'branches' for other shrines, and the "Tokyo Daijingu" naturally has this most famous 'branch' of neon.

Cheng Xiaoyu, as a relative and friend of the woman, entered the waiting area of the woman's guests with Rina Ishida, at this time, she has not seen Shizumi and Prince Rentoku of Ijiin, and what is about to be carried out is to participate, Rina Ishida is a college classmate with a decent relationship with Shizumi of Ijiin, when she received the invitation of Shizumi of Ijiin, she was still a little surprised, after all, her family conditions are not the same as Shizumi of Ijiin, and there are not many intersections over the years, but they still maintain contact.......

At this time, she was in a bunch with Sakuraba, who was born in the United States, and the ABC who was born in the United States introduced the entire process of the wedding, "The participation ceremony is a process in which the priest and the shrine maiden lead the wedding couple and the people participating in the wedding to enter the shrine from outside the shrine, or enter the main hall from the side hall. Don't underestimate this process~ The arrangement of the whole team is very exquisite. At the front are one or two shrine maidens, and of course there are priests leading in front of the shrine maidens, and then there are the wind players, but this is not important because there can be no drops, and then there are two newcomers. ”

At this time, it was almost half past nine, and Cheng Xiaoyu saw from a distance that Jingmei of Ijiin was wearing a white kimono and walking under a red umbrella, and on the side was the crown prince in a black kimono who was a little sick.

Wearing a white kimono, Ijiin Shizumi, with a white cotton hat on her head, looks solemn and pure, even in the hot summer, because of her appearance to bring a trace of cool to everyone.

Seeing Cheng Xiaoyu's gaze, Rina Ishida was amazed and explained: "This is our neon wedding kimono, called 'Hakura-matsu', which means pure and flawless, and the white cotton hat that goes with Hakuma-masculine is called 'Kakukushi', which also has a special meaning." In the past, it was believed that women's long hair was attached to spirits, and that "women would become crazy with jealousy and grow horns on their heads", so they deliberately covered them with white cotton hats to ward off evil spirits. ”

At this time, the gagaruk who announced the beginning of the marriage ceremony began to play, and the priest and shrine maiden who presided over the festival also walked to the front to guide the bride and the others into the main hall of the shrine.

Behind the groom are the groom's family and friends, while Cheng Xiaoyu and Ishida Rina stand at the end of the bride's procession, and family members and friends are not standing casually. At the front, the newcomer should be followed by the newcomer's father, followed by the mother. Then rank according to the distance of blood, the level of the job position, and the degree of intimacy of the relationship. The family members were divided into two columns, accompanied by music, and slowly but solemnly began to slowly walk towards the temple.

Of course, the emperor and empress will not participate.

The wedding celebration begins at 9:30 a.m., when a group of men dressed in kimonos or ceremonial robes gather outside the shrine in front of the hut erected at the junction of Shijo-dori and Karasuma-dori to salute the Shinto priest who is in charge of the matter, receive blessings, and then proceed.

It's the beginning of summer, the sun shines through the shade of the trees, the ground is full of stars, and the breeze sweeps through the clothes. There were countless flashes along the way, and the temple that was usually closed was opened by the priests, and Shizumi, who was dressed in white and innocent, sideburns and chrysanthemums, and the crown prince, who was wearing a sixteen-petal eightfold chrysanthemum pattern woven with the royal family crest, slowly walked into the temple under the guidance of the clergy, and Cheng Xiaoyu and Ishida Rina were still at the back of the team at this time.

After a while, when Cheng Xiaoyu entered the temple, the witch had already changed into a grand wide-sleeved robe called "Qianzao", wearing a golden crown and flower branches. Kagura, kotoes, flutes, drums, and music reverberate throughout the shrine, and the entire shrine is filled with a ceremonial atmosphere.

The shrine maiden dances in front of the idol and holds a green branch. When the dance and music are still, the shrine maidens dressed in gorgeous costumes pour wine for the couple. She held a tall black lacquer plate, gold, silver and red paper cranes in the plate proudly feathers, white porcelain wine jugs such as jade, red lacquer painted gold wine cups, are all beautiful utensils, and so on to the couple, the newlyweds lowered their eyebrows and drank, just like a frame of wallpaper, with the march of the ceremony, the neon second noble couple was thus married........

From the perspective of a bystander, this is really a strange picture: these neon style ceremonies summarized from neon antiquity to modern times, in fact, each object has a different origin, but most of those superficial glossy products are foreign.

The design source of "White and Innocent" can be traced back to Western-style wedding dresses, and the tapestries hanging on the first few god cars are Persian products that entered China through the Silk Road, and neon was introduced in the Song Dynasty, and important sacrifices are hung on the god cars every year.

The ritual after entering the shrine: "The vows are played": the bride and groom read their vows before the gods, offer the original manuscripts to the gods, and exchange rings, which is derived from Western weddings. The bride and groom alternately drink in three glasses to form a marriage contract, because they have to drink three glasses of wine in three times, the ritual side called "three three nine degrees" comes from the Chinese 'cup of wine'.

It's just that after a simple, solemn, and wordless Shinto ritual arrangement, it becomes an orderly and solemn, quiet walk in the shrine, which seems to be a long-standing historical precipitation, forming a unique neon cultural landscape that attracts countless tourists, but in fact, it has only become popular in recent years through the promotion of the royal family.

Cheng Xiaoyu sat on the edge of the temple and watched the slow progress of the ceremony, remembering that he had seen the two banners of "Master of Virtue and Impermanence" and "Inspirational Normality" in the castle tower of Hiroshima Castle, and he felt that all kinds of contradictions in the "neon traditional culture" were in these two words.

"Moral impermanence" and "inspirational conservatism" may be two sides of the same neon character, and any neon phenomenon can be observed at the same time according to these two seemingly completely different attitudes and angles.

The last part of the wedding ceremony, the Kagura Performance, is performed: on both sides of the shrine, the maidens begin to play the gagaku, and the shrine maidens in the center of the main hall begin to perform a blessing dance.

Finally, all the relatives stand and drink the wine that the shrine maiden has poured for the gods, indicating that the two relatives are married.

The exit of the priest means that the wedding is over, and the bride and groom, and relatives start to take pictures, and after two or three rounds of group photos, Cheng Xiaoyu and Ishida Rina were specially called to the front by Shizumi Ijiin to take a group photo.

Ijiin Shizumi didn't mean to introduce Cheng Xiaoyu and Ishida Rina to the crown prince, and the crown prince just looked at Sakurabi, a beautiful woman taller than him, and smiled a little, but he didn't mean to ask Ijiin Shizumi to introduce him.

Cheng Xiaoyu's heart was beating fast, standing beside Shizumi and the crown prince of Ijiin, his eyes were a little erratic and he didn't dare to look at the camera, his smile was a little stiff, he felt that this plot was too weird, and he began to regret that he shouldn't have agreed to such a crazy invitation from the bold Ijiin Shizumi.

At this time, among the relatives and friends who were onlookers, most of the eyes were focused on Shizumi and him, but these eyes were normal, but there was a look that made his hair stand on end, and he swept it with his afterglow, it was the beautiful little Lori Akishinomiya Ryoko who had a relationship with him, and she was staring at him thoughtfully at this time.

Cheng Xiaoyu still remembers that in Sensoji Temple, this little Lori once said to him: "My name is Ryoko Akishinomiya, remember my name........"

Cheng Xiaoyu could only bow his head as much as possible, push his tongue down to the tooth hall, squeeze his laryngeal muscles up hard, and use the technique of eliminating air leakage in singing to hide the Adam's apple........

(Thank you for your subscriptions, tips, and tickets........ The author does not have a penchant for wearing women's clothes...... So rest assured....... The male protagonist didn't .......... either. (To be continued.) )