Chapter 116: Ascension Ceremony
Empress Dowager Lu said to Liu Ruoan with joy, "Hurry up, hurry up, put it on and let the mourning family take a look!" If there is something that does not fit, let the garment division modify it! ”
After Liu Ruoan nodded, with the help of the maid and Xu Peirong, he put on the crown dress. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Liu Ruoan doesn't look very confident, and the crown dress fits very well, but because of her lack of confidence, she doesn't have the slightest kingly demeanor on her.
"Keep your chest up!" Empress Dowager Lu said solemnly. Liu Ruoan obediently straightened his chest and tucked his abdomen.
"Lift your head up!" Empress Dowager Lu said sharply, "You are now the king of a country and the lord of the Han Dynasty, you must be confident, let people see that you have a sense of awe without anger, and let all officials surrender to you from the bottom of their hearts!" ”
Liu Ruoan swallowed his saliva as if he didn't understand and nodded.
"Wang Zhan absconded, and after the mourning family and the ministers discussed, they elected Li Che and Mrs. Li as prime ministers, and part of the etiquette of the enthronement ceremony was completed by him and hundreds of officials!"
Liu Ruoan is like eating a fly, Li Che has always been at odds with her, and it is really difficult to see the monarch and the minister in the future.
When the enthronement ceremony was held, Liu Ruoan had already returned to the Han Palace for ten days.
In order to avoid Liu Xi's troubles, Liu Chengyu consciously asked to stay in the Han Palace as a hostage. Faced with such a request, Liu Ruoan couldn't cry or laugh.
There are three main aspects of the enthronement ceremony: first, the emperor personally led the officials to sacrifice to the heavens, the earth, and the ancestors, and only to be ordered by the heavens and the ancestors; The second is that the emperor personally sits on the throne in the main hall, wears a crown dress, sits on the throne, accepts the greetings of hundreds of civil and military officials, calls the ministers on the table, and establishes the distinction between monarchs and ministers; The third is to issue an edict of enthronement at home and abroad, announcing the amnesty of the Yuan change. Due to the death of the first emperor, festive ceremonies such as dancing and ringing bells and drums are relatively simple, and various ceremonies such as giving banquets and playing music are not held.
For three days before the sacrifice, the king was forbidden to have sex with each other, and he fasted and bathed on the eve of the sacrifice.
Liu Ruoan was woken up at four o'clock in the morning, and she was too tired to soak in the bathtub and doze off. She began to remember her ancestors, and her reverence for them grew day by day.
The process of the sacrifice is very complicated and cumbersome, first there is a sacrifice ceremony, and after the completion of the ceremony, the captain sets up a golden chair in the southeast in front of the altar, and sets up a confession in front of the golden chair to place the crown robe. The prime minister and other ministers led hundreds of civil and military officials to kneel in front of the confession and said: "The memorial ceremony has been completed, please take the throne of the emperor." Then the ministers helped Liu Ruoan to the golden chair and took a seat. Hundreds of officials lined up in order, the deacons held the crown dress case and the seal treasure case in front of the emperor, and the prime minister and several important ministers knelt in front of the case with the crown clothes and put them on the table, and then the prime minister put the crown clothes on for the emperor.
In Liu Ruoan's memory, he was like a puppet, doing whatever he wanted, like this and that. The shrill voice of the Tongzan official was deeply engraved in her mind, "Bow, salute, flatten, hold the wat board and bow, kneel on the left knee, prostrate three times, kneel on the right knee, take down the wat board, bow down, salute, flat." ”
The hundred officials performed the corresponding etiquette with the shouts of the praise officials. After the hundred officials were flattened, Liu Ruoan announced his retirement from the court, and the hundred officials retired.
After the ceremony, Liu Ruoan, surrounded by the honor guard, went to the Taimiao Temple to present the treasure book of posthumously honoring more than four generations of male and female ancestors, and once again told the shrine.
You can't take a nap on the way back from the ancestral temple, and people all over the world are watching this enthronement ceremony. Liu Ruoan, who has been the emperor for ten days, has the most intuitive feeling of lack of sleep!
At this time, Liu Ruoan put on his gown, sat on the dragon chair of the Fengtian Palace, and hundreds of officials were called ministers and bowed to congratulate.
Compared with the memorial ceremony, the congratulatory ceremony is so cumbersome that it is dizzying and dizzy. The standing position of the personnel who perform their duties alone is very exquisite.
In the middle of the Danqi on the palace, the northwest side of the inner road is furnished with a table case; Up and down the inner road, the east and west sides are set up to worship the hundreds of officials below the prime minister, and the positions of different grades are different, arranged in rows.
Hold the watch official, announce the watch official, show the watch official, correct the imperial history, the guard officer, and the town officer; and twenty-four guards of one hundred households; The praise officer is in the west, and the praise officer is in the east; There are also four people in the martial arts class, two people in the front class of the palace, and two people in the case of the table; Under the west steps, there are two people standing on the temple in the east direction. Above His Majesty, there are three commanders in front of the palace, standing in the east; There are three officials of the Xuanhui Yuan in the east, and they stand in the west.
There are officials of the Yiluan Division on the left and right sides of the middle door of the main hall, and the east and west stand opposite each other. There are two gates in the east and west of the main hall, and there are eight people guarding thousands of households on the left and right, and the east and west stand opposite each other. The four whips lined up in the south of the front of the temple, facing north. There are six generals on the left and right of the temple gate, and the east and west stand opposite each other. In the four corners of the wall above His Majesty, there are four Tianwu generals standing opposite each other. In the middle of the hall, there is a treasure case set up by the Shang Bao Division, and there is a table case arranged by the waiter in the south of the treasure case.
On the left and right sides of the temple gate, there is a round cover, a golden chair, a golden pedal, a water basin, a wooden pot, a yellow fan, and a red fan.
When the two waiters entered the hall with the table, after putting it away, the drums were beaten, and all the officials wore court clothes.
When the second drum is beaten, the hundred officials stand on the north side outside the noon gate according to their tastes, and the officials such as Tongban, Zanli, Su Wei, and Zhenfu all enter the main hall and take their places, and the guard officers, Shang Bao officials, and attendant officers each enter the main hall with their own application utensils.
When the third drum is beaten, the civil and military officials below the prime minister enter the main hall in turn and take their places.
When the emperor ascended to the throne in his crown robe, the sound of music, drums, and blowing sounded, and when the music stopped, the curtain general rolled up the curtain in front of the emperor, and Shang Baoqing put the jade seal on the table. Gong Wei Si sounded the whip, made people quiet, led the class to guide the civil and military officials into the Danqi worship seat, and stood in the north.
At the beginning of the hundred officials, the music begins, and after the hundred officials enter the worship position, the music stops. Zhiban sang "Banqi!" "Praise and sing" bow! Bow! "The hundred officials moved with the sound, the music rose with the sound, the hundred officials bowed to each other, and the music stopped.
The following officials entered the hall from the west gate of the main hall, and sang "Enter the table!" "The watchman knelt in front of the table, and the watchman knelt on the east side of the table, raised the wat board to salute, received the table, put the watch on the table, and then put down the wat board and bowed down to the west of the hall, facing the east and standing. Neizan sang "Xuanbiao!" At the same time, the official also saluted with the board, and then knelt down with the official to unfold the table, and after the official finished reading the seal, the official put down the wat board, put the seal back on the table, and then retreated to the original position to stand, the official leaned down, and walked out of the west gate of the hall with the watchman, walked down from the west steps on the west side, and returned to the original position.
The celebrant sang "Bow! "The music is a masterpiece, the officials bow, the four prostrations, and the music stops. The celebrant sang again, "Bow down on the wat board!" Three Dances! Kneel! Mountain Hoo! "Hundreds of officials moved with the voice, arched their hands to increase their foreheads, and the mountains shouted long live! Banzai! Hooray! The music workers and military schools beat the drums in unison to echo it.
The celebrant then sang "Put down the wat board!" The hundred officials put down the wat board, flattened their bodies, played music, and the hundred officials bowed four times to celebrate the end.
The emperor returned to the palace, and the officials retreated. The relevant departments issued an edict to the whole country and granted a general amnesty.
The enthronement ceremony is completed. (To be continued.) )