Now that the Japanese have admitted it, the marriage of Wu Daguan has to be put on the agenda. At this moment, the Jinan Mansion is in a lot of noise, not only civil and military officials, pedantic professors, but even the bigwigs in the business world have also intervened, and they are about to become an extraordinary congress.

In fact, the folk marriages in Jinan mostly follow the traditional custom of "the life of the parents and the words of the matchmaker". The wedding process varies depending on the wealth of the family. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the general marriage customs had to go through: marriage negotiation, marriage, marriage, worship, return to the door, worship relatives, ancestor worship and other procedures, which was called "big marriage"; Of course, the marriage procedure of poor families is extremely simplified, and some people only worship heaven and earth and worship their ancestors after making marriage, which is commonly known as "small marriage".

Although there are different opinions, but how can I help President Wu and his wife have a temper, let the southeast and northwest wind blow, I will not move. One of the two people is crazy about scientific research and writing papers, and the other is addicted to suffocating water and harming opponents, and this big wedding has become a matter for the big guys and brothers, and even the people of the Wang family in Zhanjiang, Guangdong are busy with it, I really don't know how big these two minds are.

Seeing that Jinan Mansion has become a forum of 100 schools, the people of the Confucian Mansion, the Revolutionary Party, the Chamber of Commerce, the Government, the Ministry of Defense, the British and American Missions, and the Shandong University Hall....Anyway, those who can show their faces have all come out to make a statement, if one day the newspaper in Jinan Mansion does not have a full-page discussion on the etiquette of President Wu's marriage, it must be that the workers have taken the wrong version. Even Jiang Shangqing's news that won the Pulitzer Prize for Best Foreign Language Reading (apocryphal) in the United States was aggrieved and squeezed into the third edition, which is even more tragic than Wang Feng, at least this is a real unprecedented mess.

The lofty opinions on the wedding have gradually become the mainstream, and in the end, it is the old man Meng Luochuan Meng, who has not been out of the rivers and lakes for a long time, to take the matter, and put Xiong Bingsan, Cai Heqing, Wei Keren, Xu Juren, Wu Ziyu and these people's plans to be inclusive, and put them all together, regardless of whether they are suitable or not, first let a few foreign priests and Confucian scholars question each other, remove dozens of obviously wrong etiquette, and the rest are acceptable even in China and the West, and then Comrade Lao Meng exerted his residual heat to seize the fourth Miao of the Chamber of Commerce. Le Jingyu and his brothers came up with a so-called "foreign view, Chinese and Western" plan A in one night.

Early the next morning, the red-eyed Miao Laosi and Le Jingyu took Lao Meng to the gate of the Wu Mansion, and were stunned to block Wu Chenxuan and Wang Zijin who were eating breakfast on the dining table, Lao Meng looked at the plan in front of the two and patted it, "This is the plan approved by everyone, you two will give a happy word, can it be done." ”

According to Miao Laosi's later recollection, he was stupid at this time, he didn't expect anyone to dare to talk to Boss Wu like this, compared to Ito Hirobumi throwing the Maguan Treaty to Li Zhongtang. Boss Wu also seemed to be a little shocked, but he slowly ate the omelette on his plate before taking the plan and looking at it, more than a hundred large and small, and took a sip of milk before he slowly said, "It's good, it's just that it's too long." After speaking, he handed it to Wang Zijin.

The female doctor was also nervous about a steel cable like the second bridge of the Yangtze River, and took it without shyness, and said, "Oh, it's over before half past nine in the evening, and I still have a few parameters to check with my tutor." ”

"Come on." Wu Chenxuan continued the fierce battle between him and the fritters, and the oily hand who took the fritters took over the plan handed over by Wang Zijin, "It's changed according to your wishes." Meng Lao, shorten it to less than 20 items, and the time should not exceed half past nine that night, and I also have a report on the legislative work of the autonomous government to draft that night. Please worry about this matter, Old Meng. ”

When Le Jingyu took over the already oily report, he was already shocked by the big grinning of these two and he only had to nod, but Meng Lao seemed to be very excited about Wu Chenxuan's approval of his plan, Miao Laosi could clearly feel that Meng Lao's arm was trembling with excitement in his arms, and Meng Lao's eyes were a little red, well, he must have cried with joy. It must not be for this pair of living treasures, and I assure the gods and Buddhas that it must not be for gas.

The first step is to propose marriage, which requires a matchmaker to propose marriage, usually the male family invites the matchmaker to the woman's house to "propose". Marriage between men and women emphasizes "the right family, the eight characters are compatible", and both parties attach great importance to each other's appearance and appearance. By the matchmaker said together (commonly known as "said matchmaker"), the parents of both sides intended to exchange Geng posts, also known as "exchange of small Cambodia", Geng posts are written on the birth of both men and women (with the years, months, days and hours of the stem branch of the record), both families ask the fortune teller to "combine eight characters", if it is a "blessing", the marriage is basically decided. There are also blind dates before exchanging small Cambodians, that is, the woman's parents first look at the man, and the man's parents look at the woman. In the old days, both men and women had taboos, such as "white horses are afraid of green cows, chickens and monkeys are not headed, snakes and rats are like knives and files, tigers and sheep once rested, dragons and pigs are difficult to match, and they are most afraid of committing rabbits and dogs" and other sayings. However, forget the two of them who are "mixed with dragons and snakes", no matchmaker dares to speak ill of these two, even if it is Duan Zhiquan's wife Wu who protects the matchmaker.

The next step is that after the marriage of the two families of the man and woman is agreed, the big Cambodia will be changed, the ceremony will be made, and a more solemn marriage ceremony will be held. The big red book printed with the golden dragon and phoenix and the word double happiness used in the exchange of Cambodia is called the dragon and phoenix Cambodia. The man wrote four auspicious words on the book, such as "Respect for Jinnuo" and "Heavenly Match, Blessing and Mandarin Duck, Heavenly Match, and Hundred Years of Good Harmony"; The woman's family wrote "Obey the jade sound" and four auspicious words on the reply to the letter. The man sent the gift with the dragon and phoenix, also known as the "next dowry". There are jewelry, clothes and happy points, etc., there are 4 color gifts or 8 color gifts, usually with a gift list, all of which must be carried by someone with a carrying box, led by the matchmaker to send to the woman's house, a few wealthy officials and businessmen, some send 12 to 48 sets of various colors. The women's return gifts include boots, hats, clothing and the four treasures of the study. After the exchange, the marriage between the two families was officially concluded, and neither party could repent.

This kind of official article is the most easy to turn into a lively pomp, which does not go out from the south gate of the Grand View Garden to give the dowry, directly is the fleet, a three-ton truck, full of cages and boxes, a full sixty-three, in fact, there are also gifts of whole pigs and sheep, anyway, all the merchants of the Grand View Garden get together, who does not put the best things on the desperate load, the north gate into the south gate out, this day the Grand View Garden is directly closed, all waiting for the dowry. The four vertical and four horizontal main roads around Jinan City were walked all over before they were sent to the Miao Family Courtyard on the north shore of Daming Lake. This is the temporary palace lent by Miao Xing Village to Wu Chenxuan to receive the Guangdong royal family.

After this engagement, it is time to choose an auspicious day. Commonly known as "watching the day", ready to marry. Before the wedding, the man's parents send a wedding to the woman's parents, relatives and friends. Relatives and friends who receive the wedding should bring congratulatory gifts to congratulate them. The day before the wedding, the woman's parents hired someone to carry the dowry to the man's house with a box, depending on the wealth of the family, there were 4, 8, 16, rich officials and businessmen had 32 and 64, ordinary people gave more clothes, bedding, household utensils, and rich officials and businessmen sent brocade tents, gold and silver jewelry, carved screen color bottles and other valuables. On the wedding day, the man's door is pasted with happy words and couplets, hung with colored silk, and a pair of bricks wrapped in chopsticks and red paper should be placed on the top of the gate. This time, Wu Chenxuan's official residence also followed the rules, but this ten kilograms of gold bricks wrapped in ivory chopsticks and red paper are really amazing, rich and capricious.

In the courtyard of Wufu, a colorful shed was set up, and relatives and friends were feasted. There is a flower hall in the courtyard, the flower hall is set up on the table of the gods of heaven and earth, the three-star porcelain statue of Fu Lushou and the vase incense candle, and the red felt worship mat is set in front of the table. Lights were also hung in the temporary courtyard of the royal family to entertain relatives and friends. The man should invite a female guest to welcome relatives, and the woman should invite a female guest to send relatives, and the female guests should choose a good appearance in their prime, and their parents, in-laws and children are all "full of people" to play. Needless to say, it is Miao Hainan and Wang Sheng.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the groom wore a horse coat, crossed and red silk, rode a horse or a sedan chair and welcomed the female guests to guide the drum band and the sedan chair to the woman's house to marry, Wu Chenxuan directly used his own open-top review car as a mount, in addition to his own gold-sprinkled horse coat cross saffron, even the guards and two personal guards who drove were wearing red cloaks, and the funniest thing was that the guard of honor who followed the horse behind was tied with red silk and big red flowers on the Qin crossbow rifle on his back, which contrasted with the bright saber.

The Wang family had to close the door before the sedan chair arrived, and waited for the sedan chair to arrive. The groom in the band drum accompaniment, the sedan car knock on the door to hand over the name post, the name card is written in block letters of big red paper "Yu Lun nephew Wu Yuhan respectfully worship", the party opens the door to lead the groom into the hall. Wu Chenxuan wanted to kneel and bow three times to the woman's ancestral god, and then kneel and bow three times to her parents-in-law, and her parents-in-law stood next to her to answer. The protocol then leads the groom to the bride's door, and the groom arches towards the door. After inviting the bride, go to the guest room, and the Yue's family will set up refreshments and dishes to entertain the groom. When a large dish is served, the groom takes his leave. At this time, the drummer is playing loud music, and the bride is supported by the female guests to sit in a sedan chair, oh, here is an open-top command car dressed as a float, and the suona music and firecrackers are non-stop all the way.

Then he entered the process of Western-style wedding, the floats arrived at the door of Honglou Church one after the other, Wu Chenxuan got out of the car first and helped Wang Zijin to change his clothes in the flower shed, and after a while, he was dressed in a gorgeous general's dress, wearing a large medal of the National Defense Force, the Golden Wing Pilot Badge of the Flying Team, the Order of National Glory of the Republic, the Royal Knight Silver Cross of the Royal Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Royal Knight of the Order of the Kingdom of Spain, and the Danish Golden Shield Cross. The two stood arm in arm in front of the church, and the six pairs of small dolls of the Miao family, the Duan family, the Xu family, and the Cai family were very cute and carved in pink, holding the back hem of Wang Zijin's seventeen-meter-long wedding dress.

Suddenly there was a thunderstorm in the air, and the guests looked up together, and a team of swift trainers flew from the east, which seemed to be arranged in a staggered manner, and there were sharp eyes shouting, "It's a happy word." It turned out that Feng Ru and Xiao Maozi of the flight team felt that it was not enough to send planes to the scene to scatter petal rain, so they mobilized a squadron of masters from the flight team, and practiced for a month to control these planes in a horizontal and vertical arrangement, and practiced more than a dozen times on the sea surface of Wuding Mansion before they arranged this happy character in a proper manner.

While everyone was there enjoying the super "happy" word in the air, the four wild goose bombers that flew from the four directions of the southeast, south, and northwest arrived at the sky above the Honglou, and the bomb magazine was instantly opened, but what was dropped in the roar was not a bomb, but a rain of spray. For this petal rain, the guys of the flight team took out half a month's allowance to wrap up the 30 acres of rose garden in Pingyin three days in advance, and the tons of petals covered the streets and alleys of the wedding scene like snowflakes in an instant, and the fragrance of roses was overwhelming.