Chapter 204: Qingming Festival
Why bother!? "A serious sigh" This matter, only Niangniang alone knows some things, or some fur, His Royal Highness can knock on the mouth of the old slave, but can you knock on Niangniang's mouth? ”
He Jiu just saw that this child was pitiful, at the beginning, if it wasn't for the fact that Ran Guiren had always hated his master, why did things develop to this point, Prince Shen insisted on avenging his mother, and he had no choice.
"Is the person who killed my mother's concubine really the side behind?" Prince Shen stood up with a bang, looked at He Jiu with an unkind face, and if he didn't say anything about the end of a chouyin, he would definitely not be able to get out of this Prince Shen's mansion.
He Jiu shook his head regretfully, "Niangniang doesn't believe that Ran Guiren will commit suicide, but he can't find any reason, so he compared all the rosters in and out of the palace one by one, and found no one suspicious. ”
Prince Shen gritted his teeth fiercely, he knew that He Jiu was unreasonable, and there was no need to lie to him, so the person behind this must be very deep.
Pushed the jasper unicorn, "This thing is a congratulatory gift to the son of the father-in-law, if he can come back one day, he will definitely prepare a generous gift to the father-in-law to apologize." Niangniang, I also asked my father-in-law to say a few more kind words. ”
He Jiu trembled, and hurriedly surrendered his hand, this level is over, as for the apology ceremony that this little guy said, He Jiu is not interested at all, and it is only right to hurry back to the palace.
The eldest grandson Yuanhong wants to send his eldest son to the Qi State as a hostage, and the King Bian Liang of the Qi State wants to come to the Yu Kingdom to study, and one or two things are not a trivial matter.
In the previous dynasty, for the last few things, almost all of them had to be made into a stove specializing in making zuò popcorn, and it was crackling all day long, and it didn't matter if he didn't draft a draft girl, who can say anything about him today, besides, he has several sons, which is enough.
The eldest son went to the Qi country as a hostage, and it became an exchange between the two countries, and the face was preserved, and the imperial historians had a thousand mouths, and they were not able to refute this matter.
But the most bothering thing is that after the emperor abolished the crown prince, he did not plan to set up another prince, it stands to reason that the four princes born on the side and the three princes born by Liang Fangyi are one of the best candidates to inherit the throne, but now the queen has a nine princes under her name, Jiang Guogong is full of energy, and wants to push that child to the position of the prince.
The light rain was still falling, and Angel took her eldest grandson Yuening, who was only four years old, to the outside of Kunning Palace, and the sedan chair stopped in the outer courtyard.
Qingming Festival is one of the three major ghost festivals in the world, and the participants of the Qingming Festival are all the people, from the kings and ministers to the ordinary people, all of whom must worship the souls of their ancestors on this festival.
As a ghost festival, the Qingming Festival mainly worships ancestors and deceased relatives, expressing the filial piety of the worshippers and the feelings of longing for the deceased. Qingming Festival belongs to the ghost festival and is usually not named as the ghost festival, because it mainly worships good ghosts, house ghosts, or the dead souls of those close to them, focusing on expressing filial piety and family affection.
In the other two Halloween festivals, even evil ghosts and wild ghosts are also sacrificed, focusing on appeasing ghosts and preventing them from being troubled. But it can't be generalized. In some places, there is also the practice of sacrificing to other ghosts and gods during the Qingming Festival. In the old customs of Shanghai, there was a ritual held on the Qingming Festival to sacrifice the ghosts, to sacrifice those hungry ghosts, ghosts and lonely souls, to prevent them from becoming evil ghosts.
This kind of altar is called the altar of sacrifice. In old Shanghai, there was also the practice of welcoming the city god on the day before the Qingming Festival. On the day of the Qingming Festival, the god of the city god will take a sedan chair out of the stage to parade the sacrifice to appease the lonely souls and wild ghosts, and the scene is very grand and lively.
Qingming sacrifices can be divided into tomb sacrifices and ancestral hall sacrifices according to the different places of sacrifice. Tomb offerings are the most common. The characteristic of the Qingming sacrifice is the tomb sacrifice. In the cemetery, the sacrificer is closest to the object of sacrifice, which is easy to cause a feeling of closeness, so that the filial piety and family affection of the living to the deceased can be better expressed and sustenance. The Qingming sacrifice is called tomb sweeping, mainly due to the adoption of tomb sacrifices.
Another form is the ancestral hall sacrifice, also known as the temple sacrifice, which is a way for people of a clan to gather in the ancestral hall to worship their ancestors, and after the sacrifice, they will have a meeting and dinner, etc., this kind of sacrifice is a way to reunite the people. There is also a situation where people whose families work in other places cannot rush back to their hometowns to visit their graves, so they pay tribute in the direction of their hometowns on the mountains or on high places.
The methods or items of Qingming sacrifice vary from place to place, and the common practice consists of two parts: one is to renovate the tomb, and the other is to hang and burn paper money and offer sacrifices.
When sweeping the grave, the grave is first renovated, and the main practice is to remove weeds and cultivate new soil. On the one hand, this behavior can express the filial piety and care of the sacrificer to the deceased, on the other hand, in the belief of the ancients, the graves of ancestors have a great relationship with the rise and fall of future generations, so the tomb is a sacrificial content that cannot be ignored.
The four-year-old eldest grandson Yuening doesn't like to participate in such an occasion, on her white and tender cheeks, Yin Hong's small mouth is pouting dissatisfiedly, her big dark eyes are blinking, she looks cute, and her fleshy little ass is twisting uneasily in the chair, looking extremely dissatisfied.
The royal Qingming Festival is not more than others, the requirements are extremely strict, in addition to the royal heirs, only the queen and the two people can participate in the concubines, and the other concubines are not even qualified to kowtow in the outer courtyard, and once checked, they will be punished by death.
Among the princes, except for the seven-year-old prince, who can preside over the master of ceremonies by the emperor's side, the princes of the other concubines are all arranged according to their ranks, and they can only kowtow in the outer courtyard after the age of seven.
Prince Shen was also invited this time, although he was seven years old, he was not a year old, and he could only accompany them to eat and drink in the back, the eldest princess was already a nine-year-old child, and she should be attending the sacrifice in front of her, and she would not be able to come back before lunch began.
"Today is the Qingming Festival, the palace is trusted by the emperor to take care of **, the emperor is specially gifted with wine, the palace is willing to drink this cup with all the sisters in the palace!" Empress Jiang picked up the bronze wine bottle on the table and drank it all heroically.
A group of concubines picked up the wine glasses, some tasted it slightly, some just pretended, blocked the wide sleeves in front of them, and the wine was quietly poured out.
Angel is at ease, her nose is extremely sensitive, if there is something in the wine, he will come out as soon as he smells it, this kind of good wine can not be drunk every day, let alone wasted.
The child couldn't drink wine, he could only quote some fruit sher, and he didn't quite have an appetite for the eldest grandson Yuening, looked at the beautiful cold food in front of him, pulled the sleeve of the biological mother, and said coquettishly, "The queen mother, I want to eat this!" ”
The child's crisp and immature voice was particularly loud in the already magnificent and quiet hall, and Empress Jiang had long been unhappy with Angel, and in the face of the extraordinary period of the crown prince, she didn't give Angel a good face at all.
Snorted coldly: "How did the rules of the four princes learn?" If you are coquettish and willful, you don't know the rules of eating and sleeping? ”
The eldest grandson Yuening was reprimanded by Empress Jiang for a while, blinking her big red eyes, he was so cute, in addition to having a different kind of baby fat, revealing a similar taste to the eldest grandson Yuanhong from the bones, many of the concubines present began to feel distressed, and felt that Empress Jiang had made a big fuss.
Angel was also very happy, but when she heard that Empress Jiang criticized her son, she was immediately furious, no matter how bad her son was, she was educated by herself, and it was not anyone's turn to intervene.
"The queen is too worried, my son, the rules have naturally learned in the bones, and the queen is not bothered."
The jade hand slapped on the table, and Empress Jiang stood up with a loud voice, "It's really the opposite, you are not good at educating the four princes as a mother, and you are still blindly conniving, in the long run, where does my royal face exist, this palace looks, it is better to find two grandmothers for the four princes, and teach the rules of the four princes well!" ”
Angel rolled her eyes, this Empress Jiang's life was too comfortable, no one had anything to do with her for too long, and even the most basic ones were forgotten, "Forget it!" The rules of the Pope are the princes of the previous dynasty, and the grandmothers of the ** educate the princesses in the palace. My sister said this, in the eyes of unintentional people, it was just a momentary slip of the tongue, and in the eyes of unintentional people, I thought that my sister was going to overstep her bounds! The rules left by this ancestor are clearly stated, but they are not allowed to interfere in politics. ”
The tiger is not powerful, everyone thinks she is a sick cat, after Fu Zhaohua falls, she and Queen Jiang are left to sing a one-man show, that is to add fun to others, Angel is not very willing, but since people come to the door, if she retreats again, others will bully her.