Chapter 84: The Hand of the Son

"King Yingzheng of Qin looks at it this way, but he is very wrong. Although the Xiongnu were not very strong at that time, the 200,000 nomadic cavalry who came and went like the wind were actually killed by Li Mu and bled like a river; And Yan Country is located in the bitter cold land of the Northeast, and there are more than 100,000 elite soldiers, especially the chariot soldiers of Yan Country are very powerful on the plains, and they are also beaten by Li Mu! It can be seen that Li Mu's military talent is not under the veteran Lian Po! "Dong An, the master of the Guigu Gate, is far-sighted, and naturally understands that Li Mu's name is not a boast.

"Hey, the king is young and vigorous, and it is impossible to change what has been decided. It's like he fell in love with Dong Rou, and if he didn't get it, he wouldn't be willing. That's the terrible thing about kings. On ordinary people, they are considered womanizers at best; And once the king encounters this matter, it may lead to the destruction of the country and the destruction of lives! Meng Yi thought about it and said helplessly.

"In that case, is there really no way to do anything about you and Rou'er?" Dong An, the master of the Guigu Gate, asked with a fluke mentality.

"I have made up my mind, and I will marry Meng Xiao! As for Dong Rou, we are destined to be inseparable after all! Meng Yi said resolutely, although his heart ached.

The most beautiful love in the world is the joy of two loves, and it is the hand of the son and the son growing old together,

The most sad love in the world is fate, it is deeply loved but can't,

In the end, I could only tear up, turn around and leave, never to see him again, but my heart hurt when I missed it;

In fact, the love that can't be obtained is even more beautiful, because the long thoughts will make the two hearts always together......

Only in this way can Dong Rou's thoughts be cut off! You can also completely stay away from the jealousy of King Qin!

Some people can't love it; Some people have no fate.

Feelings can't be forced, and some people fall in love with their favorite person at a glance, so the two fall in love, enter the palace of marriage, stay together until they are old, and be happy all their lives. But some people can't love it, and they have been entangled in their love all their lives, even if they work hard, but the people they love have never been able to accompany them.

But love is a matter of mutual affection after all, and the efforts of either party are only in vain after all. Some people find the person they love, so they try their best to love, but the person they love does not love themselves after all; Some people are fortunate enough to be able to stay with their loved ones for a while, but eventually have to be separated for various reasons.

The Book of Songs of the Zhou Dynasty. Lesser. Dadong": "There is Han in the sky, and there is light in the prison." The weaver girl is seven days long. Although it is seven, it is not a newspaper. Morning glory, not to serve the box. ”

To the east of the Tianhe River lives the Weaver Girl, the daughter of the Emperor of Heaven (note: the Emperor of Heaven is not the Jade Emperor, the Jade Emperor is the Four Emperors or Six Emperors in Taoist beliefs, ranked below the Three Qings, and the Emperor of Heaven is one of the Emperors or Five Heavenly Emperors in ancient legends). She toiled on the loom year after year, weaving splendid clothes, and she had no time to dress up. The Emperor of Heaven took pity on her and allowed her to marry the Morning Glory on the west side of the Tianhe River, and the weaving girl abandoned the weaving work after she got married. The Emperor was furious and ordered her to return to the east of the Heavenly River, allowing them to meet only once a year. Every year on the seventh day of autumn, we always see the top of the magpie's head suddenly bald. Legend has it that on this day, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl met on the east bank of the Milky Way, and the magpie was made to make a bridge to walk over their heads, so the hair on the magpie's head was trampled bald.

There is a kind of wound that can be healed without escaping, and there is a kind of love that can be relieved without a decision. There is a kind of regret, which is called fate, and there is a kind of longing, which is called painful heart. There is a process that is entangled, and there is an ending to all parties in the world. There is a kind of awakening that the so-called love is just a passing scene. If you can forget your memories by escaping, can you wander alone at the ends of the earth? If you can cut off your thoughts by decisiveness, are you willing to cut them with a thousand knives and never recover. If life is only as it was first seen, can we go back to the beginning and only watch from afar?

Meng Yi did what he said, and as soon as he returned to Xianyang, he immediately organized the wedding with Meng Xiao.

Originally, Meng Yi also planned to find someone to match his family affairs as much as possible, but he didn't want Meng Xiao to recommend himself, and Meng Yi's mind at the moment was on how to stop the "Dragon Slayer".

"Those who bow will merge the two surnames, go up to the temple, and go down to the future generations. Therefore, the gentleman is important. It is a faint ceremony, all the masters feast a few times in the temple, and greet outside the door, enter, let and rise, obey the orders of the temple, so respect and prudence is also faint. - "The Book of Rites: Faint Righteousness"

According to the record of "The Book of Rites", people's weddings in the pre-Qin period were very ceremonial, mainly divided into five steps: Nacai, asking for names, Naji, Nazheng, and inviting the period. But this dragon is not the gongs and drums we usually see in film and television dramas, it is a wedding model that slowly began to emerge from the Han Dynasty onwards.

The wedding in the pre-Qin period still pays more attention to the ceremony itself, no joy on the ceremony, no celebration, no banquet, in their opinion, the righteousness of the couple and the grace of the knot are very serious ceremonies, can not be noisy and noisy, the dress is not later on behalf of the festive red but a more solemn and elegant color, the groom wears a knight's dress, the bottom is a silk color, inlaid with black edges. The bride wears a hair ornament and a pure black dress with black trim. The whole ceremony was quiet and serene, but it gave people a mysterious sense of awe, which fully reflected the beauty of the ancient charm of Chinese wedding culture.

During the pre-Qin period, especially before the Warring States period, the relationship between young men and women was relatively free, and there were basically no restrictions on their interactions with each other. In addition, it was not uncommon for young men and women to engage in private engagements and elopements at that time. "Zhou Li, Diguan, Matchmaker" cloud: "In the month of mid-spring, men and women will be ordered. So the time also, the runner can't help it; If the order is not used without reason, he will be punished. It can be seen that the government at that time not only did not interfere in this, but was somewhat indulgent. In the middle of the Western Zhou Dynasty, "King Gong traveled to Jingshang, Mikang Gong followed, and there were three daughters running to him." "It is socially permissible for these three women to defect to their intended people without a matchmaker. This phenomenon also existed in the Spring and Autumn period.

In the pre-Qin period, because people attached great importance to marriage, they took the marriage relationship between the two parties very seriously. As a result, a set of marriage etiquette with fixed rituals and solemn forms was gradually formed. The etiquette of the wedding and its specific procedures, according to the "Etiquette. There are so-called "six rites" in the "Shi Du Li", which mainly include: (1) Nacai; (2) Asking for a name; (3) Najib; (4) levy; (5) Invitation period; (6) Welcome; (7) Co-bonding; (8) Women see aunts or temples;

(1) Nacai: The man asks the matchmaker to go to the woman's house to say that he is proposing, and then sends a messenger to propose to the woman's family with a live goose as a gift. There are two meanings of the geese: first, the ancients believed that the geese were migratory birds, which followed yin and yang, and there were letters in exchanges, indicating that the matchmaker was trustworthy; The second is to show that the man who was proposed is brave and can be trusted. The female family held a ceremony in the ancestral temple to entertain the envoys.

(2) Asking for a name: That is, the man's family asks the matchmaker to ask the woman's name and date of birth. There are two kinds of names, one is the name of the name, that is, the name of the woman when she was born in the third month. The second is the name of the name, that is, the name of the surname. As for the men's name, it was reported at the time of the interview, so the name was only asked by the woman's name and not by the man. Goose is still used for name gifts. The purpose of asking names is twofold: first, to prevent marriages between close relatives with the same surname; The second is to use the date of birth obtained by asking the name to divinate whether the marriage of the parties is suitable.

(3) Najib: The man's family asks about the good fortune of the marriage in the ancestral temple, and after the auspicious omen, he sends a messenger to report the good news to the woman's family. (4) Recruitment: The male family gives a dowry to the female family, which is equivalent to the engagement ceremony in later generations. sign, i.e., the meaning of success.

(4) Recruitment: The male family gives a dowry to the female family, which is equivalent to the engagement ceremony of the later generations. sign, i.e., the meaning of success.

(5) Invitation period: The male family sends a messenger to inform the female family of the selected marriage date.

(6) Welcome: The groom personally goes to the woman's house to marry the bride.

(7) Together: Husband and wife drink together. 卺, that is, the gourd (gourd) is two, which means that the two people are divided into two, and the union is one, and the husband and wife are together. Later generations called it "Hehuan wine" and "handover wine". At the same time, the male family should "summon the township party members for wine and food."

(8) The woman sees her aunt or temple: The next morning, the bride bathes, dresses up, and goes to the door of the aunt's (i.e., in-laws) bedroom. After a series of rituals, the bride officially becomes a member of the groom's family.

This wedding ceremony was basically used for more than 2,000 years until the Qing Dynasty, and it did not change much.

"The Book of Songs, the Wind and the Drumming": ""Death and life are broad, and Zicheng says." Hold the hand of the son, and grow old with the son. ”

"Hold the hand of the son, grow old with the son." These two poems must be familiar to everyone, they are widely used in wedding scenes, and it is estimated that even the master of ceremonies is about to vomit.

But wait, are these two poems really about love? In fact, this question has been debated for more than 2,000 years.

Now Meng Yi can tell everyone very clearly that this sentence was indeed about comradeship-in-arms at the beginning, but the life and death contract in it later also became a symbol of romantic love!

Original translation of "The Book of Songs, Wind and Drumming":

The drums of war were beating loudly, and the soldiers were enthusiastic about practicing martial arts. Some built roads and built city walls, and I went to the south alone.

Follow the commander Sun Tzu Zhong and unite the allies Chen and Song. The reluctance to let me return to defend my country made me worried.

Where can I stop and where can I stop? Where to find the running war horse? Where to find it all the way? But it was already in the forest.

We have already made a vow to live and die together. Let me hold your hand and go to war with life and death.

It's a pity that the distance is too far away, and there is no fate to meet again. It's a pity that the separation has been too long to keep the oath.

Meng Yi smiled at Meng Xiao, who was dressed in full costume, and said, "Hold the hand of the son, and grow old with the son." ”

King Yingzheng of Qin, who was watching the ceremony next to him, was very happy and thought: Finally get rid of a rival in love!

But I don't know that outside the Mongolian Mansion, the people of Iraq are melancholy!