Limited to the year of men and women, marriage, the rites of the six rites, this is the "Book of Rites" on the provisions of the wedding, the so-called six rites refer to the collection, the name, Naji, the recruitment, the notice and the welcome, the "Ming Law" completely inherited the "Book of Rites" on the wedding regulations, the same is the six rites of the ceremony.

Zhu Cijiong, as the emperor, naturally has to take the lead in following the "Da Ming Law", Nacai, Mingming, Najib, Nazheng, Annunciation and personal welcome are all indispensable, but the final personal welcome He does not have to go to the queen's house to greet him in person, but sends a grand welcome mission to greet his relatives on his behalf, he just needs to wait in the palace.

This is to give gifts and discuss marriage, first invite the matchmaker to explore the woman's tone, generally ask the matchmaker to go to the woman's house with the bride price to propose, and the woman's family accepts the gift, even if it is a promise to propose marriage, the two parties can further negotiate.

This question is to ask the woman's name and date of birth, through the "Nacai" after the woman promised to discuss the marriage, the man's family took the initiative to write the man's name, the date of birth of the "Geng book", ask the matchmaker to send it to the woman's house, and ask for the book. After the exchange of Geng books between the two parties, the man asked the fortune teller to calculate whether the "fortune phase" was appropriate. If you are together, you will be married, and if you are not together, you will give up.

This Najib is a gift engagement, the man and the woman "eight characters" match, the man will formally prepare a gift to ask the matchmaker to come to the door with the "letter of appointment" to propose, if the woman accepts the letter of appointment and accepts the gift, even if it is a marriage, of course, you have to reply to the "letter of appointment" as evidence.

After the man receives the letter of consent from the woman, he chooses an auspicious day to accompany the man and his son to the woman's house to recognize the formal engagement, and the woman returns the future son-in-law's double gift money, at which time the woman needs to give back to the man through the matchmaker to sew shoes or embroidered handkerchiefs as a token of the engagement.

After the marriage date is decided, the man writes the "Petition" in the name of his parents and sends a matchmaker to deliver it to the woman. If the woman has no objection to the date of the marriage, the two parties will discuss the bride price and the marriage related matters of the husband's family.

This welcome is the bride by the groom himself, and the welcome is the last ceremony in the "six rites", so it is also called "marriage". At that time, both men and women should post couplets, put up lanterns, and entertain guests. On the day of the wedding, the man's family is composed of Mr. Charge, the wife, the suona class, and the bride price delivery personnel to form a welcoming team to go to the woman's house to greet the family. After the welcoming party arrives at the woman's house, the married girl bids farewell to her relatives and friends, covers her face with a red silk cover, and goes to the man's house in a sedan chair. The bridegroom, accompanied by relatives and friends, personally welcomes the newlyweds to get off the sedan chair and enter the hall, worship heaven and earth, worship ancestors, worship parents and then send them into the cave room. At this point, the "Six Rites" were completed, and the man and woman officially became husband and wife.

The matchmaker invited by the emperor to marry naturally needs to be weighty, to say that in addition to the royal family members of the Ming Dynasty, there are three of the most weighty, one is Sun Chengzong, the prince of Zhenguo, the other is Xu Guangqi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and the other is Zheng Zhilong, the king of Zhennan.

Taifu Sun Chengzong and Taishi Xu Guangqi are both old, and Zhu Cijiong doesn't want them to be too tired, so the mission of this matchmaker falls on the head of Zheng Zhi, the king of Zhennan, who is in the prime of life. Don't look at Zheng Zhilong, this product is a pirate leader, since he became the king of Zhennan, he has lost a little interest in fighting and killing, but he is interested in what kind of negotiations, watching ceremonies, these activities that can show his identity, and it is a great honor to be a matchmaker for the emperor, he naturally ran from Jinling in a hurry, and was busy with Zhu Cijiong's wedding.

On this day, Zhu Cijiong was notified that a grand ceremony was going to be held, and the Qianqing Palace had already been decorated with flowers, jubilant, Zhu Cijiong wore a grand dress, waiting in a side hall, when the Qin Tianjian officials heard the sound of "auspicious time has arrived" outside, he was surrounded by a group of brocade guards and eunuchs, and walked into the main hall of the Qianqing Palace in the sound of festive music, and sat on the dragon chair and waited.

At this time, the following has been full of court ministers and princes and nobles, they were actually invited to watch the ceremony, the ceremony began, first the court ministers and palace nobles bowed to the ground, chanting long live, and then the ceremonial officials of Honglu Temple loudly announced the prepared big wedding edict edict, after the edict was read, Zhu Cijiong stood up and personally appointed Zheng Zhilong, the king of Zhennan, and Bi Maokang, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, as the main and deputy angels, and went to the loyal Marquis Qin Liangyu's house to collect and ask for the name.

In the sound of music, Zheng Zhilong and Bi Maokang took over the festival on behalf of the Son of Heaven, held the edict given by the emperor and led a large team of people to beat gongs and drums, and rushed to the Loyal Marquis Mansion.

Why is it the Mansion of the Marquis of Loyalty? To say that Qin Mingyue's life experience is also quite miserable, his father Qin Minping sacrificed his life for the country as early as the fourth year of the Apocalypse (1624 AD) when he pacified the rebellion of Lu'an, and his two uncles were killed in a bloody battle with Houjin Tieqi in the battle of the Hunhe River as early as the first year of Taichang (1621 AD), and the previous generation of the Qin family had no male at this time, except for her aunt Qin Liangyu, so she could only live in the Loyal Marquis Mansion and wait for the emperor to come and marry.

When Zheng Zhilong and Bi Maokang wore red dresses, with a guard of honor, a drum band, and several carts of gifts, blowing and beating, and rushed to the Loyal Marquis's Mansion, Qin Liangyu, the Loyal Marquis Qin Liangyu had been kneeling at the gate and waiting for a long time.

This process is not very complicated, first Qin Liangyu was ordered, accepted the gifts, thanked him, and then began to hold a grand ceremony to ask for names, and presented the "table" with Qin Mingyue's name, resume, birthday and other items to Zheng Zhilong, and then invited Zheng Zhilong and Bi Maokang to have a meal.

Najib and the enlistment have nothing to say, they are all handled by Zheng Zhilong and Bi Maokang, Zhu Cijiong only has to pay for it, he will naturally not be stingy with Qin Mingyue and the Qin family, not to mention other bride prices, gold alone is 100,000 taels, silver is 1 million taels, and other jewelry is not counted!

Najib and after the enlistment is the invitation period, the wedding is finally set on December 24th, take a zodiac auspicious day, double happiness comes to the door, the so-called double happiness is not because the 24th is Christmas, the Ming Dynasty is not happy at that time, this 24th is the traditional solar term, small year.

On the 24th, the whole capital is even more lively than the New Year, the people of the capital are all lighting up to celebrate the emperor's wedding, and the team of greeting relatives is almost deaf by the firecrackers all the way, no way, now the people of the capital have money, they are also very grateful to the emperor today, so the firecrackers along the way are almost full, and the team of greeting relatives is deafening firecrackers everywhere, it is said that on this day, the firecrackers in the capital and even the entire North Zhili have been bought out, which is prepared for the New Year's Festival, As a result, it was sold out during the New Year!

At this time, Qin Liangyu has already led the whole family, young and old, kneeling at the gate to receive the kiss team, the greeting messenger loudly announced the edict, in the sound of drums, the brocade guard sedan chair man carried the queen's rites and dragon pavilions into the front yard, and then carried by the eunuch to the front yard of the "embroidery building" in the backyard, according to the "auspicious position" designated by the Qin Tianjian officials.

Qin Liangyu wore a queen's dress, wore a phoenix crown, appeared on the stage, knelt down to accept the gold book and gold treasure, and then went back to the "building" to wait for the auspicious time.

As soon as the auspicious time arrives, the queen ascends to the public and drives, the large team passes through the front gate, along the royal road, passes the Daming Gate, enters the Tiananmen Square, the end gate, and arrives at the noon gate, and the bells and drums on the city tower ring in unison. The team entered the Forbidden City from the middle of the noon gate, passed through the Taihe Gate, and arrived at the Qianqing Gate. The queen's guard of honor entered the Qianqing gate, and the eunuchs and palace maids lined up in the aisle, clapping their hands to make a warm welcome. In the sound of drums, the officials of the Ministry of Rites are displayed in the Jiaotai Hall behind the Qianqing Palace with the queen's golden book and golden treasure, and the relevant people are displayed in the Jiaotai Hall behind the Qianqing Palace.

There are also a lot of people who came to watch the ceremony, not only the ministers of the court, the princes and nobles, but also the envoys of the subject countries, most of the missions in Europe happened to stay in the Ming Dynasty to learn Chinese, and they were also invited to watch the ceremony, especially worth mentioning that the three subject countries of Korea, Dongying, and Ryukyu were personally led by the crown prince and came to watch the ceremony, in order to show respect for the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Cijiong didn't expect the emperor to be the groom so easily, his hardest time was when he wore that dress, and he basically didn't have to worry about other things, he had someone do it for him properly, he had worshiped heaven and earth, worshiped the two queen mothers, and after the husband and wife worshipped each other, it was the "cave room".

Zhu Cijiong is the emperor, naturally no one dares to pour his wine, and no one dares to come to the cave room, so he walked into the cave room steadily, two lives, he has not entered the cave room, plus Qin Mingyue is a rare beauty, get along day and night, he endures it very hard, so at this time he behaved quite anxiously, directly stepped forward and lifted the red hijab, hurriedly drank a glass of wine in the four eyes, and then .......

And then you can't write anymore, you know.