The death of the emperor does not prohibit civil marriage. What's more, it has been three months since Emperor Han Ling's death at this time.

The three media and six hires have been completed, so the Gongsun family began to marry Zhen Jiang.

The dowry of the Gongsun family is very characteristic of Liaodong: 1,000 war horses, two carts of ginseng, 500 wild deer, and others are regular dowries, such as 1,000 catties of gold and 1,000 jars of wine.

The dowry of the Zhen family is more generous: 500 cars of treasure brocade. In addition, there are military assets: 2,000 pairs of armor, 3,000 swords, 3,000 pairs of bows and arrows, and 5,000 family members. 100,000 stone of grain and grass. No horses were sent, because Liaodong produced horses. The price of horses in Zhongshan is 5 times that of Liaodong. The dowry of Huhula has thousands of carts, and the thousands of cattle that pull the carts are also invisible dowries. Gongsun Du specially sent Liu Yi with 3,000 cavalry to greet his relatives. He also greeted Gongsun Zhan and Youzhou Mu Liu Yu along the way, and asked them to protect them along the way.

Fortunately, there was no contradiction between Gongsun Du and these two families, and the wedding team arrived in Liaodong smoothly.

Gongsun Du had several wives and concubines, including Gongsun Kang's mother, Tian. Usually, Tian doesn't have much sense of existence. Now that the son is marrying a daughter-in-law, of course the Tian family has to take a seat and accept the visit of the son and daughter-in-law.

The wedding is to be shown to others, and Gongsun Kang said that there should be etiquette, and we are not on an errand.

The wedding ceremony of the Han Dynasty is divided into three parts: pre-wedding ceremony, main wedding ceremony, and post-wedding ceremony, which is usually held as a formal wedding, mainly with 7 ceremonies such as chapel, wo yu, opposite seat, same prison, joint marriage, knotting hair, and holding hands.

Speaking of these rituals, there are provenances. According to the "Book of Rites: Faint Righteousness", men and women must "eat and drink together" when they get married, so they are together and respectful and humble, and they are also close to each other. Thus, the various marriage ceremonies have specific meanings.

First, the newcomer enters the wedding hall

Accompanied by the waiter and the praiser, the bride and wife slowly walked into the wedding ceremony.

What is a Liker? It turns out that the praiser refers to the elder of the groom, and Gongsun Du invited Cai Yong, because Cai Yong is a great Confucian, and the Gongsun family feels that he has a lot of face. He sat in the middle of the seat, and after the newlyweds entered the main hall, he began to pour the wine into the glasses and wait for the newlyweds to take their seats.

2. Praise the praiser's message

"The peach is dying, scorching its bloom. The son of Yu Gui, Yiqi ...... the family "Cai Yong, who was in charge of officiating at the ceremony, was dressed in a Han Dynasty straight coat, holding a scroll in his hand, and chanting praises melodiously.

To recite a poem "Book of Songs, Zhou Nan, the Death of the Peach" as a blessing to the newlyweds.

3. Wo Yu Li

A couple cleans their hands before entering the ceremony, symbolizing the cleansing of body and mind into this sacred ceremony.

The traditional etiquette of the Han nationality places great emphasis on cleanliness, and the so-called wo yu ceremony refers to the groomsmen (known as the ancients called the royal) and the bridesmaids (媵) before the bride and groom respectively water and wash.

Fourth, the salute

The two sit opposite each other and officially enter the state of the core ceremony, symbolizing that they will live together in the future.

"Opposite seat" means that after the newlyweds have washed their hands, the newlyweds sit opposite each other. The position of the opposite seat is male west and female east, which means the intersection of yin and yang.

5. Prison Ceremony

It is taken from the ancient Han cell, and all the prisoners can only eat the same pot of rice. After this ceremony, the bride and groom become a family.

At this time, the two of them will start drinking the same kind of wine and eating the same kind of meat, and they will be named "Tongjiao Li".

6. Joining the ceremony

That is, a complete gourd is cut in half, tied with a red thread, and the gourd contains wine, because the gourd is bitter, and the wine must be bitter, so the bride and groom drink the wine together, which not only symbolizes that the husband and wife have become one since the wedding, and they will be married forever, but also imply that the husband and wife share weal and woe.

"Heyu" refers to the husband and wife drinking together, but they only exchange cups with each other, not the "cross-arm wine" that is drunk with arms like in many costume dramas. And the husband and wife drink together, symbolizing the meaning of husband and wife sharing weal and woe.

7. Relief ceremony

The groom personally untied the red "tassel" of the engagement token on the bride's hair bun and held it high in the air to show the guests, in order to symbolize the marriage to be recognized by the family and everyone, indicating that the bride has been married into the door, and the bride is a member of the groom's family from now on.

8. Wedding ceremony

The two newlyweds cut off a handful of hair, tied them together with a red ribbon, and put them in a bag to signify that the two "tied their hair" and officially became husband and wife. It symbolizes the two people who are firmly bound together and will never be separated for the rest of their lives.

9. Chapel

"Worship the church" is also called "worship heaven and earth". When the wedding is held, the bride and groom first pay homage to heaven and earth, and then to the man's parents. The third is that husband and wife worship each other, and the etiquette is similar to that of modern times.

After the worship was completed, Gongsun Kang took the hand of the bride and sent her into the cave room. Then it's time to come out and have a drink with the guests.

The "holding hands" ceremony comes from the sentence "holding the hand of the son, growing old with the son" in the "Book of Songs: Drumming".

In the end, Gongsun Kang entered the new house drunk and hugged Zhen Jiang.

Looking at Zhen Jiang's ruddy little face, he couldn't help but kiss it.

"Lady, it's not too early, let's go to bed in peace."

The accompanying maid next to her reminded: "There is also longan lotus seed porridge." ”

"Okay, drink!"

"Lady, the joy of the boudoir, do you understand?"

"Before leaving, Mama has a professor."

"Ha, I'll teach you. Not blowing. Your husband was a character who had read thousands of pieces back then, and there was no more code in his chest. ”

Gongsun Kang discovered that the ancient belly pocket was really sexy, why did he invent the bra? Is natural bad for me?