Chapter 30: The Ritual of Worshipping Heaven (1)
As soon as her tone changed, with tears in her eyes, she wrung her handkerchief and said softly: "Since you are a bitch, you have to tear up the chastity archway on the archway and discount it, because it will stand again...... It won't stand up again either! ”
"This is King Wu's sachet, you wait until King Wu returns to his house and send it to him." Lan Xiang said.
"Sachet? Miss, you stole it? Greencloth said in amazement.
"Lan Xiang took it with her ability, how can it be regarded as stealing? That's when I have an eye! Lan Xiang turned her head and smiled.
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"Your name is Xue Li, the word is Rengui? Self-denial and revenge, the world is benevolent, benevolent and expensive. Li Li chewed the words, sat in the carriage, opened the curtain, and smiled lightly.
Li Ke, the king of Wu, returned to Chang'an, according to the usual need to go to the emperor first, he first went to the medical school to ask the emperor for peace, first, Qujiangfang and Mingdemen are close, the road is close, and on the other hand, because the emperor of the Tang Dynasty is the largest, it is not rude. When he finished the competition with Xue Li, he naturally went to the palace to meet Li Shimin.
And Li Lizhen also went back to the palace by the way, but Xiao Lizhen was interested in Xue Rengui, who was heroic just now.
The princess laughed. Xue Rengui sat outside the carriage and smiled shyly.
"But ......" Li Lizhi looked at Xue Rengui's shabby dress, and suddenly her face was not very happy, and said: "The third brother is so uninteresting, and I don't know if I am jealous that your archery skills are better than him, and I even refuse to give you a piece of clothing." ”
"What are you talking about?" Li Ke frowned.
Xue Rengui smiled embarrassedly, sat at the head of the carriage and said slowly: "The princess misunderstood, His Royal Highness King Wu gave Xue Li enough to settle down in Longmen County for his mother, and also sent a few maids. It's just ......"
He shook his head, and did not reply again, but carefully rubbed the iron-tired bow wrapped in a cloth bag in his arms, and plucked the bowstring with his index finger from time to time.
For the sake of the stability of his mother, he chose to accept the gift of King Wu. But he Xue Li is not a waste who is not diligent, so why should he need people's mercy for fame and fortune?
The cold clothes are attached to the thin body, and the heart is ten thousand miles high!
If it is not my money, I will not take food from myself.
The carriage soon arrived at the Suzaku Gate, and after being inspected by the guards, Li Ke took his attendants to ride a horse, while Li Lizhi glanced at Xue Rengui leaning on the carriage again, and walked towards the palace with a pleated skirt.
Zichen Palace.
In the warm pavilion, the eldest grandson queen was feeding two babies, heard the footsteps from outside the door, a pink little baby slipped something in her mouth, and the corners of her mouth overflowed with milk, she wiped the baby's mouth with a handkerchief in annoyance, and was about to reprimand, but when she saw the dull Li Li's heart softened, her tone was much softer: "Lizhi, when you come in the future, your steps will be lighter, and Chengyang and the pheasant slave will be coaxed to sleep by the queen mother." ”
But unlike in the past, Li Lizhi did not pout her lips to defend herself, but looked at the eldest grandson Wujian fixedly, and said, "Lizhi...... If you want to learn from a girl, can the queen mother teach beauty? ”
"Female red?" The eldest grandson smiled innocently, put the two babies in the cradle, put on their clothes again, and then rubbed Li Liqin's little head, and said with a smile: "Isn't Lizhi usually unwilling to learn this?" Well, the Queen Mother teaches you. ”
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At night, the Mansion of Zhao Guogong.
The eldest grandson Wuji carefully lit a piece of white wax, put it on the lampstand on the table, rubbed his hands, spread out the scroll, glanced at Fubao standing in the corner, and asked, "How is Chong'er doing recently, is there any better?" ”
"Da Lang was more irritable in the first few days, and he beat and scolded his subordinates at every turn...... But lately, it's much better, and it's a little more stable. Fu Bao replied.
"Really?" The eldest grandson Wuji picked the lamp and made it brighter, before he said with a smile: "A marriage can't prove anything, only the emperor has me in his heart and the eldest grandson's family, that's enough." In other words, as long as my sister is in one day, then the eldest grandson family will never fall, as long as we are in the whirlpool of the original competition for the crown and watch coldly, then no matter what, the winner is still the prince with the blood of the eldest grandson family in the end.
Although Chong'er has gone through this blow, his heart is undoubtedly much more mature and stable, and in a few years, when the emperor dies, the medical school will definitely be leaderless, I will ask Your Majesty to appoint Chong'er in charge of the medical school, and manage the semi-cultural context of a Cathay Pacific, and the eldest grandson's family can also be like five clans and seven surnames for thousands of years......"
Fu Bao hummed softly, but later he questioned, "Miss Shirui was not betrothed to King Wei by His Majesty, sir, it's not so easy for us to jump out." ”
"No, ......" A trace of ruthlessness flashed in the corner of the eldest grandson Wuji's eyes, but it disappeared in a flash, but he patted his sleeve elegantly and shook off the dust on it, "Shirui has not been very good since she was born, and she has fallen ill over the years." ”
"No, Miss Shirui is fine." Fu Bao was surprised, he knew everything about the more than 20 young ladies in the house, but he had never heard of Miss Shirui's poor health.
But when he said it, he immediately understood what he meant......
Eldest Sun Wuji put down the scroll in his hand and sighed softly, "The eldest grandson's family can't accommodate the second queen......"
At this moment, there was a small sound outside the house, and the two looked at each other, and were just about to go out to see, but found that it was just a wild cat outside the window, and they immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
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"The major affairs of the country are only worship and Rong." - "Left Biography"
April 15, auspicious.
The ancients attached the most importance to the ceremony of going out and sacrificing to the sky, and today's Turkic ceremony of sacrificing prisoners to the sky not only accounts for these two aspects, but also greatly inspires the hearts of the people of the Tang Dynasty, which is of great significance to the Tang Dynasty and Li Shimin.
The ritual of sacrificing to heaven is the communication between man and heaven, and the Son of Heaven has personally presided over the ceremony of sacrificing to the sky, and the altar of worshipping the sky is generally round, symbolizing the round place of the sky.
In the later generations of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the altar of heaven was left behind, that is, the Temple of Heaven, and the Temple of Heaven of the Sui and Tang dynasties was destroyed in the wars of the past dynasties, but today the Emperor Taishang personally witnessed the Temple of Heaven of the Tang Dynasty, compared with the delicate spirit of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Temple of Heaven of the Sui and Tang Dynasties was built extraordinarily magnificently, inheriting the atmosphere of the Han and Tang dynasties.
The first part of the ceremony is to welcome the gods, and white smoke rises from the gilded bronze beast burnt wood stove placed in the center of the Temple of Heaven, symbolizing the meaning of reverence for heaven in the world.
"Father, it's time to bow down to God Haotian." Li Shimin took the hand of the Emperor Taishang and said softly.
In front of them, there is the tablet of the god of Haotian God.
According to etiquette, the Son of Heaven wears a large fur, a gown (decorated with the sun, moon, stars, mountains, dragons and other nine insect patterns), wears a crown with twelve hanging from the front and back, and a pale yellow jade gui inserted in his waist, holding a town gui, facing the west and standing on the southeast side of the Temple of Heaven.
But because there is not only one emperor in the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin, but also an emperor on his head, the two hold hands and live in the center, facing the Temple of Heaven and kneeling on both sides of the military generals.
The drums are playing in unison, and the chimes that symbolize the afterglow of the Zhou rite sound leisurely.
The two emperors bowed to the tablet of the god of Haotian God in unison. The emperor sacrificed to the heavens, not to the ethereal gods, but to the ancestors.
God is forgiven by the King.