The ancients and nobles followed the six rites when they got married: the "Five Rites General Examination" records that since the Later Qi Dynasty, regardless of the Son of Heaven and the common people, the wedding "one is called Nacai, the second is called Xiangming, the third is Naji, the fourth is Nazheng, the fifth is the invitation period, and the sixth is the personal welcome." These are the six stages of ancient weddings, commonly known as the "Six Rites".

1. Nacai: This is the first stage of marriage proposal, after the man asks the matchmaker to propose, the woman agrees to propose marriage, and the man prepares a gift to go to the woman's house to propose, the gift is a goose, and the goose will live. Why use geese? The goose is a migratory bird, taking the symbol of yin and yang, and later developing a new idea, saying that the goose loses its mate, and will no longer be a pair for life, and takes its loyalty.

2. Asking for a name: After the marriage proposal, the matchmaker asks the woman for the date of birth and her name to prepare for the marriage ceremony.

3. Najib: It is a ritual to inform the woman of the good news of divination and marriage after asking the name, also known as "engagement". This is the main etiquette at the stage of engagement. In ancient customs, geese should be used as a token of the marriage. Later, it developed into rings, jewelry, colored silk, gift cakes, gift incense candles, and even sheep and pigs, etc., so it is also called sending or hiring.

Fourth, the recruitment: After the engagement, the man's family will send the dowry to the woman's family, which is the etiquette at the stage of marriage. This wedding is also commonly known as a complete or big engagement, a big gift, etc. Later, the ceremony also adopted the practice of returning the gift, returning part or all of the food in the dowry; Or after being hired, the woman will give the man a hat, shoes and socks as a return gift. The number of dowry gifts and the name of the item are mostly auspicious, and the number is taken as a double taboo.

5. Invitation period: After giving the dowry, choose the wedding date, prepare the gift to the woman's house, and ask for the consent of the ceremony. The ancient custom is to use geese as usual, the gifts are generally simple, and the invitation ceremony is often combined with the dowry ceremony, and the wedding date is determined at the same time as the big gift.

Sixth, the welcome: is the ceremony of the new son-in-law to the woman's house to welcome the party. This ritual is often seen as the main procedure of the wedding, while the first five are used as transitional rites such as marriage and engagement. Some of these forms are due to the needs of social relations, such as the "makeup" of the woman's house, the "opening of the house" and the "hole room" when going to the man's house, etc., which are all rituals to establish social relations. Purely the ritual of welcoming the part, generally using a sedan chair, divided into double or single top, helping the wife to get on the sedan chair "send the sister-in-law", accompany the groom to the woman's house to pick up the "welcome guest", all have their own requirements, get up the sedan chair, return to the horse, welcome the sedan chair, get off the sedan chair, worship the heaven and earth, perform a happy ceremony, enter the cave room...... Each process has several to a dozen forms, most of which represent good luck and exorcism. The season of pro-welcome, generally selected in the spring, the state to agriculture, coincide with the agricultural leisure, the harvest is the right match.

After the "six ceremonies" of marriage, the transition period begins, and the bride returns to her parents' home to "return to Ning" until the bride enters the childbearing period, and the second generation performs the birth ceremony. Since then, the wedding is only used as a family anniversary, according to the anniversary celebration (a full "sixtieth" held in Chongqing congratulatory ceremony, called bigamy wine), every year to celebrate, until the end of the year.

However, for the people of Tiance Mansion, the first five steps are no longer considered, and the only thing is the last personal welcome. But in view of the fact that Li Xuanqing and Qiaoxi are both orphans, and there are no relatives alive except for a group of brothers, Cui Lian, who is in charge of the marriage ceremony, has repeatedly decided to save all these and focus on the decoration of the wedding scene. From the morning, all the officers and men of the second battalion in charge of Chang'an City were dressed in military uniforms and wore red festive cloaks, and the festive red lanterns were hung overnight along the main street of Chang'an City to the palace gate, and the personnel of the logistics department cleaned the streets that had been cleaned several times again. All the people of Chang'an have been notified that today General Tiance is celebrating his wedding today. This is a great joy for the post-war people who have just relied on a series of policies of the Tiance Government to survive. Since Tiance Mansion moved into Chang'an, it has promulgated a series of policies every day, including the recruitment of workers in lieu of work, the distribution of relief food, and even the open recruitment of talents. And the name of General Tiance also spread with these proclamations to all corners of Chang'an City and even the land of Guanzhong. Therefore, it is rare to meet the New Year's Festival, and these people who have survived the war regard this incident as the best program of the New Year's Festival, so early in the morning, people from all over the world flocked to the gate of the palace city, ready to see the demeanor of the supreme ruler of Tiance Mansion.

The people were waiting, and the various institutions and military commanders of the Tiance Mansion also threw their military affairs to their deputies at this time, and all of them concentrated in Chang'an City. Li Xuanqing's marriage is the first major event for Tiance Mansion, which means that the institutions of Tiance Mansion have an opportunity for stable and orderly development. Under the leadership of Cen Tianshi, these people were all dressed in the newly made official uniforms and generals of the Tiance Mansion and waited in Changqing Palace.

And Murong Hanhai, the director of the Department of Industry and Commerce, also led a group of representatives of the industrial and commercial circles to meet Cen Tianshi at this time, except for a few businessmen from Guanzhong and Xiazhou recently, the rest are the wealthy businessmen from Fengling and Fengling invited by the Department of Industry and Commerce, they are the beneficiaries of the industrial and commercial policies of Tiance Mansion, and being invited at this time means that they have entered the sight of the highest level of Tiance Mansion, so these businessmen are proud to receive invitations.

"My lord, the auspicious time is coming." Since neither of them had a home, Qiaoxi went to the Wanfu Palace before they got married, while Li Xuanqing stayed in Changqing Palace. At this moment, Cui Lian looked at the hourglass and counted the time to remind Li Xuanqing.

Li Xuanqing looked at the big red groom official clothes on his body and felt a little weird, this was Qiaoxi's own clothes, so he temporarily decided to change out of the princess crown dress originally prepared by Cen Tianshi and others, but after looking in the mirror, at least it was passable for his appearance.

After changing his clothes, Li Xuanqing rode a jade lion from Changqing Palace and followed the guard of honor to set off, and went directly to the Qianqiu Palace, where Qiaoxi was ready, the big red Xipa covered his face, and saw the figure of Qiaoxi supported by everyone, Li Xuanqing was also full of emotion, in his previous life, he disappeared in that era on the wedding day, and now he has made up for it in this time and space.

"Lord, go up and pick up Madame." Cui Lian on the side saw that Li Xuanqing's face was constantly changing, and reminded in a low voice.

Cui Lian's words pulled Li Xuanqing from his memories to reality, and when he heard this, he jumped down lightly from the horse, came to Qiaoxi's side, took the Qianqiu red lock in the hand of the palace maid next to him, and said softly: "Qiaoxi, let's go home." ”

Li Xuanqing's soft words made Qiaoxi's body suddenly stunned, and then the accompanying slight tremor also made Li Xuanqing's heart warm, and he reached out to pick her up, and the palace maid on the side also opened the sedan chair that had been prepared long ago, and waited until Li Xuanqing put Qiaoxi in and began to follow the jade lion to set off. This time, instead of taking the Miyauchi road, I turned to the outside of Miyagi and began to parade along Suzaku Street.

The onlookers were stunned by Li Xuanqing's novel way, but then they began to cheer, but they saw a team of palace maids on both sides of the sedan chair holding palace lanterns, honor guards, and crowns to follow. And Li Xuanqing's bright red robe also changed the eyes of the people, and along the way, Li Xuanqing also constantly greeted the soldiers of the Tiance Army who were already on duty with the people around him, and some soldiers also began to respond to their commanders. And looking at Li Xuanqing, everyone beckoned, these people suddenly cheered like a tsunami, Li Xuanqing's figure also appeared in the sight of the people from time to time during this time, which made the people who were accustomed to looking at the nobles of the Chang'an Palace who were afraid of being attacked by others before going out. At least the people are no longer as afraid of the government and the army as they used to be.

At this time, Hu Xiaosi, who was mixed in the crowd and paid attention at any time to prevent accidents, also saw this scene in the crowd, and Zhao Si next to him looked at it for a long time and suddenly said to the old avenue beside him: "Boss, how is this marriage ceremony different from what Cui Lian said?" I don't know anything about how I don't know this ritual by the Lord. ”

"Why do you care so much? The lord is married, and it is not Cui Lian who is married, the lord can do whatever he likes, don't look at it quickly, go and be on guard. When you turn around and get married, you can do whatever you want. Hu Xiaosi sent his henchmen away, and said to himself while following the sedan chair: "It's still the lord's brain, this wedding is different." ”

Li Xuanqing naturally didn't know that his actions made Hu Xiaosi's heart rise with emotion. However, as the sedan chair gradually arrived at the gate of the East Palace where the Changqing Palace was located, Cen Tianshi and the others, who were waiting on the side, saw Li Xuanqing's actions and the cheers of the people along the way, but they all glanced at Cui Lian, who was embarrassed next to him, and this comforting look almost made the eunuch who was anyway at the critical moment fall to the ground.

But everyone just takes a look, and everyone doesn't have much opinion on Li Xuanqing's unwillingness to follow etiquette, obviously everyone is convinced of Li Xuanqing's performance along the way, and Tiance Mansion will quickly establish its own image in the hearts of the people through this move, and with these etiquette, you can put it aside.

When I arrived at Changqing Palace, the rest was arranged according to Cui Lian, the ceremonial official, these Li Xuanqing and Qiaoxi were not familiar with each other, but the palace maids around them kept whispering reminders to the two, so there was nothing wrong with it. And Cen Tianshi and Xu Tianxiang were basically relieved to see that there were basically no accidents at the ceremony. But at this time, Hu Xiaosi came in a hurry from outside, and his face became strange.

"Little Four, what's wrong? Nothing will happen, right? There are 80,000 horses outside Chang'an City, you don't have to look like this, right? Li Tianyi, who was on the side, asked curiously when he saw Hu Xiaosi's face.

"Li Cunxiao is here." Hu Xiaosi's words made the faces of several people around him change suddenly. Xu Tianxiang and Cen Tianshi glanced at each other, and they could be regarded as having made up their minds, the latter whispered a few words in Hu Xiaosi's ear, then looked around, and said to Cen Tianshi: "Mr. will wait with the two teachers as the family members of the lord, and I will go to greet Li Cunxiao." ”

"I see." Cen Tianshi instantly understood what the other party meant, and walked towards Zhang Tianhu and Ma Laosan. And Xu Tianxiang also took Wu Huan and Yang Tiancheng to quickly find Li Cunxiao.

And when Xu Tianxiang left the palace city, he also got a report from the city defense army, informing Li Cunxiao that he had been released by Xuan Yingwei, so several people hurried to the entrance of the main street of Dongcheng, only to see Li Cunxiao dressed in civilian clothes, and a woman behind him saw Xu Tianxiang and said with a smile: "Tianxiang, I'm here, I'm not late for my brother's wedding, right?" After speaking, he galloped and came to Xu Tianxiang's side.

"General Li is well, the wedding of the lord has now begun." Xu Tianxiang smiled bitterly: "The lord arranged it before, so I was afraid of causing trouble to the general, so we didn't dare to inform the general, but I didn't expect the general to come." ”

Li Cunxiao waved his hand and said with a smile: "Xuanqing is concerned about chaos, I am the Thirteenth Taibao, and I came today on behalf of my father-in-law." Hurry up and take me in, I have a gift, don't worry. This is my wife. ”

After Xu Tianxiang and Li Cunxiao's wife saw that Li Cunxiao was really holding a gift box, they couldn't help laughing, and it was not easy to stop him at this time, so they took him and began to rush to the palace. On the way, I saw Li Tianyi Li Cunxiao and said with a smile: "Brother, are you okay, I'm sorry that day, brother, I can't help it." ”

Xu Tianxiang felt a little strange in his heart, he always felt that Li Cunxiao seemed to be in a very good mood today, and the situation of no one in his eyes in the past was swept away, and he was happy to see everyone, and took the initiative to say hello.

"Brother, brother is here." Li Cunxiao followed Xu Tianxiang to Changqing Palace, and Li Xuanqing's wedding was also at the end of the time, and Li Cunxiao's voice came from outside the palace.