In the mansion of the Marquis, countless people looked at the main hall, and there, today, there will be another young man who will become an adult, and his name will surely resound in the future, and almost everyone present will feel honored except for those who do not know the intention.

The crown ceremony has a set of complicated rituals, that is, it is necessary to add the virtuous crown first, then to give the leather pen, and finally to confer the knighthood. These three kinds of crowns are pre-Qin ancient crowns, the Han Dynasty has developed dozens of new crowns, but in the crown ceremony is still based on these three kinds of ancient crowns, before the men are minors, they are not qualified to wear these three kinds of formal crowns, in and out of any occasion to make friends with people.

The people of the Han Dynasty paid attention to the "integration of clothes and crowns", that is, each kind of crown must be matched with corresponding clothing: Jue Ben with Jue Ben clothes, leather Ben with linen clothes, and Tie cloth crowns with Xuanduan clothes, which cannot be mixed, otherwise it is "incivility".

After Fuquan and all the guests saluted, he entered the side room and changed into Xuanduan clothes, put on his hair, and knelt firmly on the pu mat, and his nephew Cai Mu, who came with Cai Yong, combed Fuquan's hair, and coiled his hair on his head, and fixed it with a silk belt specially tied to his hair.

Subsequently, Cai Yong held a hat made of black linen, whose name was "Tie Cloth Crown". This hat is unpretentious, at first it was a piece of black cloth, according to legend, the ancient times with white cloth as the crown, if it is sacrificed, it is dyed black, so it is called "the cloth crown", the front is high and the back is short, the shape is the simplest, the status is also the lowest, and this time Cai Yong, who wore the crown for Fuquan, once called it "the crown of the commission".

Later, after the Zhou Dynasty began to use the Zhou rites to standardize the etiquette, the adult crowned person wore this hat, hoping that his person would still be ancient and never forget his roots. Of course, at this time, the scholars no longer wore cloth crowns, but only wore them at the crown ceremony to pose for a while, and they mostly brought the improved "Jinxian crown".

The cloth crown was put on, Cai Yong stood in front of Fuquan and gave a congratulatory speech: "On the auspicious day of the month, the first plus yuan is served." Abandon your young ambitions, and become virtuous. Shou Kao Weiqi, Jieer Jingfu! "The gist is to add adult clothes to you on this beautiful and auspicious day; Please give up your children's ambitions and create adult sentiments; Maintain prestige and cultivate virtue; I wish you a long life and great blessings.

After that, Cai Yong crowned Fu Quan on his head, Fu Quan got up and thanked him, turned around and went into the side room to change clothes, this time he changed into a linen clothes, and sat back in his place after coming back, Cai Mu went to the cloth crown for him and re-combed his hair.

After combing, Cai Mu took the leather cloth handed by the maidservant, which was similar to the melon skin hat of the descendants, and was made of deer skin and inlaid with colorful jade at the junction of the leather pieces. Because the skin is the strongest, often used in military hunting activities, the ancients believed that "the major affairs of the country, in the worship and Rong", religion is higher than the military, and the military is higher than the daily work of politics, law, economy, etc., so the meaning of this crown is extremely obvious, this crown is usually worn by the courtiers when they go to court, and its purpose is to hope that the crowned person can serve the king, be diligent in government, and sympathize with the people in the future.

After that, the ceremony of crowning is slightly the same as that of Shoujia, except that the congratulatory speech sung by Cai Yong has changed slightly.

"Ji Yue Lingchen, Nashen Erfu! Respectfully, Graceful! Eyebrows live for 10,000 years, and they will be blessed forever! ”

Then Fuquan thanked him again, re-entered the side room, and then changed the silk knight's clothes, and after changing clothes, he returned.

Then it was concocted in the same way, taking the Jue Ben, which is also known as the crown, which is to install a long wooden board on the ordinary crown, but it is different from the crown worn by the emperor and high-ranking officials and nobles, and there is no jade bead string made of the crown, and the status is more noble than other kinds of crowns, and this crown is mostly used in ancient sacrifices, so that the person who receives the crown can worship the gods.

"With the right of the year, with the order of the month. Salty gar suit. Brothers are here, in order to become a virtue, Huang Lao has no borders, and he is celebrated by the sky! ”

Fuquan three worships, he was in the early years because of the Taixue, and the young man, so he has taken the word, and then simplified the "and crown to take the table" this procedure. Clothes to change, and then Fu Quan walked to the main hall to sit down, because Fu Quan's parents died, and omitted a procedure to meet his parents, directly facing the north to see the clan elders, to uncle Fu Wan and aunt Liu Hua led by a group of clan elders, recognized by relatives.

Of course, the elders of the Fu clan who were able to come from Langya on time this time were mostly young people who were about the same age as Fu Wan, and there were more than ten people in a rough count, and they all came quickly to ensure that Fu Quan's crown ceremony would not at least not appear to be very shabby in clan power. As for the white-haired grandparents in the clan, this time because of the tight time, coupled with the old age, it is inconvenient to speak and travel, and they will all future. In fact, according to Fu Quan's estimate, if he wasn't the rising star of Fu Quan's generation, it is estimated that those middle-aged people who are older than Fu Quan would not have come in a hurry after receiving Fu Quan's letter.

All the etiquette in the clan, after some simplification, this is the end, and finally Fu Quan changed into a black hat dress, with the gifts that have been prepared in the house to meet the guests, the purpose is to obtain social recognition, the so-called "twenty and crown, the beginning of the ceremony", thus become.

Fu Quan held the ear cup and smiled bitterly and toasted around, originally drinking wine and eating meat is a great pleasure in a man's life, but today makes Fu Quan unhappy. There are too many relatives and friends who came to his Hou Mansion to watch the ceremony, even if Fuquan controls the amount of alcohol and drinks slowly one by one, but he can't stand the crowd, and he doesn't even have time to eat a few cups of food, he will be bombarded by the main force of other guests next to him, and soon he drank almost half a stone, but he didn't have time to eat a few mouthfuls of food, and pressed the churning wine in his stomach.

Fortunately, Fu Quan's eldest father, the general of the chariot cavalry, Song Yu, saw Fu Quan's face, and naturally knew why he was like this, and he also understood in his heart those who kept toasting. Although it is very interesting to watch this grandson who has made military exploits eat deflated, but Song Yu didn't dare to really let him suffer too much, who knows if there will be chaos because of this, after all, the rumored northern expedition in Luoyang City, if the foreign relatives' forces are less Fuquan, it will be a big loss.

Therefore, Song Yu directly left Fu Quan by his side, only had a few drinks with him, and then talked about everything with Fu Quan, let him eat food by his side, and did not drive him away, Fu Quan saw Song Yu like this, how could he not know what he meant, so he simply stayed by Song Yu's side and relied on it, anyway, no one dared to come and pull him.

After all, Song Yu is a general of the Che Cavalry, the biological father of the queen of the dynasty, and he is powerful and powerful, unless those who come to persuade him to drink want to offend Song Yu, unless Fu Quan leaves by himself, they can only stare dryly but dare not really persuade Fu Quan to drink together.

Staggered, full of wine and food, a crown ceremony also came to an end, from then on he will wear the crown to adulthood, no longer young, at the same time, a horse from the Liangzhou border to come, fast horse into Beijing, the war report in the palace.

"Enter the virtuous crown, the ancient cloth crown, and the clothes of the Confucian." Excerpt from "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty: The Chronicles of Yufu"