On April 10th of the 11th year of Zheng, today is Zhang Shihua's wedding day. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although Zhang Shihua has been a human being for two lifetimes, this is still Zhang Shihua's first wedding, so Zhang Shihua is also very concerned about this wedding.

Although the troubled times are coming, the more Zhang Shihua hopes that this wedding can be as perfect as possible, because Zhang Shihua understands that when the troubled times come, it is impossible for him to care for his wife wholeheartedly like an ordinary husband.

It is precisely because of this kind of guilt buried deep in his heart that Zhang Shihua wants to give Guo Weier a perfect wedding as much as possible.

The wedding etiquette in ancient China is very complicated, in fact, not to mention the ancient wedding, even if the husband and wife hold a wedding now, don't they have to prepare for a long time in advance.

This morning, Zhang Shihua got up early, and after washing, he put on the groom's clothes under the service of the second sister of the maid Wang, and then carefully combed his hair in front of the bronze mirror, and then trimmed the beard that came out of his chin, looking at his still handsome face in the bronze mirror, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but smile at the corner of his mouth.

I want to show my best state today, Zhang Shihua thought secretly in his heart. Then he opened his arms and turned around with a smile and said to Second Sister Wang behind him, "How is Second Sister, Young Master, am I okay today?" ”

has been with the little girl Second Sister Wang for more than a month, and the relationship between them has been opened up a lot.

Second Sister Wang looked at the tall, handsome, and strong young master, and looked at herself with those deep eyes with a smile, Second Sister Wang's face was slightly red for no reason, and she lowered her head and said to Zhang Shihua: "The eldest young master is very handsome today." According to Zhang Shihua's explanation, praising a man is the same as praising a girl's beauty, so Second Sister Wang remembered this word.

Zhang Shihua couldn't help but smile when he heard Second Sister Wang say this, and then he tidied up his clothes and strode out of the room with Second Sister Wang.

Because Zhang Shihua is the eldest son of the family, and this wedding is also related to the marriage with the Guo family, the Zhang family also attaches great importance to this wedding, and in order to show the power of the Zhang family in this **** world, so this time the Zhang family can be said to be a Guangfa invitation, as long as it is on the table in this county, almost all of them have received the invitation of the Zhang family.

Therefore, early in the morning, there were many guests with invitations in hand, and the bearers came to Zhang's house with more or less gifts.

And Zhang Shihua, as the groom's official, naturally has to work with his father Zhang Liewu to receive those guests who come to say hello in the front yard.

Those guests who were invited to come saw that the Zhang family held a wedding and invited all the people with status in the county, and they had to sigh that the Zhang and Guo families were worthy of being powerful families in the county, and now the two families are married in the county, who should not sell the two families and one face.

Didn't you see that even the county Yin and the prison county each sent people to say goodbye?

Seeing that the guests are almost here, and the time to welcome relatives is approaching, so Zhang Shihua strode out of the house surrounded by a group of relatives and friends, and when he heard the singer at the door "The auspicious time has arrived", Zhang Shihua turned over flexibly and stepped on the war horse with red silk that he rode on weekdays.

Seeing that the groom had already turned over and got on the horse, those who beat gongs and drums and played suona also immediately played joy, and then Zhang Shihua was surrounded by many relatives and friends, bands and sedan chair drivers to welcome relatives, and beat gongs and drums all the way to Guo's house.

Passers-by on both sides saw Zhang Shihua, the groom official wearing a groom's uniform and smiling on a tall horse, and couldn't help but sigh: "This young master of the Zhang family is a handsome and burly beautiful man!" ”

On the Guo family's side, Guo Weier has already put on a bright red and festive wedding dress, and finished dressing up, now Guo Weier is sitting in front of the bronze mirror, wearing a wedding dress and a phoenix crown, and because of last night's opening, it looks so beautiful, especially when she smiles, it gives people a feeling of purity like snow.

Guo's mother stood behind Guo Weier, looking at her baby daughter with a kind face, and when she saw Guo Weier looking in the mirror, she also smiled and leaned down to Guo Weier and said: "Look at my daughter, how beautiful, that kid from the Zhang family can marry my daughter, it is really a blessing for him to cultivate for eight lifetimes." ”

Guo Weier's face couldn't help but blush when she heard her mother's words.

coquettishly said to his mother: "Mother, the daughter you praised is embarrassed." ”

Seeing her daughter's shy demeanor, Guo's mother couldn't help but smile on her face.

In fact, for the Zhang family's family business, Guo's mother and Guo's father are also satisfied from the bottom of their hearts, but one thing is different from Guo's father, Guo's father is satisfied with this family business more because of the Zhang family's power in the county, and Guo's mother purely likes Zhang Shihua's son-in-law.

In Guo's mother's mind, Zhang Shihua's child not only has the ability, but the most important thing is that he and his daughter are also childhood sweethearts, so Guo's mother also thinks that marrying her daughter to Zhang Shihua can make her daughter happy.

This difference in thinking should also be the biggest difference between mothers and fathers, so a mother often pays more than a father in treating her children.

As a result, the children of the Guo family tend to be closer to their mothers.

Guo's mother glanced at the sundial in the courtyard, and estimated that the greeting team was about to arrive, so she couldn't help but say the words of advice to her daughter countless times, such as: "Don't move after marrying, you will lose your temper with the eldest lady, and you will be filial to your in-laws over there," and other words, and Guo Weier also listened to her mother's words seriously, and her face did not show any impatience.

After Guo's mother finished instructing her daughter, she turned to Guo Weier's dowry maid Xiaohong and instructed: "Xiaohong must take good care of Miss over there." ”

When Xiaohong heard Guo's mother's words, she also nodded at Guo's mother and said, "Lady (Note 1), don't worry, Xiaohong will definitely take good care of Miss no matter where she goes." ”

When Guo's mother heard Xiaohong's words, she also held Xiaohong's hand and said, "Okay, good, Xiaohong has your words, and I, a mother, will be much more relieved." Saying that, Guo's mother's eyes couldn't help but be a little red, and Guo Weier, who was next to Guo's mother, saw her mother like this, and she also got up with red eyes and held Guo's mother's hand, and shouted "Mother".

After hearing the suona sound of the welcoming team, Guo's mother wiped the tears in her eyes with a handkerchief, and said to Guo Weier with a smile: "Wei'er, my mother is fine, my mother is happy at this time." ”

Then Guo's mother turned to Xiaohong and said: Xiaohong's welcoming team is also here, go and get Miss's hijab.

When Xiaohong heard this, she agreed and turned around to take a red hijab for Guo Weier.

At this time, Zhang Shihua's greeting team also arrived outside the gate of Guo's house, because the route to greet relatives was specially selected, and they all walked on the streets where rich and noble families were concentrated, avoiding those streets where the poor were concentrated, so it took a lot of time along the way.

The greeting team came to Guo's house with gongs and drums all the way, and when the Guo family saw that the greeting team was coming, they also closed the door with a smile.

The tradition of blocking the door when welcoming relatives has been there as early as now, but unlike later generations, at this time, the groom official and the wedding team are not allowed to enter the bride's house. It is to make fun and urge the bride to get on the sedan chair.

After all the people who came to greet the relatives and the band in front of them all stood still, Zhang Shihua, the groom official, also turned over and dismounted, and those playmates who were familiar with Zhang Shihua also jokingly said to Zhang Shihua at this time: "Bochang, you move quickly, the bride is afraid that she will be in a hurry." ”

Zhang Shihua also smiled when he heard this, and then came to the edge of the sedan chair surrounded by the companions who came to greet him, and the sedan chair stopped in the middle of the door of Guo's house.

The door of the Guo family was not opened, it was locked and closed, and the laughter from the daughters of the Guo family could be faintly heard inside, and at this time, only Guo Weier's brother Guo Yu's voice was heard from inside: "Bochang, if you want to marry my baby sister, just shout out to me, the voice is quiet, we can't hear it, but we won't open the door for you." ”

When Zhang Shihua heard Guo Yu's words, he also smiled and gave Zhang Shihui next to him a look, Zhang Shihui understood, turned around and waved his hand behind him, and the music started again.

Then Zhang Shihua stepped forward and took the lead in shouting: "The bride's ,......。 Everyone shouted in unison: "Come out!" ”

You must know that the group of companions brought by Zhang Shihua are all young and strong guys, and when everyone shouts at this voice, the sound is simply earth-shattering, and they can be heard anywhere across several streets.

However, Guo Yu inside would not open them because they screamed, and after Zhang Shihua finished shouting, Guo Yu took the man of the Guo family and shouted back: "New son-in-law, new son-in-law, louder." ”

At this time, the people watching from the periphery of the street also laughed and coaxed: "The groom, be louder, otherwise you won't be able to marry a daughter-in-law." ”

So Zhang Shihua and they began to shout outside the door again, in short, just like some ethnic minorities confessed to their lovers, Zhang Shihua shouted the love words nakedly, and Guo Weier inside was so ashamed that Guo Weier's face was flushed, and the people who greeted the relatives shouted outside the door of Guo's house for a while, and the Guo family opened the door.

After the gate of Guo's house was opened, I saw dozens of Guo family members in new clothes, surrounded by a bride wearing a wedding dress, a phoenix crown, and a red hijab going out.

At this time, in addition to her eldest brother Guo Yu, Guo Weier was accompanied by two middle-aged couples, a man and a woman, who were Guo Weier's parents.

When Zhang Shihua saw his father-in-law and mother-in-law coming out, he naturally didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly stepped forward and made a junior salute to Guo Weier's parents: "Little son-in-law, I've seen my father-in-law and mother-in-law." ”

At this time, Zhang Shihua's father-in-law, Guo Tianming, also helped Zhang Shihua up with a smile on his face, and said to Zhang Shihua: "Bochang, my precious daughter will be handed over to you from now on, you have to take good care of her." ”

When Zhang Shihua heard this, he looked at Guo Wei'er next to him with gentle eyes, and then said: "Being able to marry Wei'er is a blessing that I Zhang Shihua has cultivated for a hundred years, and I will definitely take good care of her and will not let her suffer a little grievance or hardship." ”

Guo Weier, who was opposite Zhang Shihua, couldn't help but feel shy when she heard Zhang Shihua's affectionate confession, but in her heart, she wanted to eat honey, sweet.

When Guo Tianming next to him heard this, he couldn't help but feel relieved, and said to Zhang Shihua with a smile: "Okay, good, the old man really didn't see the wrong person." Then he turned to Guo Yu next to him and said: Now the time is almost up, big brother send your sister to her. ”

Guo Weier, who was standing next to her, heard this, and did not rush to get on the sedan chair, but turned to her parents with a crying voice and said: "Daddy, my daughter is getting married today, and I can't always serve my father and mother in the future, and my father and mother must take care of their health." ”

Hearing her daughter say this, Guo's mother couldn't help but have red circles in her eyes, perhaps because she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to control her emotions, Guo's mother just nodded with red circles under her eyes, and didn't say anything.

Then Guo Weier knelt down and kowtowed to the parents, saying goodbye to her parents, seeing her daughter like this, Guo Tianming couldn't help but feel that his eyes were a little red, I saw him help Guo Weier up from the ground with both hands, and looked at Guo Weier and said to Guo Weier in a kind voice: "Daughter, after you marry into your husband's family, you have to serve your in-laws well, as for me and your mother, you don't have to worry, our two families are not far away, as long as you are free, I will visit you with your mother." ”

Guo Weier, who was helped up by her parents, said goodbye to her parents, and said their separate words to her brother and sister-in-law, and then under the service of the maid Xiaohong, she covered her red hijab and moved to the sedan chair.

With the movement of the bride Guo Weier, the two subordinates with the felt also followed Guo Weier to the sedan chair, because at this time there is a custom, the bride goes out, from the hall, until the bridge, the feet can not be dusty, so two people with the felt to follow the bride. These two pieces of felt were passed back and forth, and the bride walked there, and the felt pieces were spread there.

And this custom existed as early as the Tang Dynasty, when it was called "passing felt". Bai Lotian once wrote in a poem: "Tsing Yi turns into a felt mattress, and the splendid is oblique." ”

And about this custom, there is also a folk saying, saying that letting a daughter get on a sedan chair like this will not take away the soil of the parents' family, that is, the ancestral wealth of the parents' family will not be taken out. The daughter who marries out, spills the water, and since she marries out, she is someone else's family.

Of course, there are also some places where bags are laid on the ground when they get married, which is called "heirloom bags", which means self-evidently, "passing on the lineage".

In short, after finally connecting the bride to the sedan chair, it is not possible to leave now. and a bonus and a bonus to the market. Otherwise, the greeting team will not start to lift the sedan car.

However, they will not directly stretch out their hands to ask for money for the wedding, they will also say two good words, and ask for a good fortune for the wedding party, just like now, there is a person in the wedding band who has read a book, and then shouted loudly: "The high bead curtain hangs the jade hook, and the fragrant car BMW goes to the door." There are many rewards in the flower dividend market, and the wealth and glory are more than 100 autumns. ”

As the groom's official, Zhang Shihua naturally smiled and sprinkled a lot of flowers out when he heard this. After a long time, the companions who greeted the relatives were satisfied with the bonuses they had gotten, and then the drum music sounded again and again, and the road turned back to Zhangjiafu.

This picked up the bride, but on the way back, there was still a custom. It still existed as early as the Tang Dynasty, called "barrier car". That is, scoundrels in the market, and even some princes blocked the road to beg for wine and money. However, later on, this custom gradually changed its taste, just like the haunted house.

In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, this custom was still popular, probably because it was too unruly, so that Song Taizu issued an edict specifically for this purpose to ban the second custom. But this kind of thing is legally forbidden, but in reality it is difficult to eradicate it, so that this kind of custom is still circulating, in fact, if you think about it, you can understand that in the new century in the future, many places in the Great Heavenly Empire will still be unsightly, and you can understand why this custom cannot be banned.

However, the Zhang family and the Guo family are both powerful families in the county, and there is no scoundrel in the county who wants to find death and stop Zhang Shihua's car. So this one, but there is no need to say more.

However, no one "blocked the car", but someone "blocked the door".

Since the custom of "blocking cars" was banned on the surface, there has been a "barricade". That is, when the greeting procession returns to the door of the man's house, the musician, the singer and others do not let the bride get off the sedan chair and enter the door, and they will still recite some ode poems like asking for bonuses, and still ask for some money.

Outside the gate of Zhang's house, there was a musician who had been selected to "block the door" a long time ago, walked quickly to the door, stretched out his arms, recited a hymn, and said: "Xian'e is ethereal, and she will return to the cave at hand." Today, the door is more happy, and the flower box is not save. ”

At this time, Zhang Shihui also stepped out and replied: "A gentleman has never cherished gold, and this intention is deeper." Relatives talk broadly, don't bother to introduce a long time. ”

These few sentences are the "Answer to the Door Poem" replied to the man's family, Zhang Shihui memorized it for a night yesterday, so he recited it very skillfully today. But it's rare that this kid didn't make a mistake when he recited.

After replying, no matter how good the money is spilled, watching the sky, it is an auspicious time, Zhang Shihua and Guo Weier, and gathered a group of relatives to welcome their companions, and under the gaze of many guests, they also entered the compound with joy.