Chapter 17 The Great Ceremony of Entering the Temple
"Chirp, chirp" two magpies happily flew in the palace of Dahua, and the call of the magpie made the whole palace full of joy. The two magpies flew and flew, and saw that in the palace full of buildings, there was a peach tree that exuded fragrance, flapping its red black wings and landing on the branches of the peach blossoms, and seeing these peach blossoms, the magpies screamed more and more cheerfully.
In the Zhengyang Palace, Concubine Zhen's maidservant Xuemei is dressing up Concubine Zhen.
Concubine Zhen faced the bronze mirror and carefully rubbed the red rouge on her white face with a puff. Xuemei used a brown mahogany comb to slowly comb Concubine Zhen's long hair like a black waterfall smoothly.
"Niangniang, listen, the magpies outside have come to give you good news." Xuemei said happily.
"Hehe, this time it's thanks to Zetian's child." Concubine Zhen also felt a little incredible at this time.
"Well, Your Highness has felt extraordinary since she was a slave since she was a child, and she has grown so big, and she rarely worries about you." Xuemei said with a smile as she combed her hair.
Concubine Zhen also smiled, but she didn't say anything more, everything was already on his face.
"Niangniang, what kind of hair are we going to wear today, you will go to the temple to hold an entrance ceremony later." Xuemei asked after combing Concubine Zhen's hair.
In the ancestral temple genealogy of the imperial family, only the queen and the four noble ladies can record their names in it, as for the noble concubines and other concubines, they do not have this honor, so the emperor will not easily choose the noble lady, after all, the influence is very great.
It has been two days since the last time the emperor finished talking about this matter in Zhengyang Palace, and the will of Concubine Zhen to be promoted to a noble lady was quickly issued from the emperor's Chengtian Palace, and then entered Fengming Palace. After waiting for the queen to see, the queen jade medal was added, and then the hundred officials were transmitted, and finally stored in the Zongzheng Temple, which belongs to the jurisdiction of the Zongzheng Temple, and the role of the Zongzheng Temple is to manage the affairs of the imperial family. After the approval is given, the officials of the Ministry of Rites will assist Zongzheng Temple to carry out the grand ceremony of entering the Zongzheng Temple, and then the entire canonization will be completed.
Because Li Yuanshang and Jing Zetian cooperated very smoothly last time, Li Yuanshang was very efficient in this ceremony, and everything was ready just two days after the holy decree was issued, and today is the day when Concubine Zhen entered the temple.
"Today, let's use a high mustache to look at the fairy bun." Concubine Zhen thought for a moment. The high mustache and fairy bun is a way of curling hair, which only the queen and the noble lady can dress like this, and it is a symbol of status and one of the formal hairstyles on important occasions.
Xuemei's slender hands kept changing, and Concubine Zhen's freshly combed hair was rapidly changing shape at the moment. The bun was held high, and a golden hairpin made of gold was inserted inside, and one end of the hairpin was in the shape of a golden peacock. Xuemei inserted two white jade hairpins into the bun, and there were a few pearls at one end of the jade hairpin, and the originally monotonous bun was decorated at the moment, which looked very noble.
"Niangniang, how is it, my craftsmanship is getting better and better." Xuemei said confidently.
"That is, Xuemei's craftsmanship is the best." Concubine Zhen also said with a smile. Then he picked up the lip grease and dyed his lips red. (Ancient lip balm is actually rouge, environmentally friendly and non-toxic)
Xuemei happily looked back and forth at Concubine Zhen in the mirror and in front of her, and praised: "Niangniang, don't look at you in your twenties, and you are not inferior to those little girls at all." ”
At this moment, Concubine Zhen, who was wearing a pink silk profane dress, although she did not have gorgeous clothes to set off, she looked extremely noble, elegant and beautiful.
"Hey, women will pass away sooner or later, and thanks to the health method called yoga that the emperor taught me all these years, I can maintain it well." Concubine Zhen couldn't stop feeling relieved when she talked about her child.
Yoga was also learned by Jing Zetian in the yoga teaching video shared by Duan You in the paragraph, and the video he saw in his mind was basically directly engraved in his mind, so he took it out and handed it to his mother, and he would practice it himself if he had nothing to do, but it was just to stretch his muscles and bones and exercise his body flexibility.
"Niangniang, let's get dressed, I'm wearing a lot more clothes today than usual, fortunately, the weather is not too hot now, and in summer, it's really uncomfortable." Xuemei kept talking to Concubine Zhen with her mouth, which showed that he was still in a state of excitement at the moment.
"Well, let's change your clothes then." Concubine Zhen said calmly, although Xuemei is a few years older than him, she is not as calm as Concubine Zhen, after all, the identity is different, and the realm is different.
Under the leadership of Xuemei, several palace maids didn't take long for Concubine Zhen's costumes to be dressed neatly.
Concubine Zhen wore a long red silk dress embroidered with a few blooming red peonies. The skirt is light and dragging. Covered with a red silk light gauze thin coat, the sleeves are outlined with auspicious golden moire. The creamy skin on the chest looms. The red-light belt lightly tied Yingying's waist, showing more and more dignified beauty. The head plate looks at the fairy bun, the gold tassel hangs down the shoulder, and a golden peacock hairpin outlines the sense of luxury. Big red eyeshadow with a little gold dust at the corners of the eyes, sparkling through the sunlight outside the window. The red lips are lightly touched, and the blush on the face is also applied just right, showing the noble temperament vividly.
"Wow, mother, after you dress up, the slaves and maids can't bear to look at them directly." Xuemei said exaggeratedly.
"You girl, you have even learned to speak with Zetian." Concubine Zhen quipped.
"Hehe, don't say it, Your Highness doesn't know what to think of these words, sometimes it is very suitable to express your feelings." Xuemei said with a smile.
"You girl, you're not too young, I've already let her marry and get rid of slavery in Chunhua, and you still don't want to live or die when it comes to you." Concubine Zhen looked at Xuemei, who had accompanied her since she was a child, and couldn't bear to say, although Xuemei's slavery had already been removed, this girl still had to serve herself.
In this era, there was still a slave society, and generally qualified families would buy slaves to serve themselves. The women of ordinary official families and wealthy businessmen have personal maids since childhood, and these maids are generally married in the past, and if the people of the husband's family are accepted as concubines, then they can be regarded as having a home. But like Concubine Zhen's personal maid, the master is married to the emperor, and the emperor is not short of women, so he will generally remove the slave status and arrange marriage, which is also a beautiful thing, of course, there are also individual ones, and they will not let go until they are old.
"The slave and the maid are very satisfied with the mother." Xuemei said softly, having a good master is the most important thing, Xuemei thought to herself.
"Whatever you want, by the way, where is His Highness going today, he is also going to today's gift, hurry up and find him to come back and dress up, in case you don't do well and be punished by the emperor." Concubine Zhen asked uneasily.
"Oh, Your Highness knows about this, Qiu Xiang has already passed the word for His Highness before, please rest assured, I won't miss a big event, besides, although Our Highness is young, he still does things in a measured manner." Xuemei is still very relieved about Jing Zetian.
"Well, then I'm relieved." Concubine Zhen was also relieved when she heard this, although she knew that her son was stable, but as a mother, she would always be worried.