Chapter 197: Trouble
A group of dead and resurrected courtiers wrote to oppose the emperor's will, saying that it was not in accordance with the law of etiquette for the two daughters to be the main wives, and it was an insult to the dignity of the royal family. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
But their little bit of caution Li Shimin knew clearly, so naturally he would not be convinced, and he would go back as soon as he said that marrying a daughter was a royal family matter. Li Shimin has made up his mind, and this time he will support Wu Yuanqing's son-in-law to the end.
The turmoil in the court Wu Yuanqing has no psychological meeting, what is the problem cheap daddy samurai will deal with it.
In addition to going to Sinong Temple to see what the potatoes were doing, Wu Yuanqing spent the rest of the time at home preparing to be the groom's official.
Marriage is very different from Wu Yuanqing's crossing in ancient times, like the meeting before he crossed, simply getting a marriage certificate is over, and the grand and lively thing is to invite relatives and friends to attend a wedding, eat and drink. advocates free love, many of them don't even have an introducer, let alone a matchmaker who is ordered by their parents.
Even if there is a matchmaker to introduce you, that is, to meet with each other first to see if you are willing to socialize. Then there is this meaning, then look everywhere, feel that it is okay, plan to get married, then the parents of both parties meet, the man's family brings gifts to the woman's house to discuss the marriage, in fact, most of them are to discuss the bride price, and then there is a house, whether there is a car, the geometry of the deposit, and a series of questions about money, all are appropriate, then start to plan for the wedding.
But this ancient time is completely different, every step has strict rituals, laws, and many rules, Wu Yuanqing, who has a lot of rules, has a big head, let alone has to follow it.
Wedding, in China, was originally a "dusk ceremony", as the name suggests, is a ceremony held in the evening, the ancients believed that dusk is an auspicious time, so they will marry a wife at dusk, hence the name. Because of the five elements of yin and yang, and the concept of Shintoism, women belong to yin, and dusk is "yang goes and yin comes", and everything in the wedding is in line with the meaning of welcoming yin into the home.
It is one of the rites of the Han people's life - crown wedding and funeral sacrifices, and it is one of the quintessence of traditional Han culture, and the wedding ceremony can even be traced back to the oracle bone inscription.
As early as the Zhou Dynasty, there was already a complete set of "six rites of marriage", three books, namely the letter of appointment, the letter of ceremony and the letter of welcome; The six rites refer to Nacai, asking for names, Najib, Nazheng, inviting dates, and greetings. Nacai is to propose, ask the name of the woman (the same surname is not married), Najib is suitable for divination and birthdate, Naji is to pay the bride price, the date of the invitation is to determine the date of the wedding, and the kiss is to welcome the bride. Together, the two are collectively known as the "Three Books and Six Rites."
Just as the "Book of Rites" made a standardized expression of the aristocratic wedding: "Those who mourn will combine the two surnames, go up to the temple, and follow the future generations, so the gentleman is important." ”。 Zhou Yi. Prologue Hexagram: "There are men and women, and then there are husbands and wives, and there are couples and then fathers and sons. "The so-called Shinto religion means that the time, clothing, and rituals should be like heaven and earth.
Whether it is ancient or modern, there is actually a legislative regulation on the age of marriage, but well, there are really not many people who abide by it, especially in ancient times.
In addition to age, in one is that the ancient marriage also has requirements for the surname, in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, men and women with the same surname did not marry each other, called the same surname not married, after the Han Dynasty, the surname is not divided, so the same surname is not married, but in the Tang Dynasty, the marriage with the same surname followed the ancient system, to be prohibited.
I don't know if it was the Li family's royal family who fought back against the rumor that the Li family had Hu blood.
Wu Yuanqing once maliciously thought, could it be that when Li Yuan first restored this system, what he thought in his heart was that you didn't say that Lao Tzu's family had Hu blood, but you can see how many people with the same surname are getting married, but Lao Tzu wants to restore Zhou etiquette and prohibit marriage with the same surname, who is the one with Hu blood?
The wedding is troublesome enough, Wu Yuanqing is still marrying two of them at once, and one of them is a princess.
According to the etiquette system, the princess marrying is also called "surrendering", "marrying" or "descending", and the one who marries the princess is not called marrying the princess, which is really good, because marriage is indeed for the princess.
The princess marriage is a little different from the marriage of ordinary people, first of all, the main marriage is different, the son of heaven marries a daughter, does not marry voluntarily, and the princes with the same surname are the lords, so they are called princesses. In the Tang Dynasty, the prince officiated the marriage.
Li Shimin's two older brothers were cut by him the year before last, and the rest were not very old, and they couldn't be the main marriage, so they could only retreat and use the county king Li Xiaogong to preside over the marriage.
After Li Shimin decreed that after the marriage, he should ask for a famous gift, and the martial artist should prepare a gift to express it to the family, and look at it again. The officiant Li Xiaogong also has to go to the east gate of the palace to go through a series of processes.
Najiyi and Nacai were carried out at the same time, and Li Xiaogong needed to say all kinds of speeches, such as "Add divination, occupy Congji, and I would like to make the minister dare to tell the sign." Or "Chao En Zhen Room in Yingguo Gong Wu Yuanqing, the son of the warrior Yan, has the gift of the ancestors, and the envoy is bound with silk and riding a horse." And so on, and when he was promised, he also said that he would like to say: "The samurai minister Li Xiaogong respectfully asks for an auspicious day." ”
Anyway, the process is a big string, and after completing the previous process, the question of where the princess lives.
According to the example, after the princess gets married, she can't live in her husband's house, but wants to build a new princess's mansion, Li Shimin is going to build a luxurious princess's mansion in Xiangcheng, but Xiangcheng, who has a degree of elegance, refuses: "If a woman's uncle and aunt are like parents, if they live in different places, they will save more money." ”
As the vernacular goes: daughters-in-law should treat their in-laws like their parents, serving by their side in the morning and evening, and if they don't live together, then the etiquette of morning and dusk will be missing.
These words are basically exactly the same as what Xiangcheng said when he married Xiao Rui, the son of Xiao Yu, in history.
In the end, Li Shimin couldn't help it, so he could only die of this heart, just let the martial arts rebuild and repair the mansion, and then the double halberds in the door line met the standards of the princess's mansion and were worthy of the identity of the princess.
When Wu Yuanqing learned that Xiangcheng said this, he couldn't wait to put on his wings and fly to her dormitory.
Of course, he wanted to do this, neither to be moved by Xiangcheng's words, nor to appreciate how strikingly similar history is.
What he wanted was to scold the ruined girls in Xiangcheng, and the property sent to the door was rejected like this, which was really a big mallet.
But no matter how distressed Wu Yuanqing was in his heart, he had to admit that Xiangcheng was indeed very beautiful, not only earned himself the title of a good daughter-in-law when he was not married, but also made him less trouble.
Otherwise, if Xiangcheng really lived in the princess's mansion as usual, then Wu Yuanqing would have to go to the princess's mansion to get married when he got married, so he wouldn't think that he could marry Wang Ziyu at the same time.