Chinese New Year Pilgrimage

Amnesty to the world shows the prestige of the king

There are two kinds of etiquette systems for meeting the emperor in this dynasty: the Chang Dynasty and the Great Dynasty, and the Chang Dynasty is the court ceremony where the emperor usually summons ministers to deal with the government affairs. The regular dynasty of this dynasty has four ginseng, six ginseng, four ginseng refers to the four times in January, six times in January, the court is generally the senior officials above the director of the ministry, and the middle and low officials rarely see the emperor. The civil and military officials who meet the emperor belong to the Great Dynasty and are called the Great Dynasty Meeting. In the Song Dynasty, there were two to three times a year, which were New Year's Day, the emperor's birthday and the winter solstice.

As early as two months ago, the three divisions of the government and the palace in the capital sent thousands of people to prepare for the New Year's Day court.

New Year's Day refers to the first day of the first lunar month, the Spring Festival known as the folk.

At the time of Riyu, the civil and military officials above the seventh grade in the capital, the officials of various prefectures and prefectures, all wore black gauze hats, and arranged outside the Daqing Hall in court clothes and grades.

The emperor sat on the jade chariot to drive, according to the law driving regulations, at this time for the largest ceremonial staff, the leading forbidden army soldiers are all holding yellow staffs, as many as 3,350 people, outside the Daqing Palace, the musicians are on the hall and singing, in turn to play Yale, the palace drive.

Under the leadership of the ceremonial officer, the prince, the prince, and the chief deacon walked into the Zichen Hall in turn. In the middle, there is a dragon chair and a royal table, and the emperor Zhao Kuan wears a crown of heaven, wears a silk robe, a jade belt, and black leather boots, and sits on the dragon chair. Once entered, arrange them in order. Xu Guogong Zhao Luan delivered a speech, the Privy Council envoy Wu Bogang replied, and the ministers knelt down and saluted, shouting long live the emperor. Then, they took turns to toast the emperor.

Then, the envoys of the Jin Kingdom, Goryeo, Hui, Western Xia, Dashi and other countries entered the palace to congratulate. The envoys of various countries are performing their own etiquette, and the deputy envoys need to kneel and bow according to the regulations of the Song Dynasty, and offer the gifts they bring, and the emperor will give them back the gifts.

After the salute, the emperor gave the imperial wine rose dew and drank the wine together.

At this time, the bell of Sanmaotang in Qixia Mountain rang, and it was noon. The emperor drove, Huang Lu took the lead of the Lu Bo team, the prince, the prince, the prince, the chief executive, etc., the queen mother, the queen and the concubines in turn, plus the palace maids, there were tens of thousands of people, the drums sounded in unison, mighty and mighty, winding for dozens of miles.

Emperor Zhao Kuo first went to the dragon pier and the holy hall of Funing Hall to offer incense, and then went to the ancestral god of Tianzhang Pavilion to pay tribute to the first emperor, and then to the Donghua Gate.

The large-scale, majestic and solemn Daqing Hall is lit up with colorful lanterns and embroidered tassels. The emperor received and visited hundreds of officials here, and accepted kneeling and courting.

Under the unified command of Han Yanxuan, the civil and military officials bowed three times and bowed nine times to the emperor, and shouted in unison: "The emperor is auspicious, long live, long live, long live, long live." ”

The emperor said: "Xinqing, the same as Qing." "Hundreds of officials are flat.

At this time, the emperor was full of energy, smiling, and the hundred officials were also rejoicing, and the Funing Hall knew Guan Li and shouted loudly: According to the emperor's holy decree, give the hundred officials hairpin flowers, and reward 300 yuan.

Over there, the chamberlain will give the flowers to the officials according to the grade, and the chief executive will wear Luo flowers above the top of the secretary, and the secretary and above will give Luan branches, and the school will be below the middle and the rest of the staff to appreciate the silk flowers, and the flowers will be full of flowers for a while, and the inside and outside of the hall will suddenly become a sea of flowers.

Emperor Zhao Kuo returned to the Funing Hall with the guard of honor, and the queen, the prince, the princess, the concubine, the county lady and other court women, and the inner servants of the major halls all gathered here to salute and drive in turn.

He Bi, the emperor drove out of the palace, marched on the royal street, to the area of the imperial history platform and the cabinet door division, at this time all the officials lined up on both sides, played ceremonial music, and the Privy Council made a unified command, and then bowed to the emperor sixteen times, and set off a salute.

On both sides of the royal street, tens of millions of Li people rejoiced and saw the demeanor of the Son of Heaven.

After the ceremony, Xiu Neisi arranged a royal banquet in the Qingyan Palace, and in the evening, he arranged a banquet in the Qingrui Hall to give a banquet to the ministers to celebrate the Spring Festival. After dark, the palace is the first to set off fireworks, watch the lights, and enjoy with the people.

On the second day of the first lunar month, the emperor pardoned criminals.

At three o'clock in the afternoon of this day, the emperor drove from the Wende Palace, and Huang Lu fought 1,600 people, marched to the front of the palace at the main gate of Li, and the Dasheng Yuefu band played music and guided, and joined the army and said: The wind and the sun are beautiful, and the river is clear and the sea feast. Miscellaneous response: The emperor's grace is vast, and he loves all the people.

The royal hooves are put down, the cabinet door envoy handed over the "Zhongyan Foreign Office" brand, the imperial medicine official sang: roller blinds, the emperor walked out of the royal hooves, went up to the imperial tower, sat by the railing, downstairs firecrackers rang out in unison, played the palace driving song, the jade curtain on the royal tower slowly rolled up, the royal fan opened, the music stopped, the guards rang the bell on the right, and the bell only rang five times.

The yellow umbrella above the emperor's head slowly opened, and he got up and looked downstairs. Downstairs, officials below the right minister knelt and bowed, and stood in shifts. Upstairs, the left minister issued an order: There is an edict, and the golden rooster is established. Downstairs, the waiter of the criminal department agreed: Feng Yi, set up a golden rooster.

So, a very long bamboo pole was erected in front of the building, and there was a golden rooster on it. Upstairs, there is a teaching workshop play pretending to be a crane boy, holding the edict along the bamboo pole to descend, the pavilion door envoy took the edict and placed it on the case, the official of Taichang Temple beat the drum three times, holding the edict to the center in front of the building. The cabinet envoy said: It should be handed over to the three provinces. At this time, the governor stepped forward, knelt down to accept the edict, and went out to play: The edict has arrived, please ask if it can be executed. Upstairs, the left minister replied: The book can be carried out. The governor also said: The government hall has been discussed, and it can be handed over to Shangshu Province for implementation.

At this time, the pavilion door opened the edict and granted the pardon to the people, and the people who forgave the people held the edict again, and shouted: His Majesty the Emperor is magnificent, thinking of the people in the world, and the whole country celebrates the day, and issues a pardon system. After speaking, he handed it to the living house on the throne. I saw the housekeeper open the edict and read it slowly and loudly. After reading, the officials below the right minister downstairs knelt down again and shouted in unison: Obey the holy decree.

Behind these officials, kneeling was a row of criminals wearing torture instruments. After reading the edict, the housekeeper looked up at the prisoner and asked in a loud voice: Have the prisoners been pardoned? The prisoners were all unchained, and they replied with one voice: pardon. Then he knelt down, and the mountain cried out long live.

The so-called amnesty for the world is just a saying. Most of the pardons are mainly commutations, supplemented by exemptions, and the top 10 serious crimes are not listed. Naturally, it does not include punishments such as the reduction of registration and management.

The living house person handed over the edict to the right minister, and the right minister handed it to the criminal department secretary, and the criminal department secretary handed it over to the torture room to record the matter. All the personnel kowtowed together, and the cabinet envoy replied to the cloud: The Spring Festival, all the people celebrate together, the Great Song Dynasty, and the longevity is boundless.

Then, playing music and dancing, lowering the curtains, hitting the left bell five times, the emperor drove back to the palace.

The prisoners were stripped of their prison uniforms and released to return home.

The rest of the people played happily and snatched the golden rooster on the bamboo pole.

After the two major events, all officials took a vacation, from the first day of the new year to the seventh day of the new year, and a few days later was the Lantern Festival, in order to make the people happy and make the Lantern Festival, continue to have a seven-day holiday.