(5) "Gong Zheng/外饔" (yōng)

The palace is in charge of the prohibitions in the royal palace and is used to picket those who violate the prohibitions. During the day, he checked the number of officials in the palace on time, and recorded them on woodblocks for future assessments. At dusk, he tapped on the wooden pole to check on the officers on duty. In the event of an accident in the kingdom, he will order the personnel who are in charge of the guards, and it will also check the guards as usual. The palace needs to distinguish between people outside the palace and inside the palace, and forbid them not to enter and leave the palace at the specified time.

Gong Zheng inspected the meritorious deeds of the palace officials, picketed their virtues, checked their entry and exit, and reasonably distributed food to them. Gong Zheng will abandon those indulgent and slack officials, as well as those strange and evil people in the families of officials. According to the Shiwu system, the children of the palace officials were combined, and they were taught to shoot the number of imperial books in etiquette. At the end of the month, the remuneration of the palace officials is totaled, and at the end of the year, the tenure of the palace officials is summarized.

Whenever there was a major event in the kingdom, he would order the people of the king's palace, large and small, not to leave their posts without permission, but to obey orders. In the spring and autumn seasons, the palace will shake the wooden priest to warn the palace to strictly abide by the ban on the use of fire. Whenever there is a sacrifice in the kingdom, when the servants in charge of the temple and other things are forbidden to pass through the palace and temple, the palace will take torches to illuminate the king. In the event of the king's funeral, the palace is responsible for arranging the funeral house for the king's relatives, and it is necessary to separate the relatives and nobles to arrange the funeral place.

The palace uncle is responsible for the management of the scholars and concubines in the palace, and all those listed in the name book need to be responsible for the management. The palace uncle was in charge of the decrees concerning them, arranged the order of their guards, and organized them to serve as the prince's servants. At the same time, when Gong Bo was responsible for assigning their guards, he also had to allocate resting places for these guards. If something big happens in the kingdom and it is necessary to mobilize all the people in the palace, the palace secretary is responsible for summoning the scholars and concubines. At the end of the month, the palace uncle will adjust the order of the guards of the scholars and concubines; At the end of the year, the order of the taxi and the concubine will be adjusted in turn. The palace lord would issue them summer clothes and winter clothes on time, and was in charge of the rewards and punishments that were given to them.

The cooks were in charge of the king's food, drink, meat, and delicacies, and provided for the king, queen, and prince. All the food and drink given to the king were made of six kinds of grain, six kinds of domestic animals for the meat, six kinds of clear drinks for the drink, 120 kinds of delicacies, eight kinds of delicacies, and 120 urns of sauce. When the king was eating, he would kill a domestic animal every day and display the meat in 12 tripods, and the meat in the tripods would be brought in with a twin. Throughout the process, music is needed to help the king eat.

Before the king eats, the cooks need to give the food as a sacrifice to the king and taste the food for the king before he can eat it. After eating, to the accompaniment of the music, withdraw the utensils to their original places. During the king's fasting, he had to kill animals for three meals a day as a fasting ceremony. Fasting is mainly used for serious and solemn occasions such as sacrifices and great rituals to express piety and solemnity.

There are such great funerals as the funeral of emperors, empresses, and princes, and they do not kill animals during great famines, they do not kill animals when there is a plague, they do not kill animals when there is a disaster in the heavens and the earth, and they do not kill animals when there is a major military operation in the kingdom. When the king had lunch and dinner, the chef had to offer meat to the king and help him with the pre-meal rituals. Whenever the king was performing a sacrifice or entertaining a guest with wine and food, after the ceremony was over, the diner would remove the utensils from which the king had placed the meat. The king drank alcohol for small things, and the chef needed to serve the king a dish to accompany the wine.

When the king and his servants were feasting, the chef was required to offer wine to his servants in the king's place. He was in charge of the supply of meat and delicacies to the queen and the prince. Whenever the king rewarded his servants with meat, it was in the hands of the cooks. Whoever offered meat to the king was accepted by the priest and used as the king's dish. The same is true of the servants who come to the king with gifts. At the end of the summer year, the cooks had to settle the bills, and only the meals provided to the king, queen, and prince did not need to be settled.

The Ku people are responsible for supplying six animals, six beasts, and six birds, and at the same time distinguishing their names and coat colors. The six animals are horses, cows, sheep, pigs, dogs, and chickens, the six beasts are elk, deer, bear, jūn, wild boar, and rabbit, and the six birds are geese, ducks, eagles (yàn), pheasants, 鳩 (jiū), and pigeons. Dead, alive, fresh and dried, and the flesh of animals, could be used as meat for the king, which was a sacrificial offering. In addition to being used as livestock, these animals and animal meat can also be offered to the king as a delicacy, as well as to the queen and the crown prince.

The Ku people are responsible for providing the four delicacies used in the sacrifice, the various delicacies used in the funeral, and the meat of animals and poultry used in entertaining guests. The man ordered the orcs to offer the beasts and birds, and the orcs gave him the number of animals to be sacrificed. The number of animals and birds that are offered by the orcs and to the guests is also to be carried out in accordance with the prescribed number. And when the flesh of beasts and poultry was offered to the king, in the spring it was cooked with lamb meat and pork, and with fragrant fat of bovine fat; Dried meat and fish in summer, cooked with fishy dog cream; In autumn, calf meat and small animal meat are cooked, and chicken paste fat with a fishy smell; Fresh fish and goose meat are used in winter, cooked with fragrant mutton cream. At the end of the summer calendar, the Ku people need to make a settlement, and only the animals and birds supplied to the king and queen are not settled.