Section 363 Feeding Rites for Lesser Prisons

The housewife's figurines contain: the right foot of the back, and the others are the same as those of the mourner. The food aid contains 1 piece of flesh skin on the hind feet, spine, ribs, neck, and 1 piece of the whole lung. The guest's figurine contains: the left hind limb, which helps to eat. Among the elder brothers and the priests of the clan are the hind feet, and the others are the same as those that help to eat. If there were any of the deceased's friends or retainers among the guests, brothers, sisters, and women of the same clan, there was one piece of flesh with bone, one piece of flesh from the neck, and one piece of whole lung on the cake.

The deceased's wingmen stood on the west side of the door, facing north, with the east as the first priority, and belonged to the ranks of the many guests. The private retainer of the deceased stood on the east side of the gate, facing north, with the west as the first place, and belonged to the ranks of many brothers. The wingman climbed the steps to take the wine lord and walked down the steps to drink.

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(16) Feeding Ceremony for Young Prisons

"Shao Prison Feeding Ceremony" describes the etiquette of the princes' doctors to worship their deceased father in the temple. The ceremonial use of the Shao prison (ox, pig) for the Qing Dafu is relative to the "big prison" (cattle, sheep, pigs) for the ceremonies of the princes of the Son of Heaven. In fact, at the same time, it is also relative to the sacrifice of the priest with "special animals" (pigs). This is the embodiment of the concept of dignity and humility in the ritual, and the feeding ceremony of the young prison is also an auspicious ceremony in the five rituals.

For example, use the Ding day of the second month of the first month to divinate the Ding day of the first month of the month, and use the Ding day divination, and the number of divination days is a total of 11 days. Divination outside the temple gate. During divination, the master wears court clothes, faces west, and stands on the east side of the door. The person in charge of divination in the house also wears court clothes, holding yarrow in his left hand and uncovering the dú lid with his right hand, and then holding the yarrow and dú cover with his left hand, facing east, to receive the master's orders. The master said: Filial piety, come to Dinghai, use the gift of the young prison to sacrifice the great-grandfather uncle, and use a certain concubine to match a certain family; Please enjoy the sacrifice.

Shi replied: No! Then he stood facing west on the west side of the door, drew out the bottom of the yarrow, held the yarrow in his left hand, and struck the yarrow with both the lid and the bottom of the yarrow in his right hand, and then stated the command of the master, saying: Ask the good and evil under the pretense of the spirit of the Taizhen; Filial piety grandson, come to Dinghai in Japan, sacrifice great-grandfather with the gift of a young prison, and use a certain concubine with a certain family; Please enjoy the sacrifice. Then the lid and the bottom of the sage are placed on the ground, and the divination is stood. At this time, Shi's assistant hexagram sat on the left side, drawing each line on the ground with wooden strips. When the divination is completed, write the hexagram on a wooden board and show it to the master, and then return to the east position for divination.

If the result of the divination is auspicious, Shi will hide the yarrow in the yun, and at the same time take the yunji and the hexagram to tell the master: The result of the divination is auspicious. So the master told the deacons to prepare the sacrifices, and the sect ordered his subordinates to clean the sacrificial vessels, and the mound ordered his subordinates to prepare the sacrificial wine, and then retreated. If the result of the divination is unlucky, it must be divined on the next Ding day, and the etiquette of the divination is the same as the previous one.

Two days before the sacrifice, the corpse was informed to arrive on time at the beginning of the service. On the morning of the 3 days before the sacrifice, the divination is used to replace the deceased to accept the sacrificial corpse, the etiquette of divination is the same as the etiquette of the Zheng day, and the words of the wisher are: filial piety, coming to the day of Dinghai, with the gift of the young prison to sacrifice the great-grandfather uncle, with a certain concubine with a certain clan, with someone's son for the corpse; Please enjoy the sacrifice. The etiquette of divination, hexagram, and divination is the same as that of the day of divination.

If the result of the divination is auspicious, you can notify the corpse to attend on time. The celebrant is used as a greeting to receive guests and praise the host, and the host bows twice to the celebrant and prostrates. The wisher conveyed the meaning of the master and the corpse and said: filial piety, come to Dinghai, use the gift of the young prison to sacrifice the great-grandfather uncle, use a certain concubine with a certain family, dare to ask your Excellency to participate on time! The corpse bowed back and promised: No. He prayed twice more and prostrated his head. The master retreats; The corpse is given away, but not worshipped. If the result of divination is unlucky, immediately divination again and choose another person as the corpse.

After telling the corpse and inviting the corpse, the owner and others returned to the temple gate and agreed on the time of the sacrifice.

The master is on the east side of the door, standing facing south. Wearing court clothes and facing north, the sect asked the master to say, "Please decide the time of the sacrifice." The host said: It's up to you. The Zongren said: Tomorrow the day will be tomorrow and the sacrifice will be carried out. The master said, "Yes." So they all withdrew.

At dawn the next day, the master wore court clothes and took his position on the east side outside the temple gate, facing south. Tsukasa and Zong face west, taking the north as the first place. The sacrificial head of the sacrifice faces north, and the east is the first place. Sima kills sheep, and Sishi kills pigs.

The ancestor edicted that the sacrifice had been prepared and that the master had retreated. The Yongren, who was in charge of the cutting and cooking, cleaned the animals, and set the dagger and the figurine next to the stove for cooking fish and meat, and the stove for cooking fish and meat was in the southeast of the temple gate, taking the north as the first place. The people in charge of the rice barn wash the 甑 (zèng) and 甗 (yǎn) for cooking rice and the dagger for rice and the tun for serving rice by the stove of cooking millet and millet at the north of the stove where fish and meat are cooked.

The priest who supervised the sacrificial vessels washed the beans, the spoons, the wines, When the washing is done, put the beans, the grate, and the grate on the west side of the room; Then set the washer to the southeast of the east step and align it with the east wing.

The soup is made, and the Yongren who is in charge of cutting and cooking furnishes 5 tripods of sheep, pigs, fish, wax and skin, of which 3 tripods are displayed in the west of the pot where the sheep is cooked, and two tripods are displayed in the west of the pot where the pig is cooked. Sima lifted the right half of the sheep out of the pot, put it in the ding, removed the condylum, and put the anterior tibia, the back tibia, the anterior spine, the anterior spine, the middle spine, the back spine, the back rib, the middle rib, and the front rib 1, all 2 bones and put them into the ding; Then put 3 intestines, 3 stomachs, 1 whole lung, and 3 incised lungs into the tripod.