Chapter 45: The Autumn Moon Sacrifice
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There is a king in the world, divide the land to build a country, set up a capital and set up a temple, an altar (mountain sound) and sacrifice it.
As a member of the princes, on the day of the Autumn Moon Festival, the retainers of the Qing clan also attached great importance to sacrifices.
This is not only a tribute to the shrine and ancestors, but also a glory that only nobles and retainers have the qualifications to sacrifice, of course, all these lords are exceptional.
"Sacrifices are not to be counted, the number is annoying, and the annoyance is disrespectful. The sacrifice is not sparse, the slack is lazy, and the slack is forgetful. Therefore, the gentleman is in harmony with the heavens, and the spring and autumn are tasted. When the frost and dew fall, the gentleman will have a sad heart, and it is not ······ to say that it is cold."
The black-faced boy Lian Po stood solemnly, and Lang Lang recited an animal skin sacrifice that was unknown how many years old.
Looking at the dilapidation of this leather scroll, I'm afraid the text on it has never been replaced with a new one for more than ten years, right? Aren't you afraid of offending your ancestral gods? The lord secretly slandered in his heart.
Although Qiu Niang is the person with the highest status in the fiefdom except for Qingyang, but the woman is not allowed to preside over the ritual of sacrifice, so she can only be replaced by Lian Po, the preparatory housekeeper, fortunately, the black-faced young man is literate and does not need to be a lord with multiple positions, and he really doesn't look like a cultural person with that stout body.
The sacrifice is not over at one time, the three rituals of the princes, the left society, the right temple, and the back Taoyao, the lord who muttered in his heart that he wasted time thought of the five rituals of the doctor and the seven rituals of the princes, and his mood immediately improved a lot, and he heard that the Son of Heaven was going to sacrifice nine times and didn't know how to get through.
The sacrifices used in the Qing sacrifice are very simple, the Son of Heaven sacrifices with the Taigao, the princes use the Shaojiao, the Dafu Zongmiao sacrifices, and the Shijue sacrifices are not more than five kinds of sacrifices: millet, leeks, fish, dolphins, and chickens.
Millet is millet and millet, the origin of which is no longer known, and it is a grain crop with the longest planting history and the largest planting area among the crops.
It has always been used as a symbol of a good grain harvest, and it is necessary to use the high-quality corn that is newly harvested that year, which also shows filial piety to the ancestors.
Leeks are leeks, representing the harvest of vegetables at home, and there is a long-term meaning of the family, this is very simple, only need to cut two taels of fresh leeks in the vegetable garden to wash and dry it is enough, but it needs to be in good condition.
The fish is fresh from the river, which represents the harvest of aquatic products this year, and it is necessary to use more than five catties of red-tailed carp without any defects. In addition, carp has another meaning in it: carp, salute, filial piety! Fish, more than enough!
Dolphin is a pig, representing the prosperity of six animals, generally with less than 30 catties of piglets castrated, of course, if it is a sheep used by the doctor's sacrifice, it must be a small ram for more than half a year and less than a year, and the cow must be an adult horned bull, which is different according to the status.
The chicken is a representative of birds, and it has the meaning of "auspicious" in it.
Whether it is the Son of Heaven, the princes, or the doctors or the commoners, most of the sacrifices will use chickens as sacrifices, of course, hens can never be used as sacrifices, it is best to use more than seven pounds of red roosters, raised for more than a year.
These five kinds of sacrifices represent almost all categories of agricultural production in the Xing State and even the Dashen Dynasty.
Of course, there are also some wealthy commoners who do not understand the etiquette of the Qin system, and they often put some fruits, dried fruits, and vegetables that are not within the scope of the ritual sacrifice on a few plates, but all the nobles who follow the etiquette will laugh at this kind of dirt buns that do not understand the etiquette system.
Although the Qing family has only been precipitated for more than ten years, there is Qiu Niang, who is extremely proficient in etiquette, and almost everything is in line with the etiquette system.
It's a pity that this is a great honor for others, but it is simply a torture for Qingyang.
Qiu Niang stood solemnly outside the home and society, and constantly spoke out to guide the specific steps of etiquette.
Lian Po and Qingyang were like marionettes, their faces were blank, and their movements were stiff according to Qiu Niang's guidance, and they must correctly carry out every step of the sacrificial process, while Zhong Rui, Pu Zhi and more than a dozen teenagers watched from the periphery with envy.
Originally, the retainers belonged to a member of the family, and they should also be qualified to enter the family society and the family temple to worship, but Qingyang did not have a formal crown after all, and he had not fully taken over all the power of the head of the family, so he had to wait for the head of the family Zhong Bo to hold a special ceremony after he returned.
The ceremony often invited other nobles who were close friends with the family to watch the ceremony, and at that time these young men were officially considered to have become retainers of the Qing family, and now they could only watch Lian Po sacrifice with the lord outside the family community, and even Zhong Rui was carried out to watch the ceremony.
Qingyang: "······" Envy a fart!
The lord looked at the excited expressions of the teenagers and felt extremely depressed, they were all feudal superstitions!
Although I am unhappy, I am still extra respectful when I worship the family temple, after all, I am the mother of my body, and there are some grateful thoughts, your son is cowardly and dull and has disappeared without a trace, don't blame me.
I have to sigh that the rise of the Qing clan as a new aristocrat is getting shallow day by day, and it is normal to be despised as a nouveau riche, and a huge family temple is actually empty.
In addition to a three-foot tablet engraved with Qingluan's name, there are also various complicated copywriting, which are placed on the central offering table, and there is no other tablet.
Didn't you say that the Shijue was posthumously crowned for three generations? Who is the daddy of this body? At least my mother's grandparents should have a name, right?
Who doesn't have any status?
Only slaves and wild people who do not have the identity of a countryman will not have any name and identity, so it seems that his mother will not be the noble daughter of a large wild settlement, Qingyang secretly speculated in his heart.
"Bai Hua is sloppy, and white grass is tied. The son is far away, and I am alone. Yingying Baiyun, Lu Pi Kanmao. The day is difficult, and the son is not ······"
Lian Po started reading again, this time the sacrificial text was written by Qiu Niang this year, so it's no wonder that Lian Po was also taught to read, at least every sentence Qingyang didn't understand what it meant.
Qingluan, the mother of her own body, doesn't know what kind of magical woman she can actually rely on a woman's achievements and be awarded the title of sergeant.
These days, Qingyang has heard a lot of rumors about his mother.
It is said that her mother was of great help to the monarch Xing Hou at the beginning, and she could even be directly awarded the title of doctor with her merits, but surprisingly she took the initiative to resign, and finally reluctantly accepted the sergeant title.
Such a strange woman, it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a heavenly martial arts and a miracle, such a powerful contracting beast as the dragon bird, even if she has been missing for eight years and the contract has expired, she still firmly guards this land, everything makes Qingyang admire.
During this time, he somewhat figured out some of the situation, the dragon bird was the first contracted beast to follow his mother, and he was taken in by his mother since he was a child, and Zhong Bo seemed to be a very early follower.
Even Qiu Niang's mother only followed ten years ago, and she didn't know much about the others, so it seemed that she could only wait for Uncle Zhong to come back and ask carefully.
Respectfully bow and bow, three kneels and nine bows are required, worship the five bloody offerings, and then put on sandalwood after completing all the rituals, and the green smoke is particularly solemn.
The teenagers outside the family temple looked at this tablet with a solemn face, it was the tablet of the old master mother they had heard about since childhood, they were not qualified to enter the family temple to worship this year, but they believed that they would be able to worship it at this time next year.
Under the gaze of everyone, Qingyang respectfully inserted the finger-thick, more than two feet long three-stick sandalwood into the incense burner, looking at the mother's tablet made of unknown wood in front of him, he felt a lot of emotion, let me carry forward the Qing's family.
After the ceremony, he was just about to turn around and leave, but Qingyang suddenly found that the complex copywriting on the tablet in front of him slightly revealed a trace of light, and then he felt a burning heat coming from his chest.
Hurriedly took off his clothes and took out the hot object, and it was actually the pigeon-egg-sized, round ball that seemed to be jade, which had been worn on his body since the beginning, didn't he say that this was a talisman for repelling insects.
Qingyang looked carefully, the round jade carving was also engraved with complex unknown patterns, and a faint mist of light emanated from the tablet pattern, and strands converged on this spherical round carving.
"What is this?"
Qingyang couldn't help but look up at Lian Po, who was closest to him, but found that he had asked the wrong person, because the black-faced young man had opened his mouth in surprise.
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