Chapter 157: The Wedding (2)
"No, because she married a concubine, not a serious 800 wife, she deliberately let her wear a green dress." Seeing Yang Erde's wedding dress, Li Chen muttered to himself.
Everyone knows that in ancient times, a man could marry many people, but there was only one wife. Three wives and four concubines, not everyone can have it. The three wives are one wife and two equal wives, and the two equal wives are treated the same as the main wives.
And this concubine, of course, is completely different from the main wife. There are many processes to go through to marry a wife, marrying a concubine? It's nice to have a sedan chair. More often, lead directly into the door, directly into the cave room, where will there be any ceremony.
Yang Er, of course, can't be a wife, not to mention that Shao Ze already has a wife, even if he doesn't, there is no reason to let a prostitute be a wife. There will be such a process today, because Yang Er promised to marry Shao Ze, but made a condition.
Shao Ze must follow the process of marrying a serious wife and go through the process. Shao Ze agreed after thinking for a while. He didn't care if it was in accordance with the law or not, he was happy. It's good to achieve the goal.
Yang Er was wearing a cyan wedding dress, and almost shattered Li Chen's glasses. But the groom Shao Ze was dressed very formally, covered with a red gauze single coat, and a white robe and black boots inside. It is very close to the groom's official dress in Li Chen's memory. So Li Chen will guess whether it was someone who deliberately gave Yang Erxiao shoes to wear.
It's no wonder that Li Chen misunderstood, because the previous wedding process has been simplified a lot. What Nacai, Najib, Najib, Nazheng, and Invitation have all been simplified. But this bride is really dressed in auspicious clothes, and no one really does anything to do it.
Nacai, first of all, find a matchmaker, and the man's parents find a matchmaker to go to the woman's house to propose. But neither of them had any parents, so they were ignored. Of course, you can find someone else who is virtuous instead, but... Who dares now?
Without Nacai, the name will be gone. Asking the name is to combine the eight characters, first of all, you have to tell the bride to get the name like the other party, and then take the eight characters of both parties to see if the two sides match, and whether the marriage will be happy. This custom is still practiced today. Before both men and women want to get married, they will find a fortune teller to calculate, and the two are incompatible.
Najib, please, of course all of this is gone. It is said that it is necessary to go through the formal procedure, and only the last procedure is. Najib is to formalize the two parties to get married, and then determine which day is more suitable for both parties. Now that you've been notified for ten days, do you expect to have this step?
However, Li Chen did not jump out and questioned this wedding, he didn't know much about what a wedding in the Tang Dynasty should be, in case he wore it like this, it was normal, not wrong at all, but it would attract people's eyes, and even worse, destroy his plan. So he quieted down and continued watching.
It's right not to jump out, although the previous process has passed sloppily, but to the process of Bliss, there are rules to be followed. Like why do you hold a wedding at dusk, marriage, a woman is faint, it's not that a woman is dizzy, it's the meaning of dusk. Weddings, in ancient times, were written in the evening.
And the wedding dress, the bride of the Tang Dynasty wore it like this, what a big red wedding dress, there was no problem. It's a cyan dress, even if the prime minister marries his daughter, it's like this, it's great to have a little more decoration.
After getting out of the car, Yang Er could see that she was wearing a cyan dress, a traditional Hanfu style, with delicate embroidery on the cuffs and neckline, as well as many places on her body. The big and small belts were one by one, the small one was around the waist, and the big one looked like a ribbon, and the arms were all encircled, and they hung down to the ground. One is wrapped around the front of the abdomen and hangs down above the knee to be called a knee covering.
On the head, the hair is worn in a complicated style, which makes people dazzled and messy. The most conspicuous thing is that a phoenix is about to fly with wings, of course, it can't be used casually, but weddings should basically be once in a woman's life, and the official is not so strict.
Li Chen can see these things from the side, because the front and both sides are tightly covered by fans, and he can't see what his face looks like, so he can see the clothes. And even if you go to the front, don't want to see the face, there is also a blue cloth towel on the face, which is covered.
To see, you can only see what the groom and officials have to wear, this set of clothes is called the Jianggong uniform, which is worn by commoners and low-level officials. Of course, Shao Ze can wear better public clothes, anyway, although Tang Ting did not admit that he made him a handsome position, but he also did not understand his original position.
This kind of official uniform is according to Zhou Lilai. In the official face, the Tang people are very strict and follow the Zhou rites. Black tasseled crown, green robe, orange-red bottoms, white gauze undershirt, black belt, white socks and red shoes. The class differences are expressed in some subtle ornamentation.
Although the official uniform is worn by low-level officials and civilians, it looks auspicious, so even some high-ranking officials wear this set, and it has been passed down to future generations, and the so-called red men and green women are also in this way.
As for etiquette, the official himself obeys the weekly etiquette, and the people can't control anything, and even a serious ancestor worship can't stop the people from playing. Not to mention the festive wedding.
The process continued, and Yang Er walked forward, and an obstacle appeared in front of him, a saddle. Saddleman, Annya. Originally, it was the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the legacy of the Northern Dynasties, and the bride sat on the side of the saddle, which was taken from the meaning of the northerners still riding the saddle horse. Evolved to the present, it has become a bride to cross the saddle when entering the door.
Yang Er stepped over the saddle, and after entering the door, a sergeant who followed him came out with a bow, Li Chen was nervous, wouldn't it, he was going to kill someone before he could even enter the cave? Of course not, the sergeant stretched his bow and fired three arrows at the lintel. Li Chen suddenly remembered the folk tale he had read, the Peach Blossom Girl Fighting Zhou Gong, there seems to be a paragraph in it.
When you enter the courtyard, you can see that there are 100 stone mortars next to it, and the stone mortars are stuffed with corn. This stone mortar was not originally obtained here, and it was brought here for the sake of etiquette. In addition, some places that cannot be seen are arranged, such as the mouth of the well is covered with straw mats, and the windows of several near the gate yard are filled with hemp. These are all etiquette, and Li Chen did it before Yang Er entered the door.
Next, I was supposed to worship the pigsty and the stove, but there was no pigsty in Bliss, so I built a fence next to the stove and put a piglet in it, symbolizing that after worshipping, the bride was sent to the auditorium.
This is not over, when the worship was over, some people went out from the side gate, and came back from the gate, following the footprints of Yang Er just now, and trampling her footprints.
As a history student, Li Chen was very interested, looking at these customs, while comparing them with the story of the peach blossom girl in his memory, these did not seem to appear in the customs of later generations.
I said a few times that the Peach Blossom Girl fought Zhou Gong, what kind of story is this? Zhou Gong, not the fear and rumor of the Zhou Dynasty, but a fortune teller, it is said to be very accurate, count you three watches to death, and leave you less than five watches. The Peach Blossom Girl is too, but she is not as famous as Zhou Gong.
The two will make a feud because Zhou Gong counts that the two of them will die, and they are both broken by the Peach Blossom Girl. One is Peng Zu, that is, Peng Zu who has lived for eight hundred and five years, the Peach Blossom Girl taught him how to avoid death, let him prepare wine and food, and wait somewhere, and when the eight immortals came, they asked each of them for a hundred years of life, and one was generous to give one hundred and fifty years. caused Peng Zu to live past 850 years old.
Zhou Gong is old, but his heart is small, and he was smashed by the Peach Blossom Girl twice, and he was very unhappy and wanted her to die. So, he asked Peng Zu, who was still young, to come forward and let his son marry the peach blossom girl as his wife.
Li Chen remembered that he didn't understand it very much when he saw this. Because Zhou Gong set up fifteen obstacles for the Peach Blossom Girl, he was defeated. The seven evils are all killing and robbery, and the eight defeats are entering the door, and they will defeat the inside and outside, defeat the father, mother, husband, son, and finally defeat themselves.
Li Chen couldn't figure it out, you said that it's just seven evils, what about eight defeats? If someone doesn't die and enters the door, you will be someone's father-in-law, isn't it also within eight defeats? Eight defeats except for the last defeat, Kede is all your family, you have a nervous disorder. I don't think I'm dead enough, so I want to drag the family to die.
In the end, everyone is happy. Zhou Gong calculated step by step, but in the end he failed, almost killed himself and his niece and son, and the peach blossom girl almost survived, and finally spared Zhou Gong, and the two sides were reconciled and beautiful. And the process of the Peach Blossom Girl's seven evils is these customs at the moment.
However, there are still slight discrepancies, like the big red dress is not yet, and there is no bamboo basket to open the way, there are some more steps, as for the significance of these steps, Li Chen asked some, some people don't understand, anyway, everyone did it.
Li Chen thought about it, and followed the flow into the interior of Elysium, and along the corridor, he sent the newcomer all the way to today's auditorium, the Qinglou. The third floor is a new house, and the entire first floor of the green building, which was originally a large space, is now vacated as an auditorium.
This auditorium was called Qinglu in the Tang Dynasty. It's not the Tang Dynasty that's called it, it's been since the Han Dynasty. The formal Qinglu should be an open-air tent, surrounded by green cloth, without a roof, so it is called Qinglu. The newlyweds have to pray here and then be sent to the cave house.
‘… Urge the shop of the hundred sub-tents, and wait for the obstacle of the seven-incense car. A person sang this poem, and immediately people were shot and complained, 'What are you singing this, it's time to sing the poem.' If you don't understand, get out of the way, I'll come. ', complaining makes people open their mouths to come, 'Youth is new tonight, and the red leaves are a flower when they bloom. It is clear that the treasure tree is seen from a human being, and He Laoyu's fan is even more covered. ’
'Go fan, go fan. After singing, everyone coaxed, and when they saw the bride, they didn't fan, and some people sang, "Qianzhong Luo fan does not need to be covered, and Baimei Jiao is not luxurious." The maid doesn't want to strangle, after all, it will inevitably belong to his family. ’
The poem is not very good, but the atmosphere is warm. Li Chen felt that the Tang Dynasty was worthy of being a dynasty of poetry, and even these illiterate people opened their mouths to write many poems and sing them.
However, if you think about it carefully, it is not surprising that these poems are simple and easy to understand, Li Chen will remember them once you listen to them, and with the catchy tunes, over the years, he will remember many poems.
What Li Chen didn't know was that he only stayed in Bliss and waited, and many steps before this wedding had been omitted, so he only watched a part of it here, otherwise he would know. really got a wedding in the Tang Dynasty, this poem, one after another. If a person doesn't have more than a dozen or twenty poems about marriage in his stomach, he is embarrassed to show his face. (To be continued.) )