Chapter 161: Sacrifice to the Heavens
The ceremony of sacrificing to the heavens, since the Xia Shang period, is the most important ceremony for the princes and princes of the land of China! During the week, it has become customized, and evolved into a complete set of etiquette and procedures!
Meng Chun sacrifices to the sky, Meng Qiu worships the ancestors!
These are the two most solemn ceremonies when the ancestors of the Chinese land occupy the fertile land of the East! It even surpassed the princely succession ceremony! Reverence for the sky, not forgetting the ancestors, rooted in the blood of the Chinese ancestors and even the Qin people today!
This time the sacrifice to the heavens, the first time after His Majesty the Second Emperor of Great Qin ascended the throne held a ceremony to worship the heavens! And after the ceremony is completed, His Majesty the Second Emperor of Great Qin will personally lead his ministers into the temple to hold a ceremony to worship ancestors!
The ceremony of sacrificing to the heavens is a time for princes and nobles to enjoy themselves with the people! At this time, there was no difference between princes and nobles and ordinary Qianshou, and there was no difference between rich and poor. There is just the same pious heart of all people who pray to Heaven and all people!
Hu Hai came from the camp in a car!
The ministers of the court and the children of the royal family of the Ying clan had already dressed up and rushed out of the city to Liangshan in the morning!
In the roar, under the heavy escort of the Xuanwu Army, which was heavily armed with heavy armor and a hideous armor on its head, a bronze chariot slowly drove by, and under the six-foot car cover sat the second emperor of Great Qin, Hu Hai, wearing a black and gold imperial robe, wearing a balance crown on his head, and carrying the Qin Emperor's heavy weapon "Tai'a" divine sword in his waist!
This is the first time that the people of Xianyang and the Chinese military officials of the Great Qin Dynasty have seen the Xuanwu Army!
This is also the first time that the Xuanwu Army has announced to the public after the first battle of Chengwu!
And the Xuanwu Army officially let the people of the world know in the ceremony of sacrificing to the sky, and as soon as Hu Hai brought it up, it received an angry response from Meng Tian and other important ministers! Appropriate display of force and deterrence are the common practices of the world in the future!
Hu Hai believes that it is also applicable in today's Great Qin!
As soon as the Xuanwu Army, which appeared for the first time in front of nearly a million people, appeared, it became the focus of the audience!
There is no need to look at the heavy armor covering the bodies of these tall soldiers that clanged as they walked, just that the giant wolftooth stick that was more than a foot long already made people's hearts chill!
With such a god-like soldier, who in the world can plunder its edge?
The ministers of the court and the children of the clan and the nobles of the various families concerned, regardless of men, women and children, together with nearly a million Xianyang people, have been waiting at the foot of Liangshan Mountain for a long time!
The Liangshan Mountains are not a very high mountain range in the suburbs of Xianyang! There are more dangerous mountains near Xianyang than Yangsan! But the reason why this place was chosen as the place of the worship ceremony is precisely because the Liangshan Mountain Range is very small, as if a lone peak is erect, and the mountain range stretches for three or four miles around Liangshan, and removing these three or four miles, there are plains in a radius of dozens of miles around Liangshan!
Nowadays, Xianyang has gathered hundreds of thousands of people from the counties of Guanzhong to beg His Majesty the Emperor to sacrifice to the sky and ask for rain, if you choose to carry out the ceremony of worshipping the heavens in other highlands, because of the continuous mountains, there is no more suitable place in the suburbs of Xianyang than Liangshan!
Only there can be enough places around Liangshan for these countless people to see with their own eyes the ceremony of sacrificing to the heavens held by His Majesty the Emperor! In the case of a wilderness all around, although Liangshan is only more than 100 zhang high, it is enough!
Moreover, the queen Li Yan's bedroom is already the queen's bedroom before the post-book ceremony, and the Liangshan Summer Palace is located between this Liangshan!
Countless tents are endless, all of them are hundreds of tents in an area, densely surrounding Liangshan, neatly and orderly arranged around Liangshan Mountain, where the lone peak towers!
In the middle of the big tent, hundreds of thousands of heavily armed soldiers of the Bashang battalion stood armed and maintained order!
On the 24th day of July in the first year of Great Qin II, His Majesty Hu Hai, the Emperor of Great Qin II, arrived at Liangshan at three o'clock!
The countless large tents around Liangshan have long been reserved for the emperor's cars and the places of the courtiers, the children of the clan and the nobles of the Guanzhong family when they were sorted out at the beginning!
Their location, of course, is where the emperor's chariot must pass!
As the emperor's chariot roared forward, the people on both sides of the road, who had been waiting for a long night, bowed to the ground one after another. And countless Qin soldiers also knelt on one knee and bowed their heads to the Great Qin Emperor in the bronze chariot!
Wherever the bronze chariot passed, no one stood upright!
The car drove through the tent area for several miles and finally entered the foot of Liangshan Mountain!
There is not a single tent or a single person in the circle of five miles below Liangshan Mountain!
The ceremony of sacrificing to the heavens is solemn and solemn!
Except for His Majesty the Emperor and the ministers of Great Qin, who were courtiers, even the children of the clan or the powerful nobles of Guanzhong could not enter the Liangshan Mountain Range!
Only the ministers who have been recognized by the heavens can follow the emperor to worship the heavens!
The children of the clan and the nobles of Guanzhong can only look up at the bottom of the mountain and lead the ministers to worship the heavens!
"Greetings to His Majesty the Emperor!"
"Greetings to His Majesty the Emperor!"
Under the leadership of Li Si, the head of the Great Qin Wenchen, Meng Tian, the head of the generals, and the head of the clan, Ying Teng, the ministers of the Great Qin, the nobles of various families in Guanzhong, and the children of the clan shouted loudly!
"Greetings to His Majesty the Emperor!"
As the most dignitaries of Great Qin shouted at the same time, the tide of chanting from the nearly one million people and hundreds of thousands of soldiers surrounding Liangshan chanted at the same time!
The grand sound broke through the sky in an instant!
At this moment, a bright ray of sunlight shone on the eastern horizon! In a moment, the bright sunlight quickly crossed countless miles of distance, crossed the mountains, crossed the mountains and seas, crossed the plains and lakes, and descended on Liangshan!
After a while, a round of red said had already revealed a half-round face!
This is not the first time Hu Hai has come to this Daqin to see it!
Every day in the Bashang camp, he practiced with ordinary soldiers as the sun rose!
However, this time it came out, but for the first time, he felt that the magnificence of the mountains and rivers, the simplicity and kindness of the Qin people, the ancestors of China, were worthy of everyone to defend her with their lives!
It's just that, looking at the sun, it seems that it is definitely impossible to pray for rain!
The sun rises, indicating that today must be an unprecedentedly good sunny day, even if there is a great drought in Guanzhong, if there is nothing in normal times, but today everyone's hearts are at the same time a sense of absurdity!
Some people are happy and some are sad!
Hu Hai was ready for the worst at the moment! Although he has been praying in his heart that this God who brought him to Daqin can give himself a little thin noodles, or a little angry, of course, it would be better to be able to cry a few times!
"Let's get flat!"
Hu Hai looked at Hongyue, who had completely jumped out of the horizon and swayed with soft light, and said in a deep voice!
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
The thousands of Great Qin's top people who were prostrating in front of the car said in unison!
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
This is the hundreds of people and Great Qin soldiers who are lying in wait around Liangshan!
Hu Hai said these three words from beginning to end, and then sat on the bronze car without saying a word, without saying a word, and had no intention of getting off!
Thousands of Xuanwu troops have already started from the bronze chariot, along the stone path on Liangshan, lined up in two rows of steel man walls all the way to the altar on the top of Liangshan Mountain!
In a radius of more than ten miles around the entire Liangshan, countless figures stand, but they are silent!
Everyone is waiting for the hour to come!
There were still countless streams of people swarming around Liangshan, but everyone consciously didn't make a single noise! After arriving around Liangshang, under the command of the Qin soldiers who maintained order, they quietly began to wait!
Time is fast and slow.
For the hundreds of people surrounding Liangshan, it is like a year! For Hu Hai and the ministers of the court and the central government who are concerned about Great Qin, they hope that there is still a year or even more before Chenshi.
However, after all, time has been moving forward, not backwards, and it is impossible to stop at this moment!
In this world, apart from death that can make people pause, the only thing left to pause is memory!
Around Hu Hai, there are naturally people who always pay attention to time.
In a quarter of an hour, it's time!
Hu Hai straightened the balance crown on his head, and then got up with the "Tai'a" divine sword in his waist and stepped out of the bronze chariot!
The emperor's car will be the center of attention at any time! Not to mention that the festival is about to take place today!
As soon as the emperor's figure moved, the people who were watching from afar suddenly moved, and some of the people unconsciously wanted to take a few steps closer, but they were stopped by the Qin soldiers who maintained order just after taking two steps!
The twitching only lasted for a moment, and then calm returned!
Hu Hai took the lead, Li Si and Meng Tian were separated from each other, and the Chinese Wu ministers of the Great Qin Dynasty lined up behind Hu Hai in two columns!
In front of Hu Hai and Great Qin Wenwu, there were a large number of sacrifices carried by dozens of palace maids! Among them, there are six animals, whole cows, whole horses, whole sheep, whole chickens, whole ducks, and whole fish. All kinds of boiled corn, as well as silk and satin, etc.!
The sacrifices went first, and Hu Hai led two columns of civil and military officials to follow slowly!
The stone path is not very wide, and it is just enough for the next four people to walk side by side! Therefore, the procession up the mountain is stretched very long, and it looks especially dazzling under the gradually rising sun!
Although neither the palace maids carrying the sacrifices nor the civil and military officials led by Hu Hai walked very quickly, the Liangshan stone road, which was no more than two hundred steps long, was still completed in a short moment!
Dozens of palace maids placed the sacrifices in their hands on the altar in order under the leadership of the ceremonial officials, and then quietly retreated from Liangshan!
This is the first time that Hu Hai has held a ceremony to worship the heavens, and there is no such thing as a ceremony to worship the heavens in later generations.
So, this was also the first time he had seen a full altar!
The huge altar made of white jade, which is three feet high and six feet high, stands majestically on the top of Liangshan Mountain, and seems to reach the sky!! A red felt width spanned a distance of more than ten zhang and spread from the feet of Hu Hai to the altar! The five-color flag is waving on the top of the mountain!
The civil and military ministers who followed behind Hu Hai were automatically divided into two groups and lined up in several columns neatly on both sides of the altar!
Huang Zhong Da Lu played a solemn and solemn sacrifice to the heavens!
Hu Hai finally stepped on the red felt, walked up to the altar, and began to climb the stairs!!
(To be continued)