After all, the long road has reached the moment when it reaches the end, the funeral procession slowly stops outside the Baling, the princes and kings of the Liu family hold the coffin and slowly ascend to the high platform of the mausoleum, the regulation of the imperial tomb is a bit similar to the multi-level pyramid, the rammed earth platform layer by layer is the building complex on the surface of the imperial tomb, which enshrines the gold, silver and jewelry sent by the royal family for the deceased, and the living is to use the treasure of the world to send the sorrow to the deceased. ～

The witch dance is divided into many sub-categories, there is a very famous big ceremony to drive away the evil spirits of the epidemic, there is the eight-pyu dance to worship the gods, there is also the witch dance to celebrate people's birthdays, pray for the sick, pray for the dead, Wu Xian did not wear a mask and wore a strange feather suit with a bell to step on the Yu step and chant the words, but wore a red robe and a hat to recite the name of the god and the scriptures.

With the popularity of Thai monotheism and the standard norms of the teachings, witch dances are more often used in religious ceremonies, such as the witch dance, which prays for the deceased, has been adapted several times to exorcise the traces of witches and become a purer prayer for the deceased's ascension.

The ancestors of the initial obscurantist era worshiped nature, believed that everything is spiritual, man is the spirit of all things, of course, there is also a spirit, firmly believe that life is just a process of death, and it is the basic value of human society to live in another world after death.

The terracotta warriors and horses in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang in Lishan, as well as the structure of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang in the legend that gold is the mountain and mercury is the sea, are precisely the embodiment of this spirit. This trend was greatly changed in the early Han Dynasty, when the country was poor. Even the emperor's carriage could not gather four royal horses with pure coats, and the Changling Mausoleum of Emperor Taizu Gao Liu Bang was far more than ten times more shabby than the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang.

Emperor Taizongwen Liu Heng advocated a thin burial ceremony. To Gaozongjing Emperor Liu Qi insisted on thin burial, the thin burial atmosphere advocated by the emperor of the three generations of Shangtai Temple greatly improved the thick burial habits that have been passed down since ancient times, and the Empress Dowager Dou Yifang who is being buried is also a thin burial, in addition to the two old boxes carrying Dou Yifang's favorite cosmetics when she was young, as well as the gold and silver jewelry and phoenix robe brocade clothes that she wore and loved before her death, in addition to melons, fruits, pears, peaches, cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks and other worthless funeral items are not worth mentioning at all.

Removing these few funeral goods, there is nothing, and the degree of frugality is far better than that of her late son Liu Qi, Emperor Gaozongjing. Anyway, when Liu Qi was buried, there were still one billion dollars in funeral goods, and all the funeral goods buried by the old lady, including the clothes and accessories that she wore and loved to wear, added up to only more than 100 million yuan, which was nothing more than accessories, and the materials used in the clothing were carefully selected by Shaofu.

And these things can't be counted as funeral utensils in the strict sense, just the utensils used by the empress dowager during her lifetime, the reason why she is so thrifty, on the one hand, is that Dou Yifang took the initiative to make a will in the seriously ill Dou Yifang, her husband Taizong Emperor Wen of Han was frugal all his life, except for making some mistakes in his favorite minister Deng Tong in his later years, he was almost a perfect person in personal morality.

Exaggeration. It is not too much to call it the first virtuous monarch of the ages, at least remove the unconvinced clan princes and kings and the meritorious princes who are quite resentful, they should be evaluated like this, and the private character of the old lady of the Dou family is certainly not as high as her husband. When he was young, he committed countless sins, and his hands were so stained with blood that people were blind in middle age, and it was said that it was the will of heaven in the dark. It doesn't matter if the sins she has created are returned to cause and effect, in short, she has been working hard for the rest of her life to be a qualified queen mother and queen mother.

Her expectations unfortunately did not come true. When she was the queen mother, she favored her youngest son Liu Wu of Liangxiao, which caused her mother-son relationship with Emperor Jing of Han to be very tense for a while. finally became the queen mother and had a very unhappy relationship with her little grandson, and finally was forced to go away to the Linguang Palace in Ganquan Mountain to retire, which is really a bad holiday.

The life of the old lady of the Dou family is really ups and downs, and the last will she left before her death is also full of complex emotions, and finally told the emperor to be patient in a matter of an elder's tone, and never destroy the ancestral system of the Han family under the Taizu Dynasty, otherwise she is shameless to face the ancestors of the Han family, and explain many details in a rambling manner, and at the end she did not forget to give her property in Changxin Palace to her daughter, the princess of the pavilion, Liu Yan.

This money is worth about three billion dollars, from the gifts offered by the princes and kings to meet the empress dowager over the years, there are many precious gifts that have been given back to the princes and kings, and some are sent to the inner treasury of the emperor of Weiyang Palace, and the only ones left in Changxin Palace are only three billion yuan, which is not worth mentioning compared to the scale of hundreds of billions of dollars in the inner treasury of Shaofu.

The princess of the pavilion Tao is also very miserable, the death of her son has brought a great impact to her, not only to face the desperate situation of no successor, but also to face the crisis of the complete loss of the heir of the Tangyi Hou Mansion, in the past two years, the princess of the Pavilion Tao has become very old, and she used to hate the Tangyi Hou Chen Wu to find a woman to raise a concubine outside, but now she is urging her husband to quickly take a concubine and have a child, but the accident suddenly befell the head of this small family.

Maybe it's a trick of fate, in the past, having a son with another woman would be caught by his wife Liu Concubine to drink medicine and have a baby, resulting in the loss of several concubines in vain by Tangyi Marquis Chen Wu, and now Liu Concubine encourages and supports her husband to take a concubine, Chen Wu just can't give birth to a child again, he has a very serious non-lifting syndrome, and he can't solve it by trying his best to seek medical advice, and the old couple is about to be broken.

Chen Wu is over sixty years old, and it is not easy to have children when he is theoretically healthy, after all, not everyone can do the ability of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, to be old and strong, and he was hit by the torture and death of the eldest son and the second son one after another.

The death of the Empress Dowager Dou Yifang, the towering tree that the princess of the pavilion Tao can rely on fell, and her only daughter Chen Ajiao who can count on has lived in the Changmen Palace for a long time, seeing that the newly renovated Weiyang Palace Jiaofang Hall is about to change hands, the princess of the pavilion Tao Liu is in a very painful mood, while complaining that her stupidity and arrogance ruined the child and ruined the family, while resenting the emperor's meanness and ruthlessness, of course, she can't run away from Cao Shi's viciousness and cruelty.

Queen Chen Ajiao is the chief of the female team, she is dressed in a plain face with white frost, her eyes are red for a long time without rest, a few days of funeral is her granddaughter is busy with Zhang Luo, her mother's body collapsed very early, crying less than half a day before fainting, the imperial doctor said that what is the loss of qi and blood and several diseases, in short, every day to pay attention to rest, can not hurt the spirit, do not be happy and sad.

She is very strong to support the frame of the Empress of the Han Dynasty, although during the funeral, the emperor did not even look at her a few times, although the attitude of the officials and ministers towards her was very cold, although it was rumored that she was going to be abolished, but as long as she was the queen of the world for a day, she would never give up her dignity.

The platform on the top floor of the tomb is the passage leading to the inside of the mausoleum, the team of the ministers neatly salutes the coffin in the distance, and the coffin disappears in people's sight little by little, and the coffin will be sent directly to the main burial chamber at the bottom of the mausoleum, where the coffin of Emperor Taizongwen has been quietly parked for more than 20 years.

There were only a few noble ministers standing in the small space on the top floor, and the emperor stared at the funeral procession with his hands behind his back and disappeared into the deep mausoleum, and the coffin burial represented the completion of another concentration of the emperor's power, and the main force against the imperial power swept away.

"Your Majesty, it's good to be simple, but according to the etiquette system, the coffin should be stopped for five months......"

"Huh?"

Too often Zhao Zhou swallowed his saliva, took a few steps back and bowed his head silently.

The young emperor flicked his sleeves and snorted coldly: "In my opinion, stopping the coffin is the old system and should be changed, stopping the coffin for so long is disrespectful to the deceased, you yourself know what happened when my father stopped the coffin for seven months, I suddenly thought that I would one day stop like this, I was very angry, even if I had ascended to the heavenly realm at that time to reunite with my father, grandfather and Taizu, I can't let go, you understand?" ”

"Yes, yes! The minister understood that some of the rules of "Zhou Li" were out of place, and the minister immediately set about making changes. Zhao Zhou wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and hurriedly responded, the emperor is the biggest rule in the country where the imperial power is supreme, and the etiquette can only bind those who follow the rules, for the great emperor who is good at creating, the etiquette is just a blackboard that can be changed at any time.

The emperor became more and more domineering.

Zhang Ou, the imperial historian, was full of worries, when an emperor could ignore the shackles of "Zhou Li", what else could stop the emperor's progress was a question worth pondering.

Many people saw this as a bold challenge to the old system by the emperor, and the ministers and princes of the honors and nobles flinched, and perhaps the emperor would further boldly break the rules until he reached the ideal system in his mind.

"It is against the law of etiquette to bury the Empress Dowager in advance, what do you think of this matter?"

"Your Majesty has gone too far, how can you ignore the Han family etiquette system, this is an unprecedented transgression, Pingyang Hou, you stand up and say a few words, we all support you."

"This wind cannot rise, we must unite and never tolerate it, let some things in Your Majesty's system be wrong in itself, and as a courtier, we must adhere to the etiquette system."

"That's right! If it is left unchecked, the Han family system will be unrecognizable sooner or later, what face do we use to face the ancestors and ancestors of the Han family? ”

The princes began to discuss, most of the officials and ministers agreed, abiding by the rules and the system is still the mainstream idea of the Han family, most of the upright ministers think that the behavior of the Son of Heaven is against the law, and a few people do not say a word and bow their heads and remain silent.

Wu'an Hou Tian Wei stood at the end of the line, he was the most unpopular liehou, he pulled the sleeve of the same unpopular Gaihou Wang Xin, lowered his voice and said: "Brother, listen to what they say, let's go to your majesty to complain!" (To be continued, please search, the novel is better and faster!)