"A certain male bridesmaid is just our six brothers, and you let a gentleman like Wen Dalang be the best man? Can someone snatch the bride out of King Xue's mansion? Wei Erlang said with resentment.

The traditional wedding of the Yan and Tang Han ethnic groups is called the Shi Du Ceremony, which is equivalent to the role of the best man called "Yu", and the "Rite of Rites and Rites" has mentioned the role of the Yu Zai Du Ceremony (wedding), and the Yu is mostly the groom's attendant, younger brother or younger generation or younger generation than the groom.

The duty of the wedding is to water and wash the bride during the prison ceremony (the groom is watered and washed by the bridesmaids); Set a table for the bride opposite the bridegroom; catch the bride's changed dress; In the southwest corner of the room, lay a reclining mat for the bride; Remove the candles with the bridesmaids and eat the rest of the bride's food from the prison ceremony.

After the wedding, there are beans, millet, lungs, and lungs for the bride; Eat the leftovers that the bride has left in the house.

The above is about the duties of the best man and the bridesmaid, and the best man is the head of the bridesmaid.

"Let Wen Dalang be your best man, Wang Sanlang can also do it? You still have so many cousins in the Wei family, just choose one? Thou shalt know the reputation of so-and-so? "Dugu Xinci is still a little reluctant.

"A certain person knows that your reputation is now like a fierce god in Chang'an, but a certain person is Webster, and he has no habit of looking ahead and looking behind, not to mention that this is a good opportunity for you to change your image and let Wen Dalang be the best man? He is now supervising the repair of the canal, and he is very busy, how can he be as leisurely as you? If he has free time, why don't he marry Dugu Jialuo together? Okay, that's it, let's go to King Xue's Mansion tomorrow to accept the lottery, and you will come early" Wei Erlang made a brutal decision.

"Okay, have you prepared the gifts?"

"It's already ready, tomorrow you will wait at the Star Picking Tower, and the second uncle will take the eldest sister to join you," Wei Erlang commanded again.

"What is a certain best man doing with him?"

"You're going to find out the route? Is there a guide when greeting relatives? ”

"Are you really taking this marriage as a war?"

"Anyway, this matter will be handed over to you, how to settle you and a certain second uncle to decide, don't need you to spend, a certain and his brother will go to the Huaqing Palace to go to the court, just an idler, you will be attentive, and when you get married, you will also be dedicated, if you make a bad move, a certain will also report it" Wei Erlang threatened.

"Okay, I know, don't you just want to be lively? A certain arrangement, Bao Ru is satisfied," Dugu Xinci smiled and said.

The Wei brothers left after the luncheon, and they had nothing to do in the afternoon, so they went to the Changcong guard camp by the Guangyun Pond, and saw the Changshi Guo Zhiyun with the hairy dog training, and came up to say a few words.

"I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse to follow you, but such a great achievement ended up with a reprimand," Guo Zhiyun complained.

"Who knows what the outcome will be? Are there any complaints in the army? If you want to climb another high branch, you don't want to stay, "Dugu Xinci still complains?"

"With your fierce name in town, who dares to complain? Hey, someone's coming? It seems to be someone in the palace, and a purple robe? Guo Zhiyun looked at the bank of the Bahe River, and a column of people and horses galloped over.

"The Yellow Gate Squire Du Xian, and Cheng Peng, the eunuch is Yang Liulang" Dugu Xinci's eyes are good.

The two went to the gate of the military tent to greet them.

Yang Liulang, the general of the right prison guard, Yang Siqiao, came to announce the decree, the saint and the political hall readjusted the establishment of the chief guard, and the position of the general Dugu Xinci Tianxing has not changed, and he is still the chief regent of the chief guard, and the assistant general Guo Zhiyun, the champion general of the long history.

But there is a general, the sixteenth prince Yan Lan, a doll who can just walk.

There was also a Guide general, Cheng Peng, who also joined the Changcong Suwei.

The chief took ten Zhichong mansions from the Suwei to supplement the sixteen guards, and the remaining 80,000 people were organized into the Eighth Army, and Qin Chong and the seven Zhonglang divided Li Qing, Wei Chi Baoqi, Duan Qingyun, Qin Lijian, Huangfu Weiming, Li Baoyu, and Zhang Sili.

However, the Eighth Army was organized into the Left Army Battalion and the Right Army Battalion, which were led by Qin Chong and Cheng Peng.

In other words, General Tianxing was hollowed out, and in the future, he would only be able to mobilize 3,000 pro-troops.

"General, offended" Yang Siqiao took the tiger talisman presented by Dugu Xinci.

"Hand over this half of the tiger talisman, and I slept more peacefully tonight, what's wrong with it? Come, if Liulang is not in a hurry to go back to the republic, and Du Xianggong, wait for a good drink? Dugu Xinci smiled.

"Don't be busy yet, so-and-so came for the hairy dog, and you asked so-and-so to take him for questioning," said Du Xian, the waiter of the Yellow Gate.

"Oh, what's wrong here?" Dugu Xinci also said with a smile.

"Far Eastern Hou, you should understand what so-and-so means, Mao Gou'er is just a ranger, he did participate in the rebellion, and he can't stay in the royal forbidden army like Changcong Suwei," Du Xian Zhengse said.

"Mao Gou'er's matter has been explained in front of the saint and the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces, and now he is a certain flag guard, if you must take him away, please take a certain Tianxing General Jingyi with you" Dugu Xinci also lowered his face and said.

"You want to protect him with the general's duty?" Du Xian frowned and said.

"And this is in the army, the flag is in the people," Dugu Xinci said categorically.

"You won't say that the flag is down, will you?"

"Yes, of course, you can go to Shanggong first and remove him from the post of a general."

"Okay, so-and-so knows, so-and-so will report your words to the saints and the political affairs hall," Du Xian sighed.

"Of course, you need to report it truthfully, Du Xianggong, go to drink somewhat? By the way, if you need to enter Beijing tomorrow, will you ask for leave from Jingzhao Mansion or Nanya? Dugu Xinci smiled again.

"It's okay to report it yourself, you won't go to drink, so let's go back and close the case for you as soon as possible" Du Xian shook his head.

"Okay, I'm waiting for good news, right?"

"You still have to be a little prepared," Du Xian said again.

"I've been mentally prepared for a long time"

Du Xian beat the horse and left, but Yang Siqiao and Yang Liulang stayed.

"You have offended the ministers of the political hall this time," Yang Liulang said with a smile.

"How did so-and-so offend them?"

"Song Shangshu led 100,000 refugees to kneel on the bank of the Bahe River and ask the chief to send troops from Suwei, and you also shot the people of Dingwangfu, the people are very resentful?" Yang Siqiao is the general of the right prison guard, and he can only sigh.

"Did you violate Tang Shu's law? If they don't break the law, they can't do anything. ”

"But they have a lot of ways to rectify people, and I don't know how many Wenchen don't like you because of this."

"So-and-so is not a clay sculpture Bodhisattva, don't like so-and-so? It's not Kaiyuan Tongbao, you don't need everyone to love it, okay, you know it in your heart, and you can go to the hall of China Normal University to drink, don't talk about these disappointing things."

Most of Qingchuan's martial arts have been driven back to Chang'an, and tonight is a little clean, and the guests and hosts are happy at a banquet.

The next day, Dugu Xinci was pulled by Nalan Feiya to wear new clothes.

"Isn't it a certain person who went to your house to get color, what are you trying to do?" Dugu Xinci is not happy.

"You want to give Wei Erlang some face, you look at this new clothes and are very energetic," Empress Nalan gave her a straight head.

The clothes are ice blue fine silk, embroidered with elegant bamboo leaf patterns of snow-white piping and Dugu Xinci's head of the mutton fat jade hairpin complement each other. cleverly sets off the extraordinary figure of a gorgeous nobleman. The smile is quite a bit of a merry boy. The chin is slightly raised, and in the middle of the apricot-shaped eyes, the galaxy is brilliantly bright.

"Somebodysome, right?" Dugu Xinci is also quite satisfied with his outfit.

"Handsome, go, come back early" Nalan Feiya smiled and pushed her lover out.

Yan Tang divided the wedding process into six stages, which were known as "six rites" in ancient times, namely Nacai, asking for names, Najib, Nazheng, inviting dates, and greeting in person.

Nacai: That is, the man's family invites the matchmaker to the woman's house to propose. If the female family agrees to the marriage, the male family formally proposes to the female family, and the formal proposal must bring a live goose as a gift, so that people can accept the meaning of their choice. In the "Rites and Rituals", it is said: "When the ritual is issued, the goose is adopted." ”

Asking for a name: It is the man who asks the matchmaker to ask the woman's name and eight characters to prepare for marriage. It is recorded in "Etiquette and Ceremony": "Bin Zhiyan, please ask the name." Most of the words of the name are: "If a certain person is ordered, he will be added to the Bu, and he dares to ask the woman to be whom." "If the woman agrees, the gift is given; The male family determines the good luck and evil through divination. If the male and female characters are combined, then proceed to the next step.

Najib: Even if you tell the woman the good news of divination and marriage, you will also use geese as a gift - in later generations, you will often use gold and silver jewelry as a gift. It is equivalent to the current engagement, commonly known as sending the appointment, passing the appointment, and fixing the appointment. Nazheng: That is, the man's family sends the dowry to the woman's family, also known as Na Yuan, big hire, excessive gift, etc. In ancient times, the levy was mostly based on birds and beasts, and in ancient times, the dowry had to use the whole deer, and the later generations used deer skin.

Invitation period: that is, after the man's family has set a wedding date, he will go to the woman's house to ask for permission to get married. Now it is commonly known as "mentioning the day" and "sending the sun".

Welcome: that is, to marry the bride. Methods and etiquette vary, but generally men go to the woman's house to welcome them. After returning to the man's house, the bride and groom eat together, and then cut a gourd into two halves, and the husband and wife each hold one of them, pour wine and drink, which is called "Heyu" - this is the origin of the glass of wine. This process is one of the most folk phenomena in marriage culture.

Dugu Xinci entered Chang'an from Chunmingmen again, and there was no blood on the streets of Chunmingmen, but the fishy smell in the air was still lingering.

Dugu Xinci took the big bear and Qiu Wuxian with him, and a team of students from the Youth Hall entered Pingkangfang to the downstairs of the star picking, and some people saw this Far Eastern Hou coming all the way, some bowed down from afar, and some avoided it early, Dugu Xinci naturally didn't bother to care.

The host of the Wei family's lottery this time is Wei Kang, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and the second uncle of Wei Erlang and Wei Bin.

"Got a lot of gifts?" Dugu Xinci smiled when he saw that he visited a lot of gift boxes in front of the building.

"Rites and Rituals": "Rites and Rituals": "Rites, Downhacha." With geese. Zheng Xuan's note: "If you want to marry him, you must first make the matchmaker, pass through his words, and the female family will allow it, and then make people accept it." "Its gift is with geese.

Since the Han Dynasty, the Nacai ceremony has not been limited to geese. Of course, geese are still the most important one. The trend of extravagance is gradually rising, and the gifts vary according to their status. There are 30 kinds of official rituals, and they all have different symbolic meanings, such as sheep, herbs, and deer, which are taken as auspicious to convey the meaning of blessings; The glue, lacquer, acacia bell, mandarin duck, phoenix, etc. are used to symbolize the meaning of good marriage between husband and wife; Or take the merits and virtues of each object to motivate and exhort the couple, such as the pampas reed, the cypress, the relics beast, the blessed beast, the fish, the goose, the nine children's wife, etc.

The Sui and Tang dynasties once stipulated the customization of the dowry, from the prince to the nine products are the same, the standard is: a goose. one lamb, one for wine, one for millet and one for rice.

As for why the word "goose" is used? The "Rite of Ceremony" believes that "those who use geese as their pawns will take those who follow the yin and yang." "White Tiger Pass: Marriage Chapter" said: "Those who use geese should take them from north to south at any time, without losing their festivals, and when they don't take women." and fly into rows and stop in columns. The wedding ceremony of the Ming Dynasty is orderly and orderly, and it does not exceed it. And the wedding does not use dead pheasants, so geese are also used. "White geese in the north of the mountain, late autumn is the hall of the examination" cloud": "Ancient and Modern Poems": Come, come to the frost, called the frost letter. Lang Ying's "Seven Revision Manuscripts" thinks: "Wild goose, the books stop talking and know the time and the birds." There is a precedence. Therefore, it is insisted on and accepted. In addition, there are also books that explain the reason for using geese from other perspectives: geese, waiting for yin and yang, waiting for the time is lifted, winter south and summer north, you have its place. ”

According to the above families, Nacai and other wedding geese have nothing more than three meanings. The first is to take yin and yang, and the woman follows the righteousness of her husband. The so-called "geese, the wood falls to the south, and the ice pan to the north". The husband is yang, the woman is yin, and the one who uses the goose takes his wife from the righteousness of the husband. The second is not to lose time and moderation. Geese are migratory birds, autumn goes to spring, and they never lose their trust. The above three meanings, one of which takes yin and yang, and the woman's husband is obviously the conjecture of the Han Confucians, which is not in line with the facts of the pre-Qin period. The latter two views have their own merits. If we look at migratory birds alone, it seems that taking the meaning is not enough. The swallows live in the north and south at different times, so why should they take the geese alone? It seems that in addition to losing time, the use of geese has the meaning of taking its actions in an orderly manner. The geese fly in turn, leading the old and strong first, and the young and weak follow behind, never overstepping. The order of the young and the old is one of the important principles of Confucian etiquette, and it is in line with the spirit of Confucianism to apply this principle to marriage, so that the young and the old can act in an orderly manner, and not to make the uncle and the young get married. And this kind of orderly behavior, except for geese, other migratory birds are not available, so geese are used as the five rites. In addition to the above meanings, the use of wild geese at that time also had the meaning of meaning that it was from the beginning to the end and no longer drunk. During the Zhou Dynasty, the custom of marriage from the beginning to the end has been advocated by the society. Of course, from the beginning to the end does not only refer to the woman's loyalty to the man, but also to the man, it is also meaningful. In a monogamous agrarian society, a certain degree of stability is required of the smallholder family, which is not only a social need, but also a need of the smallholder family itself. This kind of situation is reflected in many in the Book of Songs. "Poetry and Style. Drumming": Death and life are broad, and Zicheng said; Holding on to the son, growing old with the son. "Zheng Feng. The Female Says the Chicken Crows": It is advisable to drink and grow old with the son" "Poem. WANG Feng. Big Car": "The valley is in a different room, and death is the same cave." The poem strongly reflects people's desire for their spouses to never divorce and grow old together. In order to strengthen social needs, or to remind people of their behavior in family life, Hongyan with the attribute of "from the beginning to the end" is introduced into the wedding. Therefore, the reason for the use of geese in the five ceremonies is that the migratory bird "geese" has the meaning of social demand for people's marriage problems.

"Then let's go" Wei Kangshangshu saw that Dugu Xinci didn't talk nonsense, and directly ordered someone to carry the bride price into the carriage.

"Wait, there is still an arrangement," Dugu Xinci said with a smile.

Newcomers meet and fall in love, ask for names, and the first husband sings with their hearts, and sees their wives and children accompanied by red dust

(End of chapter)