Chapter 120: The Wedding Is About to Begin
In East China, a marriage based on etiquette is composed of six ceremonies: Nacai, Mingming, Naji, Nazheng, Invitation, and Greeting.
Nacai is the first form of marriage customs in East China, the first of the six rites, and the beginning of all marriage procedures. Originally, it meant that the man wanted to marry the woman, and the man sent the matchmaker to the woman's house to propose marriage and give gifts to propose. After receiving the promise, the matchmaker was asked to officially accept the "gift of choice" to the female family. After the initial discussion, if the woman is interested, the man will send a matchmaker to formally propose to the woman's family and bring a certain gift, so it is called Nacai, and the gift of Nacai is only used as a goose. Bow down, go down to Nacai, and use geese.
Asking for a name, as the name suggests, is that after the man's family performs the ceremony, he asks the matchmaker to ask the woman's name, date of birth and time, so that the man's family can ask and decide whether to get married or not, and what the good luck is. Or they think that the man sends an envoy to ask the woman's birth mother's surname, so that they can distinguish the concubine. The scope of the post-questioning extended to many aspects, such as family name, position, property, appearance, health, etc. Gifts must also be brought when asking for names, usually with geese. The woman's Geng post and the man's birthday were divined, and the Najib ceremony was performed after it was determined that they could get married.
Najib is the third of the six rites. It is the etiquette for the man to ask for his name and combine the eight characters, inform the woman of the auspicious omen of the marriage, and give a gift to express the etiquette of the engagement.
Nazheng is the fourth of the six rites, and the male family Najib gives the female family a dowry gift. Those who recruit will also be hired for money. Levy, success. The marriage contract is fully established after this ceremony. Legally, the levy is based on form, not quantity, and the completion of the levy marks the end of the engagement phase and is one of the main signs of marriage.
The invitation period is the fifth of the six rites. That is, the male family chooses the best date for marriage, writes the male and female sheng geng (invitation ceremony) on red paper, and the matchmaker takes it to the woman's house, and discusses the date of marriage with the female owner.
Kissing is to marry a bride, usually by the groom personally going to the woman's house to marry the bride. On the day of greeting relatives, "Wangniangpan" took the lead. There must be a goose in Wangniangpan, and the goose edge was formally proposed to the woman in ancient times, because the spouse of the goose is dedicated for life, symbolizing the marriage is loyal and harmonious. Later generations replaced geese with geese.
The day before the wedding, the man set up a banquet to thank the matchmaker and distributed sweet soup fruits to the neighbors. In the evening, the groom is accompanied to sleep by a "langtou" (also known as a shilang, referring to an unmarried boy). On the day of greeting relatives, "Wangniangpan" took the lead. There must be a goose in Wangniangpan, and the goose edge was formally proposed to the woman in ancient times, because the spouse of the goose is dedicated for life, symbolizing the marriage is loyal and harmonious. Later generations replaced geese with geese.
Ling'er is the crown prince, the first few things have been simplified, handled by the Ministry of Rites and Qintianjian on behalf of the people, the geese are there, just a pair of them were caught from the valley, and they were sent to the Wenfu as a long time ago, and the name of the invitation period is what the Qintianjian does, there is no invitation at all, the Qintianjian calculates a date, and hands it over to His Majesty to choose a suitable one, and then directly informs the Wenfu, the last person to welcome Ling'er still can't bow, but to send envoys, hold the festival, and serve the treasure of the horse, go to the horse's house, canonize and welcome the ceremony. It is called the "Book Welcome Ceremony". The ritual festival is roughly the same as that of welcoming the crown princess and princess, with drum music, sedan chairs or horses, and a couple. When the newlyweds are married, the couple of the guards recite the song of congratulations outdoors and enter the wine.
Ah Jue went home early two days in advance, because he had to entertain guests in Wenfu one day in advance, it was easy for him to go home this time, and it would be difficult to go back in the future, so he got up early and went back early, and when he got home, everyone in Wenfu was very busy, and the family also invited the troupe to sing at home a few days in advance, it is said that after Ah Jue returned to the door, the family was really noisy and chaotic, His Majesty did not worry about him going back by himself, although he would also have some swordsmanship, but His Majesty Qi Rong also had more eyes and countermeasures, and the commander followed Master Qingyang to accompany him. Although the Wenfu is the gate, His Majesty has been surrounded by troops from outside the city, one is afraid that Shimi will make trouble, and he is also afraid that the envoys from many countries will come, and there will be trouble in the imperial city. The envoy from the north looked very closely.
In the early morning of the wedding day, Ling'er was shouted by Xiao Taoxin, and the grandmother who came to make up for Ling'er first wanted to wring her face, and then put on makeup after twisting the face, layer by layer of makeup, pantou, Ling'er is the crown prince, after the plate is finished, take the head, put on jewelry, change clothes, three layers inside and three layers outside, wrap it into a zongzi in early summer, and then bring a pearl, which is really a status symbol.
I got up early today, and my girlfriends were not allowed to come in when I was making up, and they were all waiting in the hall, unlike when I got married, Ling'er and Mengmeng accompanied her to wring her face and makeup, and I slept a little late last night, and went to the queen mother's coquettishness, and my father chatted for a while, and after coming back, there were some sequelae of chatting, and I thought about a lot of questions before I went to sleep, and I got up earlier than usual in the morning, and was used as a puppet after getting up.
It is said that the old general Wen could not come back to attend his son's wedding this time, but Ah Jue's three elder brothers all came back and returned to northern Xinjiang after the wedding.
The royal family is to send the prince of Gong to take the convoy to pick up the horse, Ling'er didn't go out, just waited for him in the main hall, covered the hijab, Ling'er sat in the position of the third-in-command in the main hall, couldn't see anything, the hand had been twisting the handkerchief to play, the emperor and queen sat on the top of the hall, and looked at the bottom boringly, there were many people who came today, the officials of the grade came, and the relatives who had orders in the body also came, Meng Meng sat in the area of the foreign envoy wearing Yuan Mo, looking at the high Ling'er, Standing behind the emperor and empress were Ah Jue's three elder brothers and the deputy commander of the guard battalion.
"Ling'er, it will take a while for the master to come, are you in a hurry? Father, see that you have been twisting your veil. My only daughter is getting married today, and her father and queen mother will be old. The emperor looked at his little daughter sitting there, and finally sighed.
"Father, if you say this for a while, the ministers and the queen mother will be made to cry by you." Ling'er replied mischievously, today it was finally used as a puppet painting, and it can't be spent.
"Ah Jue should take a step forward..."Your Majesty counted the time, he also had no sense of security about Ah Jue's trip to the imperial city to the inner palace this time, and always felt that something was going to happen, and he must come to the wedding safely, the emperor read this sentence in his heart, over and over again.
In fact, Ah Jue did not go to the chariot, the upper chariot was the sheep's hair, he wore Ah Jue's clothes into the chariot, the team of sending relatives and welcoming relatives were kneeling and waiting for the horse lord to go up, no one dared to look up at who it was, Ah Jue was dressed as a guard, and even his face was wearing armor, this was Master Qingyang's idea, he didn't want Ah Jue to be in danger again, this big wedding, to go around the imperial city from the Wenfu to enter the palace, and then take off the armor after Ah Jue entered the palace safely, you can enter the palace to marry.
Master Qingyang followed behind Ah Jue in armor, the general was on the left side of the step, and on the right was one of Ah Jue's elder brothers, Ah Jue was not in the car, only Ah Jue and Yang Hao and the great commander and Master Qingyang knew, and all the rest of the people were hidden, and even His Majesty didn't tell him, because His Majesty only looked at the results, and they just sent people safely.