Chapter Eighty-Six: Clans

Qi Xuansu's adventurous actions in the Southern Continent would not affect the normal operation of the Eastern World in the slightest, and most Daomen people did not care about what had happened, what was happening, and what was going to happen in the Southern Continent overseas.

They are more concerned about their own affairs, daily work, personal contacts, weddings and funerals, etc.

Especially weddings and funerals are even more important. Don't look at the Taoist sect that claims to have abolished Confucianism, but it is still the same old in its bones.

On the one hand, Daomen wants to de-Confucianize, and on the other hand, it is necessary to integrate the three religions with Daomen as the core, which seems to be contradictory, but it is not contradictory in essence. The reason is that the influence of Confucianism is too deep and the inertia is too great to be removed, so it can only be de-Confucianized on the surface, and the three religions are integrated inside, and some things of Confucianism are changed to continue to serve Taoism.

Both of these measures are essentially tinkering, deleting, and altering the Confucian system.

For example, the clan system, which is part of Confucianism, has actually been inherited by Taoism. These families within the Daomen are all operating according to the clan system.

The so-called ancestors, the holy master said, "The ancestors are meritorious and the ancestors are virtuous."

Ancestor is the work of creation, and the ancestor is the virtue of success.

Take the Zhang family as an example, it was founded by Zu Tianshi, and the word "ancestor" of Zu Tianshi came from this. Inherited to this day, the rest of the Zhang family heavenly masters are all sects. Zhang Zu has made pioneering contributions to the Daomen, and belongs to one of the ancestors of the Daomen, not the ancestor of the Zhang family.

In the same way, Li Zu also belongs to one of the ancestors of Daomen Zhongxing, not the ancestor of the Li family.

Xuansheng is different, he belongs to the pioneering work, because he did not keep the foundation of his ancestors, but created another foundation of his own, which is beyond the scope of the Li family, and he is the ancestor.

To put it simply, it is to open another family tree, starting from Xuansheng, and counting from the previous Li family.

However, there is a problem here, because Xuansheng's cultivation is too high, he has no heirs, not even a righteous son, and there is no one on his family tree, so he can be regarded as an heir.

The Li family was unwilling to let Xuansheng's influence go to outsiders, and at this time, the Eastern Emperor stood up, brother and brother! I picked two families on my shoulder, inheriting my father's incense and my brother's incense. These two families are not two rooms, nor are they two families, one is the original Li family, and the other is the Li family founded by Xuansheng.

So the current Li family has two ancestors, one is the Taishang Dao Ancestor, called the "Great Sage Ancestor", and the other is the Xuan Sage, called the "Holy Ancestor", which is equivalent to forcibly fusing the two Li families. Strictly speaking, only the descendants of the Eastern Emperor's lineage can claim to be the descendants of the Xuan Sheng, and the legal principle comes from the Eastern Emperor's brother and brother. Others couldn't rub the light of the Xuan Sheng.

If Xuansheng had left his descendants, then now there are two Li families in the Daomen.

In this way, there are essentially two major sects within the Li family. Therefore, it is difficult to hear the statement of the big sect and the small sect in the Li family, in essence, the Yizi faction and the son-in-law faction act as the position of the small sect. The Li family's descendants are all large sects, and there are no small sects.

The Zhang family does not have such an experience, so there is only one ancestor, that is, the ancestral heavenly master, and there are no two Zhang families.

It is precisely because there is only one Zhang family that the distinction between large and small sects is so obvious.

In fact, Zhang Yuelu doesn't like this small sect identity, she is too restricted, and now the Zhang family pushes her up, in essence, there is no one available, plus the Heavenly Master values Zhang Yuelu, so she has to compromise, it is better to be cheap than cheap people with foreign surnames, there is no way.

If Qi Xuansu becomes the son-in-law of the Zhang family, then he and Zhang Yuelu are the small sects of the Zhang family, and they may temporarily hold the power, and when they are no longer alive, the small sect will still be a small sect.

But if Zhang Yuelu marries Qi Xuansu, it will be different. Because Qi Xuansu didn't know who his parents were, they all said that he was the righteous son of the Yao family, but in fact, the Yao family didn't recognize it, and Qi Xuansu didn't want to recognize it, he just recognized Qi Niang. In essence, Qi Xuansu is his own ancestor, Zhang Yuelu married him, if he is not Qi Niang, then the two of them are at the top of the family tree, from the patriarchal level, it is really comfortable.

It doesn't matter if there are descendants or not, there are no irrelevant elders pressed on it anyway.

Of course, at the level of Zhengyi, what should be done or what, should Zhang Yuelu be supported as the deputy head of the sect or should be supported, this is a matter of power

, does not change due to the patriarchy, Zhang Yuelu is also the daughter of the Zhang family when she marries, which is better than the second Heavenly Master with a different surname.

So Zhang Yuelu never considered the option of joining the rich, not to mention that Qi Xuansu didn't agree, even if Qi Xuansu cried and shouted to join the money, Zhang Yuelu didn't agree.

Today, Zhang Yuelu has to think about one thing, that is, the issue of marriage.

Although many people around have already tacitly acquiesced that Qi Xuansu and Zhang Yuelu are a family, such as Sui Li, Qi Xuansu went, Zhang Yuelu didn't have to go, because the two were one, and even Zhang Mayyue even shouted his brother-in-law, Zhang Yuelu and Qi Xuansu did not object, but from a factual level, the two were still short of a formal ceremony.

This matter has been decided a long time ago, but because of some external force majeure, it has been delayed again and again, from the perspective of ordinary people, at the age of fourteen, they can become their own sons, under normal circumstances, at the age of Zhang Yuelu and Qi Xuansu, their sons are about to marry daughters-in-law. As a result, the two have not yet become a Taoist couple, and it is too late, so they should hurry up and prepare.

Qi Niang chose to spend the New Year in Jinling Mansion, of course, for a reason. She discussed it with Zhang Kucheng again, and gave the approximate date, the reason why she said probably, was because she had to wait for Qi Xuansu to officially become a real person in the consultation and then choose a good day and an auspicious day, so it would sound good to say it - the youngest real person in the consultation was married.

Zhang Kucheng is the quasi-patriarch and son of the Zhang family, and these things are really within the scope of his duties. Especially after the Heavenly Master is old, basically these family-level matters are in charge of the sect.

The so-called Zongzi is the meaning of the eldest son of the great clan, that is, the future head of the family, in addition to occupying the main part of the family property, but also inheriting the title, ancestral home, etc., in the clan, whether it is to worship the ancestors, or to do funerals, happy events, banquets and guests, are mainly Zongzi.

Correspondingly, Qingwei Zhenren and Yao Yi are the sons of the Li family and the Yao family respectively. Donghua Zhenren and Cihang Zhenren are simply already patriarchs.

This is also the reason why Zhang Yuelu wants to leave the Zhang family and go to the Qi family, at the family level, she said that her marriage does not count, and even her parents also said that it does not count, at best, she has the right to suggest, and in the end, only the patriarch said it.

This time, the Heavenly Master, who was the patriarch, took a fancy to Qi Xuansu, and the ancestors and grandchildren had the same opinion, so they seemed to be happy, and the ancestors and grandchildren were happy. But what if the Celestial Master disagrees with her? That's a different story.

According to the patriarchal rules, the patriarch and the son have the right to discipline the younger generations of the family. If anyone dares to disobey the sect, he will be guilty of the crime.

Daomen wants to abolish the patriarchal system, but the Li family and the Zhang family are there, where they can be abolished if they want to, when Xuansheng was alive, all families converged, and it seemed to be abolished, and when Xuansheng died, he immediately revived.

In the face of the Zhang family's patriarchy, Zhang Yuelu had no choice.

Zhang Yuelu had a head in Nanyang, let alone a hard encounter with the Zhang family.

This time, Zhang Yuelu suppressed the old Taoist priest of Nanyang, no matter what she said, she still took advantage of it, and no one could accuse Zhang Yuelu at the moral level, she could only say that her methods were wrong, too manipulative, and so on.

It's still so hard to hold on. If she works against the Zhang family, then she won't even be able to take care of it. Maybe a few hundred years later, later people will say that the patriarchal system is wrong, and Zhang Yuelu is right to rebel against the clan. But in the current world, Zhang Yuelu's rebellion against the clan is wrong, and no one will support Zhang Yuelu. Not to mention that the Zhang family is far more powerful and difficult than these old Taoist priests of Nanyang.

Zhang Yuelu wants to wrestle with the Zhang family, and when she becomes the wife of the big palm or the big palm teacher, she naturally has this strength. But now Zhang Yuelu still forget it.

Zhang Yuelu understands this truth, and she doesn't have to knock herself to pieces, so she takes a detour - she goes to Qi Xuansu's side to be the master of her own house, and she doesn't mix with the Zhang family.

This is not to say that women have to be dependent on men to separate families, in fact, women can also, such as the princess and the concubine are to open a separate family tree, so as to avoid the problem that the princess has to be low in the clan. Of course, a princess who marries into a big family like the Li family doesn't count.

The key is to have a suitable name for separation, for Zhang Yuelu, she wants to split up for no reason, there must be many obstacles, and when she has the strength to break these obstacles, there is no need to split up, because at that time she has mostly reached the top. For her at this time

Marriage is the most appropriate name.

After Zhang Jicheng and Qi Niang agreed, they told the news to Zhang Jiqi and the couple and asked them to start preparing.

The couple didn't say anything, and just carried out the clan's decision.

Taiqiong doesn't like to go far away, but there is no reason to let Zhang Yuelu go home because of private abolition, so she went to Nanyang to see Zhang Yuelu in person.

In fact, when a big family gets married, for the newlyweds, it couldn't be simpler, as long as they are out of the house, and all the rest of the things are handled by others, so you don't have to think about it.

There are not many things to let Zhang Yue know, one is to inform Zhang Yuelu of relevant details, such as the dowry list, ceremony date, process arrangement, etc., to see if she has any other opinions, after all, Zhang Yuelu is not an ordinary child of the Zhang family, and she still has to respect her. The second is to customize the wedding dress for Zhang Yuelu, etc., which requires my own size, and cannot be made temporarily, and needs to be prepared in advance.

Of course, Zhang Yuelu has a lot of opinions, first of all, he opposes the wedding dress.

Why is it called the groom's officer? Because in the past, there were laws and regulations on who wore what clothes, merchants could not wear silk, and ordinary people could not wear official uniforms, except on the day of marriage. Even if it is a commoner, the groom can also wear an auspicious dress similar to the official uniform of the nine grades, and the bride can wear the phoenix crown and xia veil of the lady of the order, which can cross classes. Therefore, the word "official" in the groom's official comes from this.

Later, most of the Daomen were abolished, and the most obvious point was that the Daomen only distinguished the grades on the crown of the head, from the first-rank Taoist priest to the ninth-grade Taoist priest, all of them were unified with the crane.

Zhang Yuelu believes that since the Daomen advocates equality, there is no need to engage in this set again, it is enough for her and Qi Xuansu to wear the Daomen crane, which is also a precedent, and many people in the Daomen are married.

In addition, the dowry is simple, and the housing for the dowry is not wanted, she has residences in Xuandu and Taishangfang, and she doesn't need more houses, and it is a waste to be idle.

She can't control Qi Niang to buy a house for Qi Xuansu, she can always decide what she wants.

When the Li family marries the princess, the team of greeting relatives and the team of giving off can stretch for more than ten miles.

Even if it is not compared with the Li family, some decent female Taoist priests have several sets of wedding dresses. Even the wedding dress of Westerners, what is it called, you have to try it, how beautiful it is, after all, women should be pretty and filial.

Zhang Yuelu, a conservative, disagreed even more when he heard this, I only wear white for white things, and I wear crane for a good time.

At the same time, Zhang Yuelu also proposed that the etiquette should also be simplified, and the processes of receiving relatives, braziers, worshipping heaven and earth, and making a hole in the house were canceled together, and there was no need for any fairy, birds, and beasts to pull the car.

Daomen people should take "frugality" as the standard, and Qi Xuansu's apprenticeship is very good.

Tan Taiqiong has never understood what this daughter is thinking in her head, and even once thought that she had bumped into it, or that there was something wrong with her pregnancy, and now she doesn't understand it even more: "Zhang Yuelu, let me tell you, a woman has this opportunity in her life, and if she misses it, she misses it, you don't regret it."

Zhang Yuelu was holding a book, covering her face, hearing this, she moved the book in her hand down slightly, revealing a pair of phoenix eyes: "I, Zhang Yuelu, never regret doing things."

Taiqiong was furious, but she couldn't help this daughter and walked away.

The mother and daughter had a very bad quarrel because of this incident.

In the end, it was Zhang Kuqi, the old father, who came out to reconcile, hoping that his daughter and wife would take a step back and reach a compromise.

Originally, Qi Xuansu should have come forward in this matter, he was also a party, and he also had to participate in these procedures, if he did not agree to reduce the procedures and dowry, it would be an internal conflict between the husband and wife.

However, Qi Xuansu couldn't be separated, and he didn't have time to participate in the opinions.

For he had already arrived at the gate of the palace in Kukulkan.