On May 27 of the sixth year of Xuanhe (1124 AD), under the leadership of the inner servant, I went to the Daqing Hall to prepare for the enthronement gift. Daqing Hall is the main hall of the palace, is the most majestic and magnificent palace in the palace, the whole hall plane is in the shape of "work", the main hall is composed of nine houses, there are five houses at the east and west ends on the side, there are 60 rooms in the east and west corridors, the steps in front of the main hall are sand mounds, there is the Zhai Su Hall behind the main hall, the flat land in front of the palace steps is vast and open, can accommodate tens of thousands of people, the courtyard also lists the law driving honor guard, the two bell and drum towers confront each other. The car of the Son of Heaven and the battle are all displayed, and it is not enough to occupy the entire palace. There are two buildings facing each other in the court, called the "Bell and Drum Tower", and there are the subordinates of the Taishi Bureau on the upper floor to measure and inspect the leaks. Every hour and moment, the chicken man sings the time and beats a drum, so there is a man in green clothes holding a tooth card to tell the hour. Every certain moment, say "a few drums at a certain time", and every certain time, say "a certain time". The old name of Daqing Hall is "Chongyuan", Taizu Qiande four years (966) rebuilt, renamed "Qianyuan Palace", Taizong Taiping Xingguo (976--979), Zhenzong Dazhong Xiangfu (1008-1016), because of the fire and successively changed its name to "Chaoyuan" and "Tian'an", Renzong Jinghu (1034-1038), Fang changed its name to "Daqing Palace". All New Year's Day, winter solstice, holy festival congratulatory gifts, canonization of honorific titles, etc. are held here.

In the afternoon, I arrived at the Zhaisu Hall behind the Daqing Palace, according to the custom, I will rest here in the evening, waiting for the enthronement ceremony to be held tomorrow, and at this time I am surrounded by the East Palace guards, the Imperial City Division guards, the soldiers sent by the Kaifeng Mansion and many other guards, from the inside to the outside of the real hall guards can not even fly a bird in. At night, in addition to the guard of honor and the guards in the inner hall of the palace, there are soldiers wearing small hats with brocade brimming and wide shirts sewn with brocade, and soldiers with silver and black lacquer staffs in their hands. They replied, "Yes." The man shouted again: Who is it? Everyone replied, "All the people in front of the palace commanded Tong Guan." The teams took turns shouting and shouting, without stopping.

At the same time, a police station was set up outside the Xuande Gate, and the forbidden army that served as a guard was called "Wuyan soldiers". There are 200 drums in the police station, and the number of horns corresponds to the number. The trumpets were made of colored silk and tied to them like small flagtails. The soldiers wore small hats, yellow embroidered foreheads, yellow embroidered shirts, and narrow blue shirts. From 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and at the third watch, martial law drums were beaten. Before each drum, the horn is sounded: after the horn is sounded, a military school holds a long, soft rattan with a vermilion whisk tied to it, and the drummer looks at the whisk, dancing with the whisk high or low, and responds to the command of the whisk with the height of the drum. The police field is the eve of the enthronement ceremony of the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, in the palace hall, the temple and other places to stay fast, set up the system of "night police and morning strict", by the guards play music and drums, the night of the police clears, called the "police field". It also refers to the guards who are responsible for keeping the drums at night. A whisk is dust.

And at this time, in the bell and drum tower in the Daqing Palace, the test is carved and leaked, and every hour, the chicken man sings the time, beats a drum, so there is a person in green clothes holding a tooth card to play the hour. Every certain moment, say "a few drums at a certain time", and every certain time, say "a certain time".

Test leakage is to observe and test the leakage of carving, a kind of timer in ancient times, the bottom of the pot is perforated, the pot is filled with water, the water is a wrong buoy with a scale, the water leakage in the pot is gradually reduced, and the degree on the arrow is gradually revealed, and the time can be known. The ancients believed that the invention time of the missing carving can be traced back to the legendary Yellow Emperor era, "the Yellow Emperor created a view of water leakage in the past, and the utensils were taken to divide the day and night." At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, the general of Qi State, Sima Suizhi, waited for Zhuang Jia in the army, and Zhuang Jia was executed if he did not disobey the order, which shows that the omission was more commonly used at that time. In the course of historical development, different structural forms have been developed, and the working materials used are water, mercury, iron pills, etc., which are used in different fields. In the Song Dynasty, the four major timekeeping tools were pot leakage, incense leakage, sundial watch and roller leakage carving. The water leak used by the Sitian mechanism was a well-made and precisely measured leak, representing the highest timekeeping accuracy at that time. Every hour and moment to make a chicken sing: every hour and every hour, the official responsible for reporting the time sings. The 12-hour system of the Song Dynasty is to divide the day into 12 hours, and the two hours are equivalent to the current two hours. In the Song Dynasty, the time of the day and night was divided into 100 equal parts, and each part was called "one moment". Due to the change in the length of day and night in a year, the Song Dynasty system "leaked 40 minutes during the day and 60 minutes during the night on the winter solstice". The principle of the 100-tick chronograph system is to divide the amount of water dripping into 100 scales of distance in a day and night, and take the time when the water flows for one tick.

In the Song Dynasty, the people in the court who were in charge of more leaks were called "chicken people". The Song Dynasty chicken singing was developed from the Tang Dynasty chicken people, and the Song Dynasty Taigen Bureau had "chicken singing three". In the Tang Dynasty, there were chickens singing lyrics, and the five dynasties gradually abandoned them, and the singing and harmony were stopped. In the fourth year of Jingde of Renzong of the Northern Song Dynasty (1007), Si Tianjian wrote to ask for the reuse of the old words, "send the edict to the two systems in detail, and pay it to learn to sing". Whenever the big ceremony, the drum, the building, the cabinet, the banquet, the day change, the night change, the chicken people will sing, such as the five watch after five o'clock when the drum when the chicken sings the lyrics: "Morning light, ten thousand households open, the ministers admonish." Ping Danyin, towards the color, Thai time to listen. The sun rises, Rui Lu looks, and the auspicious light surrounds. Eat the hour, climb the six music, recommend the eight treasures. Yu Zhongsi, when Shaoyang, the big rope discipline. At noon in the south of the day, the world is bright, and everything is seen. The sun is not shining, the sunset is flying, and the evening is clear. Shen Shishen, listen to the morning time, and concentrate on it. The sun enters the west, the group is moving, and the shoulders are strictly guarded. "Usually change the moment and change the point.

On the morning of May 28 in the sixth year of Xuanhe (1124 AD), Sixiang and many maids dressed neatly for me, and came to the door of the Daqing Hall under the crowd of people, only to see that the door was full of letter flags, dragon flags, wind birds, guide cars, wooden chariots, elephant chariots, leather chariots, gold chariots, jade chariots and other honor guard chariots, which extended to the royal street outside, the Praetorian Guards were neatly dressed, and tens of thousands of elite cavalry surrounded the palace. The letter flag is the official number of the Song Dynasty inscription, used as a symbol, and is a kind of flag made of various patterns and colors. There are green dragon flags, vermilion bird flags, Xuanwu flags, white tiger flags, yellow dragon flags, and the five flags are complete and the four directions of the world are edicted. The dragon flag is a kind of banner in the Song Dynasty, the early Song Dynasty was subordinate to the front team in the honor guard, Hui Zongzheng and the period (1111-1118) from the Lu book team independent, formed a special dragon flag team, listed behind the Vermilion Bird flag team. Xiangfeng Bird is also known as "Xiangfeng Wu", which is an instrument for observing wind direction in the astronomical meteorology of the Song Dynasty. It is often used as an imperial ceremonial guard, uploading a long pole, the end of the rod is carved with a crow pattern, a weeping goose feather tube, a red ribbon, a small plate under the bear, a skirt around the perimeter, and an embroidered bird shape. The guide car is a car used by the Great Song Dynasty to indicate the direction, according to legend, it was created by the Yellow Emperor, and later Zhang Heng of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ma Jun of the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Liu Song Zu Chongzhi, Later Zhao Wei Meng and Xie Fei, and Later Qin Linghusheng all built a guide car. Originally, it was mostly used for military purposes, and since the Jin Dynasty, the emperor's car driving record book mostly used a guide car as a guide. Pure wood color, painted on both sides of the green dragon, white tiger, west flowers and birds on all sides, heavy platform, hook room, building arch, four corners hanging incense sachet. There are immortals, and although the car turns to the west, it often points to the south. The wooden chariot, the elephant chariot, the leather chariot, the golden chariot, and the jade chariot are the species used by the emperors of the Song Dynasty in the five chariots of the Son of Heaven.

At this time, the old man Huizong of Song Dynasty was also walking towards me with a smile on his face under the support of everyone, followed by many court ministers, including Tong Guan, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, Cai Mao, the chief minister and the envoy of the Privy Council, Cai Jing, the prime minister and the servant of the disciple Bai Shizhong, the ruler and the right scholar Yu Wencuizhong, the ruler and the scholar Zuocheng Zhang Bangchang, the prime minister and the Chinese scholar Li Bangyan, the school inspector Liang Shicheng, the ruling and imperial history of the middle Cheng Zhao Ye, the prime minister Wang Hao, Cai You Taibao, the Weiyuan Jiedu envoy Zhu Mian, the Taiwei Gao Yu, the eunuch Tan Zhi, Hundreds of people including Li Yan, the head of Ouchi.

The prime ministers, consuls, and officials all wore the rank prescribed by the law, and the tiaras they wore were of different ranks. The prime minister, the consul, and the prince wear a sable crown, nine beams, seven attendant officials, and the rest of the officials are different from six beams to two beams. The so-called "beam" refers to the arrangement of golden tung leaves on the forehead beam of the crown. All officials wore red gowns, trimmed with black edges, wore a square heart collar around the neck, wore a undergarment, tied with jade, and wore cloud-shaped boots on the front. The rest of the stewards were all dressed in red robes, and there were also differences in rank. Only the people of the gate and the Yushitai wear a square heart round neck. Those on duty in the temple were given yellow square plates, and the rest of the people on duty were given yellow or red square and long plates, each with its own place to go.

The cicada crown is a crown decorated with a mink tail and a cicada. Originally Hu Guan, decorated with gold bell and mink tail, it was introduced into Zhao State when Hu Fu was riding and shooting at the time of the Warring States Zhao Wuling King, as the crown uniform of the soldiers, so it belonged to the product of Hu and Han cultural integration. When Qin unified the Six Kingdoms, it adopted this crown dress of Zhao and restructured it into a hat decorated with cicada patterns and mink tails, which became the special clothing of the emperor's close attendants, hence the name "Diao Chan Crown". In the Han Dynasty, the Diao Chan Crown was endowed with elegant and far-reaching cultural significance by the literati, and was believed to represent the sincerity and expectation of the ancient emperors for the spiritual realm and political talents of the courtiers. Since then, the sable crown has been regarded as a symbol of nobility and rank. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, it was abused and extremely chaotic. Emperor Wen of Sui once rectified the system of wearing Diao Chan among officials and strictly limited the scope of use. The Song Dynasty Diao Chan Crown, also known as the "cage scarf", belongs to the highest level of crown clothing except for the Son of Heaven. Its shape has changed on the basis of the previous generation, the Song Dynasty "Zhao Cicada Crown" and "Boat Cicada Crown" a "cage scarf", weaving rattan lacquer. The shape is square, such as a flat scarf horizontal. Decorated with silver, there is a silver flower in front, the upper drop out of the hat cicada, the left and right are three small cicadas, the street jade nose, the left plug tail. Compared with the previous generation, the ornaments of the Song Dynasty wearing cicada crowns were more exquisite, and the cicada ornaments increased from the original one to four, and the range of magnates wearing sable cicadas also expanded, and they wore crowns with different numbers of beams according to official products.

Square heart curved collar: the ornament set on the collar of the Song Dynasty court dress, the upper circle and the lower part, resembling a Luoluo, is the most significant feature of the Song Dynasty court dress. The curved collar is a decorative belt attached to the collar, which is generally made of white luo, worn as an ornament, and attached to the outer chest of the garment, which plays the role of pressing the collar of the neck, flattening the collar, and being strict and polite. From the Northern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang dynasties, it was semicircular, lined under the chest of the underwear, making the curved collar plump and convex. The imperial and seven-rank officials are all used in the uniforms, and they need to be worn when the court ranks and holds ceremonial ceremonies. After the Tang Dynasty, this collar was lost, and the Song Dynasty began to make the square heart curved collar into a collar drooping square heart type, and the upper circle and the lower part reflect the concept of the sky and the round place.

As the carved chicken man chanted and told the time: The auspicious time has arrived! I heard the sound of cheerful and elegant drums around me, and under the guidance of the attendants, I completed the complex and simple Zen position procedure under the gaze of the old man and the hundred officials. Then the firecrackers rang out throughout the Daqing Hall and the inner city of the palace, I came to the door of the ceremony with the old man, and waved to everyone in the hall, since then I am the master of the Great Song Dynasty, looking at the dense crowd in the Great Ceremony, my heart can't help but rise a kind of world-wide, only I think of it, this scene is worth a lifetime to recall, but also represents that the old man has completely unloaded the burden of the Song Dynasty at present, and I want to take advantage of this opportunity to put death and come to life, We absolutely cannot and will not allow the historical tragedy of the Jingkang Disaster to be repeated.