Daming Military Empire

Chapter 294
Restricted to the year of men and women, marriage, and six ceremonies, this is the regulation on wedding in "Book of Rites". The "Law" completely inherited the "Book of Rites" about the wedding, which is also the six rituals.

As the emperor, Zhu Cijiong naturally took the lead in following the "Law of the Ming Dynasty". Na Cai, Wen Ming, Na Ji, Na Zheng, due dates and personal greetings are all indispensable, but for the final personal greeting, he does not have to go to the queen's house to greet him personally. Send a grand welcoming mission to greet the relatives on his behalf, and he only needs to wait in the palace.

This acceptance means giving gifts and discussing marriage. First, the matchmaker is invited to test the woman's tone. Usually, the matchmaker is asked to bring the bride price to the woman's home to propose marriage. After the woman's family accepts the gift, even if it is a promise to discuss marriage, the two parties can further negotiate. .

This name asking is to ask the woman's name and date of birth. After the woman agrees to discuss marriage through "Nacai", the man's family will take the initiative to send the "Book of Geng" with the man's name, date of birth, and ask the matchmaker to send it to the woman's home. Ask Geng Shu.After the Gengshu exchange between the two parties, the man asked a fortune teller to calculate whether the "fate" is suitable.If you agree, you will marry, if you don't agree, you will let go.

This Najib gave gifts and got engaged, and the man and woman had the same "horoscope", and the man's family formally prepared a gift and asked a matchmaker to come to the door with the "Letter of Engagement" to propose marriage. " as proof.

This is to apply for a dowry gift and make a formal engagement. After the man's family receives the letter of consent from the woman's family, he will choose an auspicious day to bring gifts and the matchmaker will accompany the father and son of the man's family to the woman's family to meet the in-laws and formally engage. The woman needs to use a matchmaker to return the man with shoes or embroidered handkerchiefs sewn by herself as engagement tokens.

The date of request is the date of engagement. The man’s family invites someone to choose the date of marriage. After the date of marriage is set, the man writes a "Letter of Invitation" in the name of his parents and sends a matchmaker to deliver it to the woman.The bride's family gets the letter of invitation, and if there is no objection to the date of marriage, both parties can discuss the amount of bride price the man's family should pay and matters related to the marriage.

This kiss means that the bridegroom will marry the bride in person, and the kiss is the last of the "six rituals", so it is also called "marriage".At that time, the families of both men and women will post couplets, decorate with lanterns and festoons, and entertain guests.On the day of the wedding, the man's family will go to the woman's house to welcome the bride, consisting of the escort, the bride, the Suona class, and the dowry delivery staff.After the welcoming team arrives at the woman's home, the married girl bids farewell to relatives and friends, covers her face with a red silk veil, and boards a sedan chair to go to her husband's home.The bridal sedan chair goes back to the groom's door, and the groom, accompanied by his relatives and friends, personally welcomes the bride and groom to get off the sedan chair and enter the main room, worshiping heaven and earth, ancestors, and parents, and then sending them into the bridal chamber.At this point, the "six rituals" are completed, and the man and woman are officially married.

The matchmaker invited by the emperor for his marriage naturally needs to be of sufficient weight. In addition to the members of the royal family, there are only three most important matchmakers in the Ming Dynasty. One is Sun Chengzong, the Duke of Zhen, the other is Xu Guangqi, the Minister of Rites, and the other is King Zhennan. Zheng Zhilong.

Taifu Sun Chengzong and Taishi Xu Guangqi are both old, and Zhu Cijiong doesn't want them to be too tired, so the mission of the matchmaker falls on the young and vigorous Zhennan Wang Zhengzhi.Although Zheng Zhilong was born as a pirate leader, since he became King of Zhennan, he has lost the slightest interest in fighting and killing, but he is very interested in negotiating, watching ceremonies, and other activities that can show his status. It is a great honor for the emperor to be a matchmaker. Naturally, he ran over from Jinling in a hurry, busy with Zhu Cijiong's wedding, and was extremely busy.

The royal family’s acceptance and name asking are still a bit different from those of the folk. On this day, Zhu Cijiong was notified that a grand acceptance and name asking ceremony will be held. The Qianqing Palace has long been decorated with flowers and beams. He waited in a side hall in a formal attire, and when the official of the Qin Tianjian said "The auspicious time has come" from outside, he walked into the main hall of the Qianqing Palace surrounded by a group of Jinyi guards and eunuchs to the sound of festive music , sit on the dragon chair and wait.

At this time, the court ministers and princes and nobles were already standing below. They were actually invited to watch the ceremony. The ceremony began. After reading the imperial edict, Zhu Cijiong stood up and personally appointed Zhennan Wang Zheng Zhilong and Ministry of Industry Minister Bi Maokang as the chief and deputy angels, and went to Zhongzhenhou Qin Liangyu's house to ask for their names.

In the sound of the music, Zheng Zhilong and Bi Maokang took the ceremonies representing the emperor, held the imperial edict bestowed by the emperor, and led a large group of people to beat gongs and drums, and rushed to Zhongzhenhou's mansion.

Why is it Zhongzhenhou's Mansion?To say that Qin Mingyue's life experience is quite miserable, his father Qin Minping died for the country as early as the fourth year of Tianqi (AD 1624) when the She'an Rebellion was put down, and his two uncles even died as early as the first year of Taichang (1621 AD). In [-] A.D., she died in a bloody battle with the Houjin Tieqi in the Hunhe War. At this time, the Qin family’s previous generation had no males, except her aunt Qin Liangyu, so she could only live in Zhongzhenhou’s Mansion , Waiting for the emperor to marry.

Naturally, no one dares to disagree with the emperor's acceptance and asking of names. The so-called acceptance and asking of names are just a formality. When the mighty rushed to Zhongzhenhou's mansion, Zhongzhenhou Qin Liangyu had already knelt and waited at the gate for a long time.

This process is not very complicated. First, Qin Liangyu accepts the gift according to the decree, expresses gratitude, and then begins to hold a grand name asking ceremony. Zheng Zhilong, and then treat Zheng Zhilong and Bi Maokang to a meal, and it's over.

Najib and Yingzheng have nothing to say, Zheng Zhilong and Bi Maokang were the ones to handle it, Zhu Cijiong just paid for it, he will not be stingy with Qin Mingyue and the Qin family, not to mention other gifts, the gold alone is 10 taels, Silver is 100 million taels, and other jewelry is worthless!

After Najib and the applicants, it was time to apply. The wedding was finally scheduled on December 24th, which was an auspicious day, which means double happiness. This so-called double happiness is not because the 24th is Christmas. Christmas is not yet celebrated, and the solar term counted on the 24th is a traditional solar term, a small year.

On the 24th, the entire capital city was even more lively than New Year’s Eve. The people in the capital city all put up lanterns and festoons to celebrate the emperor’s wedding. Qian, they are also very grateful to the current emperor, so the firecrackers along the way are almost full, and the deafening sound of firecrackers is heard wherever the welcoming team goes. It is said that on this day, the firecrackers in the capital and even the entire North Zhili were bought out It's in stock, it was prepared for the New Year's Eve, but it was sold out in the New Year's Eve!
At this time, Qin Liangyu had already led the whole family, old and young, to kneel at the gate to welcome the bride-to-be, and the welcome envoy loudly proclaimed an edict. Amidst the sound of drums and music, the guards in brocade guards carried the Empress Liyu and Longting into the front yard, and then the eunuchs carried them to the front yard. In front of the "embroidered building" in the backyard, park according to the "auspicious orientation" designated by the officials of the Qin Tianjian.

Qin Liangyu, wearing a queen's dress and a phoenix coronet, made a brilliant appearance, knelt down to accept the gold book and gold treasure, and then went back to the "lounge" to wait for the auspicious time.

As soon as the auspicious time came, the empress ascended the throne and set off. The brigade passed through the front gate, walked along the imperial road, passed the Daming Gate, entered Tiananmen, Duanmen, and arrived at the Meridian Gate.The team entered the Forbidden City from the central opening of the Meridian Gate, passed through the Taihe Gate, and arrived at the Qianqing Gate.The queen entered the gate of Qianqing with a guard of honor, and eunuchs and court ladies lined up to clap their hands as a sign of warm welcome.Amidst the sound of drums, the officials of the Ministry of Rites presented the Queen's gold book and gold treasures, and handed them over to relevant people for display in the Jiaotai Hall behind the Qianqing Palace. Or follow along, send it to Kunning Palace to worship the heaven and the earth, and make great gifts.

There are also quite a few people who came to watch the ceremony, not only the court ministers, princes and nobles, but also the missions of the countries. Most of the missions from the European continent happened to stay in Daming to learn Chinese, and they were also invited to watch the ceremony. It is especially worth mentioning The most important thing is that the three vassal countries of Korea, Dongying, and Ryukyu were all led by the crown prince himself, and came to watch the ceremony to show their respect for Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Cijiong didn't expect the emperor to be a groom so easily. The hardest time for him was when he was wearing that dress. He basically didn't need to take care of other things. Someone took care of it for him. The two empress dowagers, after the husband and wife worship each other, it is the "bridal chamber".

Zhu Cijiong is the emperor, so naturally no one dared to drink him, and no one dared to come to the bridal chamber, so he walked into the bridal chamber in a peaceful manner. He has not been in the bridal chamber in two lifetimes, and Qin Mingyue is a rare beauty , getting along day and night, he endured it very hard, so at this moment he was acting quite impatient, and directly stepped forward and lifted the red hijab, met his eyes and drank a glass of wine in a hurry, and then...

Then you can no longer write, everyone understands.

(End of this chapter)