Chapter 1170 Postscript 26·Dancing for the entertainment of Chinese sages of all dynasties
Early summer time.
Xie Yan got up early in the morning to dress up. Chen Shangshu arranged two maids for him and invited a master who specialized in shaving.
Today I want to visit the Confucian Temple!
Xie Yan has begun to grow a beard, which is so hairy that it can only be seen if you get close. Those plush beards have also been carefully shaved.
Next came shaving, eyebrow shaping, and even sideburns.
After washing his face again, the shaving master had left. The maids tied Xie Yan's hair into a bun, and then carefully put on the Confucian crown.
There are two types of Confucian crowns in the Ming Dynasty.
One is the Dongpo scarf from the late Northern Song Dynasty. Officials who passed the Jinshi examination can wear it, and ordinary people can wear it as long as they like it.
One type is modified from the Dongpo scarf, which is shorter and more compact, looks simple and neat, and is exclusive to Confucian students who have not passed the Jinshi examination.
Xie Yan is wearing the second type today.
The Confucian robe on his body is all white, which means being a pure man. This is actually the swan robe worn by Confucian scholars in the Song Dynasty, also called white robe. The swan is the swan, which symbolizes the ambition of the swan.
Hang up the jasper waist badge.
The eyes of several maids were bright as they looked at the handsome young man in white robes!
"Mr. Lang looks even better today." Yan Yan couldn't help but admire, and blamed herself for not being beautiful, otherwise she might be able to please Xie Liulang.
She was brought from Shaanxi by Mrs. Xia. She is already eighteen years old and will be getting married in a few years.
Generally, if you marry the valet of the Chen family, you can continue to work here.
If you marry outside, you may lose your job.
Among the young maids from wealthy families, only a few serve their masters personally and can be used as confidants. More ordinary maids will be fired when they are in their twenties, and when their contracts expire, they will go home to get married and have children.
Anyway, you can recruit at any time, teenage girls are more pleasing to the eye, and serving tea and water when guests come is more honorable.
Of course, the maids who do chores in the outer courtyard are not so particular, and are mainly done by healthy women in their thirties and forties. These healthy women are strong, work quickly, and are not pretentious, making arousal more pleasant.
Xie Hong and Chen Duan were waiting outside. Xie Yan packed up and hurried out.
The Confucian Temple is in the southeastern part of the city.
They first sent Xie Yan to the Confucian Temple, and then left the city to the eastern suburbs dock.
Xie Hong is going back to Hebei and Chen Duan is going back to Shaanxi. The provincial examination will be held in two or three months, and they both have to go back to their hometowns in advance to prepare.
The streets outside the Confucian Temple are densely packed with people.
Xie Yan is particularly eye-catching. He is a young man, wearing the clothes of a Confucian scholar who has not been admitted to the Jinshi, but he has a jasper white belt hanging around his waist. There are many people who have these elements, but some people have both at the same time.
He is the only one.
"But Bachelor Xie Chaozong?" A young scholar came up to strike up a conversation.
Xie Yan returned the greeting and said, "It's just that you are not talented."
The young bachelor was in his thirties, with a white medicinal jade hanging around his waist. He was considered young and promising among scholars.
The two of them didn't chat for a few words when another scholar came over.
Xie Yan could only keep returning the greetings, and then slowly moved towards the gate of the Confucian Temple.
Finally, a junior official from the Ministry of Etiquette came over and shouted: "Fellow bachelors, please arrange your team first and arrange them according to the bachelor's level..."
There are five levels of royal bachelors in the Ming Dynasty, namely: jade, rose, hibiscus, sapphire, and medicinal jade.
In the Song Dynasty, "jade" was already used to refer to jade, but it was not clear what kind of jade it was.
Today's jadeite, the kind of jadeite of later generations, was named by Emperor Taizong himself in order to encourage expansion to the south.
The reason why the Bachelor of Jadeite is designated as the first grade is not only because of its beauty, but also because of its high hardness, which is not easy to carve with ancient techniques.
It’s not easy, it’s a luxury!
The Rose Waist Card is not simply Opal, its main body is Hetian Jade, with a high-quality Opal gemstone embedded in the middle.
The hibiscus waist medal is not an ordinary hibiscus stone, it is carved from the finest pink Dushan jade.
Senior bachelors arrived one after another, including many administrative bureaucrats. But it was difficult to identify them from their clothes, because today they were all wearing official attire, and they were all wearing sacrificial robes.
Although Xie Yan was invited to attend the official meeting, there was no special care for him when he paid homage to the Confucian Temple.
Because there were too many people, he couldn't even enter the inner courtyard, so he could only follow a group of Jasper bachelors to worship in the open space inside the gate of the Confucian Temple.
The lower level Medicine and Jade Bachelors were even lined up outside the gate of the Confucian Temple.
Xie Yan had already heard from his father and brother that the Confucian Temple in Ming Dynasty was not the Confucius Temple.
Confucius's biological father and a large number of Confucian disciples had already been invited out of the Confucian Temple. Instead, sages from all dynasties were invited in. Not only Zhang Heng and Shen Kuo were invited in, but even the much-criticized Cai Lun was invited in.
The last person Emperor Taizong personally ordered to be invited to the Confucian Temple was Bi Sheng, who, like Cai Lun, had made important contributions to the spread of culture.
There are also ancient mathematicians such as Zu Chongzhi and Liu Hui.
There are also astronomers such as Jia Kui and geographers such as Pei Xiu.
There are also many sages in the field of culture. Even Wang Xizhi, Wu Daozi, Li Bai, Du Fu and others were invited to the Confucian Temple.
The memorial tablets in the Confucian Temple are quite crowded.
Only one scholar was enshrined in the dynasty, and that was Zhu Guoxiang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty!
Generally speaking, the emperor should be enshrined in the Imperial Temple. No matter how outstanding his martial arts skills are, he will not enter the Wenwu Temple.
The person who invited Zhu Guoxiang into the Confucian Temple to worship him was Zhu Ming's good grandson, the Yanchun Emperor Zhu Tang, who had reigned for eighteen years.
Zhu Tang has done many similar tricks, such as canceling the Yellow Emperor era, adding magical stories to the history books of the current dynasty, building Ziyun Pavilion to worship the 48 civil and military figures who founded the Ming Dynasty, etc.
He even wanted to invite Ju Ming into the Martial Arts Temple, but he gave up because there were too many people who opposed it.
So, why is there not much opposition to Zhu Guoxiang’s entry into the Confucian Temple?
Because Lao Zhu has many disciples and grandchildren!
At that time, a large number of science scholars, science scholars, and science students broke into fierce debates with the opponents. The science scholars, who had never been very prominent, suddenly united and exploded with great strength. They used rigorous logical thinking to easily refute those who cited classics and classics.
Literati.
"Master Xian, please come forward!"
"Fengxian officer, please go this way."
"Priest-accompanying officer, please come forward and follow me."
"Jade Maester, please move forward..."
The lead students from the Ministry of Rites, accompanied by elegant music, began to arrange the positions of the participants.
Xie Yan lined up with the other Jasper Bachelors and moved forward a little.
Everyone was in place, and Thongtsensheng shouted: "The ceremony is completed!"
Then the song was changed, and Yin Zansheng stood up and guided the sacrificial officer to the place of worship.
The main presenting officer and the sub-presenting officer recited the offering table one after another, praising the achievements of the Chinese sages of past dynasties, explaining the significance of this sacrifice, and finally wishing Chinese academics prosperity.
"Kneel down!" Tong Chansheng shouted.
Xie Yan stared at the Jasper Bachelor in front of him. He would do whatever the other person did and quickly knelt down with him.
"Kowtow!"
After Xie Yan traveled through time, he had never knelt down and knelt down before anyone.
At this moment, he had no psychological burden. What was enshrined inside was the sages of the Chinese dynasties. He should kneel down and worship him due to emotion and reason. Anyway, he was not a living person.
"Kowtow again!"
"Kowtow three times!"
"rise!"
"Dance to entertain the sages!"
Xie Yan followed the crowd to perform radio gymnastics, twisting his whole body and performing square dances for the sages of the past generations.
"receive!"
"It's done!"
The lead students have already run to the outside: "Retreat one by one!"
Xie Yan followed the example of the others, taking a step back while maintaining the bowing posture, then straightened his waist, turned around and walked out slowly.
It's quite interesting. Not only is there a dancing part, but there is also music accompaniment throughout the whole process, with a total of seven different songs.
Walking out of the street where the Confucian Temple is located, Xie Yan heard someone shouting: "For those of you who have invitations to the academic conference, please go to Wencui Street. The carriage is ready. For those of you who don't have invitations, please stay away."
To be continued...