While he was thinking about this, Zhao Yanhao caught a glimpse of Li Renjun on the side taking out a "pocket watch" the size of a horseshoe alarm clock from his arms. Then he realized that he always wore the quartz watch he brought before traveling, so he always used the "clock" used by the military and police.
No. 6 pocket watch "as an alarm clock..."
Just recovering from the embarrassment, the sedan has already headed west to the fourth gate - Guangfu Gate. The surrounding view is very wide. Not far away, the dragon pond of the hill is reflected, the roof of Benzai Paradise, and even the Enkakuji Temple.
The gates are all vivid in my mind.
Passing through Guangfu Gate and turning northwest, you will find the last palace gate - Fengshen Gate, which is located on several stone steps and imitates a Chinese palace gate. There are two small gates on both sides of Fengshen Gate.
It is for Ryukyu civil and military officials to enter and exit. However, since Zhao Yanhao is an envoy, he naturally enters through the middle gate - there are stone railings on both sides of the steps leading to the middle gate, although Zhao Yanhao looks very crude.
After passing the Fengshen Gate, the front suddenly became brighter - the Imperial Court, which was covered with red and gray tiles and could accommodate thousands of people, suddenly appeared in front of Zhao Yanhao. At the end of the Imperial Court was the King of Ryukyu's court.
, the Imperial Palace used for major ceremonies. On the north and south sides of the Imperial Palace, there are the Japanese-style South Palace and the Chinese-style North Palace, which seem to have been built recently to accommodate ceremonies and daily official work.
While Zhao Yanhao was looking around, King Shang Feng, the Third Siguan and others who were leading the way had already stood in the temporary pavilion built in front of the imperial palace and started reading under the stage - opposite to the main entrance of the main palace.
The main hall of Shuri Castle is also called Hyakuura Sogoden. It is divided into three floors. On both sides of the stone steps below, there are two stone dragon statues several meters high. There are also three Fujian-style drum towers on the stone steps, which are towering.
, the bottom is painted with cloud patterns. The pillars of the main hall and Tang Po Feng are painted with tung oil. The color is very bright and has a Ryukyu style. The middle layer of the main hall is hung with silk curtains embroidered with dragon and phoenix patterns. Zhao Yanhao saw that there seemed to be several people wearing
Women in brightly colored Ryukyu clothes were gathering together, secretly peeking out from the curtain to watch the conferment ceremony - these were probably the Ryukyu princesses, princesses and high-ranking female officials.
The officers parked the dragon pavilion in front of the reading platform, and the two colorful pavilions were placed on both sides of the dragon pavilion. Zhao Yanhao got off the sedan, walked to the dragon pavilion, and then walked onto the Queting.
, Li Renjun, who continued to act as a guest official, and Zheng Ju, who pretended to be an official, stood under the steps of the palace. The servants who had been waiting for a long time quickly carried the incense case and the incense burner to the dragon pavilion and set them up.
Seeing that the incense burners were set up, more than a dozen Ryukyu musicians standing behind the officials, dressed in colorful and elegant clothes, picked up their traditional Ryukyuan instruments such as guzheng, sanshin, flute, taiko, sambo, and three-pan board and started playing, with a solemn and solemn tone.
, a peaceful and harmonious atmosphere suddenly filled Shuri Castle.
Although it is played with Ryukyuan instruments, it has quite the style of Gagaku. Speaking of Japanese Gagaku, there are many legacy of Tang music, and it is probably similar here...
At this time, Zhao Yanhao saw a familiar figure - Zheng Jue's father, Zheng Zixiao, who was serving as the ceremony official, led King Shangfeng to the incense table. Seeing that the king was in place, the musicians temporarily stopped playing, and Zheng Zixiao followed
After shouting "Kneel down", the Ryukyu officials on both sides took their positions according to the red and gray tiles spread on the ground, and they all knelt down and worshiped on the ground.
Zheng Zixiao shouted again at the top of his lungs: "Shang Xiang!"
The officer kneeling on the right side of the incense table quickly presented the incense to King Shotoyo. King Shotoyo offered the incense three times, then knelt down and bowed five times and kowtowed three times with the Ryukyu officials behind him.
Then Zhao Yanhao walked down the court and walked up to the reading desk with Li Renjun and Zheng Jue. Zhao Yanhao put the brown paper bag containing the red-headed documents on the desk. Cai Ze, the Zijin doctor, saw that the envoys were already in place and quickly shouted: "Open
Read!" Ryukyu musicians started playing music again.
Zheng Zixiao shouted: "Kneel down!"
Li Renjun and Zheng Jue, one on the left and the other on the right, took out the red-headed document from the brown paper bag and unfolded it. Zhao Yanhao cleared his throat and read aloud:
"The Senate of the Song Dynasty issued an edict to confer the title of King Shangfeng of Ryukyu Zhongshan:
With the approval of the Senate of the Song Dynasty, Shang Feng was recognized as the eighth generation king of Zhongshan in Ryukyu. He was also appointed as the Jiedushi of Zhongshan and Shangzhu Kingdom. He was appointed as the official Jin Ziguanglu and the inspector Sikong.
All the kings of Zhongshan in the past were devoted to the Song Dynasty and never forgot their mission and responsibility as kings. They were looked upon by the people of the Ryukyu Kingdom and respected by the world. Now the succession of King Zhongshan of Ryukyu has been legalized and specially customized according to history.
The King of Zhongshan held a canonization ceremony and awarded the king and princess with documents in both Han and Ryukyu languages, as well as various national gifts to show honors and commendations, in order to continue to carry forward the historical tradition of loving China, loving the Song Dynasty and loving the Senate, so as to benefit the development and progress of Ryukyu and the prosperity and happiness of the people.
The country prospered.
The Senate of the Song Dynasty
April 20, 1635"
Seeing Zhao Yanhao finish reading the "Edict", Zheng Zixiao quickly shouted "Ping Shen", and Shang Feng and all the officials stood up one by one. When Zheng Zixiao saw this scene, although he kept silent on the surface, he couldn't help but feel excited in his heart.
Proud: I didn't expect that even the king would kneel down in front of his own boy - even though he was pretending to be powerful, this kind of treatment could not be enjoyed even by his uncle Zheng Zuo when he was alive.
"I didn't expect this unlucky boy to be so up to date," the old man couldn't help feeling proud.
Li Renjun and Zheng Jue quickly took out another red-headed document from another brown paper bag, then unfolded it and took it. Zhao Yanhao continued to read:
"The decision of the Senate of the Song Dynasty to award valuable items to King Shangfeng and his wife of Ryukyu Zhongshan:
On the occasion of the enthronement of King Zhongshan of Ryukyu, in order to further promote the good development of the relationship between the monarch and ministers of Song and Ryukyu and fully implement the important cooperation consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, the Senate of the Song Dynasty decided to award the king a complete set of court robes; Australian Luo Yi
One piece; four pieces of brocade, eight pieces of gauze, and six pieces of gauze. A complete set of royal robes for the wife of the princess, a string of glass beads, three pieces of brocade, six pieces of gauze, and four pieces of gauze.
The Senate of the Song Dynasty
April 20, 1635"
After Zhao Yanhao finished reading the "Imperial Letter", Li Renjun and Zheng Jue walked out of the palace respectively. The king and a group of Ryukyu officials bowed five times and kowtowed three times. After the salute, Zheng Zixiao also quickly led King Shangfeng and Xiang Heling.
Walking up the steps on the east side to the Queting. King Shang Feng walked to the center of the Queting, and then knelt down with Xiang Heling. Seeing this, the musicians played music again.
Zhao Yanhao took out the gifts to be given to the king and the princess. Logically speaking, there are countless "rare and rare treasures" that the Senate can give as gifts, but the "gifts" in the canonization ceremony are usually mainly clothing. This is also an important part of tribute diplomacy.
Characteristics. The so-called "submission to the king". Through "granting submission", it symbolizes that the foreign vassal officially became a member of the political system of the Central Plains dynasty.
Although the Senate claims to be "Australia's orthodoxy of the Song Dynasty", since its landing, apart from the specious creation of a set of corresponding Song official titles for official ranks, it has not done any specific work on "the legitimacy of the Song Dynasty".
. Now in the process of conferring uniforms, two sets of "cadre uniforms" cannot be given. Therefore, the Great Library took the lead and cooperated with the Huaxia Society to convene historical researchers and Hanfu enthusiasts to use the materials of the Great Library.
After some research, we finally copied these two sets of uniforms. The process was quite difficult. Because after a hiatus of nearly a hundred years in the Yuan Dynasty, it took a lot of effort to restore the Tang and Song Dynasty uniforms after Zhu Yuanzhang regained China.
It is even more difficult for the Senate. In addition to the tight time and heavy tasks, there is also a lot of controversy about the costumes themselves, but whether they look like three points or not, no one in this time and space has ever seen the court uniforms of the Song Dynasty.
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Finally, Zhao Yanhao took out a yellow sun protection suit that was truly representative of the Senate - this is the so-called "Australian Luo Yi" - and handed it to King Shang Feng.
This dress was originally a fake brand name smuggled on Lando's ship. Although it is a controlled item, because of the color, it is easy to attract flying insects, so no senator in Lingao is willing to wear it. It has been kept until now. It is very suitable for the Senate.
of ad hoc.
King Shang Feng took the clothes with both hands and looked at it with confusion. The material was neither silk nor linen nor cotton. It was very light and had two rows of tooth-like ornaments in the middle. However, because he was afraid of being "big"
"Song Envoy" despises short-sightedness. King Shangfeng remained silent and handed it to the kneeling judicial officer Xiang Heling. Xiang Heling was also very confused and raised his sun protection suit above his head and showed it to the Ryukyus below.
The official looked at it, then walked down the steps and respectfully placed the sun protection clothing and other crown clothing on the incense table.
King Shangfeng, together with Xiang Heling and Zheng Zixiao, leaned over to express their thanks, and asked in poor Mandarin: "The Emperor of the Song Dynasty... is the Holy Gong's peace with you?"
Zhao Yanhao thought to himself: How do I know if he is safe or not? I don't even know where he is. I just responded: "Saint Gong, be safe."
"King...Chairman...May I be blessed?"
Zhao Yanhao thought to himself that this king was really good at flattering and was smart enough, so he actually added, deliberately making an understatement, "Blessed be the king."
At the end of the greeting session, King Shangfeng stood up, and under the guidance of Zheng Zixiao, they walked down the court together, walked back to their original positions, and led the Ryukyu officials to perform five bows and three kowtows to greet each other. Seeing this scene, the children stopped again.
Stop playing.
Zheng Zixiao once again led King Shangfeng up the steps of Queting. Zhao Yanhao thought that it was not too troublesome to go there again. No wonder it was called "a land of propriety" by the Ming Dynasty. King Shangfeng came down again.
Kneeling, stumbling and stumbling, he said in a very uneasy manner: "Please keep it...the Song Dynasty decreed it as...a national treasure."
"That's very good," Zhao Yanhao responded while handing two red-headed documents to Shang Feng. Shang Feng took them with both hands, then stood up, walked down the steps amidst the sound of music, returned to his original position, and took the lead again.
All Ryukyu officials perform five bows and three kowtows to express gratitude.
At the end of the series of etiquette, Zheng Zixiao shouted: "I respectfully invite the envoy to change his clothes and enter the North Hall to have a meal."
Zhao Yanhao breathed a long sigh of relief, "It's finally over."