Standing in his yard, Wang Xichen heard the sound of drumming coming from the northwest and couldn't help but nodded in appreciation. The sound sounded neutral, peaceful and dignified. It was truly worthy of being called the "Golden Sound and Yuzhen". He had served as a Manchu low-level poet.
He had never heard of waiting for an official.
But when he thought of his daughter, Wang Xichen really had a headache.
Wang Zhenyi went to the elementary school library early this morning with her book bag, and Wang Xichen, who knew his daughter's character well, had actually already understood what was on his daughter's mind. Even though he spent all day studying medical skills in the hospital, the rumors spread more or less.
got into his ears.
After coming to Beihai Town for so many days, Wang Xichen understood that if there was anyone in the world who could tolerate Wang Zhenyi, provide understanding and support, and give her an environment where she could study astronomy, calendar and arithmetic to her heart's content, it was only Zhao Xin.
Only in Beihai Town, an environment where men are not superior to women and women are not suppressed by common etiquette, can my daughter live a carefree life.
Not to mention anything else, my daughter regarded the calculation drafts that Zhao Xin wrote for Wang Zhenyi when they met by chance in Guangzhou as treasures. When she occasionally took them out and looked through them, her face would always show the shyness and smile of her daughter's family.
Thinking of this, Wang Xichen couldn't help but let out a long sigh, wishing he could meet again before he was married!
At the same time, in the second entrance of the Shen Family Courtyard on the west side of Beihai Town Square, Shen Xuan, one of today's protagonists, also started the ordination ceremony. However, the ones she wanted to pay homage to first were not Shen Jingdan and his wife.
Shen Jingdan's whole family almost didn't sleep all night. Not only them, but also the other Shen clan members were as if they were on the receiving end of chicken blood. It is said that in order to prevent Qianlong's petty revenge, more than 100 members of Shen Jingdan's three direct clans were killed at the beginning of the year.
They all moved to Beihai Town. Now that Shen Xuan is finally going to marry Zhao Xin, the big stone in these people's hearts has finally fallen.
In their opinion, the thousands of miles they traveled north to leave their family and career were not in vain. Later, they became in-laws with King Zhao. If the Shen family was not prosperous, it would be a fool's errand!
At this moment, in the newly built ancestral hall of the Shen family, the memorial tablets of dozens of members of the Shen family who were executed by the Qing court in the "Dongtai Yizhulou" case have been placed, and layers of black spiritual tablets are filled with them.
The entire wall looks extremely gloomy and depressing, forming a strong contrast with the red and green Shen family courtyard outside the ancestral hall.
On the incense table, all kinds of sacrifices have been placed, and a futon has been placed there. Facing the futon are the memorial tablets of Shen Xuan's biological parents.
Shen Xuan, who was wearing Yanju's official uniform, was supported by A Miao and accompanied by Shen Jingdan and his wife. She slowly walked into the ancestral hall, knelt down on the futon, and prepared to salute her ancestors, drink libations and read blessing messages.
The support was originally arranged for Shen Xuan's sister Ayu, but yesterday Ayu felt very scared after seeing the room full of memorial tablets, and she dared not go in. So Shen Xuan asked A Miao to accompany her in. The Shen family was worried about her and
Because of his relationship with Zhao Xin, no one dared to speak out against it.
At this moment, Shen Xuan wears a six-dragon and three-phoenix crown, a round-neck bow underneath, a bright yellow coat outside, and two Xia pei embroidered with dragon patterns and decorated with pearls. This solemn outfit can no longer be worn.
Coupled with Shen Xuan's extremely beautiful appearance, not to mention the other people outside the door, even the old eunuch who was invited to sing the ceremony was stunned.
He entered the palace when he was a child and stayed in the Forbidden City for at least forty years before being exiled. He saw a lot of empresses and concubines with outstanding beauty, and even the Xiang Concubine. But when it comes to the most beautiful women in the world, those empresses Compared with this person, we are far behind.
Little A Miao, who was standing by the side, was also dressed brightly today. Her original hair was combed into a bun, and she wore a satin-fronted cape with a plain base and embroidered with light gold thread, and an off-white dress underneath. She wears a gold brocade horse-faced skirt, a mutton-fat jade bracelet given to her by Shen Xuan on her wrist, and a pair of emerald drop earrings hanging from her earlobes.
At this time, the relatives of the Shen family standing outside the ancestral hall did not even dare to express their anger, listening to the old eunuch's melodious singing.
"Xing~~"
"Kneel down~~"
"Bye~~"
And when Shen Jingdan began to read the blessing message on behalf of Shen Xuan's father, Shen Xuan thought about how she had been hiding in Tibet and living in Tibet for many years. She was the only one left in the family of dozens of people. Her makeup was all stained with tears.
After the ceremony, Shen Xuan returned to her boudoir with the support of A Miao and A Yu. Taking advantage of this gap, even if she had to touch up her makeup, she also had to eat something to fill her stomach, otherwise she would not want to eat again that day. Just have to wait until night!
After Shen Xuan had eaten, she could proceed to the next item. Shen Jingdan and his wife first came to the main hall and sat on the Grand Master's chair in the middle to wait. Then Shen Xuan was led by the Shen family members who had been rehearsed in advance to act as deacons. He was helped to the main hall and bowed four times to Shen Jingdan and his wife.
Although Shen Jingdan and his wife had smiles on their faces at this time, their eyes were red and filled with emotion. For Shen Jingdan, after ten years, he finally had an explanation for Shen Xuan's biological father, who was his acquaintance!
Recalling that in order to save the only descendant of the Shen family in Dongtai, Shen Jingdan had been living in fear all these years. In order to avoid Wang Jinglong's entanglement, he took Shen Xuan eastward to Nagasaki. If he hadn't met Zhao Xin, he would not have been able to I know what will happen to this poor child.
The female member of the Shen family who served as the deacon saw that Shen Jingdan was deep in thought and was silent, and quickly gave Mrs. Shen a wink to remind her. Mrs. Shen coughed twice, and Shen Jingdan came back to her senses. She followed the warning she had memorized before. : "As a princess, you must work diligently and diligently day and night, and be filial and respectful."
Mrs. Shen wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief and choked with sobs: "Your father has taught you, and you should respect it."
Shen Xuan's tears fell again at this time, and she bit her lip to hold back from crying. When Mrs. Shen saw it, she no longer cared about the courtesy, leaned forward slightly and said: "Quan, you should be happy on this big day. "
After listening to her adoptive mother's words, Shen Xuan, who was kneeling, replied: "No, I don't dare to forget my life for fear of being embarrassed."
According to the rules of the wedding ceremony, she should stand up at this moment, and then salute the other elders of the Shen family. But Shen Xuan still stubbornly kowtowed to Shen Jingdan and his wife, and then got up and went back to the room to change clothes and wait for the wedding.
The ceremony for the Shen family was successfully completed, but in the Mingtang, Cai Jigong, who came from the Li Dynasty, immediately became confused as soon as the music started playing.
The complacent group of time-travelers didn't know what kind of joke they had made in front of the ancients. In fact, it was fortunate that there were not so many learned people in the audience today, otherwise it would definitely cause an uproar.
However, Wang Zhong, who was the recipient of the praise, understood. He looked at the movements of Li Chao's delegation at the foot of the steps and felt bright in his heart. However, he had to remain calm on his face, pretending that nothing had happened.
The Confucian group represented by Liu Yong is right to despise it. The top management of Beihai Town are a group of barbarians who are dressed in Han attire but have no culture!
What is Zhonghe Shaole? To put it bluntly, it can only be used on formal occasions involving "important national affairs", and it is exclusive to the emperor!
Zhonghe will only be played during ceremonies such as court greetings, enthronement ceremony, enthronement ceremony, honor title, emblem title, edict issuance ceremony, emperor's acceptance ceremony, crown prince's acceptance ceremony, entry into the record, ceremony of enthronement of empress, ceremony of enthronement of crown prince, etc.
Shao Le.
According to the "Da Ming Ji Li" formulated during the Zhu Yuanzhang period, the prince's wedding should use ceremonial music instead of Zhonghe Shao music. The so-called "ceremony music" is divided into front music and rear music. The front part is composed of
It is a drum music form composed of percussion instruments and wind instruments, and the latter part is the "Da Le" form. The "Da Le" instruments used are the same as those used in Danbi Da Le, but the number is different due to the grade.
For example, the "advocacy" instruments of the emperor and the crown prince in the front are decorated with gold and gold dragons on the horns. The prince's ceremonial guard has no gold and the horns are not decorated with gold dragons. The prince's ceremonial instruments must include gongs; and on the "big music" instruments in the rear,
The type used by the emperor and the crown prince is the same, but the quantity used by the prince is slightly different.
Although I don’t know how to play the ceremonial music, Cai Jigong has been an official for many years and has participated in countless ceremonies. People know how to listen! Cai Jigong said to himself, why don’t you come and ask us if you don’t understand? What the king of our country follows is proper.
The rituals of Prince Daming!
Well, it is estimated that even if King Zhao temporarily occupies the position of prince, he will become emperor sooner or later due to this momentum. Moreover, there are foreign vassals coming to congratulate him today, so even if there are some arrogance in the etiquette, it can still be tolerated.
It’s also a good thing that Beihai Town didn’t arrange for the “Civil and Military Eight Hundreds” to dance on site, otherwise it would really have become “Eighty Hundreds dancing in the court, which is tolerable, and which one is intolerable”. Cai Jigong would definitely jump out and criticize it on the spot.
As for the border residents and Ainu people, at this time, each of them was either beaming with joy or looking dumb and stupid. It’s not my fault. After living for so many years, who has heard of this scene before? Even if I went to Beijing before
Huo Jihun, who wanted a Banner woman as his wife, had no chance of seeing her.
These people thought that King Zhao was so generous! They would brag about it after returning home.
Most of the three waves of people from the island country were warriors. Some people have only seen Ming and Qing music in books, but have never heard of it. The music played at the Kyoto court celebration is completely different from this. Think about it.
I think so. The poor man only had 100,000 dan left, so how could he afford such a large team of musicians?
Walking behind Ishikawa Murafumi and Shibata Kakuzo, Katsuyama Denzo and Murata Jiro Uhei looked satisfied, with chrysanthemum smiles on their faces, saying that the trip was really worth it!
When Zhao Xin came out after bowing and everyone was about to leave, Cai Jigong realized that what was enshrined in the Mingtang was actually the word "Heaven and Earth" instead of the royal tablet of Zhu Ming. He was so angry that he stamped his feet and sighed: "This, this
It’s completely inappropriate!”
Kong Xiaoyuan, a Confucian scholar behind him, also sighed: "You don't worship the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, but you use the two words "Heaven and Earth", which is really unheard of!"
In the eyes of Cai Jigong and others, Zhao Xin is unfilial if he does not worship the ancestors of Zhu Ming. If etiquette is messed up and he does not abide by filial piety, how can we talk about benevolence, justice and legality? The Tartars are still wearing the cloak of Confucianism, but Beihai Town actually
Don’t even use this layer of clothing. This is a regime that is even more unpredictable than the Manchu and Qing Tartars!
From this time on, Cai Jigong became deeply suspicious of Zhao Xin's claim to be "Queen of King Zhu Ming and Zhao". Not only that, he was also more worried about how the Li Dynasty would get along with such a powerful multi-ethnic force in the future.
Let’s talk about the French again. A painter in the expedition team used charcoal strips to depict the entire scene of the ceremony. The Mingtang with a mixed structure of steel and wood was painted with great momentum. Until Zhao Xin came out and walked onto the corridor, the painter was still there.
Keep observing the ribbons and jade ornaments on his waist so that they can be displayed in the picture.
The Count of La Perouse thought that his adventure diary had another legendary experience that he could write home about. It turned out that the Seris people were not only far ahead of Europe in science and technology, but also the wedding ceremonies of their nobles and princes were like this
Complex and solemn. In comparison, the wedding ceremony performed by European aristocrats in the church was really lackluster.
But the biggest question in the minds of those who came to watch the ceremony today is that the sound of the music was bright and clear, but why didn’t they see the band? Where were those people hiding?
Before noon, the Beihai Town cafeteria was in full swing, and the seven or eight cooks from Yangzhou and Nanjing who had been cooking big pots of food finally had a place to use. They started preparing half a month ago, and brought more than 300 handymen with them.
The people who help in the kitchen have only shown off their eighteen martial arts skills today.
In winter, Beihai Town was short of vegetables, as well as various meats and dried seafood. Even for the insufficient vegetables, "Zhao" made two special trips to another time and space to make up for it.
According to different levels, the local residents of Beihai Town mainly eat the eight bowls of Suzhou. The improved running water banquet includes Wansan Hoof, Shamiwan, Braised Prawns, Braised Sea Cucumber, Braised Pork, Braised Salmon, and Glutinous Rice Balls.
Stuffed pork, braised eel and other dishes are paired with white wine, cakes and three snacks.
The food for the Chuanchuan crowd and the viewing groups from all over the country was much more high-end. Today’s banquet was the “Little Manchu Banquet” that is popular in Yangzhou. In addition to abalone stewed with loosestrife, mussels and shrimp soup, shark fin crab soup, mushroom braised chicken and rice
In addition to Huaiyang dishes such as ham, fish maw braised ham, and shark skin chicken soup, there are also pigeon gizzards, pig offal, haggis, boiled pig mutton, boiled pork and mutton, and steamed piglets that are suitable for the tastes of the border people in the Northeast.
Lamb roe, chicken, duck and goose, steamed deer tail, pheasant slice soup, wind pig slices, wind sheep slices, rabbit breast, first-grade milk soup rice, white flour pastry rolls, etc. There are a total of fifty hot dishes in large and small dishes, three
The ten cold dishes are simply too many to choose from.
The various viewing groups who came to attend the banquet were dumbfounded by such a sumptuous banquet, and their saliva could have flowed into a river straight to the sea.
There was no room for such a large number of people in the cafeteria, so the construction team built a large steel frame shed on the street outside more than ten days in advance and would demolish it after the wedding was over, without delaying traffic at all.
Although the weather was cold and the oil would condense on the vegetables soon after they were brought outside, the people still ate happily and their mouths were full of oil. Even though life is getting better now, the many disasters in ancient times made the farmers still maintain their attitude.
With their diligent and frugal living habits, how could they be willing to eat such a table on weekdays? Now that Zhao Xin is treating guests, he still rubs his cheeks wildly!
The commotion outside was almost overwhelming, but Zhao Xin, who returned to his new house, no longer looked as solemn as before.
In the warm room, this guy was wearing a mid-length singlet and his own black coat. He was smoking a cigarette and beating his aching waist. At this moment, the door curtain swung and Shino walked in with chef Hu Fugui.
Chef Hu was also holding a big jar in his hand.
As soon as he entered the door, Chef Hu put the jar on the table and said to Zhao Xin with a smile: "Sir, Buddha jumped over the wall, do you want to have a bowl first while it's hot?"
"Okay, okay~~"
When Chef Hu opened the clay seal of the jar, an extremely complex aroma suddenly wafted out. Except for Chef Hu, everyone present couldn't help but swallow their saliva.
Unexpectedly, Chef Hu had just poured all the contents into the big basin, and before he could put the dishes on the plate, a few more people came in from outside the door. It was Deng Fei, Ding Guofeng and a bunch of other foodies who smelled the smell.
Deng Fei shrugged his nose and praised: "It smells so good!"
"Okay! How dare you eat secretly by yourself! Fortunately, I haven't gone to the banquet yet." Ding Guofeng laughed, reached for the bowls and chopsticks on the table, and went straight to the largest Jipin Baobao.
When Zhao Xin saw that there was no chance of being alone, he hurriedly shouted: "When spring comes, hurry up and serve me a bowl first!"