Today is February 27th, the day Yang Fan and the Tushan family have decided to welcome each other, and it is also the day of Yang Fan's wedding.
One morning, the entire Yang Mansion was bustling with activity.
Today is a good day. At the fifth watch, the groom's family offers a full set of five animal blessings and fruits in the hall to offer sacrifices to "the king of heaven and earth, his relatives and master", which is commonly known as "Xianxian".
Everyone in Yang Mansion must eat "Xiangxian Tangguo" for breakfast.
Tangguo is also called Yuanzi, which means "reunion" and "completeness".
This thing is similar to Yuanxiao, it is also a glutinous rice dumpling with fillings, but it is much smaller.
After breakfast, the groom Yang Fan dressed up, rode a majestic war horse, and led a mighty procession to the Iron Lion Alley in Xicheng to marry Tu Shanyue.
At the forefront were a hundred cavalrymen, dressed in auspicious uniforms, who looked very imposing.
Both the Yang Fan and Tu Shan families were members of the military family. When military attachés got married, they usually sent out their own troops to build up their momentum.
Behind him are Yang Fan and his accompanying personnel. The British Duke Sun Zhang Shize, dressed in Jifu, is accompanying the test. Other heads of Yang Fan's system are following behind.
Further behind was a team of drummers, carrying a large sedan chair for Tu Shanyue. The other casual guests followed behind.
Speaking of which, Yang Fan is not qualified to sit in the eight-carriage sedan chair.
A third-grade Beijing official can sit in a four-carriage sedan in Beijing, and can ride in an eight-carriage sedan when leaving the capital.
But when marrying a wife among the people, the bride can ride in an eight-carat sedan chair once on the day of her wedding. The premise is that she must be the head wife, and concubines do not have this qualification.
The reason for this treatment is thanks to Queen Ma, the founding queen of the Ming Dynasty.
Empress Ma felt sorry for the hard work that women in the world had to do in their lives to take care of the family and children, and asked Emperor Taizu for this grace for all the women in the world.
On the wedding day, you can wear the phoenix crown and harem that only the queen could wear in the previous dynasty, and you can ride in an eight-carriage sedan.
A woman spends her whole life caring for her husband and raising children in the backyard of a deep house, and she can be famous only on the day she gets married.
Sitting in a sedan chair also means that the matchmaker is getting married and the original wife is the first wife. A woman can only sit in a sedan chair once in her life.
If Yang Fan and Tu Shanyue quarreled in the future, Tu Shanyue could confidently say: I am your husband, and you carried me in with the big red sedan chair with the middle door wide open. I am not a concubine, so I walked up to the door myself.
, to attack Yang Fan.
Today is the day to welcome the bride. When the sedan chair goes out, there is an offering table at the door. Sister Xiangyi offers pure tea and four-color cakes to the "sedan god".
Donkey Dan fired muskets at the gate, and set off firecrackers on the grinding table. Zhang Goda opened the way with a red lantern, and the drummers immediately started blowing and beating.
After all these procedures were completed, Yang Fan waved his hand and the team set off.
If the groom has not yet arrived at his father-in-law's house to welcome the bride, he must use his bride's wife as his messenger and set off in advance with a name sticker.
For this once in his life, Yang Fan naturally wanted to make his wife look glamorous and satisfy her.
Every mile along the way, people were arranged to set off 10,000 firecrackers in advance to heighten the joyful atmosphere.
Xiao Niangpi was wearing a wedding dress and a hijab, sitting on her gums, feeling as if grass had grown in her heart. She would ask her once in a while if my uncle had left and where he was.
"Miss, Xi Niang has already come to the door. I should set off. I should be arriving at the Back Gate Bridge soon."
The maids all covered their mouths and laughed secretly, thinking how anxious their young ladies must be.
The Tushan family also got up early to get busy with their work.
Early this morning, the wedding bride hired by Tushan's family used five-color cotton yarn to remove the hair on bride Tushanyue's face, which is commonly known as "opening the face."
When she opens her face, she has the intention of leaving the palace, and from then on she becomes a woman.
Relatives, friends and guests who came to Tushan's house early would have breakfast at Tushan's house.
There is a special thing about this breakfast, which is called "open noodle soup and fruit".
The skin of the little girl who has opened her face is now smoother and smoother than jade. Plus, she is one-third shy, one-third nervous, and one-third expectant, making her look even more delicate.
The little girl is waiting anxiously.
A maid ran in and shouted: "Come, come, my uncle is at the door, hurry up and get ready."
When the sedan comes, the woman's Tushan family will set off firecrackers to welcome the sedan. They immediately leave the door open and "block the sedan door". After making things difficult and composing a poem, they stuff the red envelope and start opening.
As soon as Yang Fan's team arrived at the road in front of Tushan's house, firecrackers suddenly sounded. The door of Tushan's house slammed shut.
Yang Fan and Zhang Shize looked at each other and smiled. Yang Fan cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, Brother Laoshi."
"Easy to say, easy to say." Zhang Shize got off his horse.
I straightened my clothes, coughed lightly, and walked to the door with square steps.
"Bride, be ready, the sedan chair has arrived, it's an auspicious time," Zhang Shize said loudly.
"The bride is still putting on makeup, please wait a moment." A woman's voice said inside.
At this time, it is time to make up, and the make-up must be elegant, so naturally you have to write a make-up poem.
"The golden chariot is about to ride up to the east wind, and the clouds are pushed away to see the drunken sky. It is half vomiting in embarrassment when it is alone, and the ice porcelain dew is white and slightly red."
"Okay!" Everyone inside the gate immediately cheered.
This makeup poem is really well done.
It probably means, bride, it’s time for you to get on the sedan chair, but you’re still too scared to go out.
Let the girl have some cold wine to strengthen her courage.
When the wine glass was empty, he became emboldened and his face turned red, even saving on rouge.
Zhang Shize, this male guest is really talented!
The red envelope was stuffed through the crack at the bottom of the door.
The door burst open, and the people inside automatically separated to both sides.
Make way for the wedding team.
Huang San and others were carrying sheepskin bags, which contained ten bunches of wedding money.
The golden pure copper coins are tied with red thread and tied into a square knot, which is really beautiful.
"Good luck and good fortune", "Raise the case with eyebrows", "The husband sings and the wife follows", "The baby will be born soon"
As they shouted auspicious words, Huang San and others grabbed the wedding coins and threw them to both sides.
The servants of Tushan Mansion usually find it hard to get rewards for their maids, but today this one is a young lady getting married, and it was given to everyone by my uncle. There was a sudden burst of joy.
Everyone is fighting for the wedding money.
The sedan chair was placed in the center of the courtyard upon entering, and Yang Fan and Zhang Shize walked toward the second door.
At this time, the second door closed with a bang again.
Zhang Shize softly whispered again and continued to recite makeup-inducing poems.
"In the past, I was going to visit Yujing, and the first immortal Xu Zhuangtou. Today, I am fortunate to be at the Qin and Jin gatherings, and I taught Luan Feng to go down to the makeup building early."
Yang Fan waited for him to finish reciting, and quickly stuffed the red envelope into the crack of the door. Behind the second door was his brother-in-law, who would not open the door without giving the red envelope.
Another round of cheers came from inside the door.
When the second door opened, Tu Shanhu grabbed the red envelope, and Mei's nose bubbles almost came out.
Yang Fan touched his head and continued walking inside.
When Yang Fan made a breakthrough, as soon as he entered the hospital, the Tushan family was holding a ceremony.
At this time, the sedan must be parked with the sedan door facing outward. Someone from the Tushan family lit a red candle and held a mirror to look into the sedan to expel the evil spirits hiding in the sedan, which is called "Searching the sedan".
After this ceremony is over, the bride will sit on the sedan chair.
As soon as the second door opened, other people brought by Yang Fan were waiting here. Yang Fan himself held the welcome book in both hands and walked towards Tu Shanyue's show building with his personal maid, Sister Xiang Yi.
The welcome book is the book to welcome the bride, which must be handed to the bride by hand. The bride holds the welcome book in her hand and sits in the sedan chair.
Coming under the show building, this is the last level.
The woman's relatives and friends gathered downstairs to wait. No one could help at this stage, Yang Fan had to do it himself.
Composing poetry is not what Yang Fan is good at, nor can he play the musical instrument.
In the past six months, Yang Fan had learned violin in his spare time, and Yang Fan decided to play a piece of music for the woman's relatives and friends.
This can also be regarded as a sign of talent.
Yang Fan took the violin from Xiang Yi and started playing.
Yang Fanla's song is "The Moon Is A Thousand Miles Away", which is a very nice song, and the little girl's name is Tu Shanyue, which fits the mood perfectly.
Everyone saw Yang Fan take out a strange musical instrument from the exquisite piano case that Xiang Yi was holding. No one had ever seen it before, but its shape was very beautiful. The black paint on the surface of the instrument could almost reflect the silhouette of a person.
It's worth a lot of money.
When the melodious sound of the piano came to mind, everyone was mesmerized by it. The piano's tone was full, expressive, and highly contagious, and the beautiful music suddenly aroused their emotions.
A song that expresses my longing for the bright moon thousands of miles away, with its unique, emotional and soft violin solo, brings everyone into a poetic, picturesque, refreshing and wonderful state!
The seemingly bland melody flows from the fingers, but it is overflowing with longing and lingering.
Let the bright moon send my love this evening.
When the music played, Tu Shanyue suddenly burst into tears. Yang Lang's friendship for her was fully revealed in the beautiful sound of the piano. True love can never be expressed in words.
Because it is labor, not love, that creates language.
The song comes to an end, and the lingering sound lingers around.
"Okay!" There was a roar of applause from all around.
Everyone's cheeks turned red with excitement.
Tu Shanyong turned his head and secretly wiped away his tears.
The sound of firecrackers sounded again, and four beautifully dressed maids helped Tu Shanyue down the show floor.
Yang Fan personally handed the welcome letter into Tu Shanyue's hand. Surrounded by everyone, the newlyweds returned to the front yard, and Tu Shanyue got into the sedan chair.
"Get up the sedan" Zhang Geda shouted loudly.
Yang Fan and others mounted their horses one after another and took the bride back to the Yang Mansion.
After his daughter left, Tu Shanyong felt a little sad. The daughter he had raised for eighteen years was now the housewife of the Yang family.
Mrs. Tushan said angrily: "Master, today is a happy day, why are you crying? How bad it is."
"Madam is right, today is a happy day. If you want to be happy, the party will start immediately if you come."
According to the rules, on the day of marrying a girl, her family will have a banquet at noon, which is commonly known as "opening wine" and also called "wedding wine".
My mother-in-law's family is going to have wine at Tushan's house.