Do you know: Hua Lan is married in red makeup, but how much is Ming Lan's dowry?

There was a custom of thick marriage in Song Dynasty. When a daughter gets married, the family should prepare a thick dowry. There is a saying: there are five women in the family, and thieves can't steal their doors. In other words, whoever wants to have five daughters can bankrupt a family just by dowry, even thieves dare not think about it. The launch of "Know No" is the happiness of the two families in Sheng Yuan. The outhouse guests are like clouds, and the seats are very lively. The grandmother in the inner room has a heart-to-heart relationship with Hua Lan. Grandma said: you are the most smooth, tenacious and scheming. I'm relieved, but the dowry is at the bottom, the more the better. After all, how much dowry did Grandma give Hualan?

There are only two boxes in the drama version, one box of all kinds of jewelry and one box of the contract of the grange store. To say this is not a few, but the original is more detailed. As the eldest daughter of the Sheng family, when Hualan got married, the scenery was infinite, which made Lin Xiaoniang, who was favored at that time, particularly jealous: Sister Hua had a dowry of 128 yuan, as well as fields in Zhuangzi and many people who accompanied her. What a style! Master Sheng Jia also introduced: Although the old lady let go and every maid paid 1520 yuan for makeup, when Hualan got married, she posted more than that! That's not all. Grandma specially gave Hualan a pair of red gold heads when they got married. How precious and luxurious this pair of jewelry is!

As described in the original book, as soon as the box was opened, the room suddenly turned into a golden streamer. Gold is crystal clear and has just been cleaned recently. These rubies are huge and shiny, each as big as a thumb. It was bright and red, and even the well-off Wang was shocked, and some of them could not open their eyes. Mrs. Fang explained that the ruby on it was bought by the old duke from Kiev on the other side of the snow-capped mountains, and made into a whole pair of heads as a dowry for the old lady. From the head, body and hands, there are 18 pieces, which are carefully inlaid with barefoot gold. It took two classes of craftsmen three months to make it. It is enough to wear it into the palace to meet the nobles. The so-called good girl, when so!

Gu's biological mother Bai is the daughter of a merchant family, but because of her rich dowry, she can even be said to be extremely rich. The old duke of Houfu, Ningyuan, Bianjing City, proposed marriage in Yangzhou. Lin Xiaoniang had hoped that her husband would prepare ten-mile red makeup and strive for the marriage between Moran and Xiao Gongye of Qi State. It can be said that the dowry represents the strength of the bride's family, not only the economic strength, but also the rich dowry. The married daughter does not have to rely on her husband's family to survive and has confidence in her husband's family. Dowry is very important to ancient women, of course, it is only a noble family, and it is hard for ordinary people to mention it in the original work. In some elegant families where Zhong Ming ate and drank, the elders began to save dowry one by one from babbling.

Even if the dowry is as thick, there are two situations: from complex to simple. What is complicated is that in addition to maids, wives, housekeepers and fixed assets, there are furniture such as beds, tables, cabinets and boxes. Clothes as small as four seasons, even toilets and bathtubs with mahogany gold hoops, are exaggerated to prepare shroud. When Hua Lan got married, his father Bi Sheng served as a general judge, and his rank was not high. When Ru Lan and Ming Lan got married, Bi Sheng had jumped from a local official to a Beijing official with different status and salary. So how much is Ming Lan's dowry?

Ming Lan's dowry mainly consists of three parts: the first part is the dowry of the monarch and mother of a rich family. Although Ming Lan's father Yi Sheng neglected management when he was growing up, he paid special attention to dowry. In the original novel, he specifically told Mrs. Wang about it: I'll make it clear to you! This time, whether secretly or the house you bought for Er Ru the day before yesterday, you made the dowry of the two girls as thick as usual! But also threatened Wang: No matter how much money the old lady wants to give Miss Ming, you must not say it! Otherwise ... this scared Wang pale and trembled on the spot. Shengjia gave the silks and satins accumulated in his early years, precious wood and precious and exquisite jewelry carefully prepared by Changbai Sea.

The second part is grandma's dowry, which has gone into the sea. In the play, the night before the wedding of Ming Lan University, the old grandmother personally took out a box from the cupboard and counted it to Ming Lan one by one. There are fields, real estate, shops and storefronts, as well as a Zhuangzi in the suburbs of Beijing, with five or six hundred acres of fertile land. She brought a small mountain forest with excellent geomantic omen. In the original book, Grandmother Sheng wanted to give all the boxes left by her dowry to Ming Lan. Ming Lan suggested that grandma leave them to Changbai's brother. Grandma said: this box is not worth mentioning, enough for you to worry about for a lifetime. Are you sure you don't want it? Grandma loves Ming Lan the most. When she was young, she took her with her, raised her carefully, gave warmth to lonely Ming Lan I, and prepared a generous dowry, always worried that tomorrow would not be enough.

The third part is Gu's bride price. In the play, it is said that when Gu asked for marriage, he moved more than 20 big boxes to the Sheng family and put them in his dowry. In the original book, it is described as follows: the bride price sent is full of yards. One hundred and twenty-eight pairs of golden pigs, five or six hundred and twenty; 88 pieces of Jiangnan yarn, 88 pieces of Jiangbei feather yarn, embroidered with various colors of brocade and satin 108 pieces. Three or four pairs of dragon and phoenix red gold bracelets 18 pairs, and dragon and phoenix red gold hairpin 18 pairs with beads; There are also abalone, oyster sauce, scallops, mushrooms, shrimp, squid, sea cucumber, shark's fin, fish belly, plus top seafood such as Nostoc flagelliforme. When Hay and the old lady saw it, they seriously suspected that these were all tributes to the world. As for other kinds of three kinds of fish wine, four seasons tea candy and other objects, there are countless. Finally, a pair of fat geese croaked.

Two of the maids fully counted the gold jewelry for half an hour, and stuffed the nine-story eighty-one boxes of Qi Diao ebony pears sent by my grandmother to the brim. Just say how big is the room for Ming Lan's dowry? Of course, as a upstart, the wedding room prepared by Gu is also surprisingly large. It can be said that among the three sisters, Ming Lan's dowry is the richest. On the eve of Ming Lan's wedding, my grandmother was still worried about Ming Lan's hard life at home. Because there were so many people and things that nobody worried about and there were so many places to spend money, I always wanted to add a little more to her dowry. Dowry is indeed important, but a generous dowry really cannot be equated with a happy marriage. Hua Lan, who wears red makeup for ten miles, has suffered for more than ten years before she can really live a happy life. However, although her mother-in-law Bai has a generous dowry, she only has one body and two lives. How many people have been truly happy since her wedding?