Marriage etiquette of emperor and queen

A grand ceremony to celebrate a grand wedding

The emperor's wedding is called "big wedding". The emperor who had married an adult before he ascended the throne only held the ceremony of conferring the queen after he ascended the throne, and did not reissue the wedding. At the same time of the big wedding, the queen will be engraved with gold books and treasures (certificates and seals); Choose one or four concubines at the same time The wedding ceremonies of emperors in Ming and Qing dynasties were basically the same.

Book of rites? The procedures of "marriage" stipulated in Fuyi, Tang Law and Ming Law are: receiving gifts, asking names, receiving gifts, appealing dates and welcoming relatives, also known as "six gifts".

Receiving gifts means giving gifts to discuss marriage, and asking the matchmaker to find out the truth. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the gifts of meeting each other were extremely rich.

Seeking a name is to hold a ceremony to ask the other person's name and date of birth to see if the "fate" is appropriate.

Najib, to put it bluntly, is divination, that is, the ancients divined good or bad luck for marriage; If it is "auspicious" and the birthday is appropriate, please ask the matchmaker to bring a gift for engagement.

The application is for an engagement present. The ancients said: "Men and women have no media, no money and no wealth." Therefore, the sign is also called "Nabi". Coins are jade or silk articles used as engagement gifts by the ancients.

Notice is to inform each other of the date of marriage.

Dear, that's a requirement for ordinary people. The emperor did not come in person, but sent a representative who had both children and children.

On September 14th, 11th year of Tongzhi, sixteen-year-old Zai Chun got married. According to Li Ciming's Diary of Yuemaotang, at three o'clock in the morning, Zai Chun's Royal Peace Hall received the blessing of "Gui Zi Tong Sun" and appointed Wu Gui, the minister of rites, and Xu Tong, the right assistant minister, as the wedding envoys. At seven o'clock, "I arrived at the Royal Hall of Supreme Harmony and was congratulated by hundreds of officials." "Almighty" Prince Dun and Prince Gong's Fujin were ordered to lead eight married women, carry gifts, follow bridesmaids, and "ride out of the Qing Dynasty" under the guard of honor guards to the Queen's House to get married. Fu Jin, assistant minister, "opens the face" for the bride, wringing the hair off her face with silk thread; Prince Fujin of Dungong repaired the bride's makeup and waited for her to get on the sedan chair. The wedding procession entered the Daqingmen and stopped at Jiaotai Hall.

According to Manchu custom, curtains are hung on the south kang of the bridal chamber. After the bride worships heaven and earth, she sits cross-legged on the kang for a day, which is called "sitting on the blessing". Before marriage, the bride should practice sitting; Drink less water and eat less the day before you get on the sedan chair. In the evening, there was a kang table, hip flask and wine glass on the south kang. The bride and groom turn around the table three times, and then drink a toast; Someone outside is singing a cheerful song, called "pulling an empty house", planting seedlings together, sprinkling black beans into the house, and "making trouble in the bridal chamber"

Some Manchu customs were preserved in the wedding of Qing Palace. The red wall of the East Warm Pavilion of Kunning Palace is fond of candles and has a high fever. To the north of the pavilion, there are happy beds and thrones; There is a fire kang under the south window, with a table and wine utensils on it. The newlyweds worship heaven and earth, the birthday girl and the kitchen god, and raise their glasses on Nankang. Prince of Rites Fujin "cooked" jiaozi and jiaozi (a bowl of small jiaozi, a big jiaozi and several small jiaozi). Fujin, Prince Dun and Prince Gong brought the cooked dumplings and jiaozi, that is, descendants, to the newlyweds.

There is a poem in "Ci of Qing Palace" describing the grand wedding of Tongzhi Emperor Zai Chun: "Jin Wu couldn't help but let go of all the doors; Suddenly, the price of paper is expensive, and the colorful clothes sing. " It is said that the wedding procession at that time was all the way from Wumen Gate to Queens Gate, with hundreds of pairs of palace lanterns and hundreds of horses, and the internal supervisor advanced; The queen embroidered a phoenix with a yellow satin plate, and sixteen people carried it. People in Beijing, as long as they put on new flowers and clothes, can enter the noon gate to watch the ceremony, and the guards will not stop them. Zai Chun, the Tongzhi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, got married, and spent more than 20 million yuan after the final accounts. Among them, the silks and satins used for "decoration" in the palace amounted to 800,000 yuan, worth100,000 silver. According to the market during the Qianlong period, one or two pieces of silver can be exchanged for eight or nine hundred pence; Seven to twelve pence can buy an acre of cultivated land, and twenty-seven, eight to thirty-four and five pence can buy a liter of rice. This shows the luxury of the imperial wedding.

Ps: Every dynasty is a little different.