The most luxurious wedding in ancient times

The most luxurious wedding in ancient times was the wedding of Emperor Guangxu.

Empress Guangxu's wedding was arranged by Empress Dowager Cixi. On the fifth day of October in the 14th year of Guangxu, Ye Lashi, the daughter of Gui Xiang, was made the queen, the eldest daughter of 15 was made the wife of Jin, and the second daughter of 13 was made the wife of Zhen.

Gifts include four saddled horses, 10 armor, 100 silks and satins, and 200 woven fabrics.

Satin includes bright yellow satin, big red satin, green inner satin, red satin and green satin, each with 20 pieces. These are almost 2000 taels in cash.

After receiving the gifts, a banquet will be held at the Queen's home to give the Queen's parents 100 cake tables, 100 wine tables, 165438 sheep and 100 bottles of wine.

Everything in Nacai Banquet was prepared by the Royal Tea Restaurant in Qing Dynasty. This cost is almost more than 7000 taels of silver.

Gifts include 200 taels of gold, 200 taels of silver 10000 taels, 2 teapots of gold 1 piece, 2 teapots of silver, 20 saddled horses, 40 idle horses and 20 pairs of armor.

The gifts for Grandpa Queen are: satin 100, 200 weaving horses, 4 horses and 4 saddles.

Gifts for the Queen's parents are: gold 100 Liang, silver 5000 Liang, gold 1 teapot, silver 1 teapot, 500 pieces of satin, weavers 1000 people, 6 horses and 65438 pieces of armor.

Give the Queen's brother 40 silks and satins, 100 weaver, 2 horses and 2 saddles.

The wedding of Emperor Guangxu cost a total of 5.5 million taels of silver.

Among them, the Ministry of Internal Affairs was ordered to raise 3.5 million taels of silver, and the provinces allocated 2 million taels. Crown dress, beads, gold and silver ornaments, ornaments, gifts, etc. Empress Dowager Cixi used 8/ 10 of the total expenses during the wedding, which belongs to the real century wedding, which made the people's livelihood in the riddled and leaking Qing Dynasty even more depressed, made the finance more difficult, and accelerated the demise of the Qing Dynasty.