Tang Jin also returned the courtesy, and Chen Jingjing also introduced: "This is your third brother, although he is not as talented as your father, but he has a good heart." If he offends you in the future, please bear with me, who is a sister. ”

Tang Jinlian said that he didn't dare, he had been living in Xirong, and he still didn't understand the etiquette of the Central Plains, so please forgive me.

Regarding this, Chen Jingjing smiled and told Tang Jin that this was nothing, and now she could ask Cao Chifeng for advice.

Tang Jin asked who Cao Chifeng was, Chen Jingjing looked at Lin Duowen with a smile, and told Tang Jin: "Who is this Cao girl, I have to ask your third brother." ”

Lin Duowen blushed and explained, she is a famous talented woman in this Canghai Mansion.

Tang Jin nodded and didn't talk much. Next, Yuan Lihua took Tang Jin to the show building, above the show building, Chen Qiushui was looking out the window with a sad face, holding the sword spike that he didn't know where to take it from, and waved it unintentionally.

Tang Jin's arrival made Chen Qiushui feel like he was amnesty, and hurriedly walked over and asked Tang Jin questions on Twitter, Yuan Lihua told Chen Qiushui that this was a new sister, and as for the identity, they would know it after the year.

Yuan Lihua also said that she hoped that Cao Chifeng could teach Tang Chen the two of them etiquette, but it was not necessary to train the two of them to be well-read and reasonable, and some daily etiquette would do.

Chen Qiushui shook his head and said, "I don't need to teach Sister Cao about this, I understand." ”

Yuan Lihua said to Chen Qiushui: "Qiushui, your aunt also asked you to take care of yourself, if you are so obedient, then when the time comes, your aunt will also allow you to go to Feiyun Mountain." ”

Chen Qiushui nodded and reluctantly agreed.

Yuan Lihua said that she would not bother, so Tang Jin and Chen Qiushui sat down and began to explain.

First of all, she said that this woman is different from men, except when she is sitting and bowing, most of the time she does not need to kneel and prostrate. This is the same for three generations to this day, as for why, Chen Taizu asked his prime minister why men should kneel and women don't, this prime minister was speechless for a while, and he didn't know what was going on.

Of course, there are special circumstances, and you have to bow down to your parents, in-laws, and the emperor and queen.

This in-law will also bow down when she meets for the first time. As for kneeling down to meet the saint and the concubine, Cao Chifeng only mentioned it.

Seeing the concubine kneeling down is also two major festivals, New Year's Day and the winter solstice, and the harem concubines and women want to go to celebrate the concubine.

The process is probably that the concubine kneels down first, and the concubine gives a congratulatory speech, after saying this, all the concubines prostrate themselves, and then the princess and the princess salute as before, and then the concubine asks the woman to meet, and the woman enters the hall under the guidance of the celebrant and bows.

Of course, if you enter the public hall and the ancestral hall, it is also a kneeling worship, and in addition to that, it is all blessings.

Chen Qiushui said with a smile: "This is simple, but they men, it must not be so simple." ”

Cao Chifeng said yes, men are divided into two kinds, one is standing and the other is kneeling.

Let's talk about this standing salute first, this salute has several kinds of bows, bows, bows, bows.

All four are half-held with one hand and the other hand resting on it.

"Isn't this just a fist hug?" Chen Qiushui said with a smile, and Cao Chifeng nodded.

said that it was this bow salute, that is, standing up straight with both legs, and slightly arching with both hands into fists.

At this time, Chen Qiushui added: "When we people in the rivers and lakes are fighting, there are different rules, if the left hand holds the right hand, let him make the first move, if the right hand holds the left hand, it means that he has to strike first." ”

Cao Chifeng nodded and said, this understanding is the lightest, it basically means a little, it is generally a meeting in Pingshui, if you ask for directions, use this bow.

However, this understanding can also be used on the Venerable, this humble person bows, if the Venerable does not return the courtesy, it will make people unhappy, according to the "Dayu Baohu" record, if the subordinate officials of the yamen usually see the superior and the chief officer, make a bow. The boss only returned the salute with a hand.

This salute is a common etiquette, the hands are clenched into fists and then pressed, and then the head is bowed, and the body is slightly bent forward.

It is used when friends meet on the street, or when guests arrive and both parties are on an equal footing. Because this etiquette is not very heavy, nor is it very light, it is used frequently.

Speaking of which, Cao Chifeng told them a joke, at this officialdom banquet, as long as they give up their seats, they have to make a toast. To put it simply, the host pours wine for a guest, and then the guest should stand up and give a salute, and the host can only put down the bottle and return the salute. After drinking the wine, he wants to return the salute, so naturally it is a gesture, and after the two sides have finished saluting, the guest will also say to the crowd that there is a prerogation, and make a salute. And they shall arise again, and return the salutation.

After Chen Qiushui heard this, he didn't care about smiling or showing his teeth, and laughed wildly and said: "It's really interesting, then this banquet, everyone can do it." ”

Cao Chifeng said that these officials were also tired of this set of red tape, so everyone would say that everything should be simple at the beginning of the banquet.

In addition to the same person, there is a special situation, that is, when a student is apprenticed, the student bows to the teacher, and the teacher cannot bow his hand, but stands up and bows in return.

According to the rules of the Baohe, officials at the same level as the governor and the prefect should bow down when they meet the governor and the prefect, and they must bow three times when they are dismissed.

This is a requirement for civilian officials, but military attaches are not so strict, and they only need to be done once. As for the words of the court officials, the Jiuqing who saw the nine lives of the five lives at once also had to be punished three times.

As for the long hand, the hand amplitude is relatively large.

This is also a courtesy of humility to respect, but this is a dissatisfaction with humility to respect.

At the beginning, someone went to Cao Gaozu, and Cao Gaozu was arrogant and rude, so this person took a long time.

The ministers of Geng Jie, in the past dynasties, will inevitably meet the ministers, and this is not a courtesy, so they made a long bow, saying that they would not grovel and beg from the ministers.

In the Yu Dynasty, the chief can also be done on other occasions, because the Yu Dynasty is a virtuous and not a long, so every prince may be a saint, so usually the princes and ministers see the prince, but also kneel and bow.

This leads to the question, what should the prince's teacher do, if he bows, then it is contrary to the dignity of the teacher. If the prince knelt down and saluted like the people, the teachers would not dare to accept it, so both sides bowed.

The prince saluted first, and the teacher returned the salute. Later, in the later years of Emperor Wen, in order to improve the status of these teachers, he changed to the day of apprenticeship, and when they met in the future, they only bowed their hands.

It is a very respectful etiquette to bow only and to bow more than to bow to show that you are really grateful to use this ceremony.

After the standing salute, the next step is to bow down.

Although there were nine prostrations, it has now been reduced to three prostrations. This is an empty head, which is to knock this head on your hand without touching the ground.

In the three generations, this empty head was the king's return to the courtiers, but after three generations, the king is supreme, so naturally there is no need to return the gift.

A pause is to touch the head on the ground, and when it touches it, it is raised. This is the etiquette of equality, in the three generations, there is no habit of pretending, and the average person is a pause. However, there is also respect and humility, but generally it is the concubine to Jiuqing, or the prince to Jiuqing, and the status of the two sides is not much different, so they will use the head.

And the head is to touch the ground and stay for a period of time, which is the etiquette of the minister to worship the king, but there are exceptions, if the king uses the head to worship the minister, it is the virtue of respecting the minister. This matter only exists for three generations, and there is no explicit record for less than three generations.

Between kneeling and standing, there is a half-kneeling salute, commonly known as grabbing kneeling, which is generally used on occasions to report to officials or ask for instructions.

In the kneeling ceremony, there is also a more respectful one, that is, to avoid the table and worship. Get out of your seat, stand up, and prostrate. Of course, nowadays it is basically used to slap horses, and if a high-ranking official holds a banquet, these lower officials will return the salute in this way to show their respect for this chief.

This kneeling bow is two bows in the Yu Dynasty, and Jiuqing saw Guogong and also bowed twice.

There is also a difference in this salute, Jiuqing salutes first on the west side, and Guogong returns the salute on the east side.

If there is a big difference in official ranks, it is a gift from the north and the south. As for the four lives and above, then the lowly one bows down and the Venerable one receives the salute.

After saying this, Cao Chifeng told them that when facing the prince and the princes, they should kneel and knock three times. As for the concubine, it is two kneels and six buckles, and as for facing the saint, it is necessary to kneel three times and knock nine times.

Of course, there is dancing in this, as for the appearance of dancing, Cao Chifeng only heard his father say it, and he has not really seen it.

Chen Qiushui sneered and said to Cao Chifeng: "Sister Cao, I know, this court uses supplements, civil officials use birds, and military attaches use beasts, that's it, isn't this the opposite of the hundred beasts dancing and the birds and phoenixes mentioned in the book?" ”

After Cao Chifeng heard this, he covered his mouth and smiled, saying that maybe the reason for setting up the complement in the first place was for this.

The three of them couldn't help but laugh when they thought of those old-fashioned courtiers, dancing on top of the main hall.

In the midst of talking and laughing, Miss Chu walked up and asked with a smile, "Three sisters, what are you talking about?" ”

Chen Qiushui told this matter, and after Miss Chu heard it, she couldn't help laughing, and told them that in addition to the hundred officials, in fact, the elephants in the palace also had to dance.

The three of them also heard about this for the first time, and asked curiously, Miss Chu said that this was the beginning of Emperor Wen, and the elephants in the palace were only used in the early dynasties, but then Emperor Wen took a whim to see these royal elephants, and one of the elephants saw Emperor Wen, so he knelt on the ground, as if he saluted Emperor Wen, and the ministers next to him must have taken this opportunity to say that Emperor Wen is as holy as the sky, and all things feel its virtue.