Ci'an and Cixi's two empress dowagers' "curtain removal ceremony" has finally arrived. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The choice of the location where the ceremony will be held was quite hesitant for a while.

For this location, two conditions must be met.

First, the place should be large enough.

It is not allowed to enter the eighth-point auxiliary state and above the relatives and nobles, and officials in Beijing from the fifth grade or above to participate in the ceremony; In addition, there is a special group, the grade may not be enough from the five grades, but they are also in their prime, and they are like rituals, which is the Hanlin who "walks in the inner court" - that is, the red Hanlin of the upper study, the south study, and the Hongde Palace. The relationship between this group of people and the royal family is like "Xixi" and "Dongweng", and the owner is happy, so he naturally wants to congratulate him.

The number of people who participated in the "curtain removal ceremony" was more than the number of people who went to Zhengyangmen Railway Station to greet the Empress Dowager Luan. The officials who participated in the ceremony, as mentioned above, stopped at the five pins.

Second, it must be in line with the identity of the queen mother.

The place of the "three major halls" is large enough, but the "curtain removal ceremony" held in the outer court is of course not "in line with the identity of the queen mother", and the location of the "curtain removal ceremony" can only be found in the inner court.

In the inner court, the first place "in line with the identity of the queen mother" is naturally Cining Palace.

However, don't say if the place of Cining Palace is big enough, the key is that I don't know why, the Queen Mother has an instinctive disgust and rejection of this place, although she didn't say it directly, but more than once, there was a hint, whether it was Ci'an or Guan Zhuofan, she knew it. Therefore, on the grounds that "although Cining Palace is the place of the Queen Mother, it is not suitable for foreign officials to enter and exit" as the reason, it was excluded from the list of candidates.

There are two places in the inner court that are "suitable for foreign officials to enter and exit", one is the Yangxin Palace, and the other is the Qianqing Palace.

The queen mother of the two palaces "hung the curtain" in the Yangxin Palace, and held the "Curtain Removal Ceremony" in the Yangxin Palace, and the "Curtain Lifting" and "Curtain Lifting" were all in one place, this ...... There is a beginning and an end, a beginning and an end, it seems good?

It's a pity that the place of the Heart Cultivation Hall is not big enough to be suitable for holding large-scale ceremonies -- even if the entire courtyard is full, it can't fit all the "nobles who are not included in the eighth-point auxiliary state and above, and the officials above the fifth rank in Beijing".

The place of the Qianqing Palace is large enough, but the Qianqing Palace is "the sleeping place of the Son of Heaven", and it cannot be regarded as the "place of the Queen Mother".

After all, before that, the two empress dowagers had visited the Qianqing Palace more than once -- once to receive the "American delegation to China," and once to announce to the ministers in the court for the Empress Dowager to leave the palace and live in Tianjin to "retreat and pray for blessings" for Emperor Wen Zongxian.

The key is that the "Son of Heaven" in the Qianqing Palace before was just a false name, and the "Son of Heaven" did not live there, it was empty and empty, and it was idle when it was idle. And the queen mother of the two palaces visited the Qianqing Palace twice, not for her own affairs - once it was a serious "friendship between the two palaces"; Although the other time was related to the Empress Dowager herself, in the final analysis, it was for Emperor Wen Zongxian, so it had to be regarded as a "really important state event".

Now, the "Son of Heaven" is really living in the Qianqing Palace, and the "Curtain Removal Ceremony" is also an out-and-out Queen Mother's "own thing", if the "Curtain Removal Ceremony" is held in the Qianqing Palace, it will inevitably be ridiculed as "trespassing", and secondly, it seems that the Queen Mother, who is "raised by the world", wants to do her own "big things", but she can't even find a suitable place, so she has no choice but to borrow a place from her daughter?

This is a pity.

Some people have a clear brain: Why don't we go to the Summer Palace to hold a "curtain removal ceremony"? The Summer Palace is an authentic "place for the Queen Mother", and the place must be big enough!

However, the Summer Palace is the place where the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces "raised the curtain and rushed to peace" after "removing the curtain" -- please pay attention to the word "after" -- after the "curtain removal ceremony" was held, the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces would move the Summer Palace.

Uh, seems to be......

So what to do with Nirvana?

In the end, Prince Xuan slapped the board: the location of the "Curtain Removal Ceremony" was selected in the Huangji Hall of Ningshou Palace.

Many people's first reaction when they heard "Ningshou Palace" couldn't help but let out a soft "ah", and after thinking about it for a while, they couldn't help nodding their heads again and again: Hey, there is really no more suitable place than Ningshou Palace to hold this "curtain removal ceremony"!

Hey, you say, why didn't I think of it?

Prince Xuan is Prince Xuan!

Ningshou Palace is not just the name of a palace, but also the name of an independent palace complex.

Ningshou Palace is located in the northeast corner of the Forbidden City, is the "city in the city" of the Forbidden City, has its own front court, back bed, garden, the regulation is grand, basically a specific and micro small Forbidden City, in terms of area alone, the "back three palaces" and the imperial garden are together, and there is no Ningshou Palace.

In the Ming Dynasty, the houses in this area, sparse and falling, not into the climate, to the Kangxi period of this dynasty, the Holy Ancestor for the filial piety of the Empress Dowager Renxian, built the Ningshou Palace here, the palace and pavilion, began to become a scale. This is the beginning of the construction of Ningshou Palace, and it is also the "legal basis" for placing the "curtain removal ceremony" in Ningshou Palace -- because of the "story" of the Empress Dowager Renxian, Ningshou Palace can be regarded as "the place of the Empress Dowager" and "in line with the identity of the Empress Dowager".

However, in the end of the Kangxi Dynasty, the regulation of Ningshou Palace was still very limited, and it was Gaozong who really built a lot of construction here, so that Ningshou Palace was complete in front of the dynasty and after the sleep, and finally transformed into a specific and micro "Little Forbidden City".

Gaozong is to take the Ningshou Palace as his residence after the Zen throne to operate, which is not only the "Taishang Emperor's main bed", the pattern is modeled after the Forbidden City, but also divided into two parts: the former dynasty and the rear bed.

In the front of the dynasty part, the nine dragon walls correspond to the noon gate; The Huangji Gate corresponds to the Taihe Gate; Ningshou Gate, Huangji Palace, and Ningshou Palace are gathered together, corresponding to the "three major halls". Among them, the Imperial Palace is the "Main Hall of the Emperor Taishang" -- it is the place where the "curtain removal ceremony" is about to be held.

Of course, as far as the specific regulations of the palace are concerned, how can the "Taishang Emperor's Main Palace" not "encroach" on the Taihe Hall as the "Main Hall of the Son of Heaven", therefore, the regulation of Ningshoumen is compared with the Qianqing Gate; The regulation of the Imperial Palace is compared with the Qianqing Palace, the head of the inner court and the "Son of Heaven is sleeping"; The regulation of Ningshou Palace is compared with Kunning Palace.

It can be roughly said that the "former dynasty" of Ningshou Palace is basically a "mixture" of the "three major halls" and the "last three palaces" of the Forbidden City.

The area of Ningshou Palace's back bed, not losing the previous dynasty, and also like the pattern of the Forbidden City, divided into east, middle and west three roads, among which the garden located in the west road, commonly known as the "Qianlong Garden", the layout is exquisite, straight and straight, extremely ingenious, compared with the imperial garden, each is good at winning, not inferior.

Gaozong ran Ningshou Palace and spared no effort, but after he took the Zen throne, except for a "Qiansu Banquet" in Ningshou Palace, he did not live there seriously for a day - he still lived in the Yangxin Palace.

The reason is very simple, Gaozong, who is the emperor, still controls the supreme power of the empire, the Heart Cultivation Hall and the secret military aircraft department, which are the center of imperial power, and in order to consolidate power, he can't "leave the nest" at will.

However, in any case, Ningshou Palace is nominally, in addition to being the "place of the Queen Mother", it is also a serious "place of the Emperor", and the "removal of the curtain" of the Queen Mother of the two palaces, and the "inner Zen" of Gaozong, in a sense, are similar, at least they are "emeritus", and the "Removal Ceremony" in Ningshou Palace is really compatible.

The Huangji Hall and the square in front of the palace are also large enough to stuff "the nobles above the rank of the eighth-point auxiliary prince and the officials above the fifth rank in Beijing".

It's really "all four corners".

Also, holding the "curtain removal ceremony" in Ningshou Palace faintly reveals such a meaning: the exploits of the queen mother of the two palaces can be compared to Gaozong of "ten perfect martial arts".

This is a very high reputation, if someone praises it so in person, no matter what the queen mother of the two palaces thinks in her heart, she will not be able to accept it in any way; However, although the sycophants can't be photographed in the open, just a slight hint is enough to make people's hearts surge!

The emperor invited the queen mother and the queen mother to Changchun Palace, and she and the imperial husband reported to the queen mother of the two palaces in person the decision to hold the "curtain removal ceremony" in Ningshou Palace.

Sure enough, hearing the words "Ningshou Palace Imperial Palace", Cixi's eyes suddenly lit up, and her whole face revealed a faint light.

With a slight groan, he turned to Ci'an, "I think it's okay, sister, what do you say?" ”

You said "yes", what else can "sister" say?

However, Ci'an was still a little uneasy, "Ningshou Palace belongs to Emperor Gaozong...... This, is it appropriate? ”

"After returning to the Empress Dowager," Guan Zhuofan said, "Emperor Shengzuren is filial piety to the Empress Dowager Renxian, and it is the Zhao Zhao of Ningshou Palace, and the Emperor Taishang ...... Whether it is the current dynasty or the previous dynasty, it is a special case. ”

The implication is that no matter who left behind the current pattern of Ningshou Palace, it is first of all "the place of the Queen Mother", and then "the place of the Emperor Taishang", therefore, well, suitable, suitable.

This statement is contrary to most people's perception of Ningshou Palace, people who know Ningshou Palace, about all know that Ningshou Palace is the residence prepared by Gaozong for the Zen position, and few people know that the "Zhaojian" of Ningshou Palace actually began from the filial piety of the Holy Ancestor to raise his mother.

However, there is nothing wrong with Guan Zhuofan's statement.

The Emperor is indeed a "special case", in terms of rituals, there must be a special "place for the Queen Mother" in the Forbidden City, but there can be no special "place for the Emperor".

Ci'an hesitated for a moment and nodded, "Well, okay......"

Cixi looked at Guan Zhuofan with a very complicated gaze, this man......

Then, such a thought jumped out of her mind: Okay, my "honor guards" placed under the eaves of the front hall of Changchun Palace can finally be displayed to the ministers in a grand manner!

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