Chapter 80: The Emperor's Wedding (Part II)
After noon, Zhu Cihong's huge auxiliary system began the first step of the wedding, the Nacai ceremony. The pen is www.biquge.info a pair of geese, four horses, 100 satin, 200 cloth, a golden tea tube, and two silver basins.
Yang Wenyue took the Golden Festival, guided by the royal guard, walked out of the Huangji Gate, and led the team to Zhao Shiyao's mother's mansion. After arriving at the mansion, Zhao Guangyin, the father of Zhao Shiyao, was dressed in grand court clothes and greeted him on the right side of the gate road.
At this time, Li Banghua and Yang Wenyue walked into the middle gate of Zhao's mansion, and Si En, who was the celebrant supervisor, held silk and satin on the left and right for the record. That's Nacairi. After the collection, Zhao Guangyin accepted it and thanked the emperor. Then Zhao Guangyin began to hold a name asking ceremony, and submitted the Geng book with Zhao Shiyao's name, resume, birthday and other items to Li Banghua.
At this time, more gifts also came. Twenty dumpling tables, twenty wine banquet tables, twenty sheep, and twenty bottles of wine were given to Zhao Shiyao's mother.
After the ceremony, about a certain time later, the Nacai feast opened, and the wine was trampled on the five flavors after three rounds, and under the joy, everyone began to salute one after another.
Full of wine and food, Li Banghua and others led the team back to the Forbidden City. Immediately, the large team entered the noon gate, stopped outside the Huangji Gate, and handed over the Gengshu to the celebrant eunuch, even if the task was successfully completed. The celebrant and eunuch held the Gengshu and went to the Qianqing Palace to restore the emperor's order. The emperor informs the princes and ministers about the situation and asks about the name. That's when Najib comes in.
Zhu Cihong had no interest in the disagreement of the eight characters, and the ministers naturally changed their ways to praise it.
After this, the wedding arrives.
On September 17, at noon, the big salute was held. This is a gift from Zhu Cihong to Zhao Shiyao. The list is: 200 taels of gold, 10,000 taels of silver, 1 golden tea barrel, 2 silver tea barrels, 2 silver basins, 1,000 satin horses, 20 literary horses, and 40 idle horses.
Li Banghua and Yang Wenyue were courteous again. Then the Dragon Pavilion was in front, the Cai Pavilion was in the back, and the royal battle was leading, walking out of the Huangji Gate and rushing to Zhao Shiyao's mother's mansion.
This time, it was a gift from the emperor to the family of Empress Zhao Shiyao.
Bestowed on Zhao Guangyin and Zhao Shiyao's mother: 100 taels of gold, 1 golden tea barrel, 5,000 taels of silver, 1 silver tea bucket, 1 silver basin, 500 satin, 1,000 cloth, 6 horses, and a pair of four treasures of the study; Zhao Shiyao's brothers were given forty pieces of satin and four hundred taels of silver.
After some salutation, two days before the wedding ceremony on September 19, the queen's dowry began to be prepared. There were 200 chests in total, which shows the richness of the dowry.
But to the surprise of others, the queen's dowry was actually Zhu Cihong. Among the makeup are satin ready-to-wear, fur and fox leather suits, as well as crown boots, shoes, and jewelry; There are not only furnishings, but also living utensils, practical furniture and so on. Because there are too many dowries, they will be placed everywhere after entering the palace, such as Cining Palace, Tishun Hall, Qianqing Palace, and Dongnuan Palace.
Finally, when September 19, 276 of the Ming Dynasty arrived, the wedding reached the most critical step.
This day is the official date of the ceremony, and the ceremony is the most solemn. Therefore, it also becomes: Fengying. Different from ordinary people, the emperor is the son of heaven, and he does not welcome him when he gets married, and he sends envoys to marry him called "Fengying".
At the end of the 18th, the emperor went to the emperor and the queen mother to salute. In the early morning of the same day, Luan Yiwei set up Emperor Chongzhen and Empress Dowager Zhou to drive outside the Cining Gate to the Changxin Gate, both facing each other from east to west. The inner supervisor is set up in the middle and Shaole under the eaves of Cining Palace, and the Dan Majesty is happy to be in the Changqing Gate, all to the north.
There is a court official Yu set up the emperor to worship the mattress in the middle of the threshold of Cining. At that time, the two ministers of the Houhu Interior, led the leopard tail squad to carry ten guards with guns, and ten guards with sabers, outside the Qianqing Gate. The two officials of the Ministry of Rites are under the steps behind the Imperial Palace, and they stand in order on the left and right. The official of the Qintian Supervisor reported the auspicious time outside the Qianqing Gate, and the official of the Ministry of Rites invited the emperor to wear a ceremonial dress and leave the palace.
The official guide of the Ministry of Rites drove out of the Longzong Gate, to the left gate of Yongkang, and descended to the public opinion.
At this time, Zhao Shiyao and Fengyu began to leave her mother's house and prepare to enter the palace.
This time, the Guozhang Mansion was also busy enough.
In order to prepare for the big wedding ceremony, all the people in the Zhao Mansion mobilized. At Najib, it was only a small-scale mobilization, and when it arrived, it was necessary to ask a borrower from the good house to help. After the wedding date was determined, not only Zhao Guangyin's family, but also all the children of the Zhao family below Zhao Zhang began to mobilize to help.
The whole mansion began to work, and not even a single bird was idle in the whole mansion. First of all, the appearance should be neat and new, and the environmental hygiene should not tolerate any stains. Especially if Zhao Guangyin's mansion was not very large, it should be decorated exquisitely and pleasantly, so that others can see that they have a little bit of emotion.
Not only do you have to tidy up the housework, but the whole family has to prepare to buy three new clothes inside and out, and the buying team alone has to form a long queue in the small courtyard. Not to mention the lights everywhere, and the wide distribution of invitations attracts people's joy.
is just busy with these external work, and someone has to serve Zhao Shiyao carefully. Burning incense and bathing are indispensable.
Bathing the bride is a high-end and luxurious job.
There are no industrial-grade cosmetics and skin care products in later generations, and these high-ranking officials and nobles of the Ming Dynasty also have no shortage of secret methods to enjoy maintenance. For example, skin care agents made with mung bean powder as the main raw material. Exotic perfumes brought from the Far West. and facial cleansers made with ingredients such as honey and rose petals. Use paper film that is rare for high-ranking officials and eunuchs to make towels. and skin creams made of raw materials such as mutton fat and white frangipani.
After bathing, the skin care is scented, the face is washed and wiped, and after everything is maintained, it will be on the same makeup for the ages.
Women are the ones who please themselves, not to mention this grand wedding that will only happen once in a lifetime?
Powder, eyeliner, eyeshadow, eyebrows, red lips, and finally just the right amount of blush on the cheeks.
After the makeup is done, you have to drum up the hairstyle. The hair ornament of this idea is also quite particular, and it must be carried out in accordance with the etiquette system. You can't get an ordinary concubine or a concubine, and you can't use an ordinary person or a wife. After all, this is the future queen.
At this time, Zhao Shiyao couldn't help but wonder, should she choose to like some flying buns, or novel updos? After all, Zhao Shiyao's hairstyle should not only match the fairy and gorgeous face, but also consider the convenience of wearing a phoenix crown. Zhao Shiyao thought that it was finally done after the maid. The two locks of sideburns droop naturally, like cicada wings, flowing and illegal.
Zhao Shiyao looked at the mirror quietly, as if she saw the scene of Zhu Cihong's eyes glowing, and Zhao Shiyao laughed softly. But soon, she retracted this slightly seductive appearance and reverted back to the dignified appearance she had when she was president. It's just that such a dignified one more ...... Elegant.
In the future, it will be the mother of the world.
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