Around 0: 00 A.D. 1922 12 1 year, Xuan Tong, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, who had abdicated but legally held the title, wore a dragon robe and was surrounded by civil and military officials and ascended the throne in the solemn Gan Qing Palace. He personally sent Feng Yu out of the palace and went to Di 'anmen Maoer Hutong to marry the queen, thus opening the grand ceremony of the last emperor's wedding in China history.
Qin's choice represents God's will. Since the welcoming ceremony will be held in Yin Shi (3: 00 to 5: 00), the wedding can only be arranged at midnight. At the same time, Qin also stipulated that the Empress should avoid the "three phases" of the sea (2 1 to 23: 00), Mao (5-7: 00) and Wei (13 to 15: 00), so it should not be arranged in the morning, afternoon or midnight. In the middle of the night, the rest of the city is just a scene in the street. It is also the full moon, and the night is like a small day, which is not an eyesore at all.
According to an imperial edict issued by Emperor Xuan Tong, Belle Zai Tao always handled all matters related to weddings. After Zai Tao was appointed, he immediately consulted the Qing Hui Dian and the Emperor's Wedding Archives, and decided to follow the model of Tongzhi Emperor's wedding, and consider adding new tricks since the Republic of China. After the budget, it is determined that "the wedding expenses should be saved". According to the report at that time, there are two main opinions about the total cost: 1922 10. 1October 28th, Ping Bao claimed that "the wedding expenses of the Qing emperor" and "it was recently approved by the wedding preparation office of Wang as 400,000 yuan"; 192210/0, Guoqiang Daily reported that "due to the shortage of funds, wedding ministers Zai Tao, Zhu Yifan, Ying Shao and Lao Ling held a meeting to try their best to reduce the wedding expenses and agreed to spend (statistically) 12,000 yuan." One million two hundred is one million yuan, a far cry from it. This is just a budget, and I'm afraid I don't know how much it will actually cost. Later, Pu Jia said in his memoirs that it took 400,000 yuan, that is, according to this figure, 200,000 bags of "foreign noodles" can be purchased at the current price, which is really extravagant.
In order to raise this huge expenditure, the Qing dynasty once "prepared official documents" to recover the "preferential treatment fees" owed by the government of the Republic of China over the years, but the answer was "it is difficult to comply". Then he agreed to apply for a mortgage from the British HSBC, so he collected more than 1000 pieces of gold plates, gold bottles, gold boxes, gold bowls, gold pots, gold vases, gold hand stoves, Jin Ruyi, gourd, pearls, jade articles, white jade and coral products from the inner library, all of which are relics of Qianlong, Daoguang, Xianfeng and Tongzhi periods, and have high cultural value. Subsequently, 4 1 box of gold and silver utensils was loaded, and porcelain and jade furnishings were packed in two barrels. 1On October 2nd, they were transported to the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in Dongjiaominxiang by19221car. Later, due to the failure to raise enough funds to redeem the mortgage, these national treasures were "mortgaged to death" because they exceeded the time limit and became the wealth of London. This is the background of the grand wedding of Emperor Xuan Tong.
The bright moonlight enveloped the majestic and heavily guarded Forbidden City. Since Emperor Xuan Tong abdicated by imperial edict shortly after the Revolution of 1911, there have been several lively events here, such as the funeral of Queen Yulong in 19 13, and the second visit to the pole in19/kloc-7 due to zhang xun restoration Puyi, but none of them came grandly this time.
According to reports at that time, all the gates of the Qing Palace, such as Shenwumen, Jingyunmen and Ganqingmen, were hung with door gods, with Shen Tu on the left and Lei Yu on the right. The portrait is ugly and ferocious, and monsters dare not show it off. Feng Yu, who greeted the queen, decided to go in and out from the middle gate of Donghuamen, so the gate was specially decorated: four hidden lights were temporarily installed on the left and right sides of the gate, and of course the door god was indispensable. In front of the gate, two rows of military and police officers in big dresses stood under the colorful columns tied with yellow silk.
When the Qing emperor got married, the queen's wedding sedan chair entered the palace from the main entrance of the Forbidden City-the noon gate. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were strict grade regulations for entering and leaving the meridian gate, among which the highest level was the middle gate of the meridian gate, which was actually a special gate for the emperor to enter and leave. However, at the wedding ceremony, the Queen was allowed to enter the palace once in a wedding sedan chair, and three people, including the first prize, the second prize and the flower exploration, were allowed to walk once when she left the palace. As for the civil and military officials, the royal princes, etc., they can only go in and out at the east gate, west gate and left and right gates in the east and west corners according to their status. Low-ranking officials, internal supervisors, guards, doctors, kitchen workers and craftsmen in the palace are not allowed to enter or leave the gate of the meridian gate at all, but can only go to Donghuamen, Xihuamen and Shenwumen. For the queen, there is only one chance to enter the middle gate of the meridian gate in her life. It's glory. It's a family of nine. This is not a simple problem!
After the Republic of China, the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the Hall of Zhonghe and the Hall of Baohe in the Forbidden City were handed over to the Beiyang government for use. Puyi's life circle was confined to the second half of the Forbidden City, so his wedding sedan chair could not only enter the middle gate of the Qing Gate and the Wumen Gate, but also had no right to use the Donghuamen and Xihuamen within the first three halls. It would be a shame to let the queen enter the palace from the back door of the Forbidden City-Shenwumen. After repeated consultations with the Beiyang government, the wedding ceremony office decided to make an exception and open Donghuamen for the queen to enter the palace. On that day, a red card was hung on the left post of Donghuamen, which read, "All the people attending the ceremony and celebration came in and out from Shenwumen", indicating that this door was specially opened for the Queen. The bleak and deserted Donghuamen, which has not been unlocked for almost ten years, is full of festive atmosphere and has become lively and imposing.
From the night of1October 30th, 165438+ audiences of different levels entered the palace from Shenwumen one after another. Cars, carriages and mule carts are parked in front of the Shenwu Gate, which is decorated with colorful sheds. According to the Register of Celebrated Attendants, the first one was Pu Yi's sixth uncle Zaixun, and the last one was Nie Xianfan, a senior police officer in garrison headquarters, Beijing, with 237 prominent figures. Among them, there are more than 20 foreign men and women, 3 outstanding women in China, more than 20 members of Congress, more than 20 government military attaché s in big dresses of the Republic of China and government civil servants in tuxedos. The rest are imperial clan relatives, princes and ministers of the Qing Dynasty, young and old, and officials serving in the small court. They are dressed in Qing Dynasty costumes. Only a few of these audiences with high status can enter through Jingyunmen, and ordinary audiences and foreigners are outside Jingyunmen. Next to Jingyun Gate, 50 pairs of horns and double happiness vertical pole lamps are lit, and the south road is covered with thick brown carpet. Then it turns to Gan Qing Gate, where there are etiquette appliances.
With the stroke of midnight, Xuan Tong Emperor Puyi stepped into Gan Qing Palace. Here, three gift tables have been placed in front of the emperor's throne: on the middle table, there is a "festival", which symbolizes the supreme power of the emperor; There is a "golden book" on the east table and a "golden seal" on the west table. They are not gifts for the queen. The ceremony was held on the first day, and the "calligraphy" and "treasure" were also delivered to Wanrong. This "golden book" and "golden seal" represent the respected status of the queen and are the most important gifts given by the emperor to the queen.
When Xuan Tong entered Gan Qing Palace, ancient musical instruments such as bells, drums and stone chimes hung under the east and west eaves outside the palace suddenly sounded.
Ring, 16 kinds of musical instruments, the chapter of Longping in Zhonghe Shaole. In the music, Puyi toured the three ceremony tables first, then acceded to the throne, and the music stopped. Then the ministers made obeisances, and the "Single Pen Da Le" outside the temple began to play the "Chapter of Peace". Princes, ministers, envoys and spectators entered the temple in turn according to their status and status, kneeling three times and kowtowing nine times to congratulate the groom and the emperor. The angel Zaizhen and the deputy angel Zhao Xu knelt down to listen to the imperial edict of marrying the queen and accept the "sacrifice". When Puyi "stepped down" and left Gan Qing Palace, "Harmony and Less Music" staged a "peace chapter". At this point, the honor guard to marry the Queen has lined up outside Gan Qing and even Jingyun.
The huge wedding ceremony fully demonstrated the "afterglow" of the 300-year rule of the Qing Dynasty.
First, the infantry commanded the yamen cavalry, followed by the Beijing Police Department cavalry, the security guard cavalry and two classes of military bands. One class plays foreign music, while the other class plays China music. Of course, they can only play separately. Then there was a sedan chair with a yellow satin and a silver top, and three yellow satin and silver top cars, all of which were unoccupied. The emperor gave them to the queen for her usual use, so she had to walk around with them empty. Seventy-two people held dragon and phoenix flags, imperial umbrellas, melons, axes, cymbals, sticks and cards. This is the so-called armor, which is an indispensable ornament for the emperor or queen to go out. There are also four yellow pavilions carried by many bearers, the "golden book" and "golden seal" originally placed on the east and west platforms of the palace, and the phoenix crown which only the queen has the right to enjoy.
Then, sixty people held huge palace lanterns. There are also officials who clean rooms, police sent by the government of the Republic of China to help take care of them, police security teams, marching teams leading the Ya Bu team, and Chinese and Western military bands. Behind this is the highest official who directs the wedding ceremony: the orthodox angel Prince Qing who holds the "sacred book" and the deputy angel Zheng Qinwang Zhaoxu who holds the "imperial edict". Naturally, this "sacred festival" has just been placed on the ceremony table in the center of Gan Qing Palace, and the "imperial edict" has just been read out. Only envoys sent by the emperor are qualified to hold festivals and hold letters. Eight imperial guards, such as Heng Yong, surrounded the envoy, while others behind him held portable incense burners, plugged in four lit incense sticks, and a little light smoke filled the night sky.
Finally, the queen rode Fengyu. This golden crown and phoenix jade was placed on Danyong in Gan Qing Palace three days ago. It was booked in Hangzhou during Guangxu's wedding, and it was glazed again this time. Yu Feng, also known as Xi sedan chair, is different from ordinary sedan chair. It is a big sedan chair carried by sixteen people. The top of the car is painted with gold and divided into three layers. The first floor is round with a huge golden phoenix in the middle. Phoenix symbolizes a happy and lucky bride and a noble queen with a golden roof on her back. The second floor is also round, surrounded by Lan Fenghuang eaves embroidered with yellow satin, and nine little golden phoenix stand on the eaves; On the third floor, there is a square eaves, the eaves are arched, and a golden phoenix stands at each corner of the eaves. There are long yellow silk ears in the mouth, which are called "vertical tassels". The sedan chair is made of bright yellow satin and embroidered with colorful phoenix. There are transparent glass square windows on the left and right sides of the sedan chair, decorated with golden double happiness characters. The curtain, sedan chair and seat cover in front of the sedan chair are embroidered with red silk, Lan Fenghuang, golden happy characters, colorful clouds, bats and auspicious flowers. Gourd lace has been embroidered from generation to generation, which means a long life and endless generations. Around the wind, there are 32 Qing officials and many military and police guards of the Republic of China, as well as 100 pairs of horns and drums to show its powerful momentum.
As the general manager of the wedding, Zai Tao gave the task of taking care of the couple and the wedding room to his first wife, Jiang Wanzhen. Jiang was born in a famous family in Guangdong. He received a good education since childhood, engaged in poetry and calligraphy, was good at painting, was well informed, spoke politely, was alert and decisive, and really showed his face several times at Puyi's wedding!
After 1 in the morning, the wedding ceremony arrangements are ready. Puyi sent an envoy to lead Jiang Wanzhen, the wife of Zeng Chong, a former minister of internal affairs, and two "Ming princesses". Accompanied by many female officials, she placed a "imperial pen with the word Baolong written at will" in the center of the wind city. Then get on the sedan chair and go out of the palace from Donghuamen. After Yu Feng was sent away, Zai Tao's wives, such as Fujin, Akiki and female officials, went to the East Warm Pavilion of Kunning Palace, the emperor's bridal chamber, to make the bed for the bride and groom. Bedding embroidered with the exquisite pattern of "Dragon and Phoenix" is also made in Hangzhou. There is a vase filled with pearls, precious stones, gold and silver and grains in the center of the bed, and there is a handle in every corner of the bed. After the attack, they took a shortcut out of the Shenwumen and went to the queen's mansion. At the same time, Puyi sent four imperial envoys, namely, Mongolian Prince Nayantu, Mongolian County King Gong Sannuobu, Zaize and Pu Xin, to take care of everything in Gan Qing Palace, while he retired to the West Nuange of Gan Qing Palace to rest and wait for the Queen to enter the palace.
The wedding procession of more than 3,000 people left Dong 'anmen from Donghuamen, set foot on the moon at night, and marched to the north. Via Beichizi, enter the northwest Sanmen, cross Jingshan East Street, exit the middle gate of Di 'anmen, enter Maoer Hutong along Di 'anmen Street, and go west to the Queen's House. Along the way, the roads were covered with yellow sand, the streets were splashed with clean water, and red and yellow decorations were everywhere. Since midnight, the police department here has declared martial law. However, there are still people on both sides of the road. Most of them live in this section, but they are not allowed to walk around at will. As for the Chinese and foreign people who are allowed to watch the ceremony, they all wear the steel emblem issued by the "Little Court". See the chapter "Publishing".
In front of the queen's house with colorful squares, the queen's father, Guo Buluo? Rong yuan, the queen's brother Guo buluo? Run Liang and the queen's brother Guo Buluo? The running Qijia has already knelt there to welcome the arrival of the imperial edict and the holy day. After the guard of honor arrived, the father and son first faced the imperial edict and the holy day, then entered the courtyard with the angel and the deputy angel, and Feng Yu was carried into the front yard. Then remove the ordinary bearers hired by Taibu Temple and replace them with eunuchs, then carry them into the inner court and put them in front of the main steps, facing southeast. This direction was also stipulated by Qin Tianjian of the Qing Dynasty. According to divination, the agency announced that the queen should go to southeast Kyrgyzstan when she rose and fell. Jiang Wanzhen, who took a shortcut early, and other Fujin, married women and female officials asked the queen to put on a pair of steamed buns, a wishful dress and a dragon and phoenix harmony robe, and everything was ready.
When Yu Feng arrived, the angel read the imperial edict, and the queen personally accepted it and paid tribute to it. According to Johnston, "She knelt on the ground, and then performed a series of complicated ceremonies, including getting up with her arms drooping and her head slightly raised six times, kneeling three times and bowing three times. For a woman, this etiquette is equivalent to the most respected bow-nine times. " After the ceremony, accept the gold album and gold seal. At the same time, Jiang Wanzhen and others prepared for the queen's promotion to Yu Feng. They burn Tibetan incense first, smoke a circle in the phoenix, and then smoke the brocade handkerchief that the queen used to cover her head. After smoking, move the handle in the middle. "The imperial pen uses the word" coating "and moves to one side. Please ask the queen to hold the apple and Ruyi in her hand, put on the hijab and ascend. As soon as the chief eunuch lowered the curtain, the eunuchs got on the sedan chair.
Straighten up one by one, cross the inner court and the outer court, carry them to the entrance of the Queen's House, and then replace them with ordinary bearers in Taibu Temple and go home.
At this time, it is 3 o'clock in the morning, the sky is clear, the moon is still round and bright, and the moonlight is bright. The end of the guard of honor has walked out of the east entrance of Maoer Hutong. Can I still see the Queen's father, Guo Buliu? Rong Yuan knelt on the red mat and watched her daughter enter the palace. In the long ceremonial procession, Yu Feng went east to Nanluoguxiang, crossed North Huangchenggen Kuanjie, southbound through the Big Buddha Temple and Mashi Street, to the west of T-shaped Street, entered Dong 'anmen Street, and crossed the bridge into Donghuamen. At this time, it is a little earlier than the scheduled time (4 am), which is 3: 40. During this period, the moon has disappeared, the street lamps are sparse, and it is dark. However, the onlookers are still crowded on both sides of the street. They all stood behind the police who kept order. It is a precious opportunity to see the wedding of the Qing emperor as a citizen of the Republic of China. There is also a famous figure in the audience-Mei Lanfang, who happened to meet the wedding ceremony at the dinner after the evening play. Mr. Xu Jichuan recalled:
1922 One day in winter, Mr. Mei was having dinner in Dongxing Building, just in time for the wedding of Emperor Puyi, and the traffic was blocked in the street. Mr. Mei and some friends went to the lounge upstairs of Zhenguang Cinema to watch the excitement. According to Mr. Mei, I saw pairs of people wearing red tassels and official uniforms, riding horses and carrying flag guns, marching slowly, and it took a long time to finish. Then there are pairs of horses with golden saddles and jade reins. No one rides them, and there are two rows. Then all the deacons, including melons, axes, cymbals, flags, banners, umbrellas, covers, etc. , are in pairs. Everyone wore the captain's clothes and walked in line. Then drums, horns, horns, etc. But they don't play music. Only countless hooves rang quietly in the street. Behind the band are a pair of people in flowery clothes and holding horn lights. Behind the lantern, there are horses riding again. There are several couples wearing crested feathers, yellow jackets and waist knives. Finally, there are two people riding a crested horse, one of whom is holding a "festival" (this is the guy Su Wu used in the Beijing opera "Su Wu Shepherd"). Behind it is a "Yu Feng" carried by many people dressed as captains (the "Queen" is among them). Right in front of Yu Feng, there are several pairs of people wearing flowered clothes and carrying stoves. They may be eunuchs. Behind "Yu Feng" are pairs of riders, wearing top feathers and long leopard-skin vests, with leopard-skin guns in their hands. There are also some officials riding horses with swords and arrows. These ceremonies took about two hours to finish. When Mr. Mei drove home, he saw that the house facing the street was crowded with people.
What Mr. Mei Lanfang saw is quite real, which can be confirmed by a real wedding. According to the reporter's report, there are at least tens of thousands of onlookers along the way, gentlemen, wives, young masters and young ladies wearing steel badges, or people coming and going to watch the ceremony in cars, carriages and rickshaws.
Feng Yu entered the Forbidden City from Donghuamen and was slowly carried to Jingyunmen. The ordinary bearers of Taibu Temple were finally moved to the marble steps. The eunuchs in the sedan chair solemnly and carefully carried Feng Yu to the front of Gan Qing Palace, facing the emperor's throne. From Donghuamen to Gan Qing Palace, there are brown carpets in front and back of the entrance, and red carpets in several places where Phoenix rises and falls.
According to Manchu tradition, the groom should shoot three arrows at the bride's head before she gets off the sedan chair, so as to drive away the evil spirits and ensure peace. There is another meaning for the emperor: the queen is respected, but she is also a slave before the emperor. Shooting an arrow at her means that she must also be punished. At first, Puyi was very interested. She tried to shoot with an arrow, but Jiang Wanzhen stopped her. Considering Pu Yi's high myopia, she can't wear glasses at the wedding. Once she accidentally hurts the queen, it will be difficult. After listening to it, Puyi felt reasonable and didn't think it was necessary to stick to the old rules and regulations, so he issued a temporary decree to exempt the archery ceremony.
According to the ancestral system of the Qing dynasty, when the queen got off the sedan chair, the concubine who entered the palace the day before should personally lead the female officer and maid-in-waiting to kneel down to meet her, to show the rank between the queen and the imperial concubine. Puyi seems to have no need to think much. Now that the Queen has let go of this arrow, she won't let Shu Fei kneel at all, so she announced once again that she will be exempted from the ceremony of kneeling.
Puyi was led into the bridal chamber, and the East Warm Pavilion of Kunning Palace, the princes, senior officials of the Qing court and emperors who were eligible to come to Gan Qing Palace with the wind, also withdrew. Around the wind, only Fujin, female officials and eunuchs such as Jiang Wanzhen and Ming Fei were left, and the queen was carried out of the wind. Jiang Wanzhen immediately stepped forward and took the apples and Ruyi held by the Queen all the way, and handed her a vase, which was a necessary auspicious item in the wedding ceremony. Then, with the help of the still-draped queen and under the guidance of the female officer holding the pearl lamp, she crossed the east partition into the Kunning Palace and came to the East Warm Pavilion.
Here, the bride must also cross a pre-set brazier in accordance with Manchu customs in order to live a richer life in the future; Then cross the saddle and the apple and beg for the peace of married life. After these programs, Jiang Wanzhen took the vase from the queen and led her to see the emperor. At this time, someone presented a new scale to Puyi, asking the emperor to unveil the queen's big red veil with the scale. This is probably the custom of Manchu people asking the bride to plan the daily necessities and scrimp. Jiang Wanzhen was very careful. She was afraid that Pu Yi, who was all hands, would pick the queen's face, so she took the steelyard from him. In fact, what does the royal bride say about thrift? So Puyi reached out and took off the veil that covered the queen's face, and saw her beautiful face for the first time.
When the graceful and beautiful face first appeared in front of Puyi, it once aroused his curiosity, but failed to attract him strongly.
From the moment the veil was lifted, an elegant marriage life began. According to Manchu custom, the emperor and queen should complete a series of ceremonies in the bridal chamber.
Fujin and other places where dragons and phoenixes are auspicious, please sit on the left and then sit on the right. The female officer first placed a golden basin on the wedding bed, and then packed children's cakes in a round box, inviting the emperor and the queen to have dinner together. Fujin and others dressed up after the invitation, but they still wore double happiness. Add flat hairpin and rich velvet flowers, put on beads, have a big banquet and a glass of wine. Several bodyguards sang a hello song outside the temple. The female officer withdrew from the banquet, and Fujin and Mingfu invited the emperor and queen to share the bed and go to the southeast to sit in the tent ceremony. The female officer still placed a golden basin on the wedding bed, and Fujin and others invited the emperor and the younger generation to have longevity noodles. After the ceremony, he withdrew from Gongyun.
Eating "children's cakes", "feast drinking" and "longevity noodles" is naturally a gentle and sweet night for healthy boys and girls. However, Puyi left the "Dragon and Phoenix Happy Bed", the big bed with the plaque of "Ascending the Moon and Keeping the Moon" behind the pillars of the hall, and the double wooden bed with the embroidered red ribbon of "Dragon and Phoenix" back to hall of mental cultivation's bedroom. Puyi envied the western way of life and took advantage of the wedding. Not long ago, she specially asked the German boss of Shanghai Hengdali Watch Company to buy a set of crystal furniture from abroad and put it in her single bedroom in Yangxintang. On the first night of her wedding, Puyi felt more comfortable coming back to enjoy this crystal furniture.
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The Real Wedding Room of the Qing Emperor's Wedding 2009-10-1310: 45 The Real Wedding Room of the Qing Emperor's Wedding
Everyone knows that the Palace of Kunning is the queen's bedroom. There are many weddings in the play, but I really don't pay much attention to the emperor's wedding room. Random guess, Kunning Palace can't be all wedding rooms. Where is the wedding room where the emperor got married?
Kunning Palace, nine rooms wide, has a warm pavilion. The bridal chamber (wedding room) of the Qing emperor's wedding is located at the eastern end of Kunning Palace, that is, the East Warm Pavilion of Kunning Palace.
When the Qing emperor got married, the walls of the wedding room were decorated with red paint, and double happiness palace lanterns were hung on the ceiling. The bridal chamber has an east gate and a west gate, and the wooden shadow wall outside the west gate and the east gate is decorated with gold-painted double happiness characters, which means going out to see happiness.
When the Qing emperor married, there was a Zhang Longfeng bed in the northwest corner of the bridal chamber. The curtains hanging in front of the bed and the quilts placed on the bed are all exquisitely embroidered in Jiangnan, with 100 children with different expressions embroidered on them. They are called "the ancient philosophers' account" and "the ancient philosophers' quilt", which are colorful and dazzling.
Double happiness lanterns are absolutely indispensable wedding room ornaments in ancient weddings. In the wedding room of the Qing emperor's wedding, the double happiness palace lantern is even more essential!
Jade Cup-the mascot of the emperor's wedding, the work of Lu Zigang, a jade carving master in Ming Dynasty, is really a rare boutique.
The overall shape of the cup is composed of two cylindrical cups connected in parallel, and the bottom of the cup has six animal faces as feet. One side of the cup is carved with a handle in the shape of a phoenix, and the other side is embossed with double spines that spiral and crawl. The top and bottom of the cup are decorated with a circle of rope patterns for binding, and there is a seal on the ligation mouth, engraved with the word "Wanshou" in official script. Yang Wen official script is engraved on both sides of the cup body, and one side is "Wet Chupu", which is carved. Jade liquid and nectar make you happy. "At the end of the agency" Zhu Yunming "three words. At the top of the poem is the word "Lian Cup". On the other side is "nine strange cigarettes, thousands of miles away, the sun and the moon." "May you live a long life and be drunk in the phoenix." There is the word "Zi Gang Zhi" at the top of the poem, which expresses good wishes for the king's wedding and is an essential object in the wedding room.
Jieju Cup is a special cup for toasting at ancient weddings. )
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The crown ornaments are mainly dragons and phoenixes, and the dragons are welded by gold wire overlapping process, which is hollow and full of three-dimensional sense; Phoenix sticks kingfisher hair, and its color is lasting and gorgeous. The pearls, gems and weights in the crown are all different. The largest one contains 128 gems, and the smallest one is 95. The maximum number of pearls is 5,449, and the minimum number is 3,426, with the maximum weight of 2,905g and the minimum weight of 2 165g. The crown is inlaid with dragons, phoenixes, gem flowers, Cui Yun, green leaves and spools. These parts are first made separately, and then inserted into the sleeve of the crown to form the rockhopper. The phoenix-crested phoenix-crested phoenix-crested phoenix-crested phoenix-crested phoenix-crested phoenix-crested phoenix-crested phoenix-crested phoenix-crested phoenix-crested phoenix-crested phoenix-crested phoenix-crested phoenix-crested phoenix-crested phoenix-crested phoenix-crested phoenix-crested phoenix-crested phoenix-crested phoenix-crested phoenix-crested phoenix-crested phoenix-crested phoenix-crested phoenix-crested phoenix-crested phoenix-crested phoenix- Diancui covers a large area (there are 23 peaks in the four peaks, and there are hundreds of emerald green flowers in Cui Yun), with more than 400 gemstones embedded, and many beads and jewelry strings of all sizes. The final assembly is a very complicated process. The placement of various ornaments, the threading of thousands of pearls, the setting of hundreds of precious stones and the arrangement of many ornaments on a crown are all reasonable. The mouth of the rockhopper is decorated with jewels, and the golden dragon, the emerald phoenix and the jewels complement each other, which is magnificent and beyond the reach of ordinary craftsmen. On the phoenix's head, the golden dragon leaps over Cui Yun, while the emerald phoenix spreads its wings and flies between gems and leaves. This is the most important thing in the wedding of the Qing emperor.
Emperor's wedding sedan chair
The queen's sedan chair entered the palace through the middle door of the noon gate. The door in the middle of the noon gate is dedicated to the emperor. Only when the emperor is married can he use the queen's sedan chair!
The Qing emperor liked Ban Zhi very much. In order to satisfy the emperor's wishes, princes and local officials paid tribute to Ban Zhi. Banzhi was originally used by Manchu people to protect their fingers when shooting arrows, and later became a symbol of emperors. When the emperor got married, the jade finger was also an indispensable ornament.
The emperor's wedding was extremely luxurious. In the eleventh year of Tongzhi (1872), Tongzhi emperor Zai Chun got married, and it cost11202,000 silver; In the 15th year of Guangxu (1889), Emperor Zai Chun of Guangxu got married. In the case of extremely poor national conditions, it still cost 5.52 million taels of silver. The decoration and furnishings of the bridal chamber in the picture are the original state when Emperor Guangxu got married.
When the emperor gets married, he will live in the East Nuan Pavilion of Kunning Palace for two days, and then he will live in other palaces. If you get married first and then become an emperor, you won't enjoy this treatment. Therefore, only two emperors, Tongzhi and Guangxu, used this new house when they were young.