According to New Tang Book? According to the article "The Emperor Accepts the Empress" in Eight Records of Rites and Music (volume 18), the wedding of the emperor and empress in the Tang Dynasty is quite complicated. After entering the bridal chamber, you must first worship the gods, the heavens, the land and the ancestors. In fact, this kind of worship activity began before entering the bridal chamber. If you want to enter the same prison, there will be different kinds of worship activities in the days after marriage.
There is a dining table under the west window of the new landlord's room. There are beans, baskets, baskets and bowls in front of the table, which means the same as the folk saying "eat a pot of rice in the future". After entering the bridal chamber, a sacrificial ceremony was held before the ceremony of tying the knot (sound jn), and the couple sacrificed together.
Every time there is a sacrifice, the couple will have a meal together, so that they will be full and not hungry before going to bed. Because drinking a little wine can also adjust the interests of both parties in place, which is also a means of flirting before going to bed.
The so-called "wedding ceremony" is what people call "drinking a glass of wine". "Same prison" means that husband and wife eat cooked livestock meat together, such as a pig; "Right" is to combine the cut pieces into one, which was used to hold wine in ancient times. It is "combination" to mix the wine in the jars of the emperor and the queen. This toast is not to drink each other's glasses at a modern wedding, but to drink the mixed wine. The current form of drinking toast should be the product of building a new house.
Of course, after the ceremony, that is, after drinking the toast, what should we do next? Everyone who has been married should know ―― go to bed. But when the emperor is the groom's official, you can't just go to bed, you have to order first. The emperor of the Tang Dynasty slept like this:
Shang Yi knelt to the north and said, "After the ceremony, Xing." Both the emperor and the queen are prosperous. Go to the palace to introduce the emperor into the East Room, issue a coronation suit, and serve the royal suit; Go to the palace to lead the queen into the country and take off her clothes. Go to the palace to attract the emperor into the palace. I still have a thorough meal. It's located in the East Room, just like before. The queen followed the emperor, and the emperor waited for the queen.
As can be seen from the above, after drinking a glass of wine, the emperor was taken to the room by the sleeping imperial secretary, took off his coronation suit and put on plain clothes; The queen was first introduced into the account by the imperial secretary, who took off her dress first, led the emperor to wear plain clothes and slept in a bed with the queen, and lived in peace.
In the Qing dynasty, the emperor paid more attention to the wedding before going to bed. The Qing emperor was Manchu, believing in Shamanism, but he also had to worship the gods, such as crossing the brazier. Go to the shrine next to the west of the bridal chamber to worship a god before going to bed. The sacrificial ceremony was presided over by an old shaman.
Shortly after the queen entered the bridal chamber, the emperor was also dressed in robes and auspicious clothes, and was sent from Gan Qing Palace to Kunning Palace by Prince Jinzhi. After the towel on the queen's head was removed, the emperor and the queen sat on the bed where the dragon and the phoenix were auspicious, and the female officer of the internal affairs office put a copper pot on the bed, holding the "children's treasure" in a round box. This kind of "children's cake" is a kind of pasta, which is a special kind of small dumplings.
There is also a mattress and banquet table. The princess and the female official respectfully ask the emperor to sit opposite, and Fujin is ready to wait on the wedding banquet. At the wedding reception, the emperor and the queen exchanged drinks and made a toast. At this time, in front of the window outside the temple, a couple of guards sang "Song of Congratulations" in Manchu. Get married and pay the bill. In the evening, Fujin, a female official of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, etc. Serve the emperor and then eat longevity noodles. After eating noodles, the following things are needless to say, and enjoy the fun of men and women.