The emperor's wedding ceremony is customized, including accepting gifts, collecting gifts, awarding the title of queen, welcoming, getting married, appearing before the court, celebrating and issuing imperial edicts, feasting and other ceremonial procedures.
Nacai means that the emperor gave the bride price to the queen's family. The bride price includes a large number of horses, armor, silk and so on. The wedding envoy appointed by the emperor led a team from the Hall of Supreme Harmony, went out of the middle gate of the Hall of Supreme Harmony and sent the bride price to the Queen's house.
At this time, the father and brothers who greeted the queen outside the door kowtowed to thank them. After the ceremony, the emissary got up and returned to the palace to report to me.
Before the wedding, there is a big gift. Besides pommel horse, there will be 200 taels of gold, 65,438+0,000 taels of silver, 65,438+0,000 pieces of silks and satins, gold and silver tea sets and silver pots. In addition, 360 sets of makeup will be sent.
After the dowry, the emperor sent two special envoys, the official and the deputy, to Hou Di with the imperial edict and the queen's treasure, and held a ceremony to canonize anonymous as the queen. The envoys were ordered to escort the golden seal and picture album awarded to the queen to her mother's home and announce it to her brothers and sisters.
After all the formalities are completed, you can get married. Welcome is the most grand and complicated item in the emperor's wedding.
The first three halls and the last three halls in the palace are decorated with ribbons, and when you look up, you can see the patterns of auspicious sentences with bright red and happy characters.
The red carpet has been laid in Kunning Palace from Daqingmen to Qingbaishi Imperial Road. There are 400 pairs of street lamps and 30 pairs of colored lights on both sides of the Imperial Road, which has become a magpie bridge on earth.
The emperor ordered that a special envoy be sent to meet the queen's Feng Yu, two princes' wives Fu Jin and eight young ladies. According to Manchu custom, two married Fujin women and eight-life women must ride to Hou Di.
After the welcoming team arrived in Houdi, two Fujin and eight women went to the main hall to see the Queen, and then waited in the toilet. At this time, the queen is still wearing a girl's hairstyle-double phoenix bun, one on each side of the Hosta.
When a wedding is held, auspicious days are carefully calculated by Qin officials. When the auspicious time came, the eunuch in charge immediately invited the queen to take two apples in her hand. Prince Fujin covered the queen, and then put the dragon characters written by the emperor and A Jin Ruyi into the sedan chair. At this time, the queen was respectfully invited to the sedan chair.
The Queen's sedan chair was carried by 16 people. A captain wearing a red silk embroidered coat walked in the front with 300 pairs of flag fans, embroidered phoenixes and palace lanterns in his hand, while the imperial guards held Feng Yu's sedan chair bar on the left and right. Two ministers, Fujin, Bamingmu and his retinue, followed closely behind Feng Yu, and the wedding procession entered the Qing Gate with a bang.
When Feng Yu entered the Qing Gate, the bells and drums on the upper floor of the meridian gate rang. At this time, the eunuch in charge told the emperor that the queen had entered the palace. Under the guidance of eight teenagers holding palace lanterns, and under the care of the imperial ministers, guards and the Ministry of Rites, the emperor went to the front hall of the East Warm Pavilion in the wedding room of Ganning Palace, waiting for the wedding to begin.
Feng Yu stopped at Tianxi, just south. Fujin, Bamingmu and the maid-in-waiting queen got out of the sedan chair and stepped out of the palace gate. The queen holds an apple in one hand as a symbol of peace.
Later, Prince Fujin took the apple. At this time, another Fujin handed the vase containing pearls, treasures, gold and silver and rice grains to the queen. The Empress holds a vase symbolizing good luck, that is, along the Imperial Road, through the passage between Gan Qing Palace and Zhaoren Hall, and enters the Jiaotai Hall, a special place where the Emperor and Empress pay tribute to their wedding.
When the queen entered the temple, there was a red painted saddle across the front of the temple. There are two apples under the saddle, which are given by the queen and covered with a red carpet.
Under the guidance of six pairs of Tibetan incense burners, the queen first crossed the red painted saddle indicating peace, and then was led to stand at the west end, waiting to worship heaven and earth.
The emperor and other queens just stood in their own positions, that is, they came out of the Palace of Kunning and stood at the east end opposite the queen. They bowed down together to the sound of drums and music and completed the ceremony nine times. This is the knot.
After worshipping heaven and earth, the emperor and queen sat in the East NuanGe of Kunning Palace, eating the baby jiaozi of children. Jiaozi was made by Wang Lifujin. It was only cooked or raw, so it was picked up and presented to the emperor and queen. They took a bite, spit it out and hid it under the mattress, indicating that the prince could have a baby early.
After the ceremony, the emperor temporarily went to the front hall to have a rest. At this time, Fujin's maid will make a face at the queen's head, comb her hair again, change the double bun into a flat dovetail hanging from the back of the pillow, put the double happiness hairpin on her head, and insert another red velvet flower.
After dressing up, I began to eat a big meal called reunion dinner.
At this time, Fujin, eunuchs and maids all knelt down and withdrew, gently closing the doors and windows of the wedding bridal chamber. The couple in the emperor's bodyguard were outside the bridal chamber, playing sandalwood and singing "Song of Greetings" in Manchu.
The emperor and the queen sat opposite each other in the sound of blessings, drank a toast and got married.
The female official in the palace helped the queen sit on the bed of dragons and phoenixes, took off the phoenix and put on the robe of dragons and phoenixes for her. After eating longevity noodles, the emperor and queen can have a good sleep. At this time, the wedding ceremony was completed.
The next day, the emperor led the queen to see the queen mother, which is called the ceremony of welcoming the DPRK. The emperor boarded the hall of supreme harmony and announced the completion of a grand wedding, when the whole world would celebrate.