East of Kaiyuan City, North Korea Yuhe Guild Hall.
Jin Yuji was dressed in Mingren's wedding attire, with a phoenix crown and a garland, and she captivated the country and the city.
Wearing a crown with two dragons and three phoenixes, a bright red unicorn robe with sleeves, a gold embroidered cloud and peacock pattern, an official green skirt woven with eight treasures and a running rabbit, and a pair of red brocade high flat-soled phoenix-toe shoes. .
Gaoming's wife Yang Qing'er stared at the North Korean beauty, looking up and down for half an hour, and was amazed.
"It turns out that North Korea also has such beautiful beauties, General Anyuan. This phoenix crown and halo is even more beautiful on you than the nine-day fairy in the Empress Temple."
Jin Yuji knew that she was making fun of herself again, but she didn't care. She carefully counted the gems on the phoenix crown in the mirror.
"one two three····"
"Sister Yang, when the official marries you, he will wear a crown of twelve dragons and nine phoenixes for you."
"Hongchang Xiapei steps and shakes her crown, and she wears Shanshan with numerous pearls. When the time comes, Sister Yang will be even more luxurious than the current queen!"
Yang Qing'er pursed her lips and smiled. This Jin Yuji read a lot on weekdays, and she picked up lewd words and words at will.
Next to her, Bumubutai also praised: "My sister is really like a fairy today. It makes me want to get married."
The two of them turned back at the same time. Yang Qing'er pointed at Bu Mu Butai's nose and said with a smile:
"I hang out with your sister Jin every day, and I'm getting more and more ignorant of etiquette. Go get that little bamboo basket from the back room."
Yang Qing'er was secretly surprised that in order to take in this North Korean concubine, her husband actually ignored the etiquette and got married to a matchmaker.
Three gifts and six betrothals are never missing.
Imperial regulations: For married women of second rank or above, Xia Pei should be furrowed with gold embroidered clouds and Xia Zhai pattern;
The third and fourth grades are gold embroidered clouds and peacock patterns;
The fifth rank embroiders the clouds and clouds with the mandarin duck pattern, and the sixth and seventh ranks embroider the clouds and magpie patterns.
The husband didn't care about this at all, and put the dragon and phoenix crown only used by the royal family directly on Jin Yuji. The peacock cloud embroidered on the Xiapei was the first-grade lady's peacock cloud.
If the emperor of the capital knew about it, I don't know what kind of serious crime it would be.
Fortunately, a group of subordinates were determined to be the ministers of the dragon and turned a blind eye to such transgressions.
Thinking that her husband had paid so much for this North Korean concubine, Yang Qing'er couldn't help but feel a little jealous.
There are flowers and candles in the wedding room, and there are only two hours left in the auspicious time.
Yang Qing'er remembered that Jin Yuji hadn't even put on makeup on her face, let alone combed her hair.
"Hurry up and wash your face, it's too late."
Bumubutai brought a small bamboo basket containing some tweezers, silk thread, and coins.
Jin Yuji sat facing east and west, facing the direction of the God of Joy, looking expectantly at Yang Qing'er in the mirror.
The wedding etiquette of the Ming Dynasty that I have seen in the past few days, such as the three rites and six hiring of a matchmaker, although it is red tape, it is an eye-opener for Jin Yuji.
Everything was so novel and surprising, and when I thought about myself becoming a veritable Mrs. Jin, I felt like I was in a dream.
Yang Qing'er picked up a piece of red silk thread with her slender hands, deftly tied the two ends together and tied them in a concentric knot.
Dizzy made a few crosses in front, and the red silk thread formed a scissors shape.
"After you open your face, you will no longer be a yellow-haired girl."
Jin Yuji's face immediately turned red after hearing this, thinking that Mrs. Gaoming was going to say something bad about tigers and wolves again.
This is of course Jin Yuji’s misconception.
The so-called "yellow-haired girl" refers to an unmarried girl, while a married woman has nothing to do with "yellow-haired girl".
In the Ming Dynasty, there was a difference between married and unmarried women whether they had cheated or not.
An open face is one of the important signs that a woman is married or unmarried.
"Did the officer really not touch you?"
Yang Qing'er tightened her index finger and thumb and couldn't help but ask.
Jin Yuji had long regarded Yang Qing'er as a biological sister. Seeing that she, Yang Qing'er, was still struggling with this matter, she couldn't bear to see her sad, so she chuckled and said:
"Then did he touch you?"
Yang Qing'er was not interested and shook her head.
Jin Yuji murmured:
"The official Liu Xiahui is an ordinary person, with one-in-a-million looks. How could I have met him if I hadn't been lucky enough in my lifetime!"
Yang Qing'er refused to give up.
"On the night before the Lunar New Year, you..."
Jin Yuji's eyes were filled with light.
"No, the officials said that he had a cold nature in his previous life, and he would not let me down in this life, so he had to wait until today..."
Yang Qing'er smiled knowingly, felt relieved, and continued to pick up the long line.
The maid Shaoyao stepped forward and flicked the middle and lower parts of the long string three times.
Yang Qing'er's face was full of happiness and she prayed for Jin Yuji:
"I respect my parents in heaven and earth, I wish you peace and prosperity in the middle, and I wish you a happy family with descendants."
"If you play the left hand, you will have a son early, if you play the right hand, you will be diligent and thrifty, and if you play the right hand, you will grow old."
After finishing this, Yang Qing'er bit one end of the thread with her teeth, put the thread close to Jin Yuji's face, stretched her hands and mouth outward at the same time, and slowly twisted the hair on the North Korean girl's face.
The face-opening ceremony was finally completed, Yang Qing'er touched her palms and said with a smile:
"Okay, okay! This delicate skin and tender flesh are so fragile that they look more like water lotus. You yellow-haired girl has truly become a little daughter-in-law!"
Then came the combing of hair. Yang Qing'er combed the bride's hair and said:
Comb it all the way to the end.
Comb the white hair with two combs to the level of eyebrows.
Three combs were combed to the ground full of children and grandchildren.
Comb four combs until the four silver bamboo shoots are all aligned.
Jin Yuji listened to Yang Qing'er's prayer and looked at her face in the mirror with a happy smile on her face. The haze that rose along the Yalu River in Kuandian a few days ago finally dissipated.
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After finishing washing and making up, Jin Yuji came to the main hall to say goodbye to her parents.
Since his parents are no longer here, he worships his elder brother.
Jin Dajiu looked at Fengguan Xiapei's sister. Her father was killed. Jin Yuji had a bad fate in these years. Fortunately, she met Pingliao Hou. With him taking care of her, her sister would have a good life.
Jin Dajiu's eyes were slightly red, and he helped Jin Yuji who was kneeling on the ground:
"When you go to your husband's house, you must take good care of your husband and raise your children. Although we are subjects of a small country, we must know the etiquette and laws of the heaven. We must not make our husband's family laugh at us. Go ahead and stop crying."
Jin Yuji bid farewell to her brother, wore a hijab, and slowly left the cabinet.
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Liu Zhaosun rode on a tall horse with red hairpins and flowers to welcome Jin Yuji to the General Military Mansion.
Kang Yingqian, the officiant, went out to welcome the groom into the hall.
Kang Yingqian was holding a wild goose in his left and right hands.
The goose on the left made a cooing sound and struggled to peck Kang Jianjun. Kang Yingqian blew his beard and stared in anger.
The wild goose was brought to the Korean Guild Hall by Liu Zhaosun as a gift of trust and presented to Jin Yuji. At this time, he was brought back by the two people and handed over to the person who presided over the marriage.
This is the famous goose laying ceremony in Han weddings.
Goose is an animal that is very loyal to love.
Jin Dynasty poet Yuan Haowen wrote in "Yanqiu Ci":
"Ask the world, what is love? How can we tell you whether we are together in life or death? Traveling from the south to the north, the old wings have been exposed to the cold and heat several times."
In a couple of wild geese, one of them will be unfortunate first, and the other will die whining.
People in the Ming Dynasty used geese as hirelings because of their loyalty.
In this era, the goose laying ceremony was usually replaced by wooden geese. However, it was not difficult for Marquis Pingliao to capture two live geese.
When they heard that Marquis Pingliao was marrying a beautiful lady from Korea, people around Kaiyuan prepared wild geese as a gift.
Throughout the ages, giving gifts has been a science.
Marquis Pingliao accepted the gift and paid the visitor money. He told Kang Yingqian to release the two geese after the goose laying ceremony.
Kang Yingqian handed the wild goose to Wu Xiao with a look of disgust on his face and asked him to take it out quickly and let him go.
Then, the officiant brought the groom to the ancestral hall of the General Military Palace.
Liu Zhaosun knelt down and bowed three times to the memorial tablet of his adoptive father Liu Wei enshrined in the center of the ancestral hall. He took the incense from Kang Yingqian and inserted it into the incense burner.
Kang Yingqian looked at Liu Zhaosun's pious expression, stroked his beard and nodded slightly.
Next came the ceremony of the bride and groom.
After Liu Zhaosun paid homage to the ancestral hall, he came to the main hall and waited for Jin Yuji to enter.
After a cup of tea, Jin Yuji, who was dressed in a unicorn red robe, a phoenix crown and a hare, was led slowly to the main hall of the General Military Mansion by Mrs. Gaoming.
Liu Zhaosun Ruruo dreamed.
The two of them experienced hardships, ups and downs, life and death, joys and sorrows, bitterness and sweetness, and scenes unfolded before his eyes.
Looking up at this beautiful woman again, Liu Zhaosun's heart was beating fast, as if he had returned to the moment of his first love in a distant place.
Kang Yingqian coughed lightly next to him, indicating that the next step should start quickly.
Liu Zhaosun smiled awkwardly and stepped forward to help Jin Yuji to the incense table. Kang Yingqian shouted loudly:
"Salute!"
The two of them turned sideways to the candlelight on the incense table and knelt down to each other. Liu Zhaosun helped Jin Yuji stand up, and from the corner of his eye he caught a glimpse of the particularly dazzling cat's eye stone on her phoenix crown.
"The husband and wife are imprisoned together as a gift!"
Liu Zhao and Sun trembled and took off their hijab.
Under the phoenix crown, Jin Yuji has charming and shy eyes, bright eyes and white teeth. She is undoubtedly a beauty from the northern country, who will captivate the city and the country.
On the incense table were placed some sheep's heads and pig's heads as sacrificial gifts, all of which were meat.
The two sit next to each other and eat sacrificial meat together to show that they are one body and love each other regardless of their superiority or inferiority.
Just as Marquis Pingliao picked up a piece of pig ear and was about to stuff it into his mouth, he heard Kang Yingqian shout again:
"Hexi ceremony!"
Liu Zhaosun put down his ivory chopsticks angrily and cursed in his heart. Today's wedding was busy from morning till midnight (nine o'clock in the evening) and he still hadn't eaten a bite of rice.
Jin Yuji, like her husband, had not eaten for a whole day and had to kneel down and worship at various sacrifices.
I was also hungry at this moment, thinking that this Ming Dynasty wedding was really complicated.
Liu Zhaosun shrugged at Jin Yuji and whispered to her:
"Don't be afraid, I have some chicken breasts and rice dumplings. I'll eat them in the bridal chamber later."
The wedding ceremony is to exchange a glass of wine.
Shaoyao held up a tray with a split gourd in it.
The gourd symbolizes the union of the couple as one. Husbands should treat their wives with sincerity; women should treat their husbands with respect. This is the great righteousness of husband and wife.
Liu Zhaosun and Jin Yuji each took half of the gourd, and Shaoyao picked up a tin wine pot and poured wine into the gourd.
Jin Yuji quickly winked at the maid and asked her to pour less.
She knew that Liu Zhaosun's drinking capacity was very small and he only drank three glasses of wine on weekdays. She was afraid that her husband would fall asleep as soon as he entered the bridal chamber.
Shaoyao raised her head and looked at the groom, unaware that the bride's eyebrows were upside down.
Gududu only filled two gourds and gourds.
According to the wedding ceremony, the newlyweds first drink half of the wine in the coconut cup, and then exchange cups. They must drink all the wine.
Jin Yuji complained in her heart, suspecting that Yang Qing'er was behind the scenes and instigated the maid to do it.
Kang Ying looked at the two of them with a smile, a wicked smile on his face.
Liu Zhaosun, however, acted as if nothing had happened. He picked up half of the gourd and drank it in one gulp.
Jin Yuji looked at her husband blankly. When she saw that he had finished drinking, she also picked up the gourd and drank.
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