Chapter 9 Three, the wedding ceremony

Guangxu Emperor's wedding ceremony - the wedding day, on the 27th, there are eight main things to do: First, dress and groom.Zishi (zizheng 0 o'clock), the bride (queen) wears makeup.The palace sent four people to Fujin, dressed in big red tinsel smocks, big red gowns, accompanying the empress wearing Dongzhu court crowns, imperial jewelry court clothes, coral court beads, Dongzhu court beads, gold inlaid coral collars, and others.After dressing neatly, sit in the inner hall for a while, waiting to receive the gold book and golden treasure.There are 51 court gowns, court gowns, and court skirts for the big wedding, among which 21,013 pearls, 3,354 coral beans, 208 rice beads, 125 gold knots, and 410 real stones of various colors are adorned on the queen's court gown; There are 23,033 pearls, 4,182 coral beans, 150 golden knots, and 478 real stones of various colors; 1,546 pearls, 354 coral beans, 29 golden knots, and 89 real stones of various colors are embellished on the skirt. ("Great Wedding Ceremony Red File") Only for the three court robes, court gowns and court skirts, there are 45,592 pearls, 7,890 coral beans, 208 rice beads, 304 gold knots, and 977 real stones of various colors. For 54971 pieces.

Second, kneel down and accept the treasure.To welcome the empress, Erlehebu, a scholar of the Li Zhengshi University, asked for festivals in the front hall, and awarded them to the chief eunuch. The deputy envoy, Minister of Rites, Kui Run, asked for a book treasure in the front hall, and awarded them to the chief eunuch, and entered through the middle gate.The queen went out to greet her on the right side of the inner hall steps, and knelt down to greet her.The Chief Eunuch Chen Book and Bao Yu are on the case.The female officer respectfully invites the queen to accept the books and treasures, and the eunuchs read out the books and treasures.After the ceremony, the queen took a rest in the inner hall.

Third, the bride gets up the sedan chair.From her natal residence, the queen took Fengyu to the palace.The general manager respectfully reported: The auspicious time has come. The chief eunuch of the internal ceremonial department respectfully invites Fengyu to be carried to the center of the inner hall and placed in the direction of the southeast god of happiness. Please place Fengyu on the side as you wish. I would like to place it in the Dragon Pavilion.Four people including Fujin respectfully invited the queen to be promoted to Fengyu, and the chief eunuch of the palace helped Fengyu to the outside of the gate. The ceremonial driver led the way, played happily, and set off for the palace.

Fourth, the emperor welcomes you.The Queen's Yijia, Longting, and Fengyu entered Daqingmen, and passed through Tiananmen, Duanmen, and Meridian Gate. At this time, the bridegroom (emperor) greeted him at the Meridian Gate.After Fengyu entered the Meridian Gate, from the middle left gate, the rear left gate, to the front of Qianqing gate, people of all colors were not allowed to enter the palace, so they stopped here and retreated.Books and Baolong Pavilion are placed under the steps of the Qianqing Gate. Officials from the Ministry of Rites respectfully hold the books and treasures from the Dragon Pavilion.The chief eunuch who received the book treasure was sent to take over the guard in the hall and played the harmony of heaven and earth.

Fifth, enter the inner court.The queen enters the gate of Qianqing on the phoenix, and descends the phoenix from the eaves of the Qianqing palace.The queen walks, passes through the back of the palace with a fan, and then takes a small sedan chair with eight peacock roofs, accompanied by joy, to the Zhongcui Palace in the Sixth Palace of the East.At this time, the chief eunuch who received the books and treasures was guided by Jiaotai Hall to hold the books and treasures in front of the sedan chair, to Zhongcui Palace, and handed over to the eunuch who guarded the treasures in the palace to respect Chen at the case.The dragon character in Feng Yu is Jin Ruyi, and the chief eunuch sent by the dispatched person respectfully invites Chen Yu in the palace of Zhongcui.Serve Fujin respectfully and ask the queen to lower the peacock to the top of the sedan chair and sit less.

Sixth, clean face makeup.At noon (12:00 noon), Fujin led the female officials of the House of Internal Affairs to wait on the queen to clean her face and make up her head.The queen combs the double phoenix in a bun, wears a double happiness, and a royal robe with the double phoenix.Wearing phoenix tins, collars, handkerchiefs with braids, facing the beads, still wearing double happiness, adding flat hairpins and rich velvet flowers, ready to go to Kunning Palace to complete the jin ceremony.卺, the wine vessel used in ancient weddings; He 卺, the original meaning is to drink a cup of wine at a wedding.

Seventh, the main palace is closed.At Youshi (youzheng 18 o'clock), the Empress went from Zhongcui Palace to Kunning Palace in a sedan chair with eight peacocks on top.The queen went to the Kunning Palace to surrender her husband, entered the East Nuan Pavilion of the Kunning Palace, and waited for the groom (emperor).The emperor wore auspicious clothes and went to the Kunning Palace. The bed on the ascended throne was on the left, and the queen's bed on the throne was on the right, sitting facing each other.Click on the longevity lamp.The female officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and others respectfully entered the banquet.On the feast of the feast, there are pork, mutton, gold and silver wine, gold and silver meals, shredded pork, etc., drink a cup of wine, eat offspring dumplings (dumplings), and longevity noodles.After the banquet is over, the banquet table is removed, and the banquet is completed. ("Guangxu Wedding Ceremony Red File")

Eighth, bridal chamber marriage.In the East Nuan Pavilion of Kunning Palace, there is a dragon and phoenix bed, and a vase is set in the bed, which contains jewels, gold and silver, rice grains, etc., which symbolizes wealth and wealth and a full warehouse.A hundred children's curtain is hung on the Xi bed, and a hundred lively and lovely little boys in different shapes are embroidered on the curtain, which symbolizes that the emperor and empress have more children and more blessings.After the banquet, the female officer in charge of the Kunning palace closed the palace gate.It was night, and a married couple of bodyguards were outside the Kunning Palace, reciting congratulatory songs, and sitting on the dragon and phoenix wedding bed for the empress.For Emperor Guangxu's big wedding, the bridal chamber was in the East Room of Kunning Palace (Dongnuange).The old lady surnamed Liu recalled: When Emperor Guangxu held a big wedding, the Empress Dowager Cixi sent her to be the congratulatory wife in Kunning Palace. ("Weng Wengong's Diary") At dawn, the emperor and queen ate longevity noodles.

The next day, the twenty-eighth day, at Yin time (4:00 in Yin Zheng), Fujin and others respectfully serve the queen in crown clothes, wearing phoenix tins, bright yellow and multicolored phoenix robes, eight multicolored water dragon coats, collars, braided handkerchiefs, and orthodox beads. ,complete.Then, carry out the worship activities of "eight sacrifices and one worship": A sacred board.The emperor led the empress to salute the ancestor board before the west case of Kunning Palace.The second sacrifice to Zaojun.Offer incense to the Kitchen God in the Kunning Palace.The emperor returns to the East Nuan Pavilion, the south bed is on the left, and the queen is on the south bed on the right. They sit facing each other, have a banquet, and have a reunion meal.The banquet of the groom (emperor) and the bride (queen) is very particular.On the twenty-seventh day of the first lunar month, at unitary time, the Kunning Palace had a banquet with a banquet table, using a yellow-ground dragon-phoenix double-happiness table with a red-faced dining table (one foot high, three feet five inches long, and two feet five inches wide, along with the golden double-happiness characters on the red ground. One piece of root), second grade of red gold plate (pig black fork, sheep black fork), fourth grade of red gold bowl (bird's nest double happiness word eight immortals duck, bird's nest double happiness word gold and silver shredded duck, thin pork shredded soup second grade), red gold plate fourth grade (Bird's Nest dragon mixed with shredded smoked chicken, bird's nest phoenix with gold and silver elbow flower, bird's nest with Cheng character five-spice chicken, bird's nest with Xiang character gold and silver shredded duck), red gold screw dish second grade of side dishes, red gold dish with second grade of soy sauce, red ground golden happiness character The second grade of porcelain bowl (the second grade of Bird's Nest and Eight Immortals Soup), the second grade of multicolored Baizi porcelain bowl (the second grade of old rice meal, two pieces of golden bowl lids, and fifteen pieces of gems), the second grade of multicolored Baizi porcelain bowl (second grade of descendants and pastries) Twenty-seven pieces, with two gold bowl lids, fifteen pieces of precious stones inlaid, and the above are all "anxi" flower heads), two pairs of red gold three-inlaid jade chopsticks, two red gold inlaid jade spoons, two red gold plate spoons, and red gold gold hi Two three-inch porcelain plates, two red gold pots (two red gold pot lids, two red gold pot holders, two red gold pot tiles), two red gold spoons, and two red gold fences.

On Yinshi on the 28th day of the first lunar month, there was a reunion dinner table in the Kunning Palace, with a yellow-ground dragon and phoenix double-happiness character red table (one foot high, three feet five inches long, and two feet five inches wide, with the gold double-happiness character bald thinking on the red ground) One piece of root), Chijin plate two (bird's nest Zuolong assorted duck pieces, bird's nest Xifeng, gold and silver Xizi milk pig), red gold bowl four (bird's nest dry word three delicacies duck, bird's nest Kun word assorted shredded chicken, bird's nest Thai word gold Silver duck, bird's nest and red and white duck shreds), four red gold plates (fried gold and silver duck shreds with bird's nest dragon character, yellow braised shark's fin with bird's nest phoenix character, steamed sauced meat with bird's nest double character, cooked shrimp with bird's nest hi character), four red gold plates Products (second product of dragon and phoenix cake, second product of Xi character flower cake), fourth product of Hongdi Jinxi character bowl (second product of Bird’s Nest Eight Immortal Soup, second product of bird’s nest chicken noodle soup), second product of Chijin dish side dishes, red gold Two pieces of dish soy sauce, two pieces of multi-colored Baizi porcelain bowls (two pieces of old rice meal, two pieces of gold bowl lids, fifteen pieces of gems inlaid, and the above are all Anxi flower heads), two pairs of red gold three-inlaid jade chopsticks, red gold inlaid jade target Two spoons, two red gold plate spoons (inlaid with turquoise bean spoon tops), two three-inch porcelain plates with red characters Jinxi characters, and two red silk and gold cup holders with the characters Double Happiness.After breakfast, the emperor and empress took the sedan chair and led the way out of Shunzhen Gate and Shenwu Gate, and entered Jingshan North Gate to worship the holy face.Three sacrifices to the holy face.Go to the Shouhuang Hall to burn incense and salute in front of the holy faces (portraits) of the saints and queens.Four sacrifices to the emperor.Go to Chengqian Palace Xiaoquan (Empress Daoguang, Xianfeng's biological mother) Yurong (portrait) to salute.Five sacrifices to imperial appearance.Go to Yuqing Palace Xiaojing (Empress Daoguang, raised by Xianfeng after her mother died at the age of ten) Yurong (portrait) to salute.Six sacrifices to the holy face.Wen Zong (Emperor Xianfeng) and Mu Zong (Emperor Tongzhi) in front of the holy faces (portraits) of Qianqing Palace saluted.Seven sacrifices to the gods.In front of the god tablets of Xiaode (Empress Xianfeng) and Xiaozhen (Empress Ci'an) in Jianfu Palace, burn incense and salute.Eight sacrifices to the gods.Go to the East Buddhist Hall of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, burn incense and salute in front of the amulet of Emperor Zhuangshun (Concubine Daoguang, mother of Prince Chun Yixuan).

In addition to the eight sacrifices, there is another worship, which is to pay respects to Empress Dowager Cixi at Chuxiu Palace. Afterwards, the emperor was ascended to the throne of the Ming Palace, the empress knelt in front of the emperor and gave Jin Ruyi, and the emperor gave the empress Jin Ruyi.The queen led the concubines to salute the emperor.Then go to Chuxiu Palace and Empress Dowager Cixi kneels into Jin Ruyi to salute, and the Empress Dowager bestows Jin Ruyi on the emperor and empress. Finally, the queen returns to Zhongcui Palace from the auspicious gate, burns incense in front of the Buddha, ascends to the throne in the front hall, and accepts concubines, princesses, Fujin, and wives to salute. On the twenty-ninth day, the emperor offered sacrifices to the altar of Jiji, and began to fast for three days. Emperor Guangxu's wedding, the empress's phoenix lays Ruyi, the happy bed is peaceful and comfortable, and Cixi bestows Ruyi on the empress.However, Emperor Guangxu's wedding was both unsatisfactory and unlucky at the beginning, and it also ended unsatisfactorily and unluckily.Why do you say this way?At first, the door of Supreme Harmony was burned, and it was a fake, paper-based suffix. There was a big fire before the big wedding, so unsatisfactory and unlucky; on the third day of the wedding, the emperor fasted for three consecutive days.How did the officials of the Qin Tianjian set a good day and auspicious day?The unsatisfactory and unlucky aspects of Emperor Guangxu and Empress Yehenala are mainly manifested in: First, Emperor Guangxu and the Empress had been at odds since they were newly married, and they separated.This marriage of the niece of the natal family ordered by the Empress Dowager Cixi was a failed marriage. Second, after Emperor Guangxu got married, the Reform Movement of 1898 failed and he became a "political prisoner". At the age of 38, he died in his prime.The life of Emperor Guangxu was a tragic life. Thirdly, Emperor Guangxu's big wedding eventually became a tragedy of "four nos" carefully planned and performed-eating longevity noodles, not longevity; barren. Fourth, Yehenala, the empress of Emperor Guangxu, was young and widowed, and served the young emperor, especially "Empress Dowager abdicated".The Qing Dynasty ended in the hands of Empress Dowager Longyu Yehenala.The historical coincidence is very interesting: the first queen in the rise of the Qing Dynasty was the Yehenala family, and the last queen in the fall of the Qing Dynasty was also the Yehenala family.What a coincidence that sentence: Those who died in the Qing Dynasty, Ye Heye!Two years after Xuantong abdicated, Empress Dowager Longyu was buried in Emperor Guangxu's mausoleum. The grand wedding of Emperor Guangxu lasted 20 days from the 20th day of the first month to the 9th day of the second month.The emperor's wedding is the grandest, largest, most cumbersome and most luxurious wedding among all weddings.Emperor Guangxu got married, and the book spent 5.5 million taels of silver (actually far more than that). (Li Pengnian's "Overview of Emperor Guangxu's Marriage Preparations and Consumption") At this time, the Qing Dynasty was beset by internal and external difficulties, crisis-ridden, finances were exhausted, and the treasury was empty. Nowhere to go.The treasury is now empty, and all the salaries should be released, and there is no way to support it. (Volume 261 of "Records of Emperor Dezong of Qing Dynasty") After the wedding of Emperor Guangxu, the tragedies of the Qing court continued until the curtain came to an end!