There are three books and six rituals that are indispensable for the marriage of a man and a woman. Every step and every link is recorded in detail in the "Book of Rites".
The so-called three letters refer to the letter of appointment, the letter of ceremony, and the letter of welcome.
The six rites refer to receiving gifts, asking for names, accepting gifts, accepting invitations, asking for a visit and welcoming oneself personally.
Letter of Engagement: It is the document of engagement. When a man and a woman enter into a marriage contract, the man's family will give the letter to the woman's family.
Ritual book: a document used when giving a big gift, which lists the items and quantities of the big gift.
Welcoming letter: a document for marrying the bride. It is a document that the man gives to the woman when she comes to welcome her.
Nacai: It is the first of the six rites. If a man wants to get married to a woman, the man's family will send a matchmaker to the woman's house to propose marriage and give him a gift. Usually it is a wild goose.
Questioning the name: After the girl’s parents accept the marriage proposal, the girl’s family will bring the daughter’s birth certificate back to the husband’s family so that the man and woman can match each other and predict good or bad luck.
Place it in front of gods or ancestors to ask for good or bad luck, to make sure that the age and gender of both parties are not in conflict with each other. After learning that there is no sign of conflict between the two parties, the marriage has been initially discussed.
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Nazheng: also known as the great gift, that is, the man's family sends the betrothal letter and gift letter to the woman's family.
Requesting period: also known as the begging day, that is, the groom's family chooses an auspicious day to get married and seeks the consent of the bride's family. Personal wedding: also known as the wedding day, on the auspicious day of the wedding, the groom wearing a formal dress will go with the matchmaker, and relatives and friends will go there in person
The bride's family welcomes the bride. Before arriving at the bride's family, the groom must pay homage to the bride's family's ancestral temple, and then take the bride to the groom's family in a sedan chair.
After completing the ritual of worshiping heaven, earth and ancestors at the groom's family, he is sent to the bridal chamber.
The Three Letters and Six Etiquettes refer to the entire marriage process, including proposal, engagement, and consummation.
Ye Xiaochuan is proposing marriage today, proposing marriage, not getting married. According to the process in the "Book of Rites", there is no need for the welcome letter in the three books, nor the request period and personal greeting in the six rites.
He only needs to bring a marriage certificate, a wild goose, a matchmaker, and a betrothal gift.
Younger disciples such as Ye Xiaochuan and others do not know these rules, but Jingxuan, Jinghui, Ban Zhuyue and others are aware of them.
After reading the second book, the next step is to accept and ask for names among the four rites.
Taoist Chiyan handed over Ye Xiaochuan's birth date, Jingxuan took it and handed it to Ning Xiangruo behind her.
Ning Xiangruo took out another red paper tube from her arms, which was Yun Qiyou's birth date, and handed it to Yang Liudi. Yang Liudi took the birth dates of the two of them and immediately turned around and walked towards the bamboo house behind her.
The jade machine in the bamboo house took the birth dates of Ye Xiaochuan and Yun Qiyou, looked at them, and handed them over to an old man with a white beard.
The old man should be the worshiper of Cangyun Sect. He pretended to deduce it with his fingers and said: "The harmony of water and wood, the harmony of wind and rain, a perfect match made in heaven."
He just said these twelve characters and handed Ye Yun and Ye Yun's eight characters to Yang Liudi.
Some two-foot-tall monks can't understand Yangliu Flute.
Everyone in the room laughed.
Yu Jizi smiled and said: "Liu Di, just go out and tell the people outside what Elder Liu just said."
Only then did Yang Liudi realize what was going on. He quickly ran out and shouted: "Water and wood merge together, wind and rain merge together, a perfect match made in heaven."
The two people's birthdays and horoscopes match each other. It's not that water and fire are incompatible, so the next step will be simple.
After hearing Yang Liudi's words, Master Jingxuan showed a smile on her face and said: "Bazihe, everyone, please come in."
The drunk Taoist immediately signaled to Ye Xiaochuan. Ye Xiaochuan understood, and his body floated down from Xiaotu's head. He followed the master and the nine great matchmakers across the fence gate and walked into the courtyard. He bowed and saluted everyone.
When Xian Le got up, Master Jingxuan and others retreated to the sides, and Ning Xiangruo was responsible for guiding Ye Xiaochuan and others towards the bamboo house.
As soon as Ye Xiaochuan left, Leng Zongsheng's loud voice sounded behind him.
Leng Zongsheng was having a hard day today. He had a loud voice, so Miss Xiaozhu, the chief conductor of the engagement, asked him to be responsible for singing the ceremony.
A thick list of gifts, how long will this last?
He said slowly: "Four hundred pieces of fine Shu brocade!"
Immediately, Cangyun disciples slowly entered Yuanshui Xiaozhu carrying gift boxes. The moment each box entered the fence gate, it was opened by the meddlesome women on both sides, revealing the contents inside. It was indeed the finest Sichuan brocade fabric.
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Many stingy people were counting one by one. After confirming that the number was accurate, Yang Liudi shouted: "Four hundred pieces of top-quality Shu brocade!"
It took a lot of time just to make the high-quality Sichuan brocade.
Then came another round of verification. "Eight small bronze mirrors, two large bronze mirrors, one top-quality agarwood dressing table, eight Suzhou brocade duck down bedding beds, thirty-six strands of longan pearls, and thirty-six pairs of gold earrings.
, thirty-six pairs of jade earrings, thirty-six pairs of Hetian jade earrings, three golden phoenix hairpins
Sixteen pairs, thirty-six pairs of top-grade jade hairpins, thirty-six pairs of top-grade jade bracelets..."
Fortunately, Xiaozhu took out all the jewelry that Miss Xiaochi had secretly put into her belly, otherwise today would have been ugly.
People in Yuanshui Xiaozhu never check what is in the gift box, let alone whether the quantity is correct.
However, those who were watching the excitement, especially the expatriate disciples, were very concerned about this matter. Every item brought into the courtyard was inspected one by one, and they were accepted only after they were verified to be correct.
Everyone seems to want to find some flaw in this engagement ceremony.
It's a pity that Ye Xiaochuan knows how to make good use of people and makes the new Xiao Zhu the commander-in-chief of the engagement ceremony.
Xiaozhu was very careful in his work. He checked each box of gifts before dawn, three times before and after.
If Yang Jiu was the commander-in-chief of the engagement, it would definitely not be so smooth, and many problems would definitely be found.
Yunqiu’s secluded boudoir.
Yun Qiyou is so beautiful today. Just a little makeup and a red dress already make her so radiant that people dare not look directly at her.
If she really gets married on the day of her wedding, wearing a phoenix crown and harem, I really don't know how beautiful she will look.
She sat quietly on the edge of the wooden bed, listening to the chanting of gifts outside, her cheeks flushed, and it could be seen that she must be feeling happy inside at this moment.
She never thought that she would be so happy when she was engaged.
Of course, the prerequisite for happiness is that the person she wants to marry is the person she loves and the person she wants to marry.
If it were someone else who came to propose marriage today, instead of Ye Xiaochuan, she would not have any sense of happiness or pleasure.
In the boudoir except Yun Qiyou, there were only Gui Yatou, Miss Axiang and Little Seventh Princess.
Xiaoqi turned out to be very quiet and rarely spoke. She was showing her opposition to this marriage through actions.
Because she was cutting pears.
Cut the big pear into small pieces.
Who eats pears at someone else’s engagement party? Or do you share them?
Divide the pears, divide the pears. This is obviously cursing Ye Xiaochuan and Yun Qiyou for being "separated". Axiang and Guiyatou didn't react at first, but when they saw Xiaoqi diligently bringing a plate of pear cubes over and inviting everyone to eat together,
