From the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, Yunxi couldn't care about anything else. Even if Huaying and others came to the capital, he couldn't care about it, because he had to be busy worshiping heaven and earth, inheriting his ancestors, and a series of other rituals
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Etiquette was very important in ancient times and should never be taken carelessly. And this was the first time that Yun Xi participated in this matter in person, so he could not be taken carelessly.
Yunxi began to live alone on the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, bathe every day, and fast, waiting for the worship of heaven and earth on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month.
Although Xiyao, as a queen, did not participate in worshiping heaven, she still had to accompany her to the Ancestral Temple to worship ancestors. After the ancestor worship was completed, she would be considered the official queen of the Ming Dynasty and could be officially crowned queen, so she was even more nervous than Yunxi.
Everything in the palace was left to Xiyi, and she fasted, bathed, and ignored foreign affairs every day starting from the thirteenth day of the first lunar month.
On the right day, Yunxi and the officials went to the southern suburbs to worship the sky while it was still dark. When Yunxi came out of the palace in a car, it was not yet dawn. The group of people were escorted by the Beijing guards and headed all the way to the southern suburbs.
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Although Yunxi himself was dubious about the gods and ghosts, he also felt that there was no use in worshiping the heaven. In fact, it is estimated that the emperors in the past dynasties only paid lip service to the worship of the heaven. Although they dare not say that they did not attach importance to it in private, they
In other words, I probably don’t think that this is related to the survival of the country.
Anyway, Yunxi himself still attaches great importance to ancestor worship, but the same goes for worshiping heaven.
But superficial efforts still needed to be made. When Yunxi arrived at the place, according to the rules, he worshiped heaven under the guidance of the officials of the Ministry of Rites and Taichang Temple, and kowtowed several times respectfully.
There is a big difference between Yunxi's sacrifice to heaven this year and Zhu Yuanzhang's sacrifice to heaven in previous years. That is, the person who was worshiped when Zhu Yuanzhang was still alive, that is, the person who can enjoy similar treatment to "Heaven" is Zhu Yuanzhang's deceased father Renzu Chun.
Emperor Zhu Wusi, and the person who could match Yunxi's sacrifice to heaven this time was Emperor Taizu Wu of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Yuanzhang.
However, this is also a common practice. Generally, only dead people can be worshiped by the heaven and earth. Generally, the founding emperor of the dynasty is worshiped. Zhu Yuanzhang himself is the founding emperor, so he can only be worshiped by his own father.
And according to the rules of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, only one person can be worshiped. In the Tang Dynasty, I don’t know who explained it, dividing heaven and earth into two, so two people were worshiped; later in the Song Dynasty, there were Song Taizu and Song Taizong.
The matter also followed the Tang Dynasty system of worshiping two people.
When we arrived at Yunxi, because it was said to be a retro style, we followed the ancient rituals of the Zhou and Han dynasties and could only worship one person, so we could only invite Zhu Wusi down and send Zhu Yuanzhang up.
After worshiping the sky in the southern suburbs, Yunxi returned to the palace. The next day he had to go to the northern suburbs to worship the earth. Yunxi didn't want to be said to be unruly, so he didn't do it together in the southern suburbs like Zhu Yunwen did in history.
Have to turn back.
When Yunxi came back from the northern suburbs the next day, he was actually fine, but the servants and officials accompanying him were all as tired as anything. Anyway, when Yunxi asked Lian Zining later, Lian Zining replied:
: "Of course it is an honor for a minister to follow His Majesty to worship heaven and earth, but it was really unbearable for two days in a row. When I got home the next day, I couldn't get up from bed, and I rested for another day."
But Yunxi's matter was not over yet, because he still had to go to the Ancestral Temple to worship his ancestors.
The matter of ancestor worship has nothing to do with most officials, and because Yunxi did not have to go to court to worship his ancestors, everyone who happened to be very tired rested at home for the day.
However, people from the Ministry of Rites and Taichang Temple are still busy as always.
On this morning, because the Imperial Ancestral Temple was right next to the imperial city, there was no need to walk far, so Yunxi didn't have to get up very early to worship the heaven and earth. He just had to arrive at the Ancestral Temple at about dawn.
The purpose of worshiping ancestors in the Ancestral Temple is together with Xiyao. The purpose is not only to let the ancestors know that the head of the Zhu family has changed, but also to let the ancestors know that the head of the family has married a daughter-in-law, and what kind of daughter-in-law she is married to and what she is called.
Wenyuan is still too young now, otherwise the next generation of crown princes would have to come together to worship their ancestors.
Yunxi had never seen anyone else, so he mainly stared at Zhu Yuanzhang's memorial tablet that had just been put up last year.
Yunxi and Zhu Yuanzhang still have a close relationship. After all, they taught him personally for six years, so Yunxi couldn't stop crying when he saw Zhu Yuanzhang's memorial tablet. Xiyao didn't know whether she also had a good relationship with Zhu Yuanzhang or whether she was accompanying him.
Yunxi started crying anyway.
Then, with the persuasion of officials from the Ministry of Rites, they stopped crying and worshiped their ancestors according to the procedures. They focused on how well Yunxi managed the country and the identity of Xiyao. Another important point was that Wenyuan was in good health and there was nothing wrong with it.
OK.
Yunxi actually had something to say to Zhu Yuanzhang's memorial tablet. He couldn't say it to anyone else. He only thought it would be better to say it to Zhu Yuanzhang. Even if it was just the tablet, he felt at ease. But with so many people present, it was hard to say it. He could only wait until later.
It's time to come to the Ancestral Temple alone to worship.
After paying homage to heaven and earth, Yunxi added a long list of Zhu Yuanzhang's titles. Anyway, they were all written by civil servants of the Ministry of Rites. Yunxi asked his close associates to confirm that there were no bad or inappropriate words before agreeing.
In fact, when Yunxi thought about it later, there was no need for the officials of the Ministry of Rites to be negligent in this kind of matter, otherwise they would be reaping the benefits. When civil servants were dissatisfied with a certain emperor, they would secretly add some seasonings to it when compiling the records.
Fortunately, Yunxi's "Records of Taizu" was compiled by Chen Xingshan and Xie Jin, who were quite reliable, otherwise he would have been very worried.
After that came the posthumous title or canonization. As for canonization, Yunxi officially canonized Xiyao as the queen and his eldest son Wenyuan as the crown prince on an auspicious day in February.
In fact, Yunxi was not very happy to confer the title of crown prince at such a young age. What if, that is, if, Wenyuan failed? Didn't Yunxi lose the right to choose? Of course, even if Wenyuan was really useless, there would be no
After being established as the crown prince, Yunxi wanted to establish other sons as crown princes, even if they were legitimate sons, it would probably be very difficult.
The law of eldest son succession is an important part of the ancient rituals of the Zhou and Han dynasties, and it is also something that Zhu Yuanzhang has been insisting on. If Yunxi violates it, it will be a big deal. If Fang Xiaoru is still alive by then, will he not fall out with Yunxi?
Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang named Wen Yuan before his death, and he was seriously ill until Wen Yuan was born, so the meaning was even more different. Therefore, Yunxi could only canonize Wen Yuan as the crown prince immediately.
This is all uncontroversial. But when it was the turn of Yunxi's father Zhu Biao to be crowned emperor, Yunxi proposed a temple name that surprised all civil servants.
