Revealing the ancient royal wedding, the emperor can only get married once.

As the saying goes, the emperor "has seventy-two concubines in three palaces and six courtyards", which means that there are many wives. However, although the emperor had so many women, he could only get married once in his life, which was the so-called "big marriage" in the Qing Dynasty. However, there are exceptions. If the emperor divorced and was deposed as the wife of the queen, or his wife died, it was possible to remarry.

For example, in Qing Dynasty, the emperor shunzhi was demoted as a quiet princess and married another woman, the Filial Piety Queen, because the original Borzygit family was "incompatible with me". No matter how many concubines the emperor has around him, he can't enjoy the ostentation and extravagance of the wedding. Although the emperor shunzhi dared to give the original match to the deposed one, she could only quietly "greet" Princess Dong who loved her so much, but she could not "marry" or even dare not go beyond the canonization system. When conferring, "there is no halogen book, no music, and Wang, Baylor, Beizi, Gong and so on. Don't pay tribute. " Therefore, all the women who are emperors, except the queen, are mistresses and mistresses.

According to the provisions of the Kaiyuan Ritual Year in the Tang Dynasty, the emperor's "receiving the queen" can be divided into: offering sacrifices to heaven and earth, sending envoys to the porch, receiving gifts, asking names, receiving the levy, announcing the date, suing the temple, registering, sending envoys to meet each other, sharing prisons and getting married.

The ancients believed that the "god" existing in nature dominated everything in the world, so offering sacrifices to the gods became the top priority of the country. The only national event is respect and honor. Before the wedding ceremony, the emperor who regards himself as the "son of heaven" must make sacrifices to heaven and earth, and his ceremony is mainly to offer sacrifices to gods and Fang Ze.

Proclamation is a marriage ceremony ordered by the emperor in the main hall of the palace. The special envoy played an important role in the emperor's wedding. The envoys of the Tang Dynasty, such as chief envoys and deputy envoys, represented the emperor and his wife.

After the ceremony, Qiu was appointed ambassador and Zong Zhengqing was appointed deputy ambassador. Then, the attendants announced: "Jane Doyle, an official, is the queen, ordering people to hold festivals and accept gifts." Subsequently, he was appointed ambassador, deputy ambassador and writer. Qiu, Zong Zhengqing and other officials, after receiving their orders, took a chariot and led the honor guard and the summoning team to and from the Palace and Hou Shi's future home to arrange the wedding for the emperor.

The ceremony of accepting talents is held in the main temple or main hall of Hou. On the day before the harvest, the guards of the palace will set up a curtain on the right outside the gate of Hou's house for the messenger to rest temporarily. On the day of harvest, Qiu and Zong Zhengqing stopped in the tent, and the best man of the Hou family greeted them. The messenger went into the back room and read the emperor's book to his master. The book means that the emperor appointed an envoy to propose to the queen. After the host accepts the book order, he will reply to the envoy, thank the emperor for his kindness and agree to this marriage.

Ask the name, Najib, sign the receipt, and tell the time. The envoys and assistants went to Hou Shi's house, asked Hou Shi's name and age by writing books, announced good omen, presented gifts and announced the wedding date. Teacher Hou's answer sheet is based on the content or reply in the book. There must be a wild goose in the emperor's gift to the queen, representing the flying geese in the south, the harmony of yin and yang, and the marriage between men and women. The ceremony of talking about the temple is to tell the ancestral temple and the ancestor emperor what happened and the date of his marriage.

After the book, that is, the ceremony of conferring the queen. Later calligraphers were also preserved in Hou's home by envoys such as Qiu and Zong Zhengqing. The ceremony was even more grand because of the queen's award. Please announce it again when the ceremony is held at the back of the book. The day before, we should not only set up a temporary rest place for the envoys outside Hou Shi's gate, but also set up a curtain account for the public outside Hou Shi's boudoir. On the day when the Queen was canonized, envoys and other officials first entered the rest room outside Houfu, while female officials such as Shanggong entered the boudoir account. When the owner knows this, he will be greeted out of the door in royal clothes. After pilgrimage to the north, the chief and deputy envoys will enter the gate with sealed books and supplies in their hands. After the ceremony, the female officials such as Shanggong entered the boudoir first, served in the back room, wore jewelry sent by the palace in advance and put on royal clothes. Under the guidance of a female officer, Hou Shi got married, stood in the yard and bowed to the north. He is reading this book to Shi Hou. The content of the book is that the emperor ordered his envoys to canonize Jane Doyle as queen. There is a saying in the book that "the teacher's six palaces teach, and the role model is everywhere", which requires the queen to be responsible for managing court affairs and become an example to the world. After reading the book, the special envoy gave the book and the treasure belt to the queen. At this point, Hou Shi officially became the queen. Later, she sat down as the queen and accepted the worship ceremony of the officials present. After the ceremony, Shang Yi knelt down to the queen and said, "After the ceremony." Then the queen left her seat and was taken back to the palace by Shanggong. The envoys reported to the court by carriage.

Let life be welcomed, even if it is my ceremony to welcome the queen into the palace. After dusk, the court was heavily guarded. The emperor sat in the main hall wearing a crown, officials with more than five grades stood in front of the East and West Houses, and the ladies-in-waiting and guards stood according to the ceremony of the court. Dressed in royal robes and armed with festive weapons, the welcoming envoys took the ceremonial ceremonies to the Queen's door in a chariot, and the guards and accompanying ceremonial personnel lined up to meet them. After the ceremony, the housewife walked out of the room and stood on the west side, facing south; The civil and military officials who greeted the Queen stood outside the door, with civil servants in the east and military attache in the west. The Queen of Shanggong led the way, and Mu Fu led her out of the palace and boarded the first house. Maid-in-waiting guards, like court etiquette, serve the queen. The envoy entered the courtyard, read the imperial edict to his master, and announced, "Restrain the ecliptic of the sun and the moon first and accept the invitation." Then the queen boarded the heavy chariot and drove out of the city gate under the guidance of the female officials and attendants. Envoys and officials enter the palace by car or horse, surrounded by ceremonial soldiers and guards.

At this time, the palace has already been arranged: on the east side outside the main hall of the emperor, a temporary "bedroom" was built for the queen, facing south; In the southwest corner of the main hall, there is an emperor curtain facing east, and there are two layers of seats on the ground with a display barrier. All kinds of ritual vessels and ceremonial ceremonies needed for the ceremony have been placed and arranged in a specific position. The queen rode into the palace, and bells and drums rang, informing the inside and outside of the palace. After the queen was asked to get off the bus, she went to the "bedroom" to tidy her clothes. Then led by a female officer to the entrance of the main hall and stood to the west. The official asked the emperor to sit down, and the female officer then led the queen into the hall. Then, under the guidance of the emperor, he entered the tent with the queen. formal