Chapter 3253 Three Books and Six Rites

When a man and a woman get married, the Three Books and Six Rites are indispensable. 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 accepting gifts, asking for names, accepting gifts, accepting invitations, asking for appointments and personally welcoming.

Letter of Engagement: The document of engagement. When a man and a woman entered into a marriage contract, the man's family handed over a letter from the woman's family.

Ritual book: a document used when giving a big gift, which lists the items and quantities of the big gift.

Yingshu: The document used to welcome the bride. It is a document that the groom gives to the bride 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 family to propose marriage and give her gifts to propose marriage. Usually wild geese.

Asking for a name: After the girl's parents accept the proposal of marriage, the girl's family will bring the daughter's Nian Geng horoscope back to the boy's family so that the man and woman can be of the same family and predict good or bad luck. Naji: Also known as Guo Wen Ding, after receiving the Geng Tie, the Geng Tie will be placed in front of the gods or on the ancestor's table to ask for good or bad luck, to ensure that the two parties' years and Geng horoscopes do not conflict with each other. After learning that there was no sign of conflict between the two parties, the marriage was initially discussed.

Certainly.

Nazheng: also known as the great gift, that is, the man's family sends the letter of appointment and gift letter to the woman's family.

Requesting period: also known as begging day, that is, the man's family chooses an auspicious day for marriage and seeks the consent of the woman's family. Personal Ying: Also known as the wedding, on the auspicious wedding day, the groom in formal dress will go to the bride's house to marry the bride in person with the matchmaker, relatives and friends. Before arriving at the bride's house, the groom needs to pay homage at the bride's ancestral temple, and then he takes the bride to the groom's house in a sedan chair.

After completing the ceremony of worshiping heaven, earth and ancestors in the groom's family, he is sent to the bridal chamber.

The Three Letters and Six Etiquettes are the entire marriage process, including proposal, engagement, and consummation.

Ye Xiaochuan is proposing a marriage today. Proposing a marriage is not a marriage. According to the process in the "Book of Rites", there is no need for the greeting letter in the three books, nor the request date 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 do.

After reading the second book, the next step is Nacai and asking 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 date 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 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: "Water and wood merge together, wind and rain merge together, it's 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 couldn'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. If water and fire are not mutually exclusive, then the next step will be simple.

After hearing Yang Liudi's words, a smile appeared on Master Jingxuan's face and she said: "Bazihe, everyone, please come in."

The drunk Taoist immediately gestured to Ye Xiaochuan. Ye Xiaochuan understood and floated down from Xiaotu's head. He followed the master and the nine 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 both sides. 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 had a hard day today, and 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 top-quality 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. It was indeed the finest Shu brocade fabric. .

Many stingy people were counting one by one. After confirming that the number was accurate, Yang Liudi shouted: "Four hundred pieces of top-grade Shu brocade!"

It took a lot of time to make the finest Shu brocade alone.

Next, Leng Zongsheng shouted again: "Thirty boxes of knitted Suzhou embroidery."

Then comes another round of verification. "Eight small bronze mirrors, two large bronze mirrors, a top-quality agarwood dressing table, eight Suzhou splendid duck down quilts, thirty-six strands of longan pearls, thirty-six pairs of gold earrings, thirty-six pairs of jade earrings, and Hetian jade Thirty-six pairs of 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 be trying to find some flaw in this engagement ceremony.

It's a pity that Ye Xiaochuan knows people well and makes new Xiaozhu the commander-in-chief of the engagement ceremony.

Xiaozhu was very careful in his work. He checked each box of betrothal gifts before dawn, three times before and after.

If Yang Shijiu was the commander-in-chief of the engagement, it would definitely not be so smooth, and many problems would definitely be found.

Yun Qiyou's boudoir.

Yun Qiyou is so beautiful today. Just a little makeup and wearing a red dress already make her radiant and charming, and people dare not look directly at her.

If she really gets married on the day of her marriage, wearing a phoenix crown and a bridal robe, I really don't know how beautiful she will be.

She sat quietly on the edge of the wooden bed, listening to the constant chanting of the gift list outside, her cheeks flushed, and it can be seen that she must be very happy at the moment.

She never thought that she would be so happy when she got engaged.

Of course, the premise of happiness is that the person she is going to marry is the person she loves and the person she wants to marry.

If it was not Ye Xiaochuan who came to propose marriage today, but someone else, she would not have any sense of happiness and pleasure.

In the boudoir, besides Yun Qiyou, there were only Gui Yatou, Miss A Xiang and Princess Xiao Qi.

Xiao Qi was surprisingly quiet and rarely spoke. She was using her actions to show that she opposed this marriage.

Because, she was cutting pears.

Cutting the big pears into small pieces.

How could you eat pears at someone else's engagement party? And share them?

Share pears, share pears, this is obviously a curse for Ye Xiaochuan and Yun Qiyou to "separate". Ah Xiang and Gui Yatou didn't react at first, but when they saw Xiao Qi diligently bringing a plate of pear pieces and inviting everyone to eat together, they realized her intention.