Big Moon Ballad

Chapter 251 Engagement
The quiet night passed, and no one knew what happened that night, and no one knew that the first thing a certain guard did early in the morning before going out with his stepson in the car was to apologize to the owner for a certain bare jujube tree .

Even if there was, no one cared about it.

From the dawn of the day, the entire city of Danyang was shrouded in an extremely tense atmosphere.

Because that moment has finally come.

The first grand event in the Shanhai Continent once every three years, the primary ceremony is about to kick off.

The primary ceremony was created by Emperor Taizu Emperor Yingdi, and Lin Shubai was ordered by the chief minister to improve it. It has developed to this day and has formed a very complete set of procedures.

The opening ceremony of the elementary ceremony is called the opening ceremony, but it is actually the outpost of the elementary ceremony, which consists of two parts.

The first part is Jixia’s Banquet, which is exactly the martial arts fight in the four palaces in the Jixia Academy mentioned earlier. This martial arts fight is divided into schools regardless of country, and the stepchildren of the six countries will give their respective prizes. , Practitioners from all over the world compete according to the end of the school.

The winner can win the lottery given by the stepchildren of various countries, and the school with the most wins can become the top of the upper four palaces in the next three years, and has priority in obtaining cultivation resources, and the head of the school can even get the next sacrificial wine award. nominate.

As the name suggests, the Jixia Banquet is a struggle within the Jixia Academy, but all the talents in the world come from the Jixia Academy, and outstanding practitioners from all over the world will end for the honor of the master. The strength of a young genius.

It is precisely because of this that it is called the skirmish of the elementary ceremony.

The second part is the real opening ceremony.

As the host country, Southern Chu will announce on the spot the chief examiner and other examiners of the preliminary ceremony. These examiners, the royal family of Southern Chu and the National Teacher will meet the stepchildren of various countries, and the stepchildren of various countries will bring their respective teams, that is, the delegation to make an appearance. .

Of course, if you think that there is only one appearance in this opening ceremony, it will be weak. If there are only practitioners from these countries, there is no need to be so nervous.

There is one final and most important link in the opening ceremony of the primary ceremony.

That is to fight first.

This last link can be said to be the most important link, because its result is closely related to the primary ceremony on the second day.

Emperor Taizu established extremely strict rules from the establishment of the primary ceremony, and this rule is still in use today.

The primary ceremony is divided into crowd battles and individual battles, each with three rounds.

Each round has different competitions. The reason why Ying Baoyue feels that the elementary ceremony is like the Olympics after going through it once is because of these events.

It's all kinds of things.

There are also group battles and individual battles.

As the name suggests, crowd warfare is group warfare.

And the content of the first round of the primary ceremony everyone's battle is...Survival in the mountains and forests.

Of course, this is the name Ying Baoyue summed up by himself.Practitioners from all over the world entered a mountain forest in the form of a team and stayed there for three days and three nights, and finally judged the winner by the number of people who walked out of the forest alive.

This is not what survival in the wild is...

By the way, the second round of the crowd battle is polo.

Leaving aside the other rounds, the first round of the crowd battle was an extremely brutal battle just by looking at the content.

Someone once said that this first round was prepared to reduce the number of people.

Regardless of whether this statement is correct or not, Southern Chu is full of mountains, miasma, and beasts. The mountains and forests selected for the primary ceremony have countless beasts and even "ghosts" dressed up by people.In order to weaken each other's strength, countries will even take the opportunity to fight privately and strangle internally.

Three days and three nights, it was an absolute trip to hell.

The first round of the crowd battle has always been the most feared round for practitioners in all countries, and it is also a real blow to power.

Because of the large number of participants, there is a sequence of entry into the mountain for survival in the forest, and those who are advanced in the mountain can find out the news and set traps, and the sequence also has an impact on the result.

The so-called fighting for the first place is what we are fighting for.

In the opening ceremony of the elementary ceremony, traditionally, in the morning, there will be a martial arts meeting in the fourth palace at Jixia Academy, and in the afternoon, representatives from various countries will fight to determine the order of entering the mountain for the first round of the elementary ceremony.

The stepchildren of each country will choose a representative from their own team to represent their country to fight for this priority.

The way to compete is naturally through battles. In one-on-one battles, the final ranking of the winners will determine which country can advance to the mountain.

After deciding on this order, the opening ceremony of the primary ceremony will be considered a successful conclusion.

According to the tradition of previous years, the Jixia Banquet and the opening ceremony were arranged in the morning and afternoon, which was just right, but this year is different.

Sitting in the swaying carriage, Ying Baoyue looked at Ji Ange who looked at her with a complicated expression.

This year is different from the past because there is one more link.

Ying Baoyue looked at Ji Ange's well-dressed figure reflected in Ji Ange's pupils, and smiled.

That was the engagement banquet between her and Ji Jiashu.

Early this morning, she drove out from the National Teacher's Mansion. According to etiquette, she should be accompanied by her natal family, but she has no natal family here, let alone a natal family. At first, she thought she would take the carriage alone, but she didn't know what Ji Qingyuan was going to do. After doing something, she actually wrote to Ji Mo, asking him to agree to let Ji Ange be her female companion temporarily.

When she learned about it in the morning, Ji Ange was taken aback. She didn't expect her father, who never let her go out, to agree to let her go to this woman's engagement banquet.

Ji Qingyuan, who made the most of his contributions, looked at his sister's worried eyes but just smiled, "I said, I can fulfill your wish, go, I will go too."

Although he didn't know what price he paid, Ji Qingyuan fulfilled his promise.Not only that, I don't know what he and Ji Mo said, even he himself got the consent to go out together.

At this time, Ji Qingyuan was sitting in another carriage with Ji Jiashu.

Even though they all started from the same place, this matter was out of order, but even if Ji Jiashu couldn't greet her personally, she couldn't sit in the same carriage with her.

Marriage in this world is still an ancient ritual. From engagement to marriage, there are "three letters and six rituals". Accept the levy, ask for a date, and welcome in person.

Nacai is to propose marriage, asking for a name is the horoscope of the birth date, and Najib is to take a good omen.Nazheng is also called fixed engagement, which means a decision, and employment is also called small engagement, which is equivalent to the current fixed wedding.

The marriage between her and Ji Jiashu directly skipped the previous three steps, and now it has come to this step.

To make an appointment, one must first use a large post, and besides the post, there is an appointment letter, commonly known as a marriage letter, which is what she took out in the Southern Chu Kingdom.

In ordinary families, the letter of appointment is usually prepared by the man's family.All gift money has been listed into the gift list before the appointment.The man's family only pays a small half of the gift money, commonly known as the first half of the gift.A gold ring can also be used as a betrothal gift when the appointment is made.On the day of appointment, both the male and female families hold a banquet for their relatives and friends. The participants only join in the fun and do not give gifts.

On her side, the marriage certificate is in duplicate, and there is no chance for the bride's family to hold a banquet. The Nanchu royal family will hold a banquet in the palace as an engagement banquet for her and Ji Jiashu.

The engagement banquet and the opening ceremony of the primary ceremony were held on the same day, so it was naturally impossible for the bride and groom to wait.

So this morning was the engagement banquet between her and Ji Jiashu, the Jixia banquet in the afternoon, and the official opening ceremony in the evening.

The place where it all takes place is...

The carriage stopped at the gate of Nanchu Palace, Ying Baoyue quietly opened the curtain and looked at the tall pavilions in the distance.

This is where the ceremony takes place.

Southern Chu Imperial Prayer Province, Tongtian Pavilion.

　The relevant introduction of the Three Books and Six Rituals is quoted from the online material "Engagement Customs in Ancient China"

　　
　
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