If I fail to overcome the tribulation, I can only return to the Ming Dynasty and become a prince.

Chapter 277: Joining the bridal chamber
There is no need to elaborate too much on the complex and extremely grand wedding process. It is just slightly different from what ordinary people think. The whole process of a royal wedding does not include worshiping the heaven and the earth, but combining the gods.

The so-called 庺 is a kind of wine vessel used in ancient weddings. It is to divide a complete gourd into two parts, each of the husband and wife holds one half, and together they become a complete gourd, so this process is called combining 卺.

For the royal family, this process is a little more complicated.

The record of the emperor's wedding in the "History of the Ming Dynasty" is as follows: After the marriage, the emperor changed his skin to the inner palace.After changing clothes, from Sheng.Each raised seat faces east and west.The deacon held the table of food in front of him, and the female officer took four gold coins and drank wine before entering.After drinking, eat and drink.After the wine and meal were finished, the female officer drank wine with two pieces of wine and mixed it up to make progress.After drinking and eating, it will make you feel refreshed and easy to take regularly.The emperor's followers are good at his queen's food, and the latter's followers are good at the emperor's food.

Pi Bian is a type of dress in the Ming Dynasty. It does not need to be elaborated too much. The royal 卺 here symbolizes that from now on, the husband and wife will eat together.

This is actually the original meaning of Hexin, which is to bring together the water ladles from which the husband and wife drink from each other, indicating that they will live together from now on.

Although it was the emperor's grandson and the prince who were getting married this time, there was no difference in the process of marriage.

In other words, the so-called "enjoying the standard treatment of the prince's wedding, and the Queen's style" refers to the ceremonial guards, ritual utensils, and the most important dress that can be used in the entire wedding process.

In ancient times, clothing specifications had very strict requirements.

Zhu Yuanzhang made very detailed regulations on this when the Ming Dynasty was founded, and even stipulated what colors of clothes should be worn by people of different classes and what materials should be used to make clothes.

If you don't follow the rules, it's called going beyond the rules.

In ancient times, breaking the rules was a major or minor crime. The lighter one might be hitting a board or something like that, or the more serious one...three or nine, choose one.

Of course, during major ceremonies such as weddings and sacrifices, the imperial court allowed people to wear a higher-level dress than the standard. This is the origin of Shesheng.

Just like Meng Qinglin in front of Zhu Zhankun now. According to the rules, she is only a prince's concubine. The phoenix crown and harem she wears can only be prince-style. They are of the same level as the crown prince and imperial concubine, and are the second most noble clothing in the world.

The first-class one is of course the Queen's Phoenix Crown Xiapei, which has completely different shapes and regulations from those used by ordinary people.

Among them, the phoenix crown is not only decorated with phoenixes, but with nine dragons and four phoenixes as decorations. The lower-level concubines use nine feathers and four phoenixes. Instead of dragons, they can only be decorated with birds.

But for today's wedding, Meng Qinglin was wearing a crown of nine dragons and four phoenixes, and Zhai clothes with twelfth-class patterns, which happened to correspond to the twelve chapters of the emperor's crown.

"You are lucky today. You are wearing the Queen's clothes, which is one level higher than mine." Zhu Zhanjuan joked to Meng Qinglin and deliberately saluted her.

Meng Qinglin himself was not a stickler for etiquette. He just smiled and did not answer. Instead, he asked Zhu Zhanyu: "How are you going to sleep well tonight? How are you going to arrange the other two concubines? You won't let them stay alone in the empty room tonight, right?" "

This is what Meng Qinglin is more concerned about. She is now Zhu Zhanchen's wife, both legally and de facto, and she naturally has to shoulder the responsibility of managing the back house for him.

In fact, according to etiquette, Zhu Zhanjun, who was getting married today, could only stay in her room, leaving Lan Qier and the other concubine alone in the empty room all night until it was their turn tomorrow.In the feudal era, this was how the status gap between the head wife and the concubine was reflected. However, under normal circumstances, no one would marry multiple wives at the same time, so naturally there was no need to worry about such things.

No matter how domineering the wife is, she would not let the bride stay alone in the empty room on the first night of the wedding.

Of course, if you only marry a concubine, you will not be treated like this. After all, a wife and a concubine are two completely different identities.

However, Zhu Zhanjun didn't care much about this. After he sat down next to Meng Qinglin, he said: "I will go to their place to sit for a while, and I will sleep with you at night. Today is a wedding after all, so I can only stay here." Sleep in the room, otherwise there will be a bunch of impeachment accusations piled on my face tomorrow."

This is a matter of etiquette and cannot be decided by Zhu Zhanyu's personal will.

Even all his actions tonight will be recorded by a special person, which will be used as evidence to prove his identity when a descendant of King Zheng is born in the future.

As a prince, Zhu Zhanquan had to record who he slept with at night, just like the emperor. There was even someone responsible for recording the time when he performed the courtesy of Zhou Gong, and there would also be a dedicated person responsible for attending to him after each visit. The concubine is responsible for checking whether she is pregnant with an heir.

In the court dramas of later generations, the emperor visited a palace maid and gave birth to a child. The emperor did not know that the child had been living among the people for many years before he found it. In Zhu Zhancheng's eyes, it was pure nonsense.

Not to mention anything else, the biological mother of his eldest brother Zhu Zhanji's second son Zhu Qiyu, Wu Xianfei, was a favored palace maid, and the mother and son were raised outside the palace until Zhu Zhanji was about to die in the [-]th year of Xuande. Mother and son were taken into the palace and handed over to the care of Mrs. Zhang, who was already the Queen Mother at that time.

The emperor is always accompanied by eunuchs who are responsible for recording the women the emperor has slept with, ensuring that if she becomes pregnant with a royal heir, they can be traced and dealt with in time to prevent the royal blood from being lost.

Although the prince's treatment is lower, he still needs to keep strict records on such matters.

"But I am using Shanxiang's body now. This night at the bridal chamber..." Meng Qinglin couldn't help but feel a little shy when she said this. She still remembered that Zhu Zhanqi told her to give her back her body tonight. Hu Shanxiang, we can wait until she recovers her body to consummate her marriage with Zhu Zhanqun.

But tonight, all the process of getting along with Zhu Zhanyu must be recorded, which made Meng Qinglin somewhat worried about gains and losses, and also quite shy.

After all, this kind of thing about being listened to openly and openly is really a bit nervous for this dragon girl who has always been a female general on the battlefield.

"They won't come in to see. A phantom sound spell can cover it up. You don't have to worry about it." Zhu Zhanyu didn't care. He grabbed Meng Qinglin's hand and held it in his. He smiled at her and said, "Today is our big day." On your wedding day, don’t say these negative words and be happy.”

After Zhu Zhancheng said this, Meng Qinglin could no longer worry about gains and losses, so he had to put aside all the complicated things in his heart, showed a charming smile again, and said shyly to Zhu Zhancheng: "From today on, I am your husband. I am my wife. I am not talented, but I still hope that my husband will take pity on me..."

　I originally wanted to write about two dragons twisting together and a goblin fighting, but I figured no one would like to watch snake movies, so I skipped it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)