The Restoration of the Great Qin of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 845
The crowning ceremony is a grand adult ceremony for the Central Plains people, and the ceremony is grand.According to the weekly system, the crowning ceremony for men at the age of 20 is held at the ancestral temple of the family, and the date is February of the spring of that year.

Within ten days before the crown, the crown recipient must first divination the auspicious day, and then inform relatives, friends and guests of the auspicious day.Three days before the crowning ceremony, a divination method is used to select a guest to host the crowning ceremony, and a person who "praises the crown" is selected to assist in the crowning ceremony.

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The end of the Han Dynasty was an era that paid special attention to etiquette. At this time, people with a certain foundation had strict requirements on names, and not all people had "characters".Only those who have status, status, and knowledge can have "words".

It is impossible for ordinary people or ordinary families to have characters. For example, we have never heard what the characters of Chen She and Lu Zhishen are called.On the contrary, Xiang Ji with a certain official status has a character, called Ziyu.

"Book of Rites."Qu Li" says: "Men have twenty crowns and characters", "women have fifteen crowns and characters". .

"Yi Li", one of the Thirteen Confucian Classics, records various etiquette in the pre-Qin period.The first of the seventeen chapters is "Scholar Crown Ceremony", which shows the importance of the crown ceremony.During the crowning ceremony, the elders will bestow characters.

Most people, especially their peers and subordinates, are only allowed to call their elders by their names and not by their first names.When they meet, they call him by his name, but not by his name.Calling someone by their first name is impolite.

For example, "New Book of Tang·Du Fu Biography" records: "Wu Yi is old in the world, treats Fu very kindly, goes to his home, sees him, or not in time. But the nature is irritable and arrogant, tastes drunk on the martial bed, stares Watching said: "Yan Tingzhi is here!""

Du Fu directly called Yan Wu's father's name here, making Yan Wu angry!So Yan Wu immediately returned the color, "Wu looked at him for a long time, and said: 'Du Shenyan's grandson, intends to stroke the tiger's beard?" Yan Wu directly called Du Fu's grandfather's name.

Names and characters generally have a certain relationship in meaning.Broadly speaking, there are two situations:
"Name" and "character" have similar meanings or "character" is a further elaboration of "name".

For example: Qu Yuan’s name is Ping, the word Yuan, “Yuan” means broad and flat; there are also “names” and “characters” that have opposite meanings, for example: Han Yu, the word Tuizhi.Later generations usually use two characters as "characters", such as Zhuge Liang's word Kongming.

The selection of table characters is very particular, and the situation is very complicated, but there are rules to be found after careful inspection, analysis, and research.

Such as: Cao Cao, word Mengde. "Meng" means the boss of a concubine, and "De" means "virtue", which echoes the word "conduct".

Sun Quan, courtesy name Zhongmou. "Zhong" means "the second child", and everyone knows the word "powerful strategy"; Ma Chao, the word Meng Qi. It means that he was born in Ma Teng's "concubine", the boss; Ma Di, the word Youchang. The fifth child of the Ma family.

Another example: Confucius was the second child, so he was named Zhongni, and he also had an elder brother named Menglai.

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The news about the crowning ceremony flashed in Ying Fei's mind, and he heard Cai Yong say, "We discussed it and decided to help you perform the crowning ceremony once in a week's manner tomorrow."

Cai Yong smiled at Ying Fei and said, "As for your calligraphy, after discussing with your mother, I think 'Zi Qin' is pretty good!"

"Zi is an honorary title, like the masters of a hundred families, and Qin is a symbol of your life experience."

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Cai Yong explained Qin's meaning for a while, then looked at Qin Hou Yingfei, and said: "Generally speaking, there are two stages of ceremony for the crown ceremony, the first stage is the advance ceremony, and the second stage is the formal ceremony."

"The preliminaries are divided into: divining day, divination, appointment, abstinence, and washing."

"The second stage is the ceremony, which is the etiquette program on the day of coronation. The first item is okay. The Chen Fuqi is just the display of ritual vessels, sacrifices and corresponding clothing in the early morning."

"It's just that the third journey is to welcome the praisers to enter the temple. The Great Qin Empire fell apart, and there is no ancestral temple at all. I wonder what Qinhou thinks about this?"

Hearing Cai Yong's words, Ying Fei thought about it, and finally decided to face Lishan and take the Mausoleum of the First Emperor as the ancestral temple.

Seeing that Qin Hou Yingfei made a final decision, Cai Yong also breathed a sigh of relief, because he clearly solved the problem of the ancestral temple. .

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The crowning ceremony sounds complicated, but it is actually extremely simple.It was on this day that Qin Hou Yingfei kowtowed when he should bow and saluted when he should salute according to the instructions of these masters of ceremonies.

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Chuping four years, February [-]th.

Qin Hou Yingfei was 22 years old this year, which means that he has been in this late Han Dynasty for a full ten years.

Today is just an ordinary day for the world, but it has a long-term significance for the Qinhou Mansion. This day Qinhou Yingfei will be crowned the crown.

Men are crowned at twenty, and women are crowned at fifteen.

Getting a crown means a lot to a man in the Central Plains, and it means that adulthood has been recognized by the family, especially for the emperor, the crown ceremony has a special meaning.

The Zhou Dynasty implemented the eldest son inheritance system. When the reigning king died, the eldest son could take the throne no matter how old or young he was, but if he was underage and performed the crown ceremony, he was not allowed to govern himself.

King Cheng of Zhou succeeded King Wu when he was young, but the Duke of Zhou was regent until he came of age.Yingzheng took the throne of Qin at the age of 13, but it was not until the age of 22, "crown and sword", that he took charge of the throne.

From the son of heaven to the common people, the crown ceremony is "the capital of adulthood", and if the crown ceremony is not performed, "it is impossible to rule people."

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Ying Fei's status is special, because his father's life and death are unknown, the holding of the crown ceremony has been delayed all the time, because no one in the entire Qinhou Mansion is qualified to talk about Ying Fei's crown ceremony.

This also caused Qin Hou Yingfei to delay until he was 22 years old, and there was no way to delay it any longer before putting Yingfei's crowning ceremony on the agenda.

What's more, in the Han Dynasty, crown ceremony was very important. At that time, in the sixteenth year of Zhou Fang, he was an official in the county.Shizu inspected Runan and summoned the historian to test the scriptures. Seeing that he was "especially able to recite", he wanted to worship him as the Shou Cheng.

And Zhou Fang "has never won the championship" and could not follow his orders.

Because of this, it has become an imminent event for Qinhou's residence to hold the crowning ceremony for Qinhou Yingfei.

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Since Qinhou Yingfei has no teachers and the ancestral temple is missing, he has no choice but to use Cai Yong, the father-in-law, as his elder to crown Qinhou Yingfei.

On this day, the sky in Fushi County was clear and the square in front of the Marquis of Qin's Mansion had already been under martial law. The [-] troops from Tieying Ruishi and Baitu Camp surrounded the entire Fushi County layer by layer.

Except for Zhao Yun and others who guarded Hanzhou, almost all the civil and military officials in Qinhou's mansion were there.

This is a rare grand occasion in the ages. Even the emperor of a country seldom crowned, and it is so grand.

Adding crowns and giving characters, for men in the late Han Dynasty, not only represented responsibility, but also a kind of recognition from heaven and earth.

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　For the crown ceremony, I personally feel that it is a kind of spiritual and cultural inheritance.Hongtashan feels that the names of the ancients all have certain meanings, unlike the current "Jianguo" and "Love Army" etc...

　　Most of the content in this chapter is from Baidu. Hongtashan thinks that we should understand it. If you don’t like it, you don’t have to read it. It has little influence on the chapters of the book.

　　
　
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