Therefore, the artistic style of Han Dynasty is mostly Chu style.
Rites and music system. So what? It is said that Liu Bang didn't like Confucian children at first, but most of the people who followed Liu Banggan after dominating the world were savages who could only dance guns and make guns and do great things. There are no rules in the celebration dinner, and Liu Bang can't stand it. Therefore, the Confucian disciples were recruited again, and the simplified version of the ritual system was simplified with reference to Zhou Li and the rules of the old dynasty, which was regarded as reshaping the ritual and music culture of the Han Empire.
Therefore, the culture of rites and music in Han Dynasty mostly comes from Confucianism, which can be regarded as a direct inheritance of Zhou Li.
After all, what did Han inherit from Qin? Although it has little to do with the wedding ceremony, I might as well say a few words. Qin's laws and regulations and government operation system are still very advanced, such as Qin's archives system. Marriage files can still be seen by the world today. Therefore, after Xiao He entered Xianyang City, the first thing he did was to find and collect the official archives of Qin State.
Therefore, the government operation system, laws and regulations of the Han Dynasty borrowed from the Qin system. It is often said that Han inherited the Qin system. After all, the main entry points for historians to study history are official system and official historical records. What clothes to wear and how to get married are the follow-up research topics.
In fact, the Han Empire was a fusion of different cultural characteristics of the Central Plains at that time, with the southeast and northwest of the Central Plains as the origin. And super lucky to take over the Chinese land that was completely unified for the first time in the Qin Empire. Create a mythical Han civilization that lasts forever. Our writing has been called Chinese characters since the Han Dynasty, our language is called Chinese, our Chinese medicine is called Korean by overseas countries, our etiquette culture is called Li Han, and our people are called Han people!
What about our wedding? Chinese marriage, of course! However, please note again that Chinese wedding is a cultural wedding in China, not just in the Han Dynasty. The following content is about the wedding culture of Han Dynasty under the Chinese wedding system.
Changle is Unfinished —— Introduction of Wedding System in Han Dynasty
Speaking of the wedding culture in the Han Dynasty, there is a historical document which is recorded in detail, and that is the Book of Rites. The meaning of marriage. Compared with the obscure Book of Rites, this document is a standard reorganization of previous wedding contents. Here, I will take you through the vernacular first. Based on the convention, we won't go into details except the ceremony on the wedding day.
1 Viewing the Wedding Process in Han Dynasty from the Book of Rites
Directly use the vernacular, everyone can understand, and see what "Yili". The meaning of marriage ".
Wedding is a good thing to combine two surnames, which is related to offering sacrifices to ancestral temples and carrying on the family line in Shimonoseki, so Mr. Wang attaches great importance to it. Therefore, in the five steps of receiving gifts, asking names, receiving gifts and inviting dates, whenever the man's emissary arrives, the woman's parents will place a banquet in the temple and then meet the emissary outside the door.
After entering the temple gate, the host and guests were pushed into the hall, where they listened to the messenger to convey the opinions of the man's parents. The reason for this is to show respect and seriousness for the wedding.
The father personally toasted his son and ordered him to greet his wife, which showed that men were in a dominant position. The son was ordered to get married, and the woman's parents gave a banquet in the temple, and then greeted the son-in-law outside the temple gate. The son-in-law took the goose into the temple gate, and the son-in-law and father-in-law bowed to each other and ascended the throne. The son-in-law bowed again and put the goose on the ground, indicating that he had taken back the bride from his parents.
Then the wife followed her husband out of the hall. The husband drives his wife's car himself, and rolls up the rope for driving after getting on the bus. This is an intentional act of showing love to his wife. The husband drives for his wife, and the servant will take over the driving until the wheel turns three times. As a leader, the husband took the bus and waited at his door.
When his wife arrived, her husband bowed to her and invited her to come in with him. After entering her husband's bedroom, she and her husband shared the meat on the same chopping board, and each held a ladle of wine to drink from each other, indicating that the husband and wife were one, regardless of rank, and hoped to love each other.
After a solemn wedding ceremony, husband and wife love each other, which is the basic principle of the wedding, and therefore determines the difference between men and women and establishes the relationship between husband and wife. It is precisely because men and women are different that there will be a relationship between husband and wife; It is because of the relationship between husband and wife that there will be a blind date between father and son; It is because of the blind date between father and son that the monarch and his subjects can get their places. Therefore, the wedding is the basis of all kinds of ceremonies.
Among all the ceremonies, the coronation ceremony is the beginning of the ceremony, the wedding ceremony is the basis of the ceremony, the funeral and sacrificial ceremony are the most grand, the ceremony in the court and the engagement ceremony can best reflect respect, and the shooting ceremony and drinking ceremony in the countryside can best reflect harmony. This is the general situation of the ceremony.
The next day, my wife got up early, washed her hair and took a bath, and was ready to visit her aunt. At dawn, the flatterer introduced his wife to his menstruation. The wife took a container full of dates, chestnuts and dried meat as a gift for the audience. The man who praised the ceremony brought his wife sweet wine on behalf of his aunt. The wife sacrifices her ancestors with bacon first, and then sacrifices them with sweet wine. Doing the above etiquette means that the ceremony of being a daughter-in-law is completed. When menstruation came into the room, his wife took the cooked pig and ate it from menstruation, which showed that his wife began to perform the duty of filial piety.
The next day, Uncle menstruation bought gifts to comfort his wife, and her wife wanted to put down the wine handed over by Uncle menstruation and stop drinking it. Aunt walked down the western steps first, and then the wife walked down the eastern steps, which means that the bride is qualified to take charge of family affairs on behalf of her aunt.
Well, the content about the wedding process in Etiquette and Marriage Meaning written by Dai Sheng, a ritual musician in the Western Han Dynasty, is here to share with you. Compared with a ceremonial wedding, The Book of Rites is relatively easy to understand, and its detailed operation is full of uncertainty. This also provides a certain space for our actual wedding planning and execution.
-The above content is extracted from my book "The Wedding with a Stupid Ceremony", I hope it will help you.