Emperor Taizong Li Shimin and Empress Changsun left under the bow and salute of the officials. Under the command and leadership of the officials of Taichang Temple, the officials walked in the direction of the Hall of Liangyi. Haohao ****, neat and uniform The pace is like marching and fighting.
You can't walk around from the front of Taiji Palace to Liangyi Hall. You must follow the steps closely. Even the princes and the public must follow the arrangements of Taichang Temple. Anyone who does not listen can be expelled directly from the palace, or even arrested and imprisoned.
The uniform team walked for half an hour before arriving in front of the Liangyi Hall. Due to the large number of officials who entered the palace to worship, the Liangyi Hall Hall could not accommodate so many people, so it had to make arrangements according to the official ranks: relatives of the emperor, relatives, foreign envoys Ministers and officials of the third rank and above can enter and sit in the hall; the third rank to the fifth rank are arranged in the hall; the fifth rank and lower officials are all outside the hall, if there are too many people to accommodate, they can only be arranged according to the rank. New Bayi Chinese website first published https://(www).https://m/.x81zw./com/
As for the emperor’s concubines, princes, princes, princesses, and others, they were arranged to sit in the side halls of the Liangyi Hall near the main hall. They were all women and were covered by bead curtains with the main hall; the side halls for officials from the third to the fifth rank were There is no obstruction.
The official ranks inside and outside the hall are reflected at this time. Officials in the hall are important officials in the central government. They have the absolute highest level of treatment. The emperor eats whatever they eat. The officials outside the hall are half of the ranks below, even wine. It is only Tusu wine, not the "Jiannanchun Shochu" of the palace tribute.
Officials of Grade 3 or higher, foreign envoys, relatives of the emperor, etc. were all seated under the arrangement of officials of Taichang Temple. Changsun Wuji, Wei Zheng, Ma Zhou, Li Daozong, Hou Junji, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Li Jing, Li Ji, Cheng Yao Jin and other important civil and military officials took their seats in accordance with the principle of "writing on the left and military on the right". The emperor's relatives and foreign envoys were seated after this. The positions of foreign envoys were ranked according to their national power, such as Tubo and Tuyuhun. The position of the minister is closer.
Two and a half hours have passed since entering the palace at 4 o'clock and 4 o'clock until now at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Even so, it was still not fully arranged. The main reason was that the number of people in the Yuanzheng Day Association increased year by year, which made the Liangyi Hall, which was the place where the banquet was held, could not accommodate so many people. Taichang Temple officials had to mobilize all of them. There is no clue at all, even if there is a roster of nearly 10,000 officials, it will make them feel devastated.
It was not until Shen Shi that arrangements were made, followed by the current emperor Li Shimin and the eldest grandson empress. At this time, Li Shimin had changed the court clothes he wore during the worship, but changed into lighter clothes, wearing a winged crown, wearing a yellow dragon robe, the dragon robe is embroidered with nine dragons, and five-colored clouds are embroidered between the dragons and the dragons. , Waist wear is equipped with a sword of the same color.
"sit!"
Taichang Temple sang aloud, and everyone knelt down on the carpet. In front of everyone was a green jade wine cup and a milky white jade bowl with a pair of silver chopsticks and a jade spoon; everyone was seated. Later, the maid carrying a white-glazed porcelain bottle filled with shochu slowly poured into the wine cup; Taichang Temple officials filed out with vegetables until three dishes were placed.
The concubines, princesses, and princesses in the side hall all serve the dishes, while officials from the third to the fifth rank are in charge of the Taichang Temple officials, and the officials outside the hall are in charge of the eunuchs. After everyone has served the dishes, Li Shimin, Empress Changsun raised a cup and stood up, and the ministers got up and stood up to drink the first cup with you.
Put down the wine glasses, everyone must wait until the emperor and the queen move their chopsticks before they can pick up the dishes. At this time, the ritual music plays again. The difference from the previous ritual music is that the music is no longer solemn but cheerful. As the ritual music sounds, The beautifully dressed woman came to the center of the hall and bowed to salute and began to dance solo.
The dance danced with rituals and music. After the women danced, everyone ate some vegetable mats to cushion their stomachs. The Tang Dynasty court banquet rules were not as cumbersome as the Ming and Qing dynasties. You can eat whatever you want, but you should drink with the emperor. Nine cups.
The first four glasses of wine are accompanied by ritual music, and there will be different performances in the middle of each toast. Various performances such as dance, acrobatics, drama, poetry, piano art, and martial arts are interspersed with each other. There are long and short periods of time. During this period, different dishes will be served. You can choose to finish it or not. Those who have not finished eating are withdrawn directly.
As for the wine in everyone’s cup, it is rarely continued. It is said that it is a cup of wine because it sounds good. In fact, this cup of wine can contain the equivalent of a pound of two taels of liquor in modern times. Besides, the minister in the palace drank it as a tribute. Liquor, its stamina is full of stamina, and only a large number of people can continue to add it after drinking it without getting drunk.
Therefore, when the state banquet is in progress, the dishes are basically served, and wine is rarely added. As for the officials outside the hall with a rank of five or less, they basically leave at the fourth cup. As for the hall, they must drink with the emperor. You can leave the meeting after nine cups.
The officials outside the temple basically leave after eating and drinking enough. This is also a gift to them. The main reason is that the weather is cold for a long time and you can’t see the situation inside the temple. It is equivalent to the guests at the running water banquet. After leaving, the eunuchs and court ladies quickly cleaned up the place. ァ新ヤ~⑧~1~中文网ωωω.χ~⒏~1zщ.còм
Since the first day of the first lunar month is not allowed to sweep the floor in accordance with the custom, although there are many officials outside the temple, they also follow the rules of the palace and must not leave filthy objects. If found, they will be held accountable, which makes it very easy to clean up even if officials outside the temple leave.
The dishes on the table cover hot dishes, soups, porridge, dim sum, dishes, etc.; the materials used are also rich and diverse, and they all have gorgeous dish names. Due to different preparation methods, the taste is also different, such as: soup bath Embroidery balls, single cage golden milk crisp, crab yellow crab meat rolls, milk stuffed fish, soup bath embroidered balls, Bainiao Chaofeng, etc.
Shaoqing of Dali Temple sang the name of the dish on the side, and everyone was looking forward to it, but most of them focused on the performance in the center of the hall. At this time, there were twenty innocent women dancing together, their smooth and white skin and beautiful faces attracted everyone's attention.
Li Kuan is not interested in watching beautiful women dancing. The main reason is that if you don’t understand dance, why don’t you know how to pretend to understand. Isn’t it better to go home to see his wife when looking at people, so his attention is entirely on wine and food, drinking Jiannanchun from the Tang Dynasty Shochu, thinking of the taste of Jiannanchun in modern times, and then look at the wine in the wine cup as clear dew, and the taste is strong and fragrant, and my heart is annoyed: "I rely on, this is the authentic taste of Jiannanchun. , Then what I drank before was absolutely fake, and the black-hearted merchant sold fake wine. Didn’t this ruin the reputation of the famous wine for thousands of years? Damn, fake wine harms people!”
Li Kuan scolded the merchant who had pitted him in his heart, looked at the vegetables in front of him, and checked it a few times to make sure it was scrambled eggs with spinach. He continued to vomit in his heart: "This is spinach, okay?" A few pieces and a catty of side dishes are so tall, and the state banquet placed in the middle is definitely a delicacy like mountains and seas!" (End of this chapter)