Undeniably, many detailed textual researches in Know No are not targeted. For example, in the first episode, Yuan Jia came to Yangzhou Shengjia for employment. Apart from all kinds of gold and silver gifts, the most striking thing is a pair of wild geese.
This pair of geese was personally hunted by the groom-to-be of Hualan, and it was also the ceremony of this dowry. It is very precious. Sheng Changfeng, the son of Lin Xiaoniang, was beaten by his father because he almost lost the goose to Gu.
So, is it really historical for the Yuan family to hire geese?
0 1 treat the goose as a gift, propose and accept it. As mentioned in the last article, the ancient marriage procedure is very complicated, which can be roughly summarized into six steps: collecting geese, asking names, collecting geese, collecting geese, asking for a date, and welcoming guests face to face.
I won't go into details here, but let's talk about the issue of ore collection.
Why do you want to say Na Cai?
Because the most important occasion for the geese in Know No is actually not the recruitment link, but the recruitment link.
"Yili? It is mentioned in "In the Soul of History": "When you are in a daze, you will pick wild geese. "
Zheng Xuan commented on this: "Accept the gift of choice." If you use geese, you can get along with yin and yang. "
That is to say, according to the weekly system, when the man proposes, he should take the goose as a gift, and it must be a pair of live geese.
The man sent the faint gift, that is, a pair of live geese and other gifts to the woman's house to express his mind.
The woman doesn't have to agree. The woman's family has a choice. Considering the man's family background, financial resources and sincerity, she can agree or refuse.
The so-called "acceptance", that is, the meaning of "acceptance and choice", is only agreed if it is accepted. If it is not accepted, the proposal will fall through, and it doesn't matter if both men and women go their separate ways.
In the TV series "Know No", the marriage between Yuan Jia and Sheng Jia has long been settled. This time Yuanjia is here to hire, not to talk about marriage, and Shengjia has no room to refuse.
So it's a little inappropriate to bring geese at this time.
Maybe some people will say, you are talking about the weekly system, is that suitable for the dynasty that knows whether it is?
In fact, Sima Guang in the Northern Song Dynasty also explained Nacai in Yi Shu: "A guest gives a goose, and the owner receives it. If he gives a deacon, he gives a book."
It can be seen from this that the Song Dynasty still followed the ritual system of "Zhou". The male guest handed over the goose when picking, and after the owner accepted it, the two sides exchanged documents and agreed on marriage.
Once the families of men and women exchange "fixed stickers", the marriage is basically settled, and it is not easy to go back on our word, otherwise we will bear the corresponding legal consequences.
Yin-yang communication can also replace the ancients. Why did you use goose as a proposal?
Zheng Xuan wrote clearly in his notes, "With geese, you get yin and yang."
In other words, the nature of geese conforms to the law of yin and yang, and the combination of men and women also conforms to the law of yin and yang, so geese are used to compare the marriage between men and women.
Why do geese conform to yin-yang intercourse?
As we all know, geese are excellent migratory birds. They move back to the north every spring and fly to the south in winter. It is precisely because of this migration characteristic that it coincides with the direction of yin and yang.
Moreover, in the eyes of the ancients, geese are also symbols of virtue and loyalty. Confucius once sent a wild goose to Laozi, saying that the wild goose flew in an orderly way and was very disciplined.
In the marriage between men and women, sending geese to propose marriage is precisely to express men's expectations of women: husband and wife are loyal and polite.
"White Tiger Yi Tong" records: "Those who use geese will go from north to south at any time, without losing the festival, and they will not seize women in the Qing Dynasty. It is also a bird that follows the sun, and so is a wife. It is also to take the line to fly and stop, the wedding ceremony is clear, the age is orderly, and they do not cross each other. You don't have to die for the gift basket, so you use geese. "
However, with the development of the times, geese are not so good at hunting. After the Han and Wei Dynasties, Nacai's gifts gradually changed, not only to wild geese, but also to pheasants, and there was no demand for wild geese.
Song Shi? Yuan You's five years were recorded in Li Jia, because after the emperor accepted it, Empress Dowager Cixi asked ministers to investigate the evolution of the Six Rites in ancient and modern times, and make a new process for the Six Rites, making it a norm.
In the second year, the new six rites were grandly released.
Song Shi? Li Jia: "In August of six years, the Privy Council of the three provinces said," Liu Li ordered him to accept talents, ask his name, accept himself, accept the contract, and tell the date. He sent the consul as the ambassador, and the courtiers or judges took Qing as the deputy ambassador. Take the right of the old minister as the queen's trip On the same day, Naji, Nancheng, the next day. That city treats Gu Gui as a basket, not as a wild goose. According to the "opening ceremony", the "invitation period" was changed to "notification period", and "personally welcome" means "ordering welcome". Before that, choose a day to talk about heaven and earth and ancestral halls. The emperor sent a copy to the pavilion on the same day, and the first book to the ambassador on the first day, and invited the civil and military officials to meet in the first class. 」"
It is mentioned in historical materials that "the South City takes lonely laurels as a basket, not geese". Here, the South City refers to Zheng Na, which is also called inferior in Know No ... The ancient GUI is a kind of jade, and it is a ritual vessel for the son of heaven to hire women.
This will clearly pointed out that the son of heaven did not use geese, but used lonely laurels. Since the son of heaven doesn't need geese, don't ordinary subjects follow suit?
In Tokyo Dream of China, Dream of Liang Lu and other books, there is no record of using geese as a marriage proposal or engagement gift. We have reason to believe that Zhou Lizhong's "adopting geese" has been basically forgotten in this era.
Summary: In the ancient marriage process, geese once played an important role, was an important gift for proposing marriage, and also had a beautiful symbolic significance. Whether it continues through the wedding or not, the faithful geese are witnesses of the love between men and women, which can be recalled! Appendix: Yuan Haowen, Fishing? Qiu Yan ci
When B Chou was eighteen years old, he went to try Bing Zhou and said to the goose catcher, "I got a goose today, and I'm going to kill it." The man who broke the net lamented that he couldn't go, but he threw himself on the ground and died. "Because I bought it, I was buried in the water, and stone is knowledge, so I called it Qiu Yan. Most of my colleagues are poets, and there are "Qiu Yan Ci". There is no palace affairs in the old works, but it has been changed today.
Ask the world, what is love, teaching life and death?
Flying in all directions, the old wings have been hot and cold several times.
Have fun, leave the bitterness, and there will be more children in school.
You should have a sentence: Wan Liyun, Qian Shan Muxue, who are you only looking at?
Cross grave road, flute and drum when lonely, smoke is still flat.
What's the point of evocation? Shan Gui secretly calls the shots.
The sky is also jealous. If you don't believe it, birds and swallows are all loess.
For generations, leave it to poets to sing, drink and visit Qiu Yan.