In ancient times, conferring the queen was a great event. For example, we often see the conferring ceremony of the Queen in the TV series of the Qing Dynasty. The whole process is full of ritual and not sloppy at all. After all, conferring the Queen is the gift of founding the country, and its status is still very important. Every dynasty has its own custom of conferring a queen. What I want to talk about today is a rather wonderful custom of chasing seals. In the Northern Wei Dynasty, the empress was not quite right. When conferring a queen, you need to cast a gold person by the sealed person in person before you can be a queen. What happened?

When Tuoba GUI proclaimed himself emperor in the Northern Wei Dynasty, he had a wife Liu and a son and a daughter. Tuoba GUI also likes his wife very much. It stands to reason that the queen should be Liu's, but Liu failed to cast a golden man at the conferring ceremony and finally missed his post. Later, Mr. Murong, who was asked by ministers to be the queen, successfully passed the test and sat on the throne of the queen. That is to say, no matter how you get the favor of the emperor, no matter how prominent your family is, no matter how you have children, if you? Hand cast gold? If you fail, then you can't be a queen. Because people in the Northern Wei Dynasty thought that if you failed to cast a gold man, it would mean that God didn't agree with you to become a queen, and you had to set up another master.

Although it is? Golden man? But it's not real gold. It's usually made of brass. The general process is: before sealing the hole, the craftsmen will prepare all the tools used in the casting process. After sealing the hole, the sealed hole will personally pour the copper liquid into the mold with the help of the craftsmen. The whole process sounds simple, but it is not so easy to implement. First of all, the sealed person should have a certain ability to resist pressure. Because the sealed person will inevitably be nervous about the big event of the seal, and it is easy to fail when he is nervous. Secondly, many jealous people will get in the way and try their best to let the sealed people fail. In addition, the gold caster also tests luck and craftsmanship. If a person makes a mistake in a certain link, it will also lead to failure.

Really? Hand cast gold? This custom is not unique to the Northern Wei Dynasty. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Ran Min, the founder of Wei Ran regime, made a statue when he proclaimed himself emperor, but he failed in the end. When Murong Miao, the former Emperor of Yan Dynasty, learned about this incident, he also thought that Ran Min was doomed to be an emperor, so he rose up and rightfully destroyed Wei Ran.