On the afternoon of that day, people from the palace cleaned up the Zhulin Villa in Jiqing Temple as a place for the empress dowager to take a break. As a temple in the capital, it is related to the royal family and has a good scenery, so it naturally became a place for the powerful and wealthy people in the capital to worship Buddha. Therefore, many villas were built for these princes and nobles to live in small places, and also for those women to practice with their hair. The Zhulin Villa was actually separated by a wall from the place where Zhao Bing lived. It was the residence of the ministers who were accompanying the horse in the past, so the conditions were naturally not too bad.

After the selection, the guard group in the palace searched inside and out, blocked all the surrounding areas of the temple, and prohibited everyone from approaching. Zhao Bing, as a "landlord", naturally had to follow Zhang Lu to show filial piety. In fact, Wang De naturally did not need him to do anything, or even talked. He wanted to wink and did it, and he just showed his presence. Naturally, someone sang a 'hymn' in front of the empress dowager.

Zhao Bing watched the entire villa change quickly with the busyness of everyone. All the walls of the rooms were covered with plain silk and lanterns were hung everywhere in the courtyard. The Queen Mother's residence was carefully arranged, and all the things used were clustered with new ones, or taken from the palace, and the old things in the temple were abandoned. This made him very unhappy. It was too wasteful to just take a rest, but the Queen Mother was not so luxurious in the past!

"Li Gan, don't you know the rules in the palace?" Seeing that the little emperor frowned and tightened, he knew that his master was unhappy. The reason was self-evident. His Majesty had lived in the temple for so many days. The room he lived in was all old things in the temple, and he had never added anything. He must have felt distressed, so he called the eunuch in charge of the matter.

"Meet the official family! I have seen the high-ranking official, but I don't know what instructions?" Li Gan immediately trotted over and said with a tribute.

"Li Gan, you are also an old man in the palace. There have been customizations in the palace. The Empress Dowager and Your Majesty should be simple when traveling, and do not be extravagant and promote extravagant style. Don't you understand!" Wang De pointed his forehead with his finger and said sternly.

"The big official, the young knows it." Li Gan bent his waist deeper and replied repeatedly.

"I knowingly made the case, my butt is itchy? Do you want to use a household whip to scratch you!" Wang De sneered and patted Qi on the shoulder.

"Good official, please listen to the young man's reply!" Li Gan heard that he had a snow-white eunuch's face, which turned into a white eunuch, and quickly knelt down and said, "The empress dowager has already made an oral order this time. Everything is followed by the arrangements of the newly selected girls in the palace. Such arrangements are definitely not a small idea!"

"Then why don't you persuade them and let them do what they do?" Wang De glanced at the little emperor and saw that his brows were deeper, so he still said with a stern face and still said angrily.

"The young man said everything he should say, but the girl Cheng, who was in charge of the arrangement, said, "How can the place where the empress dowager is in a simple way? It doesn't cost much money, so it's not as much as her family's travel expenses!" Li Gan said with a bitter face.

"Which Miss Cheng?" Zhao Bing asked out loud.

"The official family, whose name is Cheng Su, is a beautiful girl who has passed the re-election!" After Li Gan showed his respect, he looked left and right, pointing to a little girl in the crowd and said.

"Oh, that's Qi. It seems that Cheng Subu is not Xu!" Zhao Bing looked in the direction of Qi's finger and saw a girl in a light green dress pointing at everyone hanging the window curtains, nodding.

"Official family, little..." Li Gan was stunned when he heard this, not knowing what His Majesty meant.

"Since the Queen Mother has already made arrangements, don't say much, let them go!" Zhao Bing waved his hand and said.

"The official has already given instructions, why are you still standing there? Are you looking for a fight?" Wang De stepped forward and kicked him. After hearing this, Li Gan hurriedly took his leave and quickly left.

"Official family, what does the Empress Dowager mean? Let these little girls be Hu Wei!" Wang De asked carefully, looking at the little emperor's eyes that were still on Cheng Su, but he was not happy at all.

"You are even more savored than monkeys when you stick to hair. Don't you know what it means?" Zhao Bing turned his face and smiled and cursed.

"How can I understand what the Empress Dowager thinks!" Wang De said with a smile.

"You..." Zhao Bing pointed at him, and the master and servant looked at each other and smiled, leaving the other courtyard...

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The next day, the Empress Dowager arrived at Jiqing Temple. Zhao Bing led the monks in the temple to welcome them outside the temple, but when he saw a large group of people, there were quite a few people coming. After he came forward to see the ceremony, the Empress Dowager got out of the carriage and took a carriage to enter the temple. He held the sedan chair and followed him straight to the place where the Empress Dowager sent a spirit. There were only eunuchs and palace maids who were accompanying him. However, behind the sedan chair, there were palace maids dressed in different clothes, but he clearly saw that Chen Shu'er and Li Sanniang were among them, and then he understood that this was also the selected beautiful girl. Of course, it was impossible for them to be his concubines, and some of them would serve as inner palace maids.

"Sister Su, why is the Empress Dowager dressing like this today?" When he just met the Empress Dowager, Zhao Bing saw the Empress Dowager wearing a coarse white dress, with no powder on her face, and a wooden hairpin was inserted on her hair bun. He was very surprised and asked Su Lan, who was walking with her sedan chair. After leaving Gushan, she turned back to the palace, and it was not convenient for female relatives to live with her in the temple, so she did not accompany her for a while.

"The officials also know that the Empress Dowager's famous titles were all stripped of their names, and they were famous and criminal women. The Empress Dowager was unable to come to worship with her own identity, so she could only express her filial piety as the son and daughter-in-law of the people!" Su Lan replied in a low voice.

"This... in this case, wouldn't I slap myself!" Zhao Bing muttered after hearing this. Although he insisted on cutting off the titles of all the people, he was the governor and the empress dowager "the one who "mastered" was the empress dowager, but now he was doing rituals for the empress dowager in the temple as an emperor, and he quit him.

"The official family, this is not the Queen Mother's idea. It was the Queen Mother who advised me, thinking that the Queen Mother could not worship the sinner's wife as the Queen Mother, so that the etiquette would be disrupted." Su Lan shook her head slightly and said.

"Which Miss Wu?" Zhao Bing asked as if he didn't understand.

"Does the official family really know what happened in the palace recently?" Su Lan said with a chuckling.

"Hehe..." Zhao Bing smiled awkwardly. Su Lan could be said to have grown up with him, and she did not avoid some confidential matters. She naturally knew that she had eyes and ears in the palace, and how to hide the things in the palace.

When we arrived at the small temple where the Empress Dowager sent a spirit, Empress Dowager Yang got out of the sedan chair and only Zhao Bing accompanied him, the others were left outside. When the two stepped into the temple gate, the temple gate immediately closed, and the chanting of scriptures immediately sounded. Empress Dowager Yang snatched forward a few steps, her face was covered with tears, and she cried with a coffin. It took a while before she stopped crying. Zhao Bing stepped forward to support her, lit three incense sticks and handed them over. Empress Dowager Yang bowed three times and inserted the incense into the incense burner.

At this time, Empress Dowager Yang took the paper money and lit it in front of the spirit, knelt on the cushion, burning it while muttering. She started from leaving Lin'an that year, and after all the hardships, she fled to Fuzhou with the two princes, summoned the ministers, gathered the defeated army, and made the youngest son the emperor with the support of the ministers... She finally made her youngest son die of illness, and then made a new king cry again.

Zhao Bing did not persuade her much, but just waited silently. He knew that this woman was not easy enough. Although she gave birth to a prince after entering the palace, she was not favored. After the emperor's death, her son was not able to get the throne. After the national crisis, she fled to the world with two little princes and experienced the death of parent-child illness. However, she was able to make herself the emperor again and support her in the court. She suffered too many difficulties and no one could tell her. She was suppressed for too long and should have vented her.

After crying for a while, Empress Dowager Yang's mood gradually stabilized, and then moved to the side hall to wash and change her clothes again. She summoned the host to donate 20,000 yuan of incense money and gave him 500 volumes of scriptures. Although Zhao Bing felt distressed, he could not say that he could eat the money himself, but he was afraid that he would not be able to get it back in less than a year or two, and all these monks were cheaper.

After the memorial service, Zhao Bing sent the Empress Dowager to a private courtyard for a short break, and accompanied him for lunch. The mother and the mother talked for a while. He thought the Empress Dowager should go back to the palace, after all, there was only two of them in the palace at the moment, and one of them had to be in charge of the change. But after waiting for a while, the Empress Dowager still had no intention of going back. He could not ask, so he could only talk with him. Seeing that it was almost dark, the Empress Dowager said that she would accompany him to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival tonight, sacrifice to the moon together, and he would be deacon.

Zhao Bing was stunned when he heard this. He knew that there was a saying in later generations that "the man did not sacrifice the moon, and the woman did not sacrifice the kitchen". He also understood that the present is different from that in later generations. The ancients regarded the moon as the moon opposite the sun, so they naturally worshiped it. The Song Dynasty wrote the sacrifice of the moon god into the rituals, heaven and earth, the five emperors, the sun, moon, stars, and the country. The emperor ordered the officials to hold sacrifices at the same time.

The people also worship the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival. People in the city, regardless of wealth or poor, who can walk, when they are twelve or thirteen years old, will wear adult clothes, climb the tower or in the courtyard, burn incense and worship the moon. Men wish they will be admitted to the imperial examination as soon as possible, enter the official career, and become successful, while women wish they are as beautiful as Chang'e and as plump as the white moon. What is said here is that both men and women must worship the moon, which is very different from the style of descendants who only worship the moon, and men do not worship the moon.

After this dynasty, Zhao Bing remembered that he had never spent the Mid-Autumn Festival seriously, because this season was the end of the rainy season in Qiongzhou and the dry season came, it was also the best time for the enemy to attack. He either led the army to fight or led the army to prepare for war. There were no such things in the army, at most it was just a big meal, and there was no such thing as sacrifice to the moon.

In the past, whenever a ceremony was held, officials from the Ministry of Rites would teach the procedures first, telling him what he should do and say. They would conduct drills in advance and would give him some tips during the ceremony. But today's sudden attack caught Zhao Bing off guard. He had no idea what he should do or what the procedures were. So in the name of bathing and changing clothes, he asked Su Lan to make up for it, so as not to be embarrassed.

Su Lan is really a person of his own people. In a short period of time, he briefly explained the procedures for the young emperor and explained the precautions. Zhao Bing then learned that the regular Han nationality's moon sacrifice ceremony was held according to the records of the "Book of Rites", which means worshiping the moon god. At this time, welcoming the cold and the moon sacrifice was held and incense tables were set up. In the Zhou Dynasty, welcoming the cold and the moon sacrifice was held every Mid-Autumn night.

When worshiping the moon, you are not standing, but sitting on the table with the traditional "Shishou" of the nation. When worshiping, you are not standing and celebrating, or holding your hands together to pray. When worshiping, you are performing the regular "Shishou" of the Han people. When worshiping twice in a row, it is called "Re-Worship". When sitting, you are sitting with your knees tightly, your hips sit on your heels, your feet are against the ground, your hands are placed on your knees, and your eyes are looking forward. For sitting in Hu, the principle is the same, straighten your legs, and your hands must not be spread apart, and your hands are placed on your knees. You can clench your fists and rush forward; you can also hold your stomach together. If you are tired, you can only relieve fatigue by slightly up and down your knees.

A regular worship is to stand upright, raise your hands and foreheads like bowing, bow ninety degrees, and then straighten your body. Although this part is also called bowing, it is very different. At the same time, the hands are in line with their eyebrows again. Then, the knees are on the ground at the same time, bow slowly, the palms are on the ground, and the forehead is on the palm. This is called bowing, and then straighten the upper body, and the hands are in line with their eyebrows, which is called "Xing". Finally, according to the etiquette, flatten the body or bow again... When flattening, stand up with your hands, stand up, and put down your hands. Another worship means to perform two consecutive worships, namely "Blessing-Xing-Blessing-Xing-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-Ping-P

Of course, there must be sacrifices for the moon sacrifice. A large incense table is arranged, and moon cakes, watermelons, apples, red dates, plums, grapes and other things are placed. Among them, moon cakes and watermelons must be absolutely indispensable. The watermelon must be cut into lotus shapes. Under the moon, place the moon statue in the direction of the moon, and the red candles are lit high, and the whole family worships the moon in turn, and then the main priest cuts the reunion moon cake. The cutters are calculated in advance how many people there are in the whole family. Those at home and outside the country must be counted together. They cannot be cut more or less, and the size must be the same.

There is also a saying that the reason why the moon worships is popular in the palace. According to legend, Wu Yan, an ugly girl from Qi State, worshipped the moon devoutly when she was young. When she grew up, she entered the palace with her outstanding character, but was not favored. On the fifteenth day of August, a certain year, the emperor saw her in the moonlight and thought she was beautiful. Later, she made her the queen, and worshipped the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Chang'e in the moon is famous for her beauty, so the girl worshipped the moon and also hoped that she would "look like Chang'e and face like the bright moon."

In addition, on Mid-Autumn Festival nights, there is a custom of lighting lamps to help the moonlight. Each family uses bamboo strips to make lanterns more than ten days before the festival. They make fruits, birds, beasts, fish and insects, and words such as "Celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival", and paint various colors on them. On Mid-Autumn Festival night, the candles are tied to bamboo poles, high on the eaves or terraces, or small lamps are used to make characters or various shapes, and hang them high on the house, commonly known as "Tree Mid-Autumn Festival" or "Mid-Autumn Festival". The lanterns hung by wealthy families can be several feet high. Family members gather under the lamp to drink and have fun. Ordinary people erect a flagpole and two lanterns, and they also enjoy themselves.
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