Brocade legend

Chapter 197 Zhang Mo Appears
Each utensil has a wooden frame, and the mouth of the utensil is plugged.There are also the daily utensils of the deceased, as well as musical instruments, armor, helmets, shields, arrow holders and other weapons, walking sticks, bamboo hats, and pheasant fans used when living in swallows.A pair of bows and arrows, four arrows for short-distance shooting and four arrows for practice shooting. The arrow feathers are very short.

Before the coffin departs, ancestor sacrifices must be carried out.After the orientation of the coffin was adjusted between the two couplets in the upper hall, Lu Bing sent the guests out. At this time, Suiren and the craftsman pulled the hearse to the lower hall between the east and west steps.I wish to display the offerings of ancestor sacrifices in the south of Lu Bingzhi, and the west side is facing the front of the hearse. The offerings are covered with towels.Thinking of the last farewell, the old lady and Lian Qiu hugged each other and cried.

At this time, Emperor Jiajing sent burial aids, including gold, silver coins, silk, horses, etc., to help bury the coffin.The funeral supplies include a bundle of black and light yellow silk and two horses.The gift of horses is meant to help the Lu family pull the hearse.After the horses are brought into the gate, they are displayed on the south side of the heavy wood in the courtyard.Put Bo on the left side of the hearse compartment, and then go out.Lu An hid the silk and led the horse out of the temple gate.

At this time, all the adults in the court also sent people to present different mourning objects.

At this time, it was already daylight, and the sacrifices for the Daxian Lian were displayed outside the gate in advance.

Daxiandian is designed for the burial of remains, so it is also called burial ceremony.This is the last time to hold a libation sacrifice for Lu Song, so it is very grand. The sacrifices include a tripod of sheep, hog, fish, wax, and fresh animals.The offerings displayed on the east side of the hearse are four beans and four beans. The four beans are filled with cow stomach, clam meat paste, pickled sunflower, and snail meat sauce; the four beans are filled with dates, rice cakes, chestnuts, dried meat.In addition, there are sweet wine and wine.When the guests attending the funeral entered, Lu Bing worshiped in the temple.

In order to formally display the offerings of the Daqian Memorial set outside the gate in the court, the priest first removed the ancestral offerings displayed yesterday, and relocated the removed offerings to the northwest of the hearse.Then the five tripods outside the door were carried in from outside the door and placed near the "heavy".The four beans are arranged in a square: the cow's stomach is in the southwest, the clam meat sauce is on the north side, the pickled sunflower is on the east, and the snail meat sauce is on the south. The beans in the south are respected and turn in the opposite direction; The jujubes are also arranged in a square shape: the jujube is to the south of the snail meat sauce, the rice cake is to the south, the chestnut is to the east of the rice cake, and the dried meat is to the north of the chestnut.Zu is a group of two, arranged from south to north, and the Zu in the south is the respect, and there is no change of line.The fresh rabbit's zu is displayed separately in the east of the pig's zu.Li and wine are on the west side of the bar.

After the funeral, the funeral procession is ready to go to the cemetery.Yousi carried "Chong" out from the center of the temple gate, and then pulled the horses and carts out of the gate, set up the carts, and waited for departure.Then, after removing the offerings of the Daqian Lian, first remove the towels covering the offerings, and then Yousi put the lower ends of the hind legs of the sheep and pigs in the tripod into the "buds" and prepared to take them to the cemetery.The so-called "bud" is a round basket made of reed grass.According to the regulations of etiquette, scholars can only use two "buds".The fish, wax, and fresh animals in other tripods are not real animals, so they don't need to be put into the "bud".Then the Ming utensils, mats, urns and other utensils were also withdrawn in sequence.

The road to the cemetery will definitely have unevenness. In order to prevent the coffin from tilting and overturning, "Phi" is tied on both sides of the coffin when decorating the hearse. "Pi" is a red or black ribbon. Each "drape" is held by two mourners, who pull it hard when the hearse shakes to keep it balanced. The amount of "Phi" indicates different identities. The emperor has six "Phi" on one side and twelve "Pi" on both sides; the doctor has four "Pi" on one side and eight "Pi" on both sides; "Phi".

So at this time, a total of eight soldiers held the "drape" on both sides of the car to keep the coffin stable.

At this time, the hearse just left, and when she went out, the old lady stamped her feet and cried because she thought that Lu Song's body was getting farther and farther away from home.The funeral procession came to the tomb, and the chariots, road chariots, shovels, and funerary artifacts were displayed on both sides of the tomb passage. Lu Bing lined up in the east of the tomb passage facing west, and the old lady and Lian Qiu stood facing east in the tomb passage. of the west.In order to ensure that everything was safe when the coffin was lowered, everyone suppressed their grief and stopped crying.

In order to prevent moisture in the lower coffin, a cloth called "Yin" should be placed on the bottom of the tomb.Yin is interlayered, with fragrant herbaceous plants such as maoxiu and vanilla stuffed in the middle.There are five pieces in total: the lower three are placed horizontally, and the upper two are placed vertically.

Then lift the coffin out of the car, remove the coffin ornaments, and then tie a "綍" on the coffin, which refers to the rope used for lowering the coffin. The coffin slowly descended into the tomb.

There are strict levels in the number of burials used for funerals, with six for emperors, four for feudal lords, and two for officials.At this time, there were 300 people held by Lu Song.After the coffin was buried, Lu Bing and the old lady wept, presented five pieces of black and light yellow silk to Lu Song, and then kowtowed to the coffin.After the dedication, Lu Bing and Lian Qiu paid homage to the guests who came to the funeral.

Yousi put the burial utensils, weapons, musical instruments, etc. next to the coffin; then placed the coffin decorations such as willows and walls on top of the coffin; The "筲" and so on are placed between the coffin and the coffin.

After the decoration is completed, "fold" on the coffin.It is a large wooden board with several square holes chiseled in the middle, shaped like window panes, with three vertical and five horizontal holes.The function of the folding is to support the filling soil above and prevent the coffin from being crushed.After the folding frame is completed, a mat is laid on it to prevent dust from falling into the tomb.Adding anti-wood to the mat, the function of anti-wood is to fill the earth and press down. Its structure is the same as that of the bottom of the coffin, which is three horizontally and two vertically. Meaning between heaven and earth.

Finally, fill the grave with soil and tamp it down.After the coffin is buried, the clothes on the carriage, road carriage, and shovel are gathered on the hearse and brought back.When returning home after the burial, he does not drive the car, as if he feels that the spirit of the deceased will return home.

After the funeral was over, everyone in the Lu Mansion returned to the ancestral temple and the funeral palace from the cemetery to cry and worship again.

In the past, it was Lu Song who led his family to perform various ceremonies such as worshiping the ancestors in the ancestral temple. Now the hall is still there, but the people have disappeared. Lu Bing and others feel extremely sad.The old lady stamped her feet and cried,

The guests who came to express their condolences came to the hall. Yang Shanyue went up to the hall from the west steps and comforted Lu Bing, saying: "People have passed away, so mourning goes on."

At this moment, Yang Lin followed Yang Shanyue up, whispered in Lu Bing's ear, "Zhang Mo is here..."

"What! How dare he come?" Lu Bing was extremely angry.

"There seems to be a problem between him and Chen Hong. In the past few days, Chen Hong has been looking for him everywhere, and even issued a secret order. If he sees him... kill him on the spot!" Yang Lin whispered.

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(End of this chapter)