Chastity Layman

  Chapter 324 Family Genealogy

   Li Shimin still kept his word. Early the next morning, as soon as Qin Lang woke up, he went to tease his son. The little guy is white and fat. He eats and sleeps every day, but he lives like a fairy.

  Qin Lang teased him, and his **** eyes stared at Qin Lang, laughing.

   "Does Your Majesty really want to grant the Duke of Dalang County?"

  Yu Xiao covered her head and focused all her eyes on her son, for fear that Qin Lang might not hug her well. After Qin Lang came back yesterday and told her about the emperor's posthumous gift of Qin Lang's great-grandfather as county duke and let Qin Jun take over the title, Yu Xiao didn't fall asleep all night.

"Um."

   "It's not just casual talk, is it?"

   "There is no way to talk about this kind of thing casually."

Qin Lang looked at the child in front of him. In fact, he didn't have much discomfort. After all, he was actually a father in later generations. Even after the child was born, he found a lot of feelings, as if he had returned to the child. It was the days when I first became a father.

Duke Yi's mansion has already prepared a nanny and several experienced servants, so it is not difficult to take care of the child after it is born. A group of people surround it all day long, and there is a family doctor waiting for it. , very strong, crying loudly.

  The mothers-in-law and nannies are all experienced, and the nannies are also big cows with plenty of milk, who gave birth and fed two or three children. Although she is a nanny, she was chosen by Cui's help, which is not easy. She is the wife of a seventh- and eighth-rank official who serves as a Beijing official in Chang'an.

   There is even a niece and daughter-in-law who is Cui's natal family.

   It would be impossible for the official's wife to act as a nanny for Qin Lang's concubine's child, if not for Qin Lang's special status. After all, she is the wife of a high-ranking official, and she was born in a family of officials, so she is a young woman in her twenties, and she is also well-educated.

  She is educated and experienced, and it is very easy to help bring up a child together.

  Children are also good, there is almost no such thing as crying at night, and there is no shortage of milk.

  Yuxiao's confinement is also doing relatively well, and she is well taken care of. She doesn't have to stay up late to worry about her, and she is much more plump.

Qin Lang is a time traveler, and he was originally a son of a concubine in Duke Qi's mansion, so he would not despise this son of a concubine, anyway, he is still his own child, the so-called regular wife is still young and has never been married, so he usually treats Yuxiao well , so he loved the child very much after it was born.

  But in Yuxiao's heart, the difference between the concubine and the concubine is still very important.

  If he can really get the emperor's bestowal on him, then the child will be safe in the future.

   Hanlin scholar Ma Zhou came to announce the decree in person.

  An internal imperial edict drafted by a Hanlin scholar, Yu Xiao was so excited that she fainted when she saw the edict.

  Set the table and burn incense to welcome the imperial decree.

  The emperor made an internal edict, posthumously presenting Qin Fangtai, Qin Lang's great-grandfather, as an envoy, governor of Qizhou's military forces, Qizhou governor, Shangzhu Kingdom, Licheng County Duke, and Qin Fangtai's wife, Licheng County Lord. A special decree was given to Qin Jun, the eldest son of Qin Lang's concubine, to inherit the dukedom of Licheng County, and ordered Qin Lang's concubine and Qin Jun's biological mother, Changbai Xiangjun.

  Give Qin Lang the title to build a family temple to worship the fifth generation.

  The emperor also rewarded some gold coins, silver coins and silk cloth.

  Qin Lang received the imperial edict.

   Ma Zhou said to Qin Lang with a smile, "This is a mighty gift from God!"

   "I'm also a little surprised."

  I thought it was just a posthumous gift to the great-grandfather and let his son inherit the title, but he didn't expect it to be more than that. Li Shimin made him a complete set.

  Yuxiao was actually given imperial orders, and had the title of wife of the township lord.

   This is even more surprising than his son inheriting the title of county duke. You must know that the system of Datang is gradually improving, and the system of enfeoffment and family yin is also complete.

  The living are called seals, and the dead are called gifts. Sons can be granted family shade, and wives can also be granted orders, but there are conditions.

   Among them, there are inner and outer wives, the emperor's concubine and the prince Liangdi are the inner wives, and the princesses and queen concubines are the outer wives. In addition to the female surnames of the royal relatives and relatives, foreign wives also include the mothers and wives of officials.

   There are five levels of wives, namely the wife of the country, the wife of the county, the monarch, the monarch of the county, and the county.

  The wife of the country can only grant imperial orders to the first-rank civil and military officials, and the mother-in-law and wife of the country.

The wife of the country and the wife of the county above the third rank are also called Mrs. Gaoming, while the monarchs of the counties, counties, and townships below the third rank all require their husbands or sons to be at least the fifth rank of the official officer, or the fourth rank of the honorary officer with a seal. Those who are nobles are appointed as kings by imperial edict.

  An official can only be named wife, and only one mother can be named, or a aunt. If the aunt is not there, the birthmother can also be named. In any case, they all enjoy the royal titles following the status of their husbands or sons.

  Qin Qiong was able to posthumously posthumously father Qin Ai as Duke of Jinan County based on his merits before, and his mother was also granted the imperial title.

   And Qin Lang's biological mother also had to be granted the title of Mrs. Chu, and it was Qin Lang's imperial conferment, giving the birth mother the title of Mrs. Chu.

  Yu Xiao is just Qin Lang's concubine, so Qin Lang, the Duke of the State, cannot find an imperial order for her. This time, she is honored by her son Qin Jun, and also has an imperial order from a township lord.

  Originally according to the system, Qin Jun was only a false title of county magistrate, and he had neither a fifth-rank official position nor a fourth-rank honorary officer, so he was not qualified to be a gift to his mother.

  But the emperor made an exception and issued a special decree, so Yuxiao was ordered by a Changbai township lord.

  If a concubine can get an imperial order and become a concubine, her status will be completely different.

  After being appointed as a wives, they will enjoy the treatment of the corresponding grade, and there will be a salary. In addition, in some ceremonies presided over by the queen, such as the queen kissing silkworms, the wives must also go to participate, and they also have dresses of corresponding grades.

  Many people say that if you want to seal your wife's shade, sealing your wife means the imperial order.

  Yu Xiao didn't expect that she would have an imperial order, and was strangled awake after fainting, she was stunned for a long time and couldn't believe it.

  Of course, for the Duke of Yi, today’s decree is not only a special decree for the concubine’s succession to the title and a decree for the concubine, but also a special decree to build a family temple to worship the fifth king.

   "What does it mean to build a family temple by decree?" Qin Lang didn't even know about it.

  Ma Zhou then explained to Qin Lang that the family temple is a temple built by Confucianism for ancestors, and it belongs to the place where Chinese Confucianists worship ancestors and sages.

  Before the Tang Dynasty, it was called private temple, also called ancestral temple.

  In ancient times, the ancestral temple was exclusive to the emperor, and scholar-bureaucrats could not build the ancestral temple. Before the Han Dynasty, those with official titles could build ancestral temples as a place to worship their ancestors.

  The emperor's decree to build a family temple is actually the beginning of the Tang family temple system.

  Before this, no minister had received the will to build a family temple.

   According to the Book of Rites, there are seven temples for the son of heaven, five temples for the Qing, three temples for the doctor, and one temple for the scholar.

   Taimiao is the ancestral temple of the emperor.

  Now Li Shimin does not know whose suggestion he has listened to, and decides to restore the family temple system and allow his subjects to build private temples.

  However, not everyone can build this private temple. First of all, it must be a prime minister, a prince, and an official of the third rank or above. Third, after meeting those conditions, it must be approved by the emperor.

  Actually, the person who proposed to Li Shimin to restore the family temple system wanted to regard the family temple as a special reward and honor for important ministers.

   Not everyone is qualified to build a family temple.

  This family temple system has just been drawn up, and Qin Lang is the first person to receive this imperial title.

  The most commonly seen ancestral halls in the south in later generations are actually the evolution of family temples, but at this time, there was no such ancestral hall with one family name in the Tang Dynasty.

  After Tang and Song Dynasties, ancestral halls gradually emerged from family temples, and ancestral halls became a clan to worship ancestors, and even had the nature of a clan court.

   "His Majesty specially gave you a piece of land for you to build a family temple."

  The Taimiao of the Son of Heaven is on the east side of the palace gate, so the current family temple is also next to the minister's house, not at home.

  Li Shimin specially bestowed a place, just to the east of Yiguo Gongfu in Pingkangfang, as Qin Lang's family temple.

  According to the new system, after Qin Lang's family temple is built, he can offer sacrifices to the ancestors of the fifth generation.

The Seven Temples of the Son of Heaven refer to the temples offering sacrifices to the four relatives (father, ancestor, great-grandfather, and great-grandfather), the temple of the second son (father and grandfather of the great-grandfather) and the temple of the first ancestor. Mu, also known as the Seven Temples.

   Qin Lang can offer sacrifices to five temples, and the temples of Erzhao, Ermu and Taizu are five.

  Zhaomu refers to the left and right positions where the main **** tablet is placed. The left is Zhao, the right is Mu, the father is Zhao, and the son is Mu.

  Common people are not qualified to set up family temples to worship, and can only sacrifice directly in the dormitory.

  In short, the more capable the descendants are, the more ancestors they can offer sacrifices to.

  The emperor gave Qin Lang a decree to build a family temple, and also asked the Ministry of Rites to send people to sort out and revise Qin Lang's family tree.

Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, genealogy has flourished. At that time, in order to show their noble origins and prevent commoners from impersonating, the gentry attached great importance to genealogy and paid attention to county prestige. There would be special people who regularly revised genealogy, and even some people in the society specialized in researching genealogy and organizing The famous county prestige and genealogy in the world formed a special kind of genealogy.

  Therefore, any family with a head and a face can be clearly traced.

  The genealogy has become one of the conditions for the organization of a large family. With the genealogy, even if they have the same surname, they can know which family they are from, and whether they are a noble family or a common family.

   There are three kinds of genealogy, one is family biography, one is family tree, and the other is hundred family tree. A family biography is similar to a biography of a celebrity in a family. It does not record everyone, but a family tree is a family tree, which will record the details of the family's inheritance from generation to generation.

As for the genealogy of hundreds of families, also known as the family tree, this is the highest level of genealogy and must be compiled by the government. The clans with the surname listed the names, official positions and blood relations of their members in detail.

  Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, it has been very important for the officials of the successive dynasties to revise the genealogy.

The Qin family in Licheng used to be a noble family in Qizhou, and they could barely be considered a second-rate noble family. This time, Li Shimin asked the Ministry of Rites to help the Qin family organize the family tree and add the Qin family tree to the people's genealogy across the country. This is not easy. Yes, it's really flattering the Qin family.

   Let the Qin family also officially enter the top gentry.

  (end of this chapter)