The emperor in feudal China had many concubines, but only performed the big wedding ceremony with the queen’s palace, so the ceremony took place extremely solemn and sophisticated.
The emperors in Chinese history owned three palaces and six concubines, seven and twelve concubines, but only married once in their life (Great Wedding). However, if the empress is deposed, the emperor has the opportunity to reorganize the Grand Wedding.
View of the wedding ceremony of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty and the Empress. To become a model of the world, a girl has to go through 6 basic rituals like normal families, including: Ceremony of Loading Money, Ceremony of Name Vocation, Ceremony of Loading Sand, Ceremony of Loading Chong, Ceremony of Asking for Qi, and Ceremony of Gratitude. .
The wedding scene of Emperor Dong Tri of the Qing Dynasty. Emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties often held weddings at the Kunning Palace. This is the third building in the harem in the Forbidden City. In the Ming Dynasty it was the empress’s forbidden palace, in the Qing Dynasty it was the emperor’s cave. Cung Can Thanh and Khon Ninh have opposite functions and names. Qian main yang for Kun main yin. Thanh and Ninh both mean stability, peace and luck. Can Thanh Palace is the place where the king controls the affairs, and the Kun Ninh Palace is the marriage room.
The wedding room of the emperor and queen after the wedding is red. Unlike commoners, the emperor’s wedding room was not his old room, nor was it the permanent bedroom of the future couple.
The empress or concubines stayed in the imperial palace for three days after the wedding. After these three days, many concubines may never see the emperor again. The ceremony to welcome the queen into the palace took place very solemnly and sophisticatedly. The bride sat in a palanquin through the gates of Tiananmen and Ngo Mon to enter the harem, while other concubines could only enter the palace from the back gate of the Forbidden City, ie Than Vu Mon.
The wedding room of the queen and the emperor is more luxurious than the wedding room of the common people. Red is the dominant color in the room. People stick the golden Song Hy and a couple of happy couplets, hang the “Bach screen” and display the “Bach word blanket” on the bed (which is a curtain and blanket embroidered with hundreds of pictures of children playing). Double-embroidered curtain with dragon and phoenix image, expressing the hope of “many children and grandchildren, present at the head of the bed”.
An indispensable ritual is “delivery of wine”. During the Qing Dynasty, after the empress entered the cave, the new emperor moved from the Qianqing Palace to the Kunning Palace. After removing the queen’s headscarf, the two sat on the dragon phoenix bed, drank “Giao smeared” and listened to the blessing singing outside.
The jade wine glass of the emperor and queen.
Pairs of twin happiness lamps are indispensable items in traditional weddings in China. The great wedding ceremony was only for the emperor, so if a prince married and then became an emperor, he would not enjoy lavish items and solemn and extremely expensive ceremonies.
A favorite treasure with the word Song Hy in the wedding. Nhu Y is a woman’s jewelry that is loved by concubines, with the hope of good luck and happiness. During the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Dong Tri’s wedding in 1872 “consumped” the treasury of 11 million taels of silver. Quang Tu’s wedding took place in 1889, when life was more difficult, but also cost 5.5 million taels.