Chapter 401： Shi Dish Ceremony

Chapter 401 Explaining the Ceremony of Vegetables

"Confucius was trapped between Chen and Cai. He could not eat for seven days and played the piano in his room. Yan Hui released vegetables outdoors to show his respect and inseparability to his teacher." - "General Customs".

Since then, Shicai has represented respect for teachers, and Shicai ceremony has become one of the two major etiquette systems for offering sacrifices to Confucius. Shicai is to honor the master with fruits and vegetables. However, with the passage of time, Xinke Jinshi will also perform the Shicai ceremony to thank his teacher Confucius, and then take off his coarse clothes and straw sandals to signify his entry into official career.

After entering the Confucian Temple, the officials of the Imperial College led Zhu Pingan and others into the side hall, washed and changed clothes, removed the clothes on their bodies, and put on the coarse cloth clothes and cloth shoes that had been prepared long ago. line up.

In the Confucian Temple, in addition to the officials of the Guozijian, there are also officials from the Ministry of Rites, who are responsible for the salutes such as Tongzan, Yinzan, and Yousi of the Shicai Ceremony.

Zhu Ping'an walked in the front, and under the guidance of Yousi, he passed the Chijing Gate to the platform of Dacheng Hall, and walked up to the platform through the steps on the east side of the platform.

"Everyone below the ranks and officials should take their positions." After saluting to the Dacheng Hall, Tong Zan turned around and gave Zhu Ping'an and others a loud order.

Some people from the department came out and led Zhu Pingan and others to stand in line on the east side of the platform, and then the rest of the staff also took their positions.

After Zhu Pingan stood firm, he heard a burst of music. At some point, a large-scale band appeared on the stage, wearing a red dress and holding various musical instruments. The music is the same as "The Chapter of Jiajing".

After the chapter of Jiajing was played, the Jiaofang Division under the Ministry of Rites sent 36 students. Each of them held three pheasant tail feathers in their right hand and a piccolo in their left hand.

At the same time, the Tongzan officer began to recite the sacrificial oration:

Eternal literary sage, eternal teacher. The torch is passed on, and it will never go out for generations.

Now we, see the virtuous and think of the same. .

Fu Wei Shangxian.

After reading the sacrificial text, it was time for Zhu Ping'an and the others to explain the dishes. According to the usual practice, the number one scholar, the second place, and Tanhua came forward to salute Confucius and the twelve sages, but today Ouyang Zishi was also added. After entering, the four of them together performed the ceremony of explaining dishes on behalf of all the students.

Under the stage, there was a sound of doubts from the newly promoted Jinshi, but it was silenced by Guozijian's reprimand for offering wine.

Zhu Pingan took the lead to go to the vegetable release station to get a piece of cress, a handful of leek flowers, several red dates, and a handful of chestnuts, put them together on a plate, and returned to the platform with them.

Cress represents students, chive flowers represent talents, red dates represent early determination, and chestnuts represent reverence for Confucius. These are all conventional.

"Disciple Zhu Ping'an received the teaching of rites and music, fortunately he was successful, and he dared to offer a dish to Confucius, the first sage."

Zhu Pingan stepped under the statue of Confucius in the Dacheng Hall, knelt down and offered Shicai, and then Yinzan waited for Zhu Pingan to get up, poured a bottle of wine and handed it to Zhu Pingan, and Zhu Pingan knelt down again and offered wine to the statue of Confucius. Bottles of wine, Zhu Ping'an's dish salute is over.

Ban No. 2, Tanhua, and Ouyang Zishi respectively saluted the twelve sages.

The rest of Jinshi on the platform of Dacheng Hall, under the guidance of Yousi, performed the dish ceremony to Confucius and the twelve sages on the platform of Dacheng Hall.

By the time the whole dish release ceremony was over, the sun had risen and was almost in the middle. After Zhu Ping'an and the others finished the dish release ceremony, they would also take off their coarse clothes and shoes, and put on the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials for everyone according to their respective allocations. Official uniforms prepared for the official position.

For a while, Zhu Ping'an and the others all turned into a group of beasts in clothes.

Zhu Ping'an is wearing a sixth-rank official uniform, a blue official uniform, and a patch with a painting of egrets on the front of the official uniform.

Except for Zhu Ping'an, everyone else including Zhang Siwei and Wang Shizhen are in seventh-rank official uniforms, which are also blue, but the patch on the front of their official uniforms is painted with 鸂鸂.

"Master Zhu, please take care of the lower officials in the future." Zhang Siwei winked and said flatteringly.

"Ahem, it depends on how you express yourself." Zhu Pingan moved his paw, and gestured solemnly twice.

"Dog officer." Wang Shizhen watched the two mess around, and couldn't help but cursed with a smile.

Actually, apart from Zhu Pingan and the other three, everyone was touching their official uniforms and laughing together, all of them were excited like something.

When everyone changed into official uniforms and smiled, officials from the Ministry of Industry came to tell them good news. The inscription inscribed by the Jinshi in charge of the Ministry of Industry had been engraved, and they were invited to take a look.

Leave a name in history.

Everyone was excited and couldn't wait to go to the place where the Guozijian monument was erected. The official from the Ministry of Industry kept getting close to Ouyang Zishi on the way, which made everyone pay more attention to Ouyang Zishi. Those who surrounded Ouyang Zishi There are more new Jinshi.

The reason why the officials of the Ministry of Industry curry favor with Ouyang Zishi is entirely because of Yan Shifan's face. Yan Shifan is now the second in command of the Ministry of Industry—the right minister of the Ministry of Industry, which is equivalent to a modern deputy minister. Because Yan Song is the chief assistant of the cabinet, and the background is so sloppy, in fact, Yan Shifan has the final say on the affairs of the Ministry of Industry.

Ouyang Zishi is Yan Song's nephew and Yan Shifan's relative, so how could the officials of the Ministry of Industry be negligent?

For the rest of the newly promoted Jinshi, the glory of the imperial examination has passed, whether it is the number one scholar in the future, or the tail of the crane, it is all in the past tense, and the new journey has begun from this moment, and all the previous ones have been turned over . In the promotion of official career, it is one thing to work hard, but what is more important is that there must be someone above, noble people to support, and important people to take care of, so that the official career can be like a fish in water.

They are all newly promoted to official careers. It is a unique opportunity to get in touch with the chief minister of the cabinet, who is under one person and above ten thousand people, through Ouyang Zishi.

Therefore, everyone firmly grasped this opportunity, gathered around Ouyang Zishi to brush their faces, and paved the way for their future career.

Comparatively speaking, Zhu Ping'an's side is much colder, only Zhang Siwei and Wang Shizhen are with him.

"Ahem, he won't lift it anymore." Zhu Pingan pointed at Ouyang Zishi who was surrounded by the crowd, and said leisurely.

Indeed, Ouyang Zishi, who was surrounded by the crowd, no longer held an umbrella.

However, Zhang Siwei and Wang Shizhen couldn't help laughing when they heard the words. Others don't know what Zhu Ping'an said, but they do. After hearing Zhu Pingan's words, they couldn't help thinking of the sentence Zhu Pingan said with a smirk in the morning: If he doesn't lift, it will be sunny.

In the place where the Guozijian specially erected the stele, there were rows of densely packed Jinshi steles. Under the guidance of officials from the Ministry of Industry, everyone saw the piece that belonged to them.

Seeing their name on the stone tablet, everyone showed a proud look of honoring their ancestors and being famous forever.

Only Zhu Ping'an was very indifferent.

Although this stele inscribed by a Jinshi is brand new, with strong and powerful fonts. However, on other steles not far from this stele, many of the words on the surface of the stele are blurred under the wind and sun.

It is not this that makes her famous forever.

The inscription on the stone will be weathered, and only when it is engraved in people's hearts can it last forever.

Today I am entering the official career, and I will never forget my original intention.

Update the second chapter around twelve o'clock in the evening.

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