"Secondly, name the bride!" the emcee shouted again.
Then, the matchmaker Dong Mingzhu asked the bride's wife, "May I know your name, ancestral home, and birth date?"
"The bride is the descendant of an emperor!" After hearing the woman's name and ancestral home, the whole hall was in an uproar. They didn't expect that Boss Jia would marry an emperor's descendant. Her identity was too honorable!
"My ass! My family name is Li, and I'm also a descendant of Li Shimin!" Of course, some people didn't care. After all, they were still thinking about their ancestors. At least 30% of the people present could say that they were descendants of the royal family.
"Little girl, Chen Renzi year, Wu Shen month, Ding Chou day, Gengzi hour!" God had mercy on them. Ni Guangnan's wife, who was over 60 years old, had spent a lot of time and effort to memorize these complicated birth date and birth date.
"May I know your name, ancestral home, and birth date?" After asking the bride's name, it was time to ask the groom's name.
"My son's family name is Jia, and his name is Yapeng. His ancestor was Jia Yi, the Grand Tutor of the Western Han Dynasty."
"My son was born in Gengxu year, Ding Hai month, Gengyin day, Yiyou hour!"
To be honest, Boss Jia didn't know who his ancestor was. After all, his parents didn't tell him, and his ancestor didn't leave a genealogy. Boss Jia didn't even know some of his relatives.
Thus, he simply created an ancestor for himself.
There weren't many famous people with the family name Jia. There was Jia Yi from the Western Han Dynasty, Jia Kui from the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Jia Shidao from the Southern Song Dynasty.
However, Jia Kui had a granddaughter, Jia Nanfeng, who ruined the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Jia Shidao was a treacherous official who was once mentioned in the same breath as Qin Hui. Boss Jia certainly couldn't recognize either of them as his ancestor. Only Jia Yi was suitable.
Although Jia Yi was talented, he had no choice but to become the tutor of the King of Changsha due to political struggles. He even died of old age in Changsha. In the Pavilion of Prince Teng, Wang Bo had mentioned that Jia Yi was in Changsha. It could be said that Jia Yi and Yu Zhang were connected by fate. Therefore, Boss Jia recognized Jia Yi as his ancestor.
"Great!" Dong Mingzhu and the other party bowed at the same time and shouted, ending the naming process.
"Thirdly, Naji." After Nameplate, it was Naji.
As the emcee's voice fell, a sage-like Daoist priest walked out from the backstage and sat in the middle of the stage, in front of a pre-prepared incense table. The matchmaker, Dong Mingzhu, quickly went forward and bowed to the Daoist priest.
"Have the birth characters of the two newlyweds been prepared?" The Daoist saw the East Bright Pearl and asked loudly.
"It's all ready!" Dong Mingzhu nodded. Immediately, two maids in maid uniforms walked out from the two ends of the stage, each holding two pieces of red silk. On the red silk, there were words written with golden powder. Naturally, they were the birth characters of both parties.
"Great!" The Daoist priest asked again, "Do you have the Hundred Refined Emotion Flame and the Thousand-Year-Old Dragon Bone?"
"It's all ready!" As Dong Mingzhu's voice fell, two more maids walked out from both sides of the stage. One was holding a golden copper brazier, the other was holding a tortoise shell.
"Great!" The Daoist priest shouted. When the three items were ready, he first put the tortoise shell into the fire. After the fire calcined for about a minute, he threw the red silk with the birth characters of the newlyweds into the fire. Finally, the Daoist priest grabbed a handful of powder and threw it into the brazier. The fire instantly covered the whole stage, startling everyone.
However, the fire came and went quickly. When the fire was over, the Daoist priest used an iron clamp to take the tortoise shell out of the brazier. Then, he seemed to be carefully observing the patterns on the tortoise shell. Then, he said with great joy, "The two newlyweds are a match made in heaven. They are destined to love each other for three lifetimes. I congratulate the two of you here!"
"At the same time, I will engrave today's grand occasion on the Dragon Bone and pass it on to the future generations," the Daoist priest said while holding the tortoise shell in his hand.
Hearing the Daoist priest's words, the whole venue was filled with warm applause.
"This is our Hua Xia's classical wedding!" A middle-aged man on the side was so moved that he was about to cry. "This is the origin of the Oracle bone inscriptions passed down from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties!"
"Sir, what do you mean?" Alan Adehan couldn't help but ask. However, he seemed to have forgotten that he couldn't speak Chinese, so he asked in English.
However, what was even more unexpected was that the person who spoke just now actually understood English and was quite fluent in English. He directly explained to Alan Adehan.
"The Dragon Bone is the tortoise shell. In the ancient Hua Xia, it was called the Dragon Bone. About 1600 BC to 1000 BC, during the Shang and Shang Dynasties of Hua Xia, the ancient people would use this method of throwing the tortoise shell into the fire for divination during weddings, expeditions, sacrifices, and other large-scale ceremonies. It is also what you Westerners call a fable. "
"Those powerful wizards can calculate the future based on the cracks in the tortoise shell when it is burned by the fire. Then, they will engrave this matter on the tortoise shell and bury it underground, so that it will be passed down forever."
"This is a tradition that has been cut off in Hua Xia for more than 3000 years. I didn't expect it to reappear at today's wedding. This old man is really moved!" The old man couldn't help but cry as he spoke. He was actually the Peking University professor who was invited by Boss Jia this time to be in charge of planning and decorating the wedding venue.
The professor thought that this wedding was just a replica of the wedding venue of the Han Dynasty. He didn't expect that the Dragon Bone Divination, a tradition from the Shang Dynasty, would be replicated. Of course, the professor was moved to tears.
Although the other Hua Xia people present didn't have such profound knowledge as the professor, they could instinctively feel an ancient aura permeating the entire wedding venue.
The entire venue suddenly became extremely quiet and solemn. It was as if everyone could feel the 3000 years of Hua Xia's tradition and culture.
Alright, although that was the concept, Boss Jia didn't know what the real ceremony of the Shang Dynasty and Zhou Dynasty was like three thousand years ago.
Of course, if Boss Jia studied it seriously, he would be able to find some clues. However, the real ceremony of the Shang Qiu Dynasty was too troublesome. Not to mention other things, just the custom of killing three animals during the divination, or even killing people as a sacrifice for the divination, was something that Boss Jia definitely couldn't recreate.
Therefore, Boss Jia simply came up with a hodgepodge of the most convenient modern style and imagined a classical ceremony. Then, he came up with this Naji ceremony.
Also, if they really burned the tortoise shell for divination, the tortoise shell wouldn't show any patterns until it was burned for more than half an hour.
Boss Jia couldn't wait that long. Moreover, what if some ominous patterns were really burned out? Wouldn't the wedding be over?
Therefore, no patterns were burned out on the tortoise shell. The Taoist priest was just acting the whole time. Anyway, regardless of whether the patterns really appeared or not, what he said was auspicious.
Simply put, this was just a routine.
However, the sense of ceremony contained in it was very strong. Moreover, what happened today would be engraved on the tortoise shell in the future and would be treasured by Boss Jia.
About a few hundred years later, this tortoise shell somehow appeared on the auction market. In the end, it was sold for a price of one billion Earth dollars. It was known as the most expensive tortoise shell in history.
"That's amazing. Is this the classical wedding of the Hua Xia people? It's really amazing. It's many times better than the weddings of the United States! "Alan Adehan clapped hard and said excitedly.
Jack Orrance couldn't help but nod. Indeed, the wedding of the Hua Xia people was so cool that he couldn't help but want to follow the routine for his own wedding.
He wondered if the priest in the church would be willing to burn the tortoise shell together with the Taoist priest.
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