[Red Mansion] Biography of Empress Lin

A few nights before Princess Qinghe came out of the cabinet, Princess Fu looked at the dowry list again and again, and added one after another.From the dowry Zhuangzi to the newly made quilt, they were checked carefully and clearly, for fear that there might be a slight mistake, and one place was not found.

Even for the betrothal gifts from the Lin family, Princess Fu chose the best ones and stuffed them into the 120 dowries.

"Okay, don't look at it. You won't see a flower if you look at it again." After discussing the scale of the wedding banquet with the Lin family's son-in-law, Prince Fu, who was seated as a guest, returned to the princess's room very tired. Looking at Princess Qinghe's dowry list, she couldn't help but smile and said: "Your Majesty and the ladies in the palace also sent makeup. If you keep stuffing it like this, you will have to blow up the 120 dowry."

"The empress is generous, and she sent a pearl hairpin that Empress Renyi gave to Empress Renxiao. I will put it on the hairpin for Qinghe when she leaves the pavilion. Besides, what are you talking about, my lord? There is only one concubine. My child, I have to go to the south of the Yangtze River with Mrs. Lin in a few months after the wedding. Is it better for a concubine, a mother, to think carefully about everything for her? The Lin family is no better than Prince Fu's mansion, and Qinghe is not a princess. How can someone who is a daughter-in-law live alone in a mansion!"

Princess Fu only reluctantly fades away the fact that her only daughter is about to leave her when she looks at the dowry list.

Thinking of the child she gave birth to with all her might and now at the age of leaving the court, Princess Fu couldn't help but her eyes dimmed, and quickly wiped away her tears with a handkerchief; "After talking about this, why are you feeling sad again?"

Seeing this, Prince Fu hurriedly sat next to Princess Fu, hugged her and comforted her: "When the child grows up, he will always leave his parents and start his own small family. The Lin family is a good marriage, with a simple population and a good family style. Then Mr. Lin Haven't you looked carefully and inquired about it? Although he is a little older than Qinghe, Dali has kept himself clean so far, and there are no such messy concubines. In addition, Qinghe has to go to the south of the Yangtze River with Lin's uncle after passing through the gate. Wouldn't it be comfortable without mother-in-law and grandmother-in-law on top?"

"Qinghe is my beloved daughter. I have already sent a letter to the elders of the He family. When Qinghe goes to Jiangnan, with your brother and sister-in-law watching, what else can she feel wronged?"

Prince Fu took the handkerchief handed over by the boy, wiped away tears for Princess Fu and said, "If you feel lonely, I will tell the Lin family that after Qinghe gives birth to his grandson, he will often visit the palace. Living on the road of the emperor's relatives, the Lin family is not far from the palace."

"En!" Princess Fu nodded, leaning on Prince Fu's shoulder to gradually ease the reluctance of the married daughter.

Little by little, the days came to the day when Princess Qinghe came out of the cabinet.

Because the emperor ordered the marriage, and the marriage was done by the imperial family princess and the popular uncle Lin Guo, so it can be called red makeup, and the head is sensational. Seeing that Princess Ning'an, who went back to her natal home to marry her younger sister, was extremely upset. .

"I remember that I also carried the dowry at 120 when I came out of the pavilion. It's just that the swaying appearance when I lifted it was not as real as the second sister, and your majesty ordered marriage, and the empress in the palace added makeup." Prince Fu strictly prohibited her from going forward. Princess Ning'an, watching her stepmother talking eagerly with the powerful family members, secretly tightened her handkerchief: "I am the eldest daughter of a concubine Yuan, and in the end, I am not as good as a younger sister who was born to fill in the house." Scenery."

See who the first emperor pointed to her?That kind of poor and settled family would still have the nerve to marry the eldest daughter of the prince?Her father was really bewildered by that goblin of the He family before allowing her to marry him.

"Princess, this is a great day for Prince Fu's mansion, please don't mess around." The maid who is familiar with Princess Ning'an's personality tremblingly held Princess Ning'an, who was holding back her anger, and advised in a low voice: "We have a long time to come, so you don't have to rush for a while."

"You're right, we'll have a long time to come." Princess Ning'an forced a cold smile, and said somewhat inscrutablely: "It's said that flowers don't last a hundred days. The younger brother of the concubine Fuzheng's poor family is also a good match. The princess wants to see how long this group of lowly people can enjoy themselves."

"What you said is true, so let's go back first, so as not to be contaminated by this poor air." The maid who supported Princess Ning'an prayed that no one around would hear her, and then coaxed Ning'an in a dazed manner. Princess An let go of the tone in her throat after persuading her to go back to the mansion.

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Princess Qinghe and Lin Ruhai's wedding was full of guests and lively.

Before welcoming the bride, Lin Ruhai was worried that at the wedding banquet, the male guest of Prince Fu’s mansion would get so drunk that he would not be able to have sex with Princess Qinghe. After entering the bridal chamber, he breathed a sigh of relief when he lifted the hijab for Princess Qinghe.

It was a very sweet night.

Although Princess Qinghe is an aristocratic daughter of the clan, she still has to meet the elders of the Lin family on the second morning after marriage, offer tea to her mother-in-law and grandmother, and then follow Lin Ruhai to the ancestral hall to cast a pillar for her late father-in-law fragrant.

The old lady of the Lin family and Mrs. Lin Jiatai looked at the couple who came back from the ancestral hall in relief, and pointed out the female relatives in the mansion one by one for Princess Qinghe.

"This is Old Aunt Zhou. She is the concubine of the late Grand Duke and the biological mother of the Empress." The old lady of the Lin family first pointed to the middle-aged woman sitting first on her lower left, and asked her to meet Qinghe Princess. .

"The women have met the princess of the princess, and hope that the princess and the master will have a son soon, and they will have a happy marriage for a hundred years." Aunt Zhou, who is elegantly dressed and only wears some emerald green jewelry, got up to give a big gift to the princess of Qinghe. His dowry mother held her up.

"Old Aunt Zhou can't do it, please go back to your seat." Princess Qinghe knew that this person was like a sweeping monk in the Lin family.

"Sit over there is the second girl's biological mother, Aunt Wang, and Mrs. Tai's dowry, Aunt Xu." The old lady of the Lin family pointed to two women who were younger than Aunt Zhou. Old Aunt Zhou's decency still gave a big gift to Princess Qinghe honestly.

"Ruhai also has a concubine younger brother. His biological mother, Aunt He, was supposed to come to see the princess. It's a pity that after the Duke passed away, Aunt He was so sad that she was a little crazy. I was afraid of being dirty. The princess listens very well, so it is inconvenient for the princess to see her."

There are only a few masters of the Lin family, and all those present here are older than Princess Qinghe.

As for Lin Mishu and Lin Ruchu, who are of the same generation as Princess Qinghe, they are concubines and younger siblings, so they are not qualified to meet Princess Qinghe here, and they can only get in touch with him slowly in the future.

"Since the princess has married, the rooms in the main hall and the east hall should be cleared out as soon as possible according to the princess's preferences. It's just that the Sishuixuan in the east hall is the queen's boudoir. Before Princess Jingting came to the forest I also rested in the queen's boudoir when I was in the mansion, so I hope the princess will forgive me."

Now that the new clan wife has married in, Mrs. Lin Jiatai should also hand over the keys and account books to her daughter-in-law, and then give more instructions on some trivial matters: "As for the second girl and Chu'er who have not left the cabinet, follow us A few old women moved to the west courtyard, so as not to offend the princess. After Chu'er proposed marriage, the three-entry courtyard on West Street was used as a wedding room for Chu'er. This was arranged by the Duke before he left. OK."

"Since Mrs. Tai already has the rules, then Qinghe will take her time." Princess Qinghe was still a little worried about how to get along with her sister-in-law and uncle before she got married, but she didn't expect that the Lin family was as simple and clear as her mother said. Saved her a lot of trouble.

"It's also a blessing for the Lin family that the princess of the princess can marry the Lin family." The old lady of the Lin family first passed the steps to Princess Qinghe, and then she followed the ladder and asked: "I hope that the princess of the princess can give me more advice as a sister-in-law." That useless little granddaughter, she is about to leave the cabinet, please give me your advice, Princess Princess."

"We're all in the same family. If there's anything you don't want to invite, teach or not, it seems to be born." Princess Qinghe had inquired about the sister-in-law of Lin's mansion before she got married, and knew that she was the concubine daughter of the family's aunt. It was Gao who married a farming and studying family from the eighth grade, so she was willing to sell her well and let the Lin family accept her love.

The author has something to say: I’m sorry it’s too late, someone in the family celebrates a birthday today, and the author went to check the ancient dowry specifications.

Explain again why the heroine and Lin Ruhai are called first names, but Jia Zheng and Jia She are called by their first names.

First, in ancient times, only people with very close relationships, superiors and subordinates with a large status gap, large family sacrifices, and official promotions were named, usually by name.To put it more seriously, I don't know you well, and you are not higher than me in social status or official position, so calling me by my first name is tantamount to swearing.This is why in Chapter 2 I mentioned that Lin Miyan was called the surname Lin in the imperial decree, and then followed by the rare word Congshui.So "Miyan" is the heroine's character.During the Warring States Period, the names of aristocratic women before leaving the cabinet would only appear on the sacrificial ritual vessels for dowry.If someone calls a girl by her first name, it is definitely very impolite, and it can even be called a beating behavior.

So when I was watching Dream of Red Mansions, I always suspected that the "Daiyu" in Lin Daiyu was her character instead of "name". Similar to the overhead era of the Ming Dynasty, if Lin Daiyu and Ji did not take their characters before, then familiar people should call them Miss Lin or Miss Lin, unless they are Jia's mother or the elders of Jia's family, otherwise they should be called by their first names. It's really disrespect to Daiyu.As for the slaves, do you want to die by calling their masters by their names?

Second, Jia Amnesty, styled Enhou.Jia Zheng, whose characters are preserved in Zhou Dynasty.In the article, no words are used for the Jia brothers. On the one hand, they are called names instead of words in Dream of Red Mansions. It is estimated that some readers will not be able to react.The second reason is that when people call Jia She as the Marquis of Jia En, they refer to Jia She as the character of Jia She instead of the official title (Grand Cao is really in charge of the details). It has been lowered a few more ranks, otherwise, looking at his characters, it should be Marquis (just like Confucius’s character Zhongni, and Gu Tingye’s character Zhonghuai in Zhiwu, many times the characters of the ancients are related to the ranking of officials and ranks at home) .

The first-class general checked here should be about the earl.

Here I checked that the dowry standard for aristocratic women with relatively good family conditions in ancient times was 64 levies, and the Fujin who married into the royal family was around 120 levies.And the standard of the concubine is higher than that of Fujin (after all, Fujin is not considered a royal before the intercourse, and the status is lower than that of the princess by default), it should be around 150 to 180 (unless it is Qianlong's Gu Lun and Princess Jing who are particularly favored , and the identity of the eldest daughter).Unless it was a big wedding between the emperor and empress, when Emperor Guangxu married Cixi's niece, Empress Longyu's dowry was three hundred levies (half of it was a dowry gift from the royal family, otherwise the dowry alone would drain all the family's property), and The deposed empress of Emperor Shunzhi married 20 horses as a dowry.

Here Princess Jingting is born of the favored queen, and like Gu Lun and Princess Jing is the eldest daughter of the emperor, so the dowry specification exceeds the standard, about [-] sets.

The dowry specifications of the remaining Concubine Princess and Princess Jing'an are 160 liters.

The dowry of Lin Miyan's unborn daughter, Princess Jingyue, is a little less than that of her first-born sister, at 180 units.

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