1497 Eternal Life
Daliang won the country and made contributions to the present world, and it was not inherited by the ancestral property, so the ancestor worship was arranged on the third day of the throne ceremony.
The Taimiao, located in the Luoyang Forbidden City, was built a long time ago. Of course, it was originally built under the name of the Sima family of the former Jin Dynasty. However, after the completion, for various reasons, the former kings who have not worshipped the Sima family have not yet been worshipped. It is still ten thousand new, and finally welcomes a new master.
Before this, the Shen family had two ancestral temples. The first one was naturally the ancestral temple located in the old house in Longxi, Wukang, and the second one was the ancestral temple established by Shen Zhezi in the Liangjun tribe when he was granted the title of Liang Duke. Of course, if we want to talk about the high specifications, it is naturally the third Taimiao located in Luoyang.
This time, the ancestor worship was a relatively pure family matter of the emperor. After all, the ancestors of the Shen family had not served as humanitarian venerables. Therefore, all the officials of the Taiwan Festival did not need to attend the ceremony, but after all, the Heavenly Family was selfless, and it also involved the matter of the ancestors of the Shen family chasing the emperor, because they were followed by a ritual official in the Taiwan Festival.
This time, the ancestor worship was mainly attended by the Shen clan, and Chen Chong, as the father of the living emperor, was ruthlessly expelled. After all, sharing a son with Haotian has become a mortal, and if he attends, where should the emperor stand? He simply doesn't have to attend and just wait for the ceremony to be fulfilled.
However, Chen Chong didn't have to be lonely because of this. Yesterday, he had already entered the Taimiao from Xuanren City to worship his ancestors. It was just that he had shown up in front of his ancestors. If he hadn't been a coincidence, the rich and wealthy people in the hometown would have been fortunate to be respected in the Taimiao. It would be unknown whether they would have been able to show off in front of his ancestors.
Although the Shen family in Wuxing is not an old family of the famous family, it is also a deeply rooted Wuzhong giant family. The records of the family clan are traced very clearly, and the farthest can be traced back to the Guanglu Xun Shenrong of the Later Han Dynasty during the Guangwu Restoration period. However, in terms of Taimiao's rituals, there is no such long precedent or necessity to trace it.
In terms of chasing respect for ancestors, Shen Zhezi also asked his father Chen Chong for his opinion, and also considered etiquette and law, and decided to only trace back to the third generation. His father Chen Chongshang is still alive. He has already occupied a quota, and then he will pay homage to the grandfather Chen Lan of the previous generation Shen Zhezi to be Emperor Yuan, and his great-grandfather Chen Kui pursues honor to Emperor Guang.
Originally, my father hoped to add temple names to his grandfather Chen Kui, but the temple names were still relatively rigorous during this period. Especially Daliang was newly established, proclaiming that he was following the Qin and Han dynasties. Even Shen Zhezi's own grandfather could add temple names because his grandson had too great achievements and high prestige. If he went back to another generation, it would seem a bit reluctant and over-the-top.
Shen Zhezi had never seen his grandfather, let alone his great-grandfather, and he was not very emotional. He only knew that this great-grandfather could be said to be an opportunity for their Longxi Sect to rise. However, tracing back his life, he only served as a slut in the village in the late Later Han Dynasty. However, his grandfather Chen Lan was sure to hold a military position in the Eastern Wu court.
As for Chen Ying, the prefect of Danyang of Dongwu, who was forced to gild his face in the early years, in fact, from the bloodline, he was not close to their Dongzong Longxi branch of Wukang.
Carefully sorting out the Shen family's route of success made Shen Zhezi feel a sense of vicissitudes of life. His great-grandfather's generation was just a minor official in the village, barely qualified to be a fish countryside. By the time his grandfather's generation had improved slightly, and he could barely catch up with the tails of a wealthy family of landlords in the Eastern Wu. By the time his father was Shen Chong's family, he had become the leading tyrant in Jiangdong, especially after the desolation of the Zhou family in Yixing, he became the leader of Jiangdong.
By Shen Zhezi's generation, the span was even greater. From a mere local tyrants to transform their families into a country, they became the imperial family of the country!
There are many historical perspectives, and if you focus on the growth of the Shen family, it can also reflect the changes of the entire era. For example, his great-grandfather's generation, and in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the Shen family's success process can be regarded as an upward path for the Han and Guizhou heads to open up under the historical background of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The growth of Shen Zhezi's generation is enough to show the magnificence of the world and the violent changes in the class. Of course, this can also be reflected in Shi Le, the leader of the Later Zhao Dynasty, and the judgment of encountering Yunni is far greater than that of Shen Zhezi.
The charm of history is probably in this way. How could emperors, generals and ministers have a genital?
However, such a strong change in circumstances that are specific to individuals does not have any rules to follow, nor is it done under the background of normal social order. One general's success is the blood and tears of the people.
The greatness of the imperial examination system of the Sui and Tang Dynasties lies in the sharing of political resources that can be said to have opened up the bridge of heaven and earth at once. This penetration force is comparable to that of the Qin clan Qimin, who directly linked the imperial authority to every specific commoner.
In the morning, he was a farmer and ascended the Emperor's Hall in the evening. From then on, even if he was a leader in Guizhou, he had a system-based path to achieve the level of class and change of opportunities. A person's struggle and success can be accomplished through regulations and systems, and no longer just accumulated over the years and generations of people, or hoped for unconventional opportunities brought about by the collapse of the world order.
From the Taimiao to pay tribute to his ancestors and divergent thinking about the reform of the talent selection system, Shen Zhezi just gave a brief taste. This is a long-term task, and it is not possible to achieve results with a hot mind. Moreover, as early as more than ten years ago, he had already begun to consciously lay various preparatory preparations, including the official examinations implemented in Xingtai, which were all to create a prerequisite atmosphere for the reform of the imperial examinations.
Of course, it is a bit optimistic to rely on the rise of the common landlords and Jinshi group and to solve the remnants of the previous political form between just one or two generations. Compared with the decentralization of knowledge, the Jinshi group, as a new political force, still needs to awaken consciousness and improve political awareness, which is also a long way to go.
In real history, common people's Jinshi, as a political force, showed their strength. For example, the Niu and Li party struggle in the Tang Dynasty was actually a not-so-glorious image.
Niu Sengru and Bai Minzhong, as a representative of the Jinshi bureaucrats, had great power and could not effectively combine their own authority with the country's plan. The power they held was just a tool for the party to fight against differences and to show off their own interests. Although Bai Minzhong had a cousin Bai Juyi, who was famous for his poems, he had only ended up with the posthumous "ugly" in his life.
On the contrary, Li Deyu, who was born in the Li family of Zhaojun, was regarded as a representative of the declined aristocratic family, but he showed his true style of prime minister and had great contributions to the Li Tang country.
Of course, specific personal political literacy or a certain stage of political struggle is not enough to explain large-scale issues. For example, Li Deyu's father Li Jifu is not a great figure.
Therefore, although Shen Zhezi has established the general policy of the imperial examination reform, he is still waiting for a suitable opportunity in the specific implementation and implementation. At least he has to wait until the integration of the north and the south shows some results and the social order has returned to a certain degree of turmoil. Before this, preparation and accumulation are still needed.
He is here, he is here, and he raises his hand to give you a hammer. It is not that Shen Zhezi is unwilling to bear the pain, but he needs to consider the ability of the Daliang New Dynasty to bear. For example, the Grand Canal is beneficial to Qianqiu, but at that time it was tied to a neck rope of the Great Sui Dynasty. Qianqiu's mind is focused on his eyes, and his legs are broken when his feet are shallow pits under his feet.
Putting aside these miscellaneous thoughts, Shen Zhezi focused on the current ritual of ancestor worship. Although only two of the ancestors of the Shen family were awarded the honor of honor, there were not only these two people who needed to worship in the Taimiao, but also hundreds of tablets were included in other ancestors.
Although these ancestors who were not allowed to set up temples and worship were arranged to enjoy sacrifices in today's ancestor worship ceremony, they will not be worshipped in the Taimiao since then, but will need to be taken back to the Aurora Temple.
The temple of the emperor is for seven generations. Even if he is the emperor, he can only enjoy the right to worship and sacrifice for seven generations of descendants. After seven generations, he needs to move away from the Taimiao. The lords of the destroyed temple are all hidden in the temple. The temple means the temple of the distant ancestors. There are only two main sacrifice positions, which are the so-called two temples.
After entering, other ancestors naturally could not enjoy the position of the main sacrifice, and could only stay in the mezzanine, and their status was naturally greatly reduced. Of course, Daliang was newly established, even if it was just to gather the number of four relatives, two ancestors and seven temples, the quota was sufficient, and there was a temple but no title, and it was called Zhao and Mu. However, when Shen Chong was old and entered the Taimiao, an ancestor who could enjoy independent sacrifices needed to enter the temple.
Of course, there will naturally be exceptions if there are rules. Civil and military virtues have merits. If you are all in your own hands, you will not be enlightened. The so-called "unlimited for all ages" can be said to be the greatest praise of an emperor's lifelong achievements. Often only the founding king and the revival lord can enjoy this honor, such as Emperor Gaozu of Han, Emperor Wu of Han, and Emperor Wu of Han, Liu Che.
No one is a sage, who can do without desires, not be in front of you, and be behind you. In order to strive for such an honor that will never be absent forever, there are many emperors in history who have done anything, and the most famous of them is Emperor Taizong of Tang Li Shimin.
In order to be able to stay in Taimiao forever after his death, Li Shimin worked hard, and there was no need to discuss the process in detail, and at the end it was still fulfilled. However, Li Longji, the Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, was as fierce as a tiger, and ended up embarrassingly.
Of course, there are also many emperors of all generations who are lucky enough to do so, that is, Zhu Di, the Emperor Cheng of Ming Dynasty. He entrusted the favorable ceremony of the later Emperor Jiajing to change Taizong to Chengzu, and also enjoyed the honor of immortality for generations.
But the facts have proved that the so-called "unwilling forever" is just an unrealistic dream. If you don't want to be enlightened, there will naturally be someone who comes to be enlightened.
As the founding monarch of Daliang, Shen Zhezi was destined to enjoy the honor of a vain ancestor, but he did not have this concern. Because when he was worshiping in the Taimiao, he could not help but feel full of evil things when he thought of these interesting things.
Of course, he didn't dare to hope that he would be immortal forever. After all, the result depends on whether the descendants are wise or stupid. But having no one is a thing worth being happy about, and happiness comes from this.
After the sacrifices in Taimiao, it was already dusk. His Majesty the Emperor hurried back to the forbidden area again. He rested and waited for the ministers to gather. Then he went to Xuanren small town and led the ministers to give his father Chen Chong the title of Supreme Emperor.
Chapter completed!