Chapter 103 Ceremony

At about ten o'clock in the morning, the wedding officially began.

First of all, the guests enter the arena. Under the leadership of the shrine maiden, they enter the audience seats on both sides of the temple for the guests to witness and stand up.

Then there is the groom and the bride, who are dressed in traditional Japanese attire. They walk to the shrine under the leadership of the priests of the shrine, and bring the families of both men and women into the shrine by the way.

Then clean hands and body and mind to remove filth, and the priest personally repairs the chastity, while chanting special imperial chant words, and uses imperial coin sticks to remove disasters from the groom, bride and surrounding guests.

At this point, the prelude to the wedding is considered complete, entering the most critical stage of contract conclusion——

At the beginning, it was still presided over by the priest, who chanted Zhusi in front of the imperial body, and then the maiden in the shrine stepped forward and presented a gold-plated jug with patterns of female moths and male moths on the surface. The moth pot pours wine into the long-handled female moth pot held by the woman, and the woman pours the wine in the wine pot into the wine cup delivered by the witch, and sacrifices three rounds of wine to the gods according to the rhythm of three cups each time. With the witness and blessing of the gods, the marriage of the two can last forever and never wither.

After that, the witch, as the representative of the gods in the world, toasted the bride and groom. The bride and groom drank all the wine, indicating that the gods knew it and could proclaim your vows, so that only they could witness.

Then the bride and groom say their wedding vows together, exchange rings in front of God, and present branches of small poplar trees wrapped with white tissue paper, indicating that people and "God" are connected here, and the whole witnessing ceremony is over, and you can enter In the next and final stage, the relatives of both parties toast.

After one round, the ceremony is over, and the bride, groom, and relatives and guests can leave the venue and move their positions, and go to a reserved hotel to hold a confession banquet, which is the so-called wedding banquet, and entertain relatives and friends who are not so close.

Of course, if you are interested, you can also continue to stay at the Jingu to take pictures!

For example, the couple Nan. As a symbol of the relationship between Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken, as well as a manifestation of the good relationship between husband and wife in a broad sense, Shenmu should be visited and paid respects.

The whole process was solemn and silent, except for the voice of the priest's prayer and the announcement of the oath, there was no noise at all.

In terms of solemnity and ritual, it is even better than the most formal Catholic wedding!

In the Taisho period, the Shinzen wedding, which was born after 1920, was mistaken by foreigners as the traditional culture of the island country, and was valued and appreciated by all kinds of people.

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In the afternoon, after Hiromi Kato's wedding ceremony, Qin Heqing, who had bid farewell to Megumi Kato, who was still busy helping out, returned to Niiza City and returned to the Inari Shrine run by his family.

"Sure enough, the difference is too much." Qin Heqing looked at the Inari Shrine, which was small, compact, complete and covered an area of ​​70 hectares, and had gardens and gardens, which was incomparable to the Meiji Shrine, and couldn't help but feel helpless and envious muttered.

If his family can also have such a large piece of land, why should he worry about not being able to develop his own shrine?

At that time, not to mention holding iconic sacrificial activities that are famous in the local area and even in the island country like Inari Headquarters in Kyoto, Sensoji Temple in Tokyo, and Ise Jingu Shrine, you will have enough confidence even to undertake the wedding before the gods!

Where is the need to promote yourself in different ways, expand your network, and find a stable source of worship for your shrine like now?

"Let's take care of yourself first."

Immediately Qin Heqing regained his composure, put aside all the envy and jealousy in his heart, changed into a Taoist uniform, played the role of the priest of the shrine with peace of mind, and started the official operation of the shrine.

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It didn't take long, and it was three o'clock in the afternoon in a blink of an eye.

In less than a moment, accompanied by a slight sound of footsteps, one man, three women, two big two small and four figures appeared in the courtyard of the shrine, reflecting Qin and Qing who were sitting guard in the sales house. in the eyes.

It was none other than Wuwei Liangzi's family that Qin and Qing had formally contacted.

As the head of the family, Wuwei Ryuichi and his wife Jiang Meizi led the way. Qin Heqing's former crush Wuwei Liangzi and Wuwei Daisy, the victim of the dog demon, walked quickly towards Qin Heqing.

"Excuse me, Qin Jun, please forgive me for taking the liberty to visit." Gomi Ryuichi said politely.

"Uncle Longyi, you are being polite. There is nothing presumptuous. I am very happy that you can come. How can I be disturbed? Also, this is not a place to talk. Let's go to the side hall first, drink tea and continue. Let's talk." Qin Heqing walked out of the sales room and greeted Wuweilong politely.

"The guest is up to the host, Qin Jun will arrange it." Wu Weilong said with a smile.

"Please, Uncle." Qin Heqing said, leaning slightly to signal, guiding Wuwei's family into the side hall of the shrine specially used to entertain distinguished guests, and sat down.

Qin Heqing found something and served tea to Wuwei's family.

"I don't know why uncle is here this time..." After exchanging pleasantries, Qin Heqing asked about the business straight to the point.

"There are two main things. One, I want to formally express our family's gratitude to Qin Jun. After all, I was a little too hasty last time, and I didn't consider some things at all, although you, Qin Jun, may not care about it. , but as a beneficiary, I will feel a little sorry if I don’t make some gestures..." After speaking, Gomi Takashi reached into his suit pocket, took out a thick kraft paper bag from it, put it on the tatami, and gently pushed it to Qin and Qing "Here is 300,000 yuan. Although it's not much, it's a little sympathy from our family. I hope Qin Jun can accept it."

"Is this what uncle meant?" Qin Heqing glanced at the paper bag on the tatami, and said calmly with no expression on his face.

At the same time, Wuwei Ryoko on the side didn't say anything, just lowered his head expressionlessly.

I don't know what was going on in her mind at this time.

"I know this is clichéd, and it will make you think, Mr. Qin, that I am using money to eliminate disasters, but there is no way, after all, our family is just an ordinary family, and there are no such things as treasures, so after much deliberation, I can only thank you in this relatively clichéd way." Knowing that Qin Heqing must have misunderstood something, Wuwei Longyi gave a wry smile, and quickly explained.

These words are not modesty, but the truth!

Although his family has been in the Baimu area for nearly a hundred years, and his family belongs to the wealthy class among the local middle class, but in the end, he is only rich and has some property in his family. Comparability, so when comparing the two, his house really looks too ordinary.

"Okay, I'll take the money. Uncle, let's talk about the second thing." Qin Heqing was silent for a while, nodded slightly, and asked Wuwei Longyi again.