Wedding Minutes
Every smiling face is full of spring,
The hearts are in harmony with each other.
Liu Haichan and Hu Xiuying,
with their shoulders folded on their backs, amusing the newcomers.
The bold and unrestrained stranger came forward
Immediately recited the poem to each other:
The boundless love begins today,
We will be together until we are old and white!
Although the land is fertile, it requires hard work.
Older generations especially understand this deeply!
The gods are kind-hearted and the family is warm,
The barren mountains and rocks turn into gold!
Note: 1. Lulu: fine wine.
Liquor xǔ [Liquor] Alcoholic solution of volatile drugs, etc. Referred to as "醑", such as "chloroform 醑" and "camphor 醑".
Fine wine: "Chrysanthemums are used as grain and dew is used as wine." The fragrant dust condenses on the Yao banquet, and the pure wine is filled with gold. ——Xie Lingyun of the Southern Dynasties, "Residence in Shimen New Camp".
2. Combined Nu:
卺 jǐn is a type of ladle used as a drinking vessel during ancient weddings: He 卺 (a ritual for couples to get married in the old days, in which a melon was cut into two ladles, and the bride and groom each took one to drink). Ningyin (drinking combined with Ningjiu wine).
3. Liu Haichan: also known as "bangs". A native of Yanshan in the Five Dynasties, his name was Cao and his courtesy name was Zhaoyuan. The founder of Quanzhen Taoism. At the beginning, Liu Shouguang, the Lord of Yan, became the prime minister. One day, Taoist Zhengyangzi came to visit him and talked about the method of tranquility and inaction. He also asked for ten chicken eggs in exchange for money. Hai Chan exclaimed: "What a danger!" The Taoist said: "Living in honor and wealth, walking around in trouble, it is very dangerous!" Hai Chan realized this, abandoned his official position and went into seclusion, and later passed away as an immortal. See "Shenxian Tongjian". Folk paintings often depict a fairy child, with hair hanging from his forehead, dancing on a string of money, and riding on the back of a toad. Commonly known as "bangs".
Liu Hai plays with the golden toad: According to legend, there is a golden toad in the loofah well in Changde City. It often spits out a white light from the mouth of the well at night and shoots straight into the sky. The wise people can ascend to heaven by taking advantage of this white light. Liu Hai, a young man who lives next to the well, has a poor family, is kind and filial to his mother. He often goes to the nearby mountains to cut firewood, sells firewood and buys rice, and lives with his mother. One day, there was a fox in the mountain forest who cultivated into a spirit and transformed into a beautiful and handsome girl Hu Xiuying. He blocked Liu Hai's return and asked to marry her. After marriage, Hu Xiuying wanted to help her bangs reach the sky, so she spit out a white bead and used her bangs as bait to fish in a loofah well. The golden toad bites the fish and rises up. Liu Hai takes advantage of the momentum and rides on the toad's back, jumps up, and flies away as an immortal. In order to commemorate Liu Hai's practice of filial piety, later generations built Chanquan Temple next to the loofah well to enshrine the statue of Liu Hai.
4. Shoulders on top of each other: Shoulders on shoulders, backs on backs. Describes crowding.
Source: Chapter 23 of "Water Margin" by Shi Naian of the Ming Dynasty: "When Wu Song was watching in the sedan chair, he saw people with shoulders piled up on their backs, making a fuss about Rang Rang, and blocking the streets and alleys. Everyone came to see them. Big bug.
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