Why did Fu Lisi of Daqin lead the lamb?

There is an interesting clip in episode 13 of Dafuqin, in which Reese takes a lamb to visit Lv Buwei in Xiangbang. After being led into the mansion by the janitor, he found many gentlemen waiting in the room with lambs. Seeing the people in front and the lamb in their arms, Reese added, "No wonder the stewed mutton in the hotel is so expensive. It was all in Xiangfu."

I believe that many friends who have seen this clip are still fresh in their memories, and they will have a question: Why did Reese and others send lambs to Reese? People in Lv Buwei like mutton, so does everyone like it? It's not that simple. This involves a etiquette of the Zhou Dynasty, the so-called meeting ceremony.

As we know, Zhou Li is quite complete, because Zhou Li serves politics, so there is a strict etiquette hierarchy. Take the meeting ceremony as an example. Different people give different gifts when they meet.

It is recorded in "Li Zhouguan Chunzong Bo Zhong Da Bo": "Take birds as the six masters, and wait for the princes: solitary leather silks, Qing lambs, doctors geese, scholars pheasants, and industry and commerce chickens."

In other words, when giving gifts, people of different grades give different gifts when they meet. When the princes meet, they send hides and silks, doctors meet, lambs meet, doctors meet, geese and pheasants meet, Shu Ren sends ducks, and industrial and commercial people send chickens.

Dr. Qing chose to send a lamb when they met, because the lamb's moral character is very good.

Xu Shen recorded in Shuo Wen Jie Zi: "A sheep takes its flock without losing its class, a sheep takes its flock instead of being a party, a sheep takes its weight without making a sound, if it kills without making a sound, it will be accepted on its knees, and it will be the virtue of this sheep if it dies just and gives birth to a gift."

Since the lamb has such a good moral character, it can't be slaughtered and eaten directly after it is delivered. The general practice should be to improve. As for whether to eat or not after raising, it depends on personal choice.

In Dafuqin, Li Si and others gave mutton as a gift to Prime Minister Lv Buwei. The study of Zhou Li seems to have restored the ceremony in the pre-Qin period to some extent.

However, film and television dramas are film and television dramas after all. Even a historical drama like Ode to Daqin can't be perfect when it truly restores history. As far as this meeting is concerned, it is true that the crew has made great efforts to send the lamb, which shows that it has been carefully studied. But is the lamb given to Lv Buwei by Li Si and others recorded in Historical Records true?

Let's take m-girls as an example. In Mu Chuan, a story about a warlord choosing the wrong gift was recorded, namely:

"The son of heaven see and follow it. Sacrificing the father with the order of the son of heaven said,' Go to Ziba and see jade and silk. "Xu Nan dare not resign, but also took a pile of silks to add to the wall. "

In other words, Xu's monarch chose a lamb as a gift to meet Zhou, which is obviously wrong. He should choose a bundle of silk, so Zhou directly asked his sacrificial father to tell him that he should choose jade and silk instead of lamb as a gift. I quickly re-prepared the meeting ceremony and dedicated it to Zhou.

It is estimated that it is the first time that Xu Nan met the King of Zhou. He was very excited and didn't know what gift to give. Guo Xu, after all, is a baronet country, with the lowest status among the vassal states, and its status is very low, so it can't compare with QingDafu of a big country, so it panicked when choosing gifts, so it chose etiquette when meeting QingDafu. Fortunately, Zhou didn't blame him, but just asked him to prepare another gift.

The reason why I mentioned this story is to say that the meeting ceremony chosen by Li Si and others in Dafuqin was also wrong. Prime Minister Qin is indeed a great doctor, while Li Si and others have no official position, but at most they are scholars.

They heard that Lv Buwei wanted to recruit talents to write books, so they wanted to visit Lv Buwei, and they wanted to be a Scheeren in front of Lv Buwei's house (actually a public guest), so that they could climb to the position of doctor and doctor in the future.

How can such a group of people hold a lamb ceremony when they travel to Lv Buwei?

Moreover, even if a lamb ceremony is to be held, it is not like Li Si in Dafuqin who casually holds the lamb in his arms. You know, the lamb ceremony is an important meeting ceremony in Zhou Li, and it is not a casual thing to hold the lamb ceremony. Not to mention complicated meeting etiquette, even this lamb needs to be well packaged.

It is recorded in "the ceremony of the scholars": "the scholars are lambs, decorated with cloth, four-dimensional, and tied to the surface; Left head, such as holding it. In case of a gentleman's gift. "

This lamb, which is regarded as a gift, has to put on clothes specially sewn for it (which is similar to a pet now), and then tie the lamb's four feet with a rope. There are rules about how to tie a tie. When the lamb is decorated and tied, it is a question of how to hold it. In the specific holding method, it is not the holding method in Daqin House, but the lamb is held horizontally with both hands and the head of the lamb is facing left.

This is the standard sheep-hugging ceremony. If you really hold the lamb like Reese in Dafoe, you will definitely be considered disrespectful. If you meet a doctor with a bad temper, you may not be allowed in. Of course, those who can achieve the level of green doctors are prodigies, who are proficient in etiquette and will not be caught.

Many people may ask, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the ceremony was already broken, and many ceremonies have been broken and may have disappeared. What is still in use may have changed, but many basics still exist, especially some basic etiquette, which is a fact. Even if Reese, who has no official position, gives Lv Buwei Lamb a gift, it is ok, but his holding method is also wrong. No matter how the ceremony collapses, it is impossible to go to Sri Lanka casually.

However, film and television dramas are film and television dramas after all, and there is no need to take them seriously. It is interesting to see Reese in Dafuqin's lamb worship. After he entered the prime minister's office, he also met two people. One was Ganluo, a famous soldier who was worshipped as Shangqing at the age of twelve. At that time, Ganluo was also preparing to join Lv Buwei.

Another person is Lv Buwei's family, Zheng Huo. Zheng Huo said that Reese had no talent. If he wants to be introduced to Lv Buwei, he must have a daughter. Reese refused to pay and left. Later, things reversed. Zheng spent 1000 yuan to persuade Reese to move into Xiangfu's upper house for the public.

From then on, Reese became the guest of Lv Buwei, started his own career in Qin State, and finally assisted Ying Zheng to destroy the six countries and unify the whole country, and established the Daqin Empire, and Reese himself became the existence of the Qin Dynasty under one person and above ten thousand people, that is, Prime Minister Zuo.