After touring the courtyard, appreciating the scenery, and reciting poetry, the noblewomen returned to the high and spacious main hall.
The social gatherings among the noblewomen were naturally elegant and lively.
From the first day they entered the social scene, they had been groomed in such multifaceted social decorum, able to converse freely regardless of familiarity or relationship status.
In these social occasions, there is another matter of great importance to the ladies, and that is the match-viewing of young maidens by the older, married women.
In the high-ranking families of the Tang Dynasty, girls could achieve maturity at fifteen years old, meaning they had reached the marriageable age. If they were fifteen and not yet betrothed, they would continue to mature until twenty.
