Prime Minister

Chapter 198

After the Spring Festival, Bianjing is naturally lively.

The day before the beginning of spring, the Kaifeng government will enter the spring cattle and ban the spring.In Kaifeng and Xiangfu counties, spring cattle will be placed in front of the mansion.

Early in the morning on the day of Lichun, government bureaucrats beat the spring, with the intention of persuading farming and encouraging spring plowing.

Zhang Yue also went to the street with his classmates to watch the scene of beating spring cattle.

The streets and alleys are full of common people, and everyone rushes to watch the fun.

On both sides of Fuqian Street in Kaifeng, the small spring cattle sold by the common people are decorated with colorful flowers and placed in the bullpen, and various characters performing a hundred operas are lined up on them.The folks also give each other small flags specially made to welcome the spring and dotted willow branches.

Such a custom is no longer seen in cities today.But for a foodie like Zhang Yue, the custom of biting spring is still preserved today, that is, eating spring rolls.

On the Lantern Festival, Kaifeng Mansion tied up the mountain shed.Standing trees are facing Xuande Building, the main entrance of Da Nei.Tourists will gather under the two corridors to watch the lanterns and visit the night market.

This is the biggest annual entertainment program for the people of the Song Dynasty.

Originally, women in the boudoir usually do not go out of the gate, but only during the three days of Lantern Festival, they will go out to enjoy the lanterns.

Women can show their faces as much as they want, without tabooing secular rules.

Many men and women meet on this day and make a good marriage.

So what kind of Valentine's Day is February [-]th? In the Song Dynasty, Qixi Festival was not Valentine's Day but Children's Day. From ancient times to the present, only Shangyuan Festival is the real Valentine's Day.

In the days before the Shangyuan Festival, there was no homework in Taixue.As for the students of Tai Tai, they will never study behind closed doors, and most scholars will inevitably feel a little homesick when it comes to this day.

Just like the poem written by Ouyang Gong for the Lantern Festival, "On the willow's head on the moon, people make an appointment after dusk."

After dusk on this day in Shangyuan, when the moon was on the willows, it was time to invite girls out to play.

Therefore, the students in Taixue had washed the starch of the spring shirts in advance as early as Shangyuan, and they would change into clean clothes on this day. It is better to go to see the lights at night, not to see girls.

And on this day, Zhang Yue was also distressed, because he had turned over and read the note Shi Qi Niang gave him several times, but he didn't see where it was.

The Jinming Pond we met last time was a royal garden, and the common people were only allowed to enter it in March and April, so it definitely didn't mean meeting in the old place.

On the day of Lantern Festival, Seventeen Niang will definitely come out to enjoy the lanterns like all the women in Bianjing.Bianjing is so big, and all the people came out to watch the lanterns. If I happened to meet Shi Qiniang in the huge Bianjing, it was undoubtedly a needle in a haystack, and the probability was lower than that of burning blue and white porcelain in a rainy day.

On the day of Shangyuan Festival, Huang Haoyi let out a long sigh. Since Yulian left, he was a little disillusioned, and he was not in the mood to travel during the Lantern Festival, for fear of being touched by the scene.Zhang Yue didn't see that people like Huang Haoyi had deep affection.

As for Han Zhongyan, he invited a large group of people from the studio to visit the brothel, and he also invited Zhang Yue.Zhang Yue declined, and everyone laughed, it must be that Zhang Yue was hiding in Bianjing City.Zhang Yue smiled and didn't explain.

So at dusk, the house was empty, only Zhang Yue and Huang Haoyi were left.

Huang Haoyi was very moved, thinking that Zhang Yue refused the opportunity to go to the brothel to stay with him.

Zhang Yue thought to himself that he would rather go to the street alone and feel the crit of a single dog than accompany Huang Haoyi here.

Zhang Yue thought about the possibility of searching among the crowd, and if he happened to meet him, then he could really publish a book.

Amidst Huang Haoyi's yelling for Sanlang to go, Zhang Yueli left Taixue.At this moment, there are already crowds of people outside Taixue.

On this street, the Guozijian, Taixue, and official yamen of the Gongyuan all hung light balls on bamboo poles and hung them in the air on the street.

Looking up, one by one light balls are high and low, like flying stars, dotted on the night sky of Bianjing City.

All the streets and fields are like this from afar, Zhang Yue stepped into the crowd and walked towards the Daxiangguo Temple.

Along the way, thousands of streets and alleys are bustling and lively.

There is a small shadow puppet show shed at each alley, and a group of children with draped hair or buns are crowded at the alley to watch shadow puppetry.

Many adults go out to watch the lanterns, so they let their children watch shadow puppets here.

Some also followed their parents to watch the lanterns. These children also carried all kinds of lanterns in their hands, including rabbit lanterns and melon-shaped lanterns. Lanterns on the side of the road.

Zhang Yue raised his head. Countless fish-shaped and dragon-shaped lanterns hung on the street, fluctuating up and down with the night wind, as if they were flying against the wind.

When Zhang Yue looked at it, a child in front of him accidentally fell to the ground, smashing the lantern in his hand.

The child was crying, Zhang Yue secretly thought it was a pity, but saw that the child's appearance was somewhat similar to Xi'er, on this Shangyuan night, it touched Zhang Yue's homesickness.Thinking of this, Zhang Yue went to the roadside lantern shop and bought a lantern as a gift for the child.

Zhang Yue walked to Daxiangguo Temple Bridge.

"Brother Zhang! Saburo."

Zhang Yue looked back and saw that the secret path was not good. It turned out to be Wang Kui and He Qi.

This time, the girl did not meet, but met these two people by chance.The city of Bianjing is so big, did you two have to meet me?Could this be the legend that they were destined to meet thousands of miles away?

Zhang Yue reluctantly bowed to the two.

The two are also happy.

Wang Kui said enthusiastically: "I came to Taixue to look for Brother He. I was going to invite Sanlang to enjoy the lantern, but Sanlang went first. Fortunately, we met again here."

Zhang Yue slandered, who wants to meet you.

But on the surface Zhang Yue was still very surprised and said: "It's really great."

He Qi joked: "Why is Saburo also alone, has been in Bianjing for a long time, and has no girlfriend?"

Zhang Yue said angrily: "How can I be romantic?"

He Qi clapped his hands and said with a smile: "That's good, let's go to the brothel together and have fun."

Zhang Yue said in his heart, this is okay, but today is not the time, if he meets Seventeen Niang at the gate of the brothel, the picture must be beautiful.

But Zhang Yue looked at He Qi's high spirits and said: "Very good, very good, Saburo is shy, please take care of Brother He."

When He Qiyi heard that Zhang Yue had no money, he immediately changed his words and said: "At night in Shangyuan, there are mostly brothel customers, and we can't see beautiful women when we go, so let's just invite Sanlang to go with us another day. Today we just look at the lights and guess lantern riddles. Make Lantern Festival poems."

"Where do you go to guess the lantern riddles?" Zhang Yue asked.

He Qi smiled and said, "Just follow us."

The three of them walked to Daxiangguo Temple, but they saw that it was bustling and lively again.

The main hall and the front hall of the temple are all used as music sheds, where musicians play music, and the sound of the shengxiao is so moving and pleasant to the ear.

Poetry lamps are hung on both corridors of the temple.

As Zhang got closer, he saw that there were Lantern Festival poems written on the lamps of the poem boards.

The sky and the Milky Way are about to come down, and the moonlight is like flooding the towers.Who will withdraw ten thousand dendrobium golden lotus seeds to open five nights in Xingdu.

This is the Lantern Festival Ci written by Zhang Yue's fellow countryman Yang Yi.

The fire trees and silver flowers are closed, and the iron lock of the star bridge is opened.The dark dust goes with the horse, and the bright moon comes with people.

All the prostitutes are free, and all the songs are full of plums.Jinwu can't help the night, and the jade leaks don't remind each other.

This is Su Weiwei's Lantern Festival word.

These poem sign lights are made of wooden signs, carved into characters, and then filled with gauze and silk power, and the lights are internally ignited.

The two corridors are lined with these lights, arranged in sequence for people to watch.

As for the fact that there is a group of scholars gathered on the side, vying to write Lantern Festival Ci.

The Lantern Festival poems they made will be presented to tourists for evaluation. If they are satisfied, they will be reviewed by the bosses, and finally written on the Lantern Lanterns on the two corridors of the Daxiangguo Temple for tourists from all over the world to enjoy and read.

The three of them watched here that every time they wrote a poem for the Lantern Festival, it was read aloud, and many ladies and gentlemen stopped here to listen.

If there is a suitable young man, you might as well take a few more glances and send your eyes off.

(End of this chapter)