Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 509 New Year's Eve
There are also many activities on New Year's Eve in Datang.

As the first time for a player to celebrate the New Year in the game, Li Yan also launched an event to celebrate the New Year.

This is also Li Yan's first New Year in the Tang Dynasty. Thinking of how Longyou has finally gained a firm foothold under the management of himself and the players, the tight string in Li Yan's heart finally relaxed. .

Because he lived in Tingzhou, Li Yan did not celebrate the New Year in the Longyou Governor's Mansion. The ceremony was a little crude, but he still completed a set of New Year's ceremony under Li Mi's guidance.

The first is to insert peach branches. According to the customs of the Tang Dynasty, peach trees can ward off evil spirits. Every household must insert peach branches at the door.

After Li Yan planted the branches of the peach tree, he took the spring letter written by Li Mi himself and pasted it on the lintel.

Chunshu is Spring Festival couplets. Li Yan promotes simplicity in various government offices in Longyou. Chunshu is written on ordinary red paper.

But in Chang'an City, Daming Palace and Taiji Palace, the Spring Calligraphy is based on gilded red paper, cut into characters with brocade silk, and pasted on the gilded red paper.

Naturally, the emperor did not need to post the Spring Letter in Daming Palace. A young eunuch stood on the ladder, tremblingly, under the direction of the old eunuch, hung the Spring Letter on the doorpost.

"Xiao Muzi click to the left!"

"Down, down!"

"Okay, okay, stop!"

Following the old eunuch's call to stop, Mu Rong wiped the sweat from his forehead.

After cleansing, the wound gradually healed, but the wound grew slowly in winter, and I still couldn't do too much physical work.

The young eunuchs who succeeded in purification with Mu Rong were assigned to various provinces in Da Nei, and Mu Rong was assigned to Shangshu Province because he was able to read and write in paragraphs.

Shangshu Sheng is the key department that manages the royal collection and the emperor's study, but Mu Rong is just a low-rank eunuch who has just entered the palace, so naturally he is not qualified to organize the royal collection.

Today, he followed his master, eunuch Zhou, and was ordered to post the Spring Book of Daming Palace.

After posting the Spring Letter, Mu Rong followed Eunuch Zhou back to the Supervisor of Shangshu to return to his order, and then several eunuchs pulled up a big spring banner at the gate of Daming Palace.

The spring banner is a blue flag, and ordinary people hang a small blue flag at the door, but the palace naturally hangs a big flag.

Tang people pay attention to dealing with the four seasons. Spring is after New Year's Eve, and cyan is the color of spring.

Hanging spring flags also means welcoming spring and praying for good weather in the coming year.

Li Yan also hung a spring flag at the gate of his camp, and after all this was done, he heard only the sound of firecrackers in Tingzhou city.

The sound became louder and louder. The sound of firecrackers was used to expel the Nian Beast, and at the same time to blow away the bad luck of the previous year. Tingzhou City gradually became lively, and Li Yan also lit two firecrackers with great interest.

In the city of Chang'an, dignitaries also started setting off firecrackers, but most of the people in Chang'an didn't even have enough food, clothing and shelter, so how could they have the money to set off firecrackers.

Wang Chengwei took the county yamen servants and rode horses around the various squares and cities in Wannian County. At first, Wang Chengwei was worried that setting off firecrackers would cause fires, but no one set off firecrackers at all in the squares and cities where the poor lived. piled at the door.

Wang Chengwei asked the yamen servant beside him suspiciously, "What is the custom of putting tree branches at the door?"

The yamen servant next to him immediately said: "Master Xiancheng, this is the common people burning branches to drive away evil spirits!"

Burning branches to exorcise evil spirits?

Only one family of people was seen walking out of the house and lighting the branches at the door with a torch.

The burning twigs made a crackling sound. At this moment, Wang Chengwei finally realized that it was burning the twigs to exorcise evil spirits.

The sound made by the burning branches is similar to the sound of firecrackers. These common people who cannot afford firecrackers use this method to perform the same ceremony.

After the inspection, the yamen servant beside him urged: "Master Xiancheng, there will be a grand exorcism ceremony outside the Zichen Hall in the afternoon, you must not miss it."

"Exorcism?"

The yamen servant quickly nodded and said, "In the past, the Nuo opera in Taichang Temple was the best. Last year, the barbarians who faked Yan did not hold a Nuo opera. This year, the National Nuo opera will definitely be held. The people of Chang'an are all excited."

At the same time, the backyard of the Longyou Governor's Mansion also received an invitation letter from the palace, inviting the Longyou Governor's Mansion to watch the Nuo opera in the afternoon and participate in the palace's New Year's Eve banquet.

Deputy Zhang Leyan and Zhou Shi accepted the invitation letter, and Zhou Shi said: "This Nuo opera can't be seen in modern times. The president of the chamber of commerce should turn on the recording function in the afternoon, so as to give the brothers the palm of their eyes."

Shang Bo also said with a smile: "I haven't seen the Nuo Opera either. I heard that there are still Nuo operas in the Southwest. I don't know if it was passed down from the Tang Dynasty."

Zhou Shi said with some regret: "I heard from Mr. Zhang that ordinary people can go in and watch the Nuo opera in front of the Zichen Palace. This year, because Chang'an has just returned to the palace, it is afraid that assassins will be mixed into the palace, so the imperial court only allows officials with official status to stay in Beijing." Officials, envoys from the vassal states, and Jiedu envoys stayed behind to watch."

Zhou Shi also wanted to watch the Nuo Opera of the Tang Dynasty live, but unfortunately it was not open to the public this year, so he had to let Shangbo record it to satisfy his hunger.

Shang Bo smiled and nodded. He changed into the clothes of the posthumous envoy. After watching the Nuo opera today, he was going to watch the year in the palace. He handed over the affairs of the backyard to the two assistants, and left the backyard on horseback, heading for the Daming Palace. go.

The state owns the national Nuo, and the common people also have the Nuo opera for the common people. In various squares in Chang'an, there are generations of part-time witches who took out their Nuo opera masks at home and danced the Nuo dance in the market in the center of the square.

Tang people love to dance, and the masked witch dances in front, and the common people join in and dance together.

Although the snowstorm in Chang'an this year caused many people's houses to collapse, everyone still has to laugh this New Year's Eve.

The whole of Chang'an was full of laughter, and the children wore red ropes newly bought by their parents on their heads. This was a day when they would not be reprimanded by their parents for mischievous behavior.

After watching the Nuo opera prepared by Beiting Duhufu, Li Yan got up and prepared to return to the barracks.

At this moment, Princess Ningguo, who was sitting beside Li Yan, suddenly said, "Brother Huang, I have prepared a banquet for you today, please come and watch the new year together, brother?"

Li Yan was slightly taken aback, although he and Li Qinguang were brothers and sisters in name, but in fact the two had no blood relationship.

Seeing Li Yan's hesitation, Li Qingguang said: "The missions sending off relatives are also here. I invited Cao Dadu's family, and Daduhu said that as long as the emperor's brother goes, he will bring the whole family along."

Now Li Yan nodded, according to the custom of celebrating the new year, one can invite relatives and friends to observe the new year together.

Although Li Guangqin was Li Yan's sister in name, the other party wanted to reunite with her, so Li Yan didn't invite her to watch the new year together.

Unexpectedly, this younger sister took the initiative to invite her.

Li Yan thought about it and agreed, instead of staying in the barracks with Li Mi to watch the year, it would be better to go to Ningguo Princess's side to have fun.

On the Shangbo side, they rode horses towards the palace, and the closer they got to the palace, the crowds became denser. These were officials and their families who went to watch the Nuo opera in the Zichen Palace.

Shangbo complained about Datang's bad traffic while walking.

Although Suzaku Avenue is still spacious, there are too many officials crowded on this road.

On weekdays, those who go to court can be squeezed into a pot of porridge, but today's Nuo opera can bring family members, and it is even more crowded.

What is even more desperate is that once you encounter a prime minister or an official with a title when entering the palace, you still need to stop and give way.

This flow of people, which was already difficult to go, is now even more difficult to go.

Moreover, officials at all levels in the Tang Dynasty had their own guards of honor. When the prime minister entered the palace, he had to ride an ox cart, and a guard of honor team of 16 people cleared the way.

Shang Bo stopped and walked for half an hour, but he couldn't even see the palace gate of Nan Ya.

Shang Bo sighed heavily, he would have found an excuse not to join in the fun.

How come in the real world, there are crowds of people at long-term vacation spots, and it is still crowded to play a game in Datang.

At this speed, when Shang Bo arrived at Zichen Hall, he would be waiting for dinner.

At this moment, a familiar female voice sounded in Shang Bo's ear.

"Business to stay as a posthumous envoy?"

Shang Bo looked sideways, and it turned out to be Wan'er, the maidservant next to Princess Yanguang.

He only saw a familiar carriage appearing in the middle of Zhuque Street, and seeing the guard of honor of the carriage, Shang Bo knew that it was the convoy of Princess Yanguang entering the palace.

The curtain of the carriage was pulled back, revealing Princess Yanguang's bright and charming face, she said to Shang Bo: "The empress of Shang stays with me."

Originally, Shang Bo was going to refuse, but now there are rumors about him and the princess in Chang'an City, and almost everyone believes that Shang Bo is the face of the princess.

The key is that the princess has a husband!
Shang Bo didn't want to be the first player to be beaten to death as an adulterer.

Bah, bah, bah, what an adulterer, he and the princess are innocent!
Shang Bo was hesitating, when Wan'er rode over on a pony and said, "Shang's posthumous envoy, my son-in-law is still out and hasn't returned to Chang'an yet."

Shang Bo breathed a sigh of relief, wait, why should he breathe a sigh of relief, he and the princess are innocent!
But when he heard that the son-in-law was not in Chang'an, Shang Bo looked at the crowd in front of him, and immediately followed Wan'er to join the frame of the Princess Mansion.

With the attendants from the Princess Mansion clearing the way, the convoy began to advance steadily.

The surrounding officials cast envious and contemptuous glances at Shangbo, and those who knew Shangbo even showed playful expressions.

This time he jumped into the Yellow River and couldn't clean himself up, Shang Bo thought in a broken jar.

The princess's car drove without any obstacles, and in less than a quarter of an hour, Shang Bo entered Nanya.

Going around the palace city of Taiji Palace, they came to the main gate of Taiji Palace. After the soldiers of the Shence Army briefly checked everyone's passes, they let everyone in the Princess Mansion pass.

Zichen Palace is the outermost palace of Daming Palace. At this time, a high Nuo opera stage has been set up.

(End of this chapter)