After the New Year, Bianjing is very lively.
On the day before the beginning of spring, Kaifeng Prefecture wants to enter the spring ox into the ban to whip the spring. In Kaifeng and Xiangfu counties, Chunniu will be placed in front of the house.
Early in the morning on the day of the Beginning of Spring, the officials of the government make spring calls, with the purpose of admonishing farmers and encouraging spring plowing.
Zhang Yue also went to the street with his classmates to watch the spring ox fight.
The streets and alleys were full of people, everyone rushing to see the excitement.
On both sides of the street in front of Kaifeng Mansion, people sell young spring cattle, decorated with colorful flowers and placed in cattle pens, with various characters performing various operas arranged on them. Folks also give each other small flags and colorful willow branches specially made to welcome the spring.
Although this custom is no longer seen in cities today. But for Zhang Yue, a big foodie, the custom of eating spring rolls still remains today.
On the Shangyuan Festival, Kaifeng Prefecture tied up the mountain shed. The standing wood faces 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 was the biggest annual entertainment program for people in the Song Dynasty.
Originally, the women in the boudoir usually stayed at home, but only during the three days of Lantern Festival, they would go out to enjoy the lanterns.
Women can show off as much as they want without tabooing secular rules.
Many men and women meet on this day and have a good marriage.
So February 14th is not considered Valentine’s Day. Chinese Valentine’s Day was actually not Valentine’s Day but Children’s Day in the Song Dynasty. From ancient times to the present, only the Lantern Festival is the real Valentine’s Day.
During this period before the Yuan Dynasty, there was no homework in Taixue. As for the imperial students, they will not study behind closed doors, and most scholars will inevitably feel a little homesick on this day.
Just like the Lantern Festival poem written by Ouyang Gong, "The moon is above the willow branches, and people make appointments after dusk."
On the day of Shangyuan, after dusk, the moon rises above the willow branches, and it’s time to ask the girl out to play.
Therefore, as early as the Yuan Dynasty, the students in Taixue had washed their spring shirts in advance. On this day, they would put on clean clothes. It was better to go to watch the lights at night, not to watch the girls.
On this day, Zhang Yue was also distressed, because he turned over the note given to him by Shi Qi Niang and read it several times, but he didn't see the location.
The Jinming Pond where we met last time was a royal garden, and people were only allowed to enter in March and April, so it was definitely not the same place as the old place.
On the Lantern Festival, Seventeenth Mother will definitely come out to enjoy the lanterns like all the women in Bianjing. But appreciating lanterns is all about appreciating lanterns. Bianjing is so big, and all the people come out to see the lanterns. If I accidentally meet the Seventeenth Mother in the huge Bianjing, it is undoubtedly like finding a needle in a haystack, and the probability is lower than burning blue and white porcelain on a rainy day.
On the Lantern Festival, Huang Haoyi sighed. Since Yulian left, he had become a little disillusioned with the world of mortals. He was not interested in traveling during the Lantern Festival for fear of being moved by the scene. Zhang Yue didn't realize that a person like Huang Haoyi had deep feelings.
As for Han Zhongyan, he invited a large number of people in the studio to visit the brothel, and he also invited Zhang Yue. Zhang Yue declined, and everyone laughed that it must be Zhang Yue who is harboring gold in Bianjing City. Zhang Yue smiled and didn't explain.
So at dusk, the house was empty except for Zhang Yue and Huang Haoyi.
Huang Haoyi was very moved, thinking that Zhang Yue refused the opportunity to go to the brothel and stayed with him.
Zhang Yue thought to himself that he would rather go to the street alone and experience the critical attack of a single dog than accompany Huang Haoyi here.
Zhang Yue searched for the chance in the crowd again, and if he met it by chance, he could really publish a book.
In Huang Haoyi's voice asking where Sanlang was going, Zhang Yue left Taixue. At this moment, there was a sea of people outside Taixue.
In this street, the Imperial College, the Imperial College, and the government offices of Gongyuan all used bamboo poles to hang lamp balls on the street.
Looking up, one can see the lamp balls far and wide, shining brightly like flying stars, dotting the night sky of Bianjing City.
The streets and streets were all like this from afar. Zhang Yue stepped into the crowd and walked towards Daxiangguo Temple.
Along the way, thousands of streets and lanes are bustling and lively.
There is a small shadow puppet show shed at the entrance of each alley, and a group of children with their hair down or in a bun are crowded in the alley to watch the shadow puppet show.
Many adults go out to watch the lanterns and let their children watch shadow puppet shows here.
Some of them followed their parents to watch the lanterns. These children also carried various lanterns in their hands, including rabbit lanterns and melon-shaped lanterns. They jumped up and down in front of Zhang Yue, occasionally grabbing their parents' sleeves and saying Lighting the lanterns on the roadside.
Zhang Yue raised his head and saw countless fish-shaped and dragon-shaped lanterns hanging on the street, rising and falling with the night wind, as if flying in the wind.
As Zhang Yue watched, a child in front of him accidentally fell to the ground, and the lantern in his hand was smashed to pieces.
The child was crying loudly. Zhang Yue secretly thought it was a pity, but he saw that the child's appearance was somewhat similar to Xi'er. On this Shangyuan night, Zhang Yue felt homesick. Thinking of this, Zhang Yue went to a lantern shop by the roadside and bought a lantern as a gift to the child.
Zhang Yue walked to Daxiangguo Temple Bridge.
"Brother Zhang! Saburo."
Zhang Yue looked back and thought to himself, it turned out to be Wang Kui and He Qi.
This girl didn't meet each other by chance, but she met these two by chance. Bianjing is such a big city, why do you two have to meet me? Could this be the legendary meeting that happened thousands of miles away?
Zhang Yue reluctantly saluted the two of them.
The two of them were happy too.
Wang Kui said enthusiastically: "I came to Taixue to find Brother He. I was going to invite Sanlang to go enjoy the lanterns with me, but I didn't expect Sanlang to go ahead. Fortunately, we met here again."
Zhang Yue cursed, who wants to meet you.
But Zhang Yue was still very surprised and said: "It's really great."
He Qi joked: "Why is it that Sanlang is also alone? He has been in Bianjing for a long time and there is no woman he likes?"
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 a romantic relationship."
Zhang Yue thought to himself, this is okay, but today is not the time. If he meets the Seventeenth Mother at the door of the brothel, the scene will be beautiful.
However, Zhang Yue saw He Qi's high spirits and said: "Very good, very good. Sanlang is short of money, so please take care of Brother He."
When He Qiyi heard that Zhang Yue had no money, he immediately changed his mind and said: "There are mostly brothels at night in Shangyuan, and we won't see any beautiful women, so let's forget it and invite Sanlang to go with us another day. Today we just look at the lanterns and guess lantern riddles. Compose Lantern Festival poems.”
"Where can we go to guess lantern riddles?" Zhang Yue asked.
He Qi smiled and said, "Just come with us."
The three of them walked to Daxiangguo Temple, but they saw that the place was bustling and lively.
The main hall of the temple and the front hall are all used as music booths, where musicians play, and the sound of sheng and flutes is so pleasant to the ears.
Poetry lanterns are hung on both corridors of the temple.
Zhang Yue got closer and saw that Lantern Festival poems were written on the poetry lanterns.
The sky is blue and the Milky Way is about to come down, and the moonlight is like water flooding the tower. Who will evacuate ten thousand Dendrobium golden lotus seeds to the star capital of Wuyekai?
This is the Lantern Festival poem written by Yang Yi, a gangster from Zhangyue.
The trees and flowers bloom together, and the iron locks of the star bridge open. The dark dust follows the horse, and the bright moon follows the person.
All the players are playing plum blossoms, and all the singing is falling plum blossoms. Jinwu can't help but stay at night, and the jade leaks don't urge each other.
This is Su Weiwei’s Lantern Festival poem.
These poetry lamps are made of wooden tablets, carved with characters, and then covered with gauze and silk to burn the lamp inside.
There are rows of these lights in the two corridors, arranged one after another for people to watch.
As for a group of scholars gathered nearby, competing to compose Lantern Festival poems.
The Lantern Festival poems they made will be presented to tourists for evaluation. If they are satisfactory, they will be reviewed by the boss. Finally, they will be written on the Lantern Festival lanterns in the two corridors of Daxiangguo Temple for visitors all over the world to enjoy and read.
The three of them were watching here. Every time they composed a Lantern Festival poem, they were read aloud. Many ladies and gentlemen came to the side and stopped to listen.
If you find a young husband you like, you might as well look at him a few more times and express your affection with him.
