On August 15th, the Mid-Autumn Festival, as soon as it dawns, Tokyo is bustling with activity.
Walking along the street, the shops on both sides are decorated with flower heads, and some of the more elegant ones have repainted their storefronts, giving them a completely new look.
Whenever there is a liquor store, the wine vat is placed in front of the door and a wine flag with the word "Zui Xian" is chosen, even places like Fanlou, Rendian, Panlou and Gaoyangzhengdian are no exception.
On this day, new wine is sold all over Tokyo, and it will probably be sold out before noon. Then small stores will put down their wine curtains, stop doing business, and go home to celebrate the festival. Large stores such as Fanlou will open their doors and add tables in the lobby. It's the best business day of the year.
From the royal palace to the common people, banquets will be held at home, no matter how extravagant or humble. If you organize a good family banquet and reunite your children, you don't want to live up to this wonderful time.
Even poor people living in shady alleys will try their best to buy some drinks and go home to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. They would rather risk not having money to buy food and going hungry later than wasting this day and night.
The Prince of Qin's Mansion has long prepared all kinds of seasonal things, especially wine. There are many kinds and everything you need, but most of these are not paid for. Some military generals give gifts, and some places like Fan Tower pay filial piety.
Drinking was common in the Song Dynasty, ranging from high-ranking officials to ordinary people. Men drank and women drank. Li Qingzhao, a lay scholar in Yi'an, wrote such words as "A deep sleep can't eliminate the remaining wine" and "I'm so drunk that I don't know the way back."
Li Qingzhao's father was Li Gefei, who was a Jinshi. He was a member of the Ministry of Rites and a foreign minister. He was a student of Su Dongpo and one of the "Four Bachelors of the Su Family". Li Qingzhao's mother was the eldest daughter of Wang Gui, the Prime Minister of Yuanfeng. She was good at writing and poetry, and his stepmother was an old party member of Yuanyou. The granddaughter of the leader Wang Gongchen.
The entire family is a member of the Yuanyou Party, and they are also relatives of Qin Hui.
Qin Hui's wife is the granddaughter of Wang Gui, the prime minister of Yuanfeng, and Li Qingzhao is the granddaughter of Wang Gui. They are very close relatives. She and the Wang family are cousins.
Zhao Tong wrote an article a few years ago criticizing Li Qingzhao, saying that although his words were euphemistic, he was "only addicted to drinking and gambling", which ruined the family atmosphere and damaged the reputation of the literary world.
Li Qingzhao wrote lyrics to counterattack, his words were sharp, and he pressed every step of the way, and he hit the mark.
Zhao Tong was unable to defeat him, so he had no choice but to say that men should not fight with women, and young men should not fight with old men, so he gave up.
This young man does not argue with his elders because Li Qingzhao has too many elders and Zhao Tao, and he is already thirty-six this year.
However, this is a matter of the literary world. It has nothing to do with background and status. It only depends on the reputation and status of the literary world. This has been the case since ancient times. It is recorded as a good story of scholars for the admiration and sigh of scholars.
Because he is not famous enough in the literary world, he is not even qualified to write articles against these two people.
Just a few moments ago, Zhao Tong got angry after beating Qin Hui and wrote a line to mock Li Qingzhao, saying that if a famous family has no descendants, each generation will be inferior to the next.
Li Qingzhao did not fight back this time, but just wrote a self-deprecating poem. With her arrogant temperament, this was considered a slight bow.
Zhao Tong couldn't help but feel proud for a moment.
At this moment, the stage and platform have been set up in Prince Qin's palace.
The stage is large and draped in red and colorful colors. The people in the team behind are putting on makeup and changing clothes, and are about to perform on stage.
The operas of the Song Dynasty were actually Zaju, which consisted of various songs and dances, formal repertoire and miscellaneous operas, of which only the repertoire was the main opera.
During the performance, a short song and dance with five characters is performed first, called "Yan Duan", and then the "Main Zaju" is performed. The main piece is a story sung to the melody of a big tune, and the Zaju is a thrilling juggling act or a comedy.
Song Zaju inherited the military dramas and song and dance dramas of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. On this basis, it absorbed folk arts and music, followed the performance and rap stories of Yuan dramas, and pioneered the mainstream narrative of serious dramas.
The stage is being prepared here, and tables and chairs are already being arranged over there. There is only one chair with a round table in the front, and naturally it is Zhao Tong who sits on it. Lin Lin and others have lined up a hundred or so more behind them, and the extra ones are for Suiyulou.
Almost all the people in Suiyulou have no family business. There used to be more people, but some were sent out by Zhao Tao, and now there are only a few dozen left. Zhao Tao ordered the shop to be closed early in the morning, and everyone came to the house to celebrate the festival.
At this time, just after breakfast, the mansion was very lively. Not only the people in Suiyulou had a place to sit, but also those with positions in the mansion were assigned seats. As for some servants, as long as they had no work to do, they could come and watch the show.
Zhao Tong changed into a new robe, and after being informed, he came to the stage and greeted everyone together. After he sat down, he looked back and saw that the Song Dynasty did not have many rules about the superiority of men and women at the moment, but behind him were the female relatives at the head.
Xiao Niang, Jian Suyi, and Qi Hongyu were all present. Qi Hongyu also brought Zhao Paner with him. I guess the tea shop will be closed today.
He took a few glances at the playlist and shook his head slightly. A Zaju is a Zaju. There are not many main features, which has been the case since the Tang Dynasty. As for the tunes in it, they are mostly composed of several tunes of the same palace tune. Similar to the lyrics, there are Daqu, Fa Qu, Qu Po, Zhu Gong Tune, Ci Tune, etc. are often "one palace to the end" and "one rhyme to the end".
In fact, both the music and lyrics are inherited from the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and there are many similarities. They must be filled in according to the fixed rhythm format.
However, the music is more lively, and the number of words can be increased under a certain special melody. Therefore, the number of words may not necessarily be the same when filling in the music according to the title.
The lyrics are in a fixed grid, and no words can be added. However, one or two more words can be filled in the special grid of the song, but the speed must be increased while the rhythm remains unchanged.
Another difference is that the rhyme of words is usually sparse compared to that of music, and only a few words can change rhyme or rhyme with each other.
The rhymes of the songs will be more intensive, and many of the songs will rhyme from sentence to sentence, and the rhyme will end with the same rhyme.
Lyrics were popular in this dynasty, but they often also sang music. Jiaofangsi and even Qinlou Chuguan not only sang lyrics, but also sang music.
On the stage, not only music is sung, but sometimes lyrics are also sung in front of the audience.
It's just that the spread of Ci is wider, and sometimes Ci was even included in the imperial examinations, while most of the songs need to be mixed with the big songs to be sung.
Therefore, literati wrote more lyrics and less music. After all, writing lyrics is more conducive to fame, but the music is limited by the formal music, and often the meaning of the score cannot be heard by listening to it alone.
Therefore, if things go on like this, the rise and fall of poetry and music will be the decline. Since the Tang Dynasty, poetry has taken the lead among these two literary forms.
Zhao Tong handed the play list to the young lady behind him. After he said in the small building that he wanted to give her a title, he left immediately without doing anything else.
Xiao Niang, Qi Hongyu, Jian Suyi and others read the playbill, ordered a few plays and sent them to the troupe leader, who then started singing.
First perform a "sexy section" with five characters, and then the main show.
The first person to appear was named Mo Ni. He wore a black lacquered pompadour, but his face was like a bright mirror, pierced with flowers.
The second one is called Yinxi, wearing a water rhinoceros horn belt, a red scarf with green leaves, and a long yellow robe lined with short boots.
The third one is called Fu Jingse, wearing a knotted ball-head hat, wearing a Yi Die Sheng Luo shirt, and reading an essay.
The fourth one is called Fu Mo Se, with vivid speech, colorful clothes, filling tunes and making jokes.
The fifth one is called pretending to be alone. He pretends to have arrogant eyes, a bright line on his forehead, two colors of clam powder on his face, a greasy old turban, and a sloppy opera collar, looking like a rogue.
The five people went around and around, singing and dancing, playing music, playing and playing, and the main song was about to begin.
People on the stage were constantly coming and going, talking and singing. Everyone in the audience, except Zhao Tong, watched with gusto and exclaimed from time to time.
Zhao Tong, however, felt depressed. He did somersaults and moves without talking about the moves, and just listened to the song. The words probably didn't convey the meaning, and someone filled in the words randomly, wasting the tone that had been passed down for hundreds of years.
Just when he was bored, a housekeeper suddenly came from outside to report that Emperor Maode and Prince Yi were coming to the house.
Zhao Tong was stunned when he heard this. He had offended Emperor Daojun, so he was not invited to the family banquet in the palace during the Mid-Autumn Festival, but what were these two doing on the reunion day?
King Yi is Zhao Hui, the half-brother of Zhao Fujin. Although Zhao Fujin's mother died early, the princes and princesses have many honors. Several princes have been crowned kings early, which is far less than that of some princes such as Zhao Gou.
He thought for a few breaths and felt something was wrong. He stood up and said, "Let them go to the study room."
Zhao Tong stayed in the study for a while, and then saw Zhao Fujin and Zhao Yan walking in.
Zhao Fujin was wearing a goose-yellow palace attire, with faint traces of tears on his face. He saw Zhao Tong bowing first, but before he could say anything, Zhao Tong burst into tears over there.
Zhao Tong frowned when he saw this. Zhao Tong and Zhao Gou were the same age. They were both eleven and twelve this year. Although they were not adults yet, they matured early in the womb and Zhao Tong had a strong temperament, so he rarely cried. Zhao Tong still I haven't seen it since I was in the palace.
"Second brother..." Zhao Yan cried.
"What's going on? We all sat down to talk." Zhao Tong was confused for a moment: "Isn't it the Mid-Autumn Festival today? Why are you still leaving the palace, and the officials allow it?"
The two of them sat on chairs. Zhao Tong kept crying. Zhao Fujin could only comfort him. After a long time, Zhao Tong said again: "Fujin, please tell me."
Zhao Fujin looked at Zhao Tao and whispered: "Second brother, eighth brother was demoted to a commoner by his father!"
"Huh?!" Zhao Yan was stunned when he heard this. Zhao Yan was the eighth son of Emperor Daojun and was named King Yi. How could he be demoted to a commoner?
"Fujin, what's going on? Why are you demoted to a commoner?"
Zhao Fujin's eyes turned red when he heard this, and he whispered: "Second brother, I don't know why this morning, my father suddenly got angry and scolded all the princes and princesses in Yanfu Palace, even those who were not around, and then he went down The decree demoted Bago'er, and I don't even know why."
Zhao Tong reached out and touched his chin. Suddenly he remembered something and couldn't help but take a long breath. In the late Northern Song Dynasty, there was indeed such a royal mystery.
It is recorded in "History of the Song Dynasty" and "Collection of Imperial Edicts of the Song Dynasty" that "the eighth prince was demoted to a commoner"!
However, although there are clear records, they do not clarify the reasons for Zhao Yan's demotion.
Not to mention the "History of the Song Dynasty", the "Collection of Imperial Edicts of the Song Dynasty", formerly known as "The Imperial Edicts of this Dynasty" or "The Imperial Edicts of the Imperial Dynasty", is a compilation of imperial edicts of the nine dynasties of the Northern Song Dynasty. It was compiled in the early years, very close to the Xuanhe period, so there will definitely be no recording errors.
In the Song Dynasty, when scholar-bureaucrats ruled the world, it was extremely rare for an emperor to demote a prince to a commoner, and without mentioning the reasons, it was unprecedented!
Zhao Yan looked at the two siblings, one with pear blossoms and the other with a roar. At this time, Zhao Yan suddenly shouted: "Dad also scolded the fifth sister, even harder than scolding anyone else."
Zhao Tong was even more confused when he heard this. Emperor Daojun always loved Zhao Fujin so much, why would he scold him more harshly than others?
He couldn't help but asked: "How did the officials scold me?"
Zhao Yan wiped away his tears: "Dad...Dad, he called the second brother a treacherous minister and traitor, Meng De and others. He also called the prince a waste, disobedient and unfilial, and called the third brother's embroidered pillow unworthy of reuse!"
Zhao Tong's mouth twitched when he heard this, this... this scolding is quite cruel and severe!
It's nothing like him, he just curses to vent his anger. Who can believe that he is a traitor and a traitor? He is a loyal minister!
But scolding the prince for being disobedient and unfilial is a bit harsh. If the prince is disobedient and unfilial, then what kind of prince can he be?
It seems that Emperor Daojun is very angry. He scolded all three of them, maybe scolding the siblings in front of him!
It's just that Zhao Tong couldn't figure out what happened. The reason was not recorded in later generations. I heard from the siblings that they suddenly got angry, which means they didn't tell the reason.
However, although Emperor Daojun is fatuous, he is not the kind of violent king, and he is not the kind of person who kills at every turn, not to mention his own children, there must be something weird in this.
Emperor Daojun has always regarded himself as a refined man, so Zhao Tong found it incredible that something like this happened to him.
After all, demoting a prince to a commoner without giving a reason will be discussed in the world. This is contrary to the elegant image that Emperor Daojun has always maintained.
Zhao Tong couldn't understand the reason. After all, this was also a royal mystery in history.
He looked at the two siblings and said, "Can there be a banquet in the palace today?"
Zhao Fujin shook his head and said: "Father ordered not to hold a banquet, so no one dares to mention it."
Zhao Tong became more and more puzzled that he even skipped the family dinner. He consoled him: "We will talk about this later. Come with me to the theater later, and the dinner will be left at the house."
Then they talked about other things, and Zhao Tong took the two of them to watch a play. Two more chairs were added in front, and more moon cakes were served. The play lasted for half a day, and the two of them seemed to be in a much better mood.
Then in the afternoon, a banquet was held in the mansion, with more than twenty tables opened. It was noisy and lively, and it didn't end until it got dark.
At this time, tributes had been placed on the platform in the palace. After the banquet, Zhao Tong took everyone to admire the moon. After admiring the moon, the night opera began on the stage.
Zhao Tong looked bored and said: "Why don't you go outside and look around, you don't know where there are programs."
After all, Zhao Yan was young, and at this moment he somewhat forgot about his relegation, and shouted: "Second brother, why not go to the river to look at the lanterns? I heard that there are lantern riddles to guess at the river lanterns tonight."
There are indeed riddles on the river lanterns put out during the Mid-Autumn Festival, but there are no high rewards. You can probably only win a lantern. Zhao Tong said: "It's a pity that I never thought about it before. Now it is impossible to rent a painting boat to watch it, so I have to watch it by the river." have a look."
Zhao Fujin thought for a while: "You can also go to Shangshu Province and Taixue. I heard that there are open-air poetry gatherings in many places tonight."
"Poetry party?" Zhao Tong nodded. Poetry parties are indeed held in many places during the Mid-Autumn Festival, among which Ethereum is the largest. He smiled and said: "Then let's watch the lanterns first, and then go to the poetry party."
(End of chapter)
