After a few days of turmoil, it finally ushered in the New Year's Festival in the Eastern Capital. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The New Year's festival is a tradition of the Oriental people, similar to the Spring Festival in Huaxia, but the Spring Festival in Huaxia is the lunar calendar, while the New Year in the East is New Year's Day.

There is actually a reason why I chose to spend the New Year on New Year's Day.

The Yamato nation is a fickle nation, in the strong period of the Chinese state, the Oriental people depended on China to survive, at that time the Oriental was not the East, called Dongying, at that time the Dongying people were proud of the Spring Festival of the Chinese people, and regarded the first day of the first month of the first month of China as the first day of the new year;

After the Meiji Restoration, the Eastern and Western cultures had a profound influence on the Orient, and since then, the Oriental people have changed the New Year from the Chinese New Year to the New Year's Day of the new calendar year in order to get rid of the history of being dependent on China as slaves, and since then, it has become the legal New Year's holiday in the East from December 29 to January 3 of the following year.

The Chinese Lunar New Year was abandoned, but the customs of the Chinese New Year were learned by the Orientals.

Among the various festive events of the Oriental New Year, many customs are attributed to a god who descends on earth only on the New Year.

Just like the Chinese New Year's Eve in China, the Oriental people are also afraid of the New Year's God, so at the end of the year, that is, in late December, they will insert the door in front of the Xuan, hang the decoration made of straw rope on the door, and offer mirror cakes at home, all for the arrival of the protagonist of this year.

There is a so-called "Great Obscure Day" in the Oriental script, which actually refers to December 31, similar to the Great Chinese New Year's Eve in China.

On the day of the Great Darkness, every household has to be cleaned, one is to clean the home, and the other is also to wash away the mildew, which is very similar to Huaxia.

After the cleaning, the house will also set up mirror cakes, mirror cakes are made of mochi, on this day everyone at noon to complete all the preparations for the New Year, to the evening family reunion around the fireplace to celebrate the New Year.

In addition to this, every family eats reunion mustard noodles on this night because noodles represent longevity.

On New Year's Eve, people wait at home or in the monastery for 12 a.m. to arrive.

This is the same as the people of Japan waiting to hear the New Year's bell, but the New Year's bell of the Oriental people is unique.

As soon as 12 o'clock arrives, the bell is struck one hundred and eight times in temples all over the country, and the heavy sound of the bell echoes over the Japanese archipelago.

As for why the 108 bells are ringed, the first theory is that these 108 bells represent the exorcism of 108 demons, the second theory is that these 108 bells represent 108 gods and Buddhas, and the third theory is that these 108 bells represent the total number of 12 months of the year, 24 solar terms, and 72 seasons.

Of course, whatever the reason, it reflects the desire of the Oriental people to drive away bad luck and pray for the blessings of the gods and Buddhas through the 108 bells.

After the bell rings, devotees begin to pray to the gods and Buddhas in the temple, many Oriental people wear traditional kimonos to the temple to pray for blessings, and the temple hall will give each visitor a white note with words on the words that will show you what will happen in the new year, and people will hang these white notes on the tree next to the temple after reading them.

After that, everyone will go to the shrine to worship, the shrine is not a god of a certain religion, but a local tribal leader in ancient times, which is equivalent to worshipping Yanhuang in the Chinese country.

The New Year's festival is a shrine festival and a large-scale festival that must be held every New Year, not only in the eastern capital, but also in other prefectures and cities.

For example, this year's Toto New Year's Festival is held at Meiji Shrine, which is dedicated to the shrines of Emperor Meiji and Empress Dowager Shoken, and is an important shrine in Shinto, Japan.

In keeping with the tenets of Shintoism, Meiji Shrine is closely related to the lives of the people of the East, and every year it is home to a number of important ceremonies such as naming ceremonies, coming-of-age ceremonies, graduation ceremonies, and weddings, and the number of people who visit Meiji Shrine is higher than that of other shrines.

In previous years, the shrine visit was a very lively and festive event because of the New Year's Festival, but this year, because of the major event of the National Museum, the New Year's Festival in the Eastern Capital, which was originally planned to be held, also has a bleak taste.

However, even if it is bleak, it should still be carried out, and the New Year's Festival of the Eastern Capital started as scheduled in the rhythmic drum music, Huo Sining was in the crowd, and the people who followed into the society washed their hands and shook a rope with a bell hanging from the main hall until the bell on the top was sounded, which started from entering the main hall.

As soon as he entered the main hall, Huo Sining's eyes were fixed on the sacrificial witches and priests kneeling on the ground in the center of the main hall.

Perhaps it is the changes in the past few days that have caused Watanabe Yin Kang's life to suffer great changes, Watanabe Yin Kang's state is very bad, and the whole person is in an extremely dangerous state, especially when he sees the darker and gloomy black gas on his forehead, Huo Sining secretly shook his head.

The sacrificial celebration has to go through several ceremonies such as welcoming the gods, laying silk, offering gifts, drinking blessings and receiving glossa, reciting the gods and looking at the gods, in fact, it is similar to the sacrificial rites of the ancestors in China, that is, welcoming guests and burning incense to worship the gods, Watanabe Yin Kang as one of the priests, Huo Sining can guess that this person should appear in the gift link, it is estimated that when drinking blessings and receiving gloss, the secret porcelain tea bowl will appear on the sacrificial table as an important sacrifice.

Huo Sining had already brought the fake Yue kiln bowl brought out of the Taicheng Museum, and after calculating the time, she was waiting for the right time, and now she saw the entire festival process clearly, she took advantage of the large number of people worshipping under the festival stage, and arched back and forth in the flow of people, and went to the bathroom on the side of the main hall, and used her stealth skills again to prepare to sneak quietly to the backstage of the festival.

Although the altar of the main hall was surrounded by a shield wall composed of police, Huo Sining still found the right time to take advantage of the crowd and got through the gap in the shield wall.

As soon as he walked to the vicinity of the altar over there, he heard the master of ceremonies shouting, and the sacrifice began, and the priests who were invited to participate in the New Year's sacrifice began to walk into the incense ding with their own offerings, and after three bows, they raised the things in their hands with a tray above their heads.

A few rounds later, Huo Sining heard the master of ceremonies shouting Watanabe Yin Kang's name, and saw Watanabe Yin Kang walking cautiously forward with his Yue Kiln secret color porcelain.

Huo Sining's breathing suddenly tightened, and the whole person froze, except for a pair of eyes, staring at the tea bowl deadly, and he didn't dare to stagger it. (To be continued.) )