Verse 904: Birthday Offerings
Although these 140 people are all dancers, they dance in a certain way, arranged in rows, as if led by a rope, without a trace of deviation, and the dance posture is wonderful, and the dance clothes flutter between the rotations, fluttering like immortals. As soon as the bell rang, the front team suddenly changed to the back team, and the color of the dance clothes instantly changed from red to yellow, from yellow to blue, just like the waves of color rolling.
Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then applauded, and the applause was like a tide. The bell rang again, the color of the dance clothes changed again, and someone suddenly exclaimed, "Look, is that a word?"
The emperor and the queen sat on the high hall, obviously seeing the changes in the dance below, and the emperor and queen said: "This seems to be a holy word, right?"
The bells and drums in the hall rang in unison, and every time the chimes were struck, the dancers below would change the color of their dance costumes and form a strange dance shape, and finally all stopped after twenty-four changes, and it happened to be the end of the song at this time. Only then did everyone understand that the original one hundred and forty people jumped out, "Shengchao through the ages, Daotai Hundred Kings, Emperor Wannian, Baozuo Michang, Emperor Wannian, Eternal Health", these twenty-four words.
When everyone saw it, they also recited along: "I wish His Majesty the Emperor and the Empress Niangniang, the Holy Eternal Age, the Hundred Kings of Daotai, the Emperor for ten thousand years, Baozuo Michang, the Emperor for ten thousand years, and enjoy eternal peace and well-being." ”
The emperor and the queen looked at each other and smiled, raised their glasses together and said, "Thank you Aiqing." They both tilted their heads and drank the wine in their glasses.
Outside the Qianqing Palace, there is a huge wine mountain, which can be opened on all sides to allow the wind to pass through it. The wind turns the mechanism inside, dividing yin and yang to the back. In this way, there is wine flowing out of the wine mountain like a spring, and the wine is received by a wine cup or a bucket containing wine. The entry and exit of the servants who poured the wine were automatic and controlled by the organs, and their subtlety and subtlety were better than those of heaven.
The wine mountain placed in the inner hall of the Qianqing Palace is even more exquisite, and the wine mountain is located in a disc. The diameter of the disc is four feet five inches, and there is a large turtle supporting it under the disk, and all the mechanisms are in the belly of the big turtle. In the middle of the disc stands a mountain of wine, about three feet high, and the peak is very peculiar and exquisitely made.
The disc is made of wood and painted with lacquer. The big turtle and the wine mountain are made of lacquer cloth hollowed out into a shell, painted on the outside in various colors, and painted in the shape of a real turtle and a real mountain. The middle of the wine mountain is empty, and it can hold three buckets of wine. Wine ponds are arranged around the wine mountain, and there are mountains outside the pool.
There are lotus flowers growing in the wine pond. The flowers and leaves of the lotus are made of cast iron. The flowers have opened, and the lotus leaves have also spread. They are all used on a plate, and they are filled with preserved meat, meat sauce and a variety of vegetables and fruits that go well with wine. There is a dragon on the mountainside on the south side of Mt. Jiushan, which hides in the mountain. When the dragon's mouth is opened, it can spit out the wine. There are wine glasses on the large lotus leaf under the dragon's mouth, and there are such wine cups all around. The dragon spits out the wine and fills the wine glass until it is eight minutes full and does not spit it out, and the drinker immediately takes the glass and drinks.
If you drink slowly, there are double lofts at the top of the wine hill. The door of the pavilion will open automatically, and a robot that promotes alcohol will come out of it, dressed and wearing a hat and holding a board in his hand. So, put the wine glass back on the big lotus leaf, let the dragon's mouth fill it again, and the wine envoy automatically returned to the double attic, and the loft door closed automatically.
If anyone else is slow to drink, the drinker will come out again to oversee it. In this way, there will be no mistakes until the end of the banquet. On all sides of the wine mountain, there are dragons spitting wine. Although the sake is sometimes spit in the sake pool, there is a secret hole in the sake pond that drains the sake from the pond to the sake mountain. Until the end of the feast, the wine in the pool does not leave a trace.
Around the mountain is a self-tilting wine glass, into which the dragon mouth pours wine. The glass is tilted when the first half of the glass is filled, and when the glass is full, the glass automatically topples over and the wine is poured into the pool. This is the so-called accompaniment, a person with moral cultivation, who does not drink a full glass of wine.
This birthday banquet started at noon and drank until the sun went down, and the ministers of civil and military affairs gave the emperor and queen their birthday celebrations, and it was time for the harem concubines to come to pay their respects.
The concubine attendants, each with their own customization. There were two hundred and eighty emperors and queens, all of whom wore crowns and gold hats, and were dressed in robes of beasts. There are 200 concubines, with seven scarves hanging from the crown, and robes with clouds and shoulders. There are 80 concubines, crowned with scarves, dressed in green silk building and golden robes, and called "control Luan Zhaoyi".
After the Empress Jingyi came out of the Qianqing Palace, she sat in the Xingsheng Palace "Chunxi Hall" to receive congratulations, this Chunxi Hall, with pepper to paint the wall, warm in winter and cool in summer, draped in embroidery, fragrant cinnamon as a column. Set up a black bone screen, a red feather tent. The ground was covered with poppers. It's really a special pet of the pepper room.
The emperor sat in the house to receive congratulations, and the concubines of the six palaces entered the celebration in turn. Baolin (rank 6 pins), royal maids (rank 7 pins), and Cai Nu (rank 8 pins) each have 27 people as 81 royal wives. Because the grade is too low, there is no qualification to even enter the birthday gift, Jieyu (rank is the third product), the beauty (the rank is the fourth product), and the talented person (the fifth rank) is each nine people for the twenty-seventh wife, so there is the qualification to offer longevity, there are those who offer cold light water jade fish, there are those who offer Qingzhi Shuangqi Ruyi, there are those who offer Liujin Jiancui's wrist, and there are those who offer eight treasure fans.
The cold light water jade fish is a thing that moistens the lungs, contains saliva in the mouth and grows by itself, the lungs are extremely cool, Qingzhi Shuangqiu Ruyi is a thing that cleanses the liver, scratches the back with it, the liver fire is self-extinguished, it is also a treasure in ordinary people, but the emperor is not very happy to see it, such treasures are really difficult to enter his eyes.
Next is the nine concubines, there are Zhaoyi, Zhaorong, Zhaoyuan, Xiuyi, Xiuyuan, Xiuyuan, Chongyi, Chongrong, Chongyuan, Chongyuan, respectively, which belong to the second grade.
Qiang Concubine offered a thing, saying that she got a thing in Qingyuan Cave, such as dragon skin, and the summer moon was cool and self-generated. The emperor took a look, only to see that the thin skin can be photographed through the light, the scales are praised, the jade color is lovely, and the faint formation of flowers, or red or green, it is very good-looking.
The emperor didn't know, so he handed this thing to the emperor on the side, and the emperor took it in his hand and looked at it and said: "This spotted jade shell is not made after death, but the shell that faded off during the catastrophe, and it can be regarded as a treasure." After all, dragons aren't easy to find. ”
When the emperor heard this, he smiled and accepted it, followed by Ru Concubine, Li Concubine and others also gave their birthday gifts, their birthday gifts were obviously much stronger than the twenty-seventh woman, and I don't know if the family was more powerful, or the emperor gave help in private?
After the nine concubines finished offering the gift, it was time for the four ladies to go up to offer the gift, and none of the women who could sit on the concubine seat were ordinary women. Although Nangong Yuhuan is confident, he doesn't know what kind of congratulatory gifts others will come up with, whether he will compare his own congratulatory gifts. However, as the last person to enter the palace among the four ladies, it is only natural that he should give a gift first.