Chapter 135: Lantern Festival
Love the Lantern Festival, the moonlight is beautiful, and the lights are brilliant.
The moon is full of ice wheels, the lights burn the land and sea, and people step on the spring sun.
The three beautiful things are rewarded, and the four are ruthless and hateful.
What I am afraid of is the dim light of the lights, the quiet and desolate people, the south building of the horns, and the west chamber under the moon.
- "Lantern Festival"
In a blink of an eye, Jiang Hui has been back to school for a week, and today is the Lantern Festival. He Ling told Jiang Hui in advance that her father invited them to her house for dinner in the evening.
Lantern Festival is the first full moon night of the year. The Lantern Festival originated in the Han Dynasty and is said to have been set up by Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty to commemorate "Pinglu". After the death of Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Liu Ying usurped power, and the Lü clan controlled the government. After the death of Empress Lü, Zhou Bo and Chen Ping eliminated the forces of Empress Lü and supported Liu Heng as Emperor Wen of Han. Because the day of pacifying Zhulu is the fifteenth day of the first month, and since then, on the night of the fifteenth day of the first month every year, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty has left the palace in micro-clothes and rejoiced with the people to commemorate. And the fifteenth day of the first month is designated as the Lantern Festival. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the sacrificial activities of the "Taiyi God" were held on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Sima Qian listed the Lantern Festival as a major festival in the "Taichu Calendar".
On this day, many places in the imperial capital will hold temple fairs, lantern festivals and other activities, which are very lively.
Early in the morning, He Ling came over to take Jiang Hui out to visit the temple fair, and school will start in a few days, and it is estimated that there will not be so much time to stay with Jiang Hui at that time. After all, Jiang Hui's official girlfriend Bai Xue is also about to return to school.
Bai Xue called last night and told Jiang Hui that she had booked a ticket for the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, and asked Jiang Hui to pick her up at the airport at that time. The school opened on the 19th day of the first month, and Bai Xue could be regarded as returning to school early. Jiang Hui was worried about how to tell He Ling now, and he had a headache after thinking for a while, no matter what, he would look at it after today.
The most culturally characteristic temples in the imperial capital are the Ditan Temple Fair, the Longtan Temple Fair, the Baiyunguan Temple Fair and the Daguanyuan Temple Fair. Jiang Hui has always liked the novel "Dream of Red Mansions", and he was very interested in imitating the scenes in the novel to build the Grand View Garden, so he and He Ling went to the Grand View Garden temple fair.
The Imperial Grand View Garden is a classical garden with great characteristics. Covering an area of 13 hectares, there are more than 40 pavilions and Buddhist courtyards with mountain-shaped water systems, flowering trees, cranes and deer, just like a fairyland on earth. It integrates the three techniques of traditional gardening art, creates a new model of combining film and television scenery and garden construction, adds a new content of "famous garden" to the garden industry, and creates a potential cultural heritage, which is the Red Chamber Cultural Museum and the real cultural relics a hundred years later. It is very attractive to Jiang Hui, a fan of Red Mansions.
"Do you know? I've read the book "Dream of Red Mansions" four or five times myself, and the more I read it, the more I feel that it is really a classic book," Jiang Hui said to He Ling, standing at the gate of the Grand View Garden.
"yes, I've only seen it once. Then today you will be my tour guide and explain where the scenery of each place comes from "Dream of Red Mansions", He Ling said.
"Okay, each classic has a torii introduction, and you can probably think of the plot in the book at a glance, which feels quite interesting," Jiang Hui said.
The overall plan of the Grand View Garden is determined by the wisdom of experts from Hongxue, ancient architecture, garden, cultural museum and other parties, and is faithful to the original work of "Dream of Red Mansions" and the fashion of the times, such as the Yihong Courtyard where Jia Baoyu lives, which is magnificent and full of fat and powder; the Xiaoxiang Pavilion where Lin Daiyu lives, with thousands of green bamboo poles and a quiet window; and the Gu En Siyi Palace, where the Yuan Concubine stayed in the province, is royal and magnificent.
Jiang Hui and He Ling followed the recommended tour route on the ticket, played slowly for a day, and ate all kinds of snacks at the temple fair in the park for lunch. There are many types of snacks to choose from, such as tea soup, tofu brain, jelly, sugar melon, sugar cake, hanging oven baked cake, pea cake, pancake, baked sweet potato and bean juice.
Among them, He Ling's favorite bean juice, Jiang Hui is really unaccustomed to it. Although bean juice is a traditional flavor snack that the imperial capital has long been famous. It has the characteristics of gray-green color, rich bean juice, sour and slightly sweet, but the unique taste is still not used to by ordinary people.
In the evening, after the two of them returned to school from the Grand View Garden, they bought a bottle of Martell at a famous wine store near the school, and then went directly to He Ling's house. Aunt Lan had been back from her hometown for several days, and when Jiang Hui and He Ling returned home, she had almost made all the main dishes for dinner.
"I'm tired, you can rest on the sofa for a while, I'll take a shower, and we'll have dinner when my parents come back," He Ling said.
"Go ahead, leave me alone", after Jiang Hui put down the wine, he sat on the sofa and turned on the TV to watch.
It didn't take long for Dean He to come back first, and when he saw Jiang Hui sitting on the sofa, he said, "Xiao Jiang is here, what about He Ling, why do you let you sit on the sofa and watch TV alone."
Jiang Hui got up and said, "Dean, you're back." He Ling went to take a bath, and today I walked for a day, take a shower to get tired."
"Sit down, I heard that a new game has recently been released on your school intranet, and it's becoming popular again?" asked Dean He.
Dean He put away his bag, took off his coat and hung it up, then walked to the sofa and sat down next to Jiang Hui.
"It's okay, let's play normally, it's winter vacation yet, and the number of online people in the school intranet is not particularly high, so it should be better when the schools open," Jiang Hui said.
"The development of your school intranet is so good, but it has added a lot of exposure to our school. How many people are registered now?", Dean He asked.
"It's already more than 3 million, and we will strive to break through 4 million this month," Jiang Hui said.
"That's very good, there are more than 14 million students in college in total, excluding half of the students who usually have less access to computers, and basically the remaining half of them are using your website," said Dean He.
"Yes, but we hope that eventually all college students will have an intranet account and will be habitually logged in every day," Jiang said.
"It's good to have this ambition, and the school supports you to make the website bigger and stronger, and win glory for your alma mater," said Dean He.
"This year is a critical year for the development of my intranet, and we plan to take advantage of the fact that our competitors have not yet reacted to come and quickly occupy the market. At present, there are similar websites in the United States, created by Harvard students, and the momentum is also very strong," Jiang said.
"Then you should pay attention, the rise and fall of Internet companies are very fast, and if you can't be the first in the market, it is often difficult to survive," said Dean He.
"Yes, the Matthew effect in the Internet industry is very obvious, and it is often a winner-takes-all situation, and over time, user habits have been formed, and few people will pay attention to the second-place company," Jiang Hui said.
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Jiang Hui chatted with Dean He, and He Ling finally came out of the shower.