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The Spring Banquet is not a large-scale formal banquet, and there is no fixed date, and there are people who hold such banquets during February and March every year. In the capital, as long as there are people with financial resources and surpluses, and the venue is suitable, they will hold a spring banquet. The frequency of the feasts is somewhat outrageous. Sometimes guests may go to one house in the morning and another in the afternoon. Or the family acts separately and attends the spring banquet of several families on the same day.

Generally speaking, the palaces, princesses' mansions, princesses' mansions, princes' mansions, and uncle's mansions will hold spring banquets, even if the financial situation is not good, they have to barely hold up the scene. Others, such as the Shangshu Mansion, the General's Mansion, the Bachelor's Mansion, etc., depend on the wishes of each family, and they are generally held.

The banquet form of each family is different, the cost is not the same, some are familiar relatives and friends to get together, some scholars will directly turn the spring banquet into a spring tea party, poetry meeting, and some families, for the purpose of expanding contacts, or the limelight, specially put on a banquet, all over the Beijing high-ranking magnates, and even the middle and low-level officials and eunuchs have to invite over, there are more than 1,000 guests throughout the day, and they have to rent a large garden as a venue, spending thousands of taels of silver, and pay attention to pomp and circumstance. This type of spring banquet is estimated to be held by only a few companies every year, and it has a bit of a sense of fighting for wealth. Whoever does it first and does it well, then those who line up behind his house to hold the Spring Festival banquet must surpass his family, and they must not admit it. It's not a wealthy family, and it really can't afford such expenses. But at the same time, this is also a very face-saving thing, and people from all over the capital, no matter what class of people, are happy to participate in such a banquet.

The spring banquet of the Hou family in Yunyang can only be said to be less than the above, more than the bottom, and it is not the kind of pomp and circumstance. Yunyang Hou's personality is not the kind of person who likes to be in the limelight. Even if someone advises him to show off, he won't pay attention to it, every year it is almost the same scale, the same venue, the same program, at most the scenery of Qi Garden, the dishes and the invited guests or performance groups will change a little. It is an annual practice for his family to hold a spring banquet, and even the days are almost fixed, so he sent posts around early.

The spring banquet in the Chengenhou Mansion was a little different. The scale of the Qin family's spring banquet is relatively small, and the guests invited are not as many as those of the Yunyang Marquis Mansion, in addition to most of them are relatives and friends, and some of them are old acquaintances of the old marquis when he was alive, or the descendants of the old acquaintances, which is commonly known as world friends - even if these world friends may have few contacts on weekdays, and even many people no longer live in the capital, Chengenhou's wife Xu will still follow the family tradition and find spring banquet invitations for them every year. This is one of the rules that Aunt Fu told her that never changed when the old marquis and Mrs. Ye were alive in the past.

The remaining guests are the friends that the long room and the third room have made in recent years. In the past, before Qin Song retired, he invited himself to get acquainted with the powerful people who were flattering, such as the father and son of the Wang family. As for whether people come or not, that's another matter.

Due to the complexity of personnel, and some people need to accommodate each other's time, the date of the Spring Banquet in the Chengenhou Mansion is not fixed, and it is generally six to ten days in advance to confirm the important VIP list before posting. Anyway, in those two months, the spring banquets of various families continued, and it would not seem too abrupt.

At this year's Spring Banquet, the invitation has not yet been officially sent, and only a few acquaintances have greeted them in advance. Now that Changfang said that he wanted to postpone the date of the Spring Banquet, he only needed to go to those acquaintances and say it, and the matter could be solved, and it was not a trouble. The original date was originally selected after checking the dates of the spring banquet of other families, so as to ensure that there would be no conflict with the schedules of the guests, such as colliding with the day and hour of the spring banquet of another large family, forcing the guests to choose only one of them to attend the banquet. Now that the day has changed, these preparations in advance have to be done all over again, Qin Han is really puzzled, doesn't Changfang feel troublesome?

But Niu didn't feel troublesome at all, but was very much in favor: "If the crown prince and the crown princess can come, of course it would be great, maybe the emperor will also come, it will be more decent." The meaning of the long house is to postpone the date of the spring feast until late February, or early March. By then, the weather was much warmer, not as hard as it is now, and the flowers in the garden would bloom better and the scenery would be more beautiful. I calculated the days, and your uncle and aunt must have arrived in the capital by then, just in time for them to show their faces. In the future, your uncle will be an official in the capital, and if you know a few more people, things will be much smoother. ”

Qin Hanzhen's heart was slightly sour, and he was bored for a while before asking: "When is the day? If you really wait until March, it will be a little too late, right? At that time, it is time for all families to start celebrating the Shangsi Festival, and they all pay attention to going to the spring, who has time to go to the long house to participate in the spring banquet? Besides, I remember that there are several palaces and princess mansions, all of which plan to move the spring banquet to the Shangsi Festival, and hold it in the big garden outside the city, obviously to put on a big feast. If you drag your days until then, will it be difficult for you to grow up and compete with such people for the limelight?"

Niu thought for a while: "That's not good, let's do it earlier." I think only your second aunt wants to move the spring banquet to March, and your eldest uncle and grandmother and your second uncle both think that late February is very good, and the weather will not be too cold around February 20. Your little uncle hasn't taken office yet, so I can stop by to celebrate your little aunt's birthday. The current appearance of the Hou Mansion in Zhenxi, their family must not have the leisure to make your little aunt's birthday. But then she paused again, "It's a bit tight this day, I don't know if your uncle and aunt can catch up." When they came to Beijing, they wanted to move their family over. Your aunt is pregnant and can't travel. ”

Qin Hanzhen knew that Qin Youyi's birthday was on February 21, and if the Spring Banquet was on February 20, it would really be just right for her to celebrate a little, and it would not let the Zhenxi Hou Mansion have any objections. On that day, Su Zhongying dragged it out, and he could still stay in the capital for a few more days, but at the end of February and early March, he would definitely have to report to Datong. It is also an important border town, and it is impossible to let the skylight of an important military post be open for so long. In this way, Qin An and his wife may not really be able to catch up.

Qin Hanzhen said quietly: "The day is set by the long house, and if they want to make a birthday for their little aunt, it is also human nature." The eldest uncle and grandmother are such a daughter, and the marriage is not going well, and the eldest uncle and grandmother must be distressed. In addition, the little aunt followed the little uncle out of Beijing, and I don't know when I will see each other again, so this birthday is particularly important. Let's accommodate the arrangement of the long house. Anyway, my uncle and aunt entered Beijing, and some had the opportunity to attend the banquet. The spring banquet can't catch up, and the banquet of the Dragon Boat Festival can always catch up. My aunt is pregnant again, and the fetus was not very stable before, so it is better not to be too tired. She will be in Beijing in the future, and she is afraid that she will not have the opportunity to socialize with people? Naturally, it is more important to raise a baby. ”

As soon as Niu Shi heard that his daughter-in-law was pregnant, he immediately put aside all his thoughts: "Yes, yes, the child is important! The spring banquet is not a big deal, we can go to several houses a month, and everyone eats similar dishes, and I am tired of eating." You must not make your aunt tired for a small spring banquet. ”

After calming down his grandmother, Qin Hanzhen put this matter aside. The courtyard where the fifth uncle Qin An and his wife live has been cleaned up, and the waiting staff has also been completed, so the next only need to arrange the soft decoration and daily necessities. This kind of thing has Niu and Mama Hu to worry about, Qin Hanzhen doesn't care, and goes back to the room to paint her paintings.

During the Spring Banquet of the Marquis of Yunyang before, she asked Yu Xinlan for the latter's mountain and stone drawings and showed them to her grandfather Qin Bai, Qin Bai also said that Yu Xinlan's painting skills were very good, so that she could learn more from others. Qin Hanzhen has been holding Yu Xinlan's paintings and several pictures of landscapes and strange rocks by his grandfather Qin Bai in the past few days, and he is copying and figuring it out. Winning the first prize in the painting competition at the poetry meeting gave her a lot of self-confidence, and she began to feel that she was really talented in painting. In the past, she just wanted to learn some skills and entertain herself, but now she feels that she can also fight for the reputation of a talented woman.

A truly talented woman like Yu Xinlan also made her compare with her in painting. Can she understand it this way: in fact, her painting level is very reasonable in today's ladies circle?

Looking forward to it, if in the future in the antique calligraphy and painting trading market, she Qin Hanzhen's name can appear, referring to her as a well-known female painter in history or something...... It's cool to think about. And the subject matter she is good at generally does not have many competitors, and there is a good chance that it will be used as research material by historians. The chances of leaving a name in history are much greater than those of other calligraphers and painters of the same period.

Qin Hanzhen's enthusiasm for practicing painting suddenly increased tenfold, and he began to dabble in subjects that he was not good at before. Since you want to make a name for yourself, you naturally have to ensure that you have the ability to pass the test.

Qin Hanzhen ushered in his fourteenth birthday in his busy daily practice. After this day, she will be fifteen years old. In this era, fifteen years old is already the age when you can get married.

Of course, Qin Hanzhen didn't expect to get married, but she was quite happy to celebrate her birthday. Although the scale of the birthday banquet held by her grandfather and grandmother was very small, it could not be compared with the spring banquet, and it could not be compared with the birthday party of her cousin Qin Jinhua, who was about to meet in April, but she was quite satisfied. The people in the long room and the third room all got together to celebrate her birthday, and Qin Jinchun from the second room also came over. Gifts were given in the palace, including the Queen Mother, the Emperor, the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess, and everything was very much to her liking. The most important point is –

Zhao Mo is back.

Zhao Mo returned to the capital on February 11, and the next day he freshened up, wore newly made spring clothes, and came to Yongjiahou Mansion to participate in Qin Hanzhen's small birthday party full of energy. He was wearing a bright blue brocade robe, with a jade belt around his waist, which made him more and more tall and long-legged, his face like a crown of jade, and his demeanor in his gestures was indescribably attractive.

When he walked in the door, almost everyone was staring at him.