This day is the Winter Solstice Festival, and when I got up in the morning, there was actually a formed snow outside, and it didn't melt immediately. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

As soon as Zhang Zhaohua opened his eyes, he touched Gao Chi's ears, rubbed them indiscriminately, and shouted: "If you don't get up to eat dumplings, your ears will be gone!"

Gao Chi frowned slightly, but when he heard her shouting to eat dumplings and eat dumplings, the corners of his mouth showed a smile again, but how weird Zhang Zhaohua looked, this feeling didn't understand until the two of them sat down at the table together and saw the breakfast served.

"Jiangmi, Zhujiang water, osmanthus fragrant stuffing wrapped in walnuts. Gao Chi laughed and said: "I know that it is the winter solstice day of the Ming Dynasty, and every family pounds rice to make rice balls." Jingshi celebrates the winter festival, but eats glutinous rice balls, not dumplings. ”

Zhang Zhaohua looked at the rice balls on the plate in front of him, was dumbfounded, and said, "It's just the rice balls, why do you have to put them separately?"

"Because it's a different filling," Gao Chi obviously had a good experience in eating, and pointed out to her: "This black sesame filling, this is potato filling, this is red dates and red beans, this is bean paste, this is hawthorn, and there are salty rice balls on your right." ”

"Salty rice balls?" Zhang Zhaohua picked one up and looked at it: "It's meat inside, what's the difference between this bun?"

"It's minced meat, buns are made of flour, and dumplings are made of rice noodles, but it's still not the same. Gao Chi encouraged her to try it: "It tastes good, you can always find a filling that you like to eat." ”

Because of this sentence, Zhang Zhaohua ate one of each kind of rice balls, of course, there were only three rice balls in each bowl, and Zhang Zhaohua was so stunned that he was greasy on the tip of his tongue, and he didn't find a one he liked to eat, and when he saw Wang An coming over with a small steamer, he was almost grateful, but when he looked at the inside of the steamer, it was still a rice ball!

"It's a grass cake, and the green one is added with wormwood," Gao Chi was obviously amused by her loveless appearance: "I made it last night, and I let them re-steam it a little today, for fear that your stomach will be cold and unrestrained." You see, there are five kinds of fillings: mung beans, red beans, green tea, black sesame seeds, and chestnuts, and all the five blessings are complete!"

"You're so thoughtful. Zhang Zhaohua sandwiched one, encouraged himself to eat it, and found that the taste was slightly better than the rice balls: "I'm curious, do you want to eat these rice balls when you go to the palace?"

"Of course you have to eat," Gao Chi scared her: "You go to see a few girls, they will tell you to eat this, after all, it is the season of the winter solstice, and you should eat this." Concubine Ning loves to eat this the most, when you enter her palace, I can't help but say that I will give you an old bowl, and there are only twenty or thirty balls in it, and I will look at you with a smile and eat it all, and I will ask you if you want it again. ”

Zhang Zhaohua showed a look that the sky had fallen, and said angrily: "It's really not good to eat it -- the south eats glutinous rice balls, and you can't force the northerners to eat this sweet and greasy thing together! I have always eaten dumplings! The so-called short days abandon worries and worries, and the night is often accompanied by the sound of joy." The small dumplings warm the cold heart, and they are better than gold and silver. Dumplings, there are boiled dumplings, there are also steamed dumplings! There are patterns for dumplings, and dumplings are also available!"

"Moreover," Zhang Zhaohua stared at Gao Chi's ears and said, "The shape of the dumplings is like ears, and they warm their ears after eating the cold;

At this time, Gao Chi spit out all the rice balls that he had eaten in his mouth, and leaned forward and backwards with laughter.

"Okay, okay, I can't say you, you are reasonable, you are reasonable. Gao Chi said: "At today's banquet, if you are not used to eating glutinous rice balls, you can not eat them, and when you come back from the banquet, ask the stove to make dumplings for you to eat." ”

Zhang Zhaohua was satisfied, and said: "I want all kinds of fillings, just like this rice ball, five of each, I love to eat dumplings with any filling." ”

After that, they went to pack up their clothes and took a sedan chair to the palace. Gao Chi went to attend the Qingcheng banquet in Fengtian Palace, and Zhang Zhaohua went to Rouyi Hall to participate in the banquet of the internal and external women.

However, when Zhang Zhaohua arrived at the gate of the Rouyi Palace, he saw several female officials and palace people hurrying out with a few thick books, as if they were going in the direction of Fengtian Palace.

After Zhang Zhaohua entered the palace, he saluted and congratulated Concubine Guo Ning, after all, in the eyes of the Wu people, the winter solstice is the same as the New Year, and it is done in accordance with the regulations, and naturally there are auspicious words and auspicious words dedicated to the winter solstice, just like everyone saying "Happy New Year" is almost the same.

Concubine Guo Ning is still very quiet and kind, just as she saw on the day of the palace election, except for the slight sagging skin and the wrinkles at the corners of the eyes, the skin is still very fair, it can be seen that she has put a lot of effort into maintenance, and her demeanor is still the same.

"You came early, did you eat the morning food?" Concubine Ning smiled, she had a wise look when she smiled, and her whole face became bright: "I have tangyuan here, what kind of stuffing do you like to eat?" I asked them to bring you a bowl." ”

"I used morning food," Zhang Zhaohua didn't expect that Concubine Guo Ning was really said by Gao Chi, and she really wanted to give it to the rice balls to eat: "The concubine mother should use it for herself." ”

Concubine Guo Ning obviously really likes to eat glutinous rice balls, so she called a bowl of black sesame seeds, and she finished eating it after a while.

There are only four or five glutinous rice balls in the bowl, which is not big, looking at Concubine Guo Ning's appearance, she naturally didn't have a lot of fun, and her face seemed to show a little reluctance, but she didn't ask for a second bowl.

"I love to eat this," Guo Ningfei explained, "but now they don't allow me to eat more, saying that it is not good to restrain me." ”

Zhang Zhaohua said with a smile: "This thing is made of glutinous rice skin, and if you eat too much, it is easy to bloate your stomach." ”

"I used to be able to eat more than forty in one go," Concubine Guo Ning said: "But now I don't dare to eat so much, and in order to deal with me, they roll out the glutinous rice skin as thin as paper, I love to eat thick skin, and now it seems like I can't eat the skin!"

It seems that Concubine Guo Ning is also a funny person.

At this time, a female official came over and said, "Niangniang, there is still a lack of a copy of "Siyu Rail". ”

"Then let's look for it again," Concubine Ning waved her hand and said, "Hurry up, the emperor is in a hurry." ”

"Is Niangniang looking for any books?" Zhang Zhaohua was curious.

"It's from the emperor," Concubine Guo Ning said: "I don't know what's going on, the people of Qin Tianjian and those people from the Western Regions are quarreling again." For the sake of the general calendar and the Hijri calendar, which is accurate. In fact, I think it's very bad, even the winter solstice time difference, it's missing. ”

In the seventeenth year of Hongwu, the observatory was set up in Jiming Mountain, so that the doctor Yuan Tong revised the calendar, still in the name of "Datong", and the points were all based on the "Calendar of Time" in the Yuan Dynasty, but it was only the end of its years. Later, due to the inaccuracy of the estimation of the solar eclipse, the rulers of the calendar entered the new calendar one after another and demanded the reform, so they quarreled with the emperor.

Zhang Zhaohua also asked a few words casually, but learned that it seemed to be the beginning of the implementation of the time calendar, with the winter solstice as the pole of profit and contraction, that is to say, the so-called perihelion point is near the winter solstice point, this deviation is not very big, and it is estimated that there will be a deviation of five to six days after more than 200 years.

This does not mean that there is a problem with the "Great Unification Calendar" and it will be replaced immediately.

This question was not important, because Zhang Zhaohua soon met the people who made her bother, the Ma clan and the county lord of Jiangdu.