As Leng Qing expected, Ginkgo's death did not have any impact on the operation of the entire Prince's Mansion. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Leng Qing later heard that after Liang Shengde returned from the palace that night, he learned that Ginkgo had hanged himself in the firewood room in the servant's courtyard, and Liang Shengde only ordered his entourage to bury Ginkgo well after being silent for a moment, so he didn't say anything else.

As for the palace maids, eunuchs, and servants in the prince's mansion, they only used the matter of Ginkgo hanging herself as a conversation after dinner in the two days when Ginkgo just passed away, and after that period of freshness, no one talked about it anymore.

Ginkgo's death, of course, some people will be sad and sad about it, such as Cheng Yiying, such as Qinghe, and some people will sigh for it, and it is not worth it, such as Leng Qing. But after being sad and embarrassed, everyone's life is still how they should live, and it has not been disrupted by Ginkgo's death.

There were hundreds of servants in the prince's mansion, and no one wanted to investigate why Ginkgo hanged herself, and no one asked what the blood book left by Ginkgo meant.

However, only two or three days have passed, and all the people in the prince's mansion have forgotten about Ginkgo, and gradually, no one has mentioned Ginkgo, the person who once served the same lord with them.

And when Leng Qing suddenly found that even Qinghe, who was kneeling in front of the body of Ginkgo covered by a white cloth that day, and was trembling from crying, was no longer sad about Ginkgo's death, it had only been four days since Ginkgo hanged herself.

It was the ninth day of the ninth month of September.

The sun is rising, the sun is shining, and the sky is clear. Thousands of miles in the sky, white clouds are ethereal. At a glance, the sky is full of clouds like pure white cotton wool, each cloud floats extremely high, and the shape is different, which makes people think about it.

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Because today is the Chung Yeung Festival, the prince's mansion began to prepare for today's festival activities before dawn in the morning. Perhaps because of the arrival of the festival, the entire Prince's Mansion is much more lively than a few days ago, and it is very popular.

I have to say that Leng Qing is no stranger to the Chung Yeung Festival or something, because there was also this festival in the 20th century, and in the 21st century, the Chung Yeung Festival also has a name, called the Old Man's Day.

In the past, when the parents of both Meng's parents were still alive, every year during the Chung Yeung Festival, Meng's father and Meng's mother would take a little Leng Qing and Mengyu to visit their parents, that is, Mongolian-speaking grandparents and grandparents. Take the old people on both sides to climb, admire the chrysanthemums, and play.

It wasn't until the Mongolian language was about seven years old that the Mongolian grandparents and grandparents began to die one after another. The first to die was Mongolian's grandfather, who died of meningitis. Then there was the Mongolian grandmother, who died of advanced stomach cancer. Then there was the grandfather of the Mongolian language, who died of a cardiac artery aneurysm. When Mongolian was fifteen years old, his grandmother also died of cirrhosis.

Maybe it's because the old people on both sides passed away one after another, and since then, Meng's father and Meng's mother have not celebrated the Double Ninth Festival very much. However, Leng Qing and Mongolian Yu have always adhered to the custom of celebrating the Double Ninth Festival.

So for the Double Ninth Festival, Leng Qing is really no stranger to it.

The ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar is the traditional Chinese Double Ninth Festival, also known as the ninth and ninth days. Because the ancient "Book of Changes" set "six" as the number of yin, the "nine" as the number of yang, September 9, the sun and the moon and yang, the two nines are heavy, so it is called Chongyang, also called Chongjiu, the ancients believed that it was an auspicious day worth celebrating, and began to celebrate this festival from a very early age.

The activities to celebrate the Chung Yeung Festival are colorful and romantic, generally including traveling to enjoy the scenery, climbing high and overlooking, watching chrysanthemums, planting dogwoods, eating Chung Yeung cakes, drinking chrysanthemum wine and other activities.

Ninety-nine Double Ninth Festival, because of the same sound as "long-lasting", nine is the largest number in the number, with the meaning of longevity, and autumn is also the golden season of a year's harvest, the Double Ninth Festival, the meaning is far-reaching, people have always had special feelings for this festival, there are many poems and poems in Tang and Song poems and songs, and there are masterpieces of poetry and chrysanthemum.

The name of Chongyang was seen as early as the Warring States Period, and Qu Yuan's "Far Travel" has the sentence "Collect Chongyang into the emperor's palace, and look at the Qing capital from the beginning of the decade". The "Chongyang Festival" here refers to the sky, not to the festival.

In the Three Kingdoms period, Emperor Wen of Wei Cao Pi's "Nine Days and Zhong Xuanshu" has clearly written the banquet of Chongyang: "The years go by, and the ninth day of September suddenly returns." Nine is the number of yang, and the sun and the moon should be combined, and the name is popular, thinking that it is suitable for a long time, so it is necessary to enjoy the banquet. ”

Tao Yuanming, a literati of the Jin Dynasty, said in the preface to the poem "Nine Days of Idleness": "Yu Xianju loves the name of Jiu." Qiu Ju Yingyuan, and holding the mash by the ground, empty service Jiuhua, pinning on words". Chrysanthemums and wine are mentioned here. Probably in the Wei and Jin dynasties, there was already the practice of drinking alcohol and appreciating chrysanthemums on Chongyang Day. In the Tang Dynasty, Chongyang was officially designated as a folk festival.

However, according to the records of "Xijing Miscellaneous Records", the Han Dynasty has the custom of drinking chrysanthemum wine, eating flower cakes, and inserting dogwoods on the ninth day, and it is also called "Dogwood Festival", "Chrysanthemum Festival", and "Zhenming Festival" on the ninth day of the Han Dynasty.

In the Ming Dynasty, in September Chongyang, the palace should eat flower cakes together to celebrate, and the emperor would personally go to Wansui Mountain to climb the heights to enjoy the autumn zhi, and this custom has been passed down to the Qing Dynasty.

Like most traditional festivals in China, the Chung Yeung Festival has its own ancient legends.

Legend has it that in the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a plague demon in the Ru River, as soon as it appeared, someone in every family fell ill, and someone died every day, and the people in this area suffered from the ravages of the plague.

A plague took the lives of the young Hengjing's parents, and he himself almost died of illness. After recovering from his illness, he said goodbye to his beloved wife and his father, and decided to go out to visit immortals to learn art and get rid of the plague for the people.

Hengjing searched everywhere to find the way, visited the famous mountains and masters all over the country, and finally found out that there is one of the oldest mountains in the east, and there is an immortal chief with boundless magic on the mountain. Hengjing was not afraid of hardships and the distance of the road, and under the guidance of the crane, he finally found the high mountain and the immortal chief with magical power.

Immortal Chang was moved by his spirit, and finally took in Hengjing, and taught him the sword technique of subduing demons, and gave him a sword of subduing demons. Hengjing forgot to eat and practiced hard, and finally practiced an extraordinary martial arts.

On this day, the immortal chief called Hengjing to him and said, "Tomorrow is the ninth day of the ninth month of September, and the plague demon is going to come out to do evil again, you have learned your skills, and you should go back to eliminate harm for the people." ”

The immortal chief gave Hengjing a pack of dogwood leaves and a cup of chrysanthemum wine, and secretly taught the use of evil spirits, so that Hengjing rode the crane and rushed home.

Hengjing returned to his hometown, and on the morning of the ninth day of the ninth month of September, he led the villagers to a nearby mountain according to the instructions of the immortal chief, and gave each person a dogwood leaf and a cup of chrysanthemum wine, ready to subdue the demon.

At noon, with a few strange screams, the plague demon rushed out of the Ru River, but as soon as the plague demon pounced on the bottom of the mountain, he suddenly smelled the strange fragrance of dogwood and the smell of chrysanthemum wine, and he stopped abruptly, and his face changed abruptly. At this time, Hengjing chased down the mountain with the demon sword, and stabbed Wen Mo to death under the sword in a few rounds, and since then, the custom of climbing the height to avoid the epidemic on the ninth day of the ninth month of September has been passed down year after year.

Wu Jun of Liang had this record in his book "Continuation of Qi Harmonic Records".

Later, people regarded the custom of climbing the Chung Yeung Festival as an activity to avoid disasters and avoid disasters. In addition, in the traditional concept of the Central Plains people, Double Nine also means long life, health and longevity, so later the Double Ninth Festival was established as the Old People's Day.

There are also many customs of the Chung Yeung Festival.

Ascending: In ancient times, the folk had the custom of ascending in Chongyang, so the Chongyang Festival is also called the "Ascending Festival". Legend has it that this custom began in the Eastern Han Dynasty. There are many ascending poems written by literati in the Tang Dynasty, most of which are written about the custom of the Double Ninth Festival. Du Fu's Seven Laws "Ascending" is a famous article written about Chongyang ascending. There is no uniform rule where you go to climb the mountain, and you generally climb the mountain and climb the tower.

Eat Chongyang Cake: According to historical records, Chongyang Cake is also known as flower cake, chrysanthemum cake, five-color cake, there is no fixed method, and it is more casual.

At dawn on September 9, parents put a piece of cake on their children's foreheads, and recited words in their mouths, wishing their children all the best, which was the original intention of the ancients to make cakes in September.

The exquisite Chongyang cake should be made into nine layers, like a pagoda, and two lambs should be printed on it to conform to the meaning of Chongyang (sheep). Some also put a small red paper flag on the chongyang cake and lit candles. This is probably the meaning of "lighting the lamp" and "eating cakes" instead of "ascending", and using small red paper flags instead of dogwoods.

Chrysanthemum appreciation and chrysanthemum wine: The Double Ninth Festival is the golden autumn season of the year, chrysanthemums are in full bloom, it is rumored that appreciating chrysanthemums and drinking chrysanthemum wine originated from the great poet Tao Yuanming of the Jin Dynasty. Tao Yuanming is famous for his seclusion, poetry, wine, and love. Later generations followed suit, so there was the custom of Chongyang chrysanthemum.

In the old days, literati and doctors also combined chrysanthemum appreciation with banquets and drinks, in order to get closer to Tao Yuanming. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the wind of chrysanthemum appreciation prevailed, and there were many varieties of chrysanthemums at that time.

The folk also call the ninth month of the lunar calendar "Chrysanthemum Moon", and in the Double Ninth Festival, when the chrysanthemums are in full bloom, watching the chrysanthemums has become an important part of the festival. After the Qing Dynasty, the custom of appreciating chrysanthemums was particularly prosperous, and it was not limited to September 9, but it was still the most prosperous before and after the Double Ninth Festival.

Dogwood and hairpin chrysanthemums: The custom of planting dogwoods during the Double Ninth Festival was already common in the Tang Dynasty. The ancients believed that on the day of the Double Ninth Festival, dogwood could be used to take refuge and ward off disasters, or to wear it on the arm, or to put it in a saga, or to put it in a sachet to wear, and to put it on the head.

The Chongyang Festival Pei Zhu is recorded in Ge Hong's "Miscellaneous Records of the Western Classics" in the Jin Dynasty. Most of them are worn by women and children, and in some places, men also wear them.

In addition to wearing dogwoods, people also wear chrysanthemums on their heads. This was already the case in the Tang Dynasty, and it prevailed throughout the ages. In the Qing Dynasty, the custom of the Double Ninth Festival in Beijing was to stick chrysanthemum branches and leaves on doors and windows to "remove evil and attract good luck". This is the vulgarity of the hairpin chrysanthemum on the head. In the Song Dynasty, there were also those who cut the colored silk into dogwoods and chrysanthemums to give each other to wear......

The Double Ninth Festival was supposed to be a festive day to climb high and look far away with family and friends, and even the palace maids, eunuchs, and servants in the prince's mansion started to work early in the morning and integrated into this festive festival. However, the "Rongjia Garden" where Leng Qing lived in the prince's mansion seemed extremely deserted, and there was no festive atmosphere at all.

In fact, since Leng Qing woke up from her injury before the fight, Leng Qing's days have begun to be a little chaotic, basically in a chaotic state that doesn't know what night it is. But even if the days are chaotic, Leng Qing doesn't care much, because after experiencing two lives and deaths, Leng Qing has really seen too many things that she couldn't see before.

It's just that Leng Qing doesn't care about the passage of time, but others do. For example, those palace maids, eunuchs, and servants in the prince's mansion.

Early this morning, before dawn, Leng Qing, who was huddled in the quilt, was woken up by the sound of sprinkling and sweeping. Then someone knocked on Leng Qing's door, saying that chrysanthemums and dogwoods were picked in the prince's mansion, and the princess ordered them to be sent to every courtyard of the prince's mansion.

When Leng Qing dragged her recovering body and got up slowly, made the bed, and as soon as she opened the door, she saw a little palace maid standing at the door of her room holding a large handful of chrysanthemums and dogwoods.

It was also thanks to the little palace maid who sent a large handful of chrysanthemums and dogwoods to Rongjia Garden early in the morning, otherwise Leng Qing would not have remembered that today was the Double Ninth Festival.

At this moment, Leng Qing sat at the stone table surrounded by plants and flowers in the courtyard of Rongjia Garden, supporting her chin with her hands, looking up at the blue sky and white clouds above her head, Leng Qing didn't know whether to sigh or force a smile.

The palace maids, eunuchs, and servants in the prince's mansion at least have acquaintances by their side to accompany them for the festival, but she is a stranger in a foreign land, and she is alone, who can she find to spend this Double Ninth Festival with her?

When Yan Ziming, Wang Quan and others were by her side before, Leng Qing didn't feel how lonely it was to be alone in this other world, but now that she had left Yan Ziming and Wang Quan, and arrived at the prince's mansion in the Great Liang Kingdom, Leng Qing began to feel lonely.

Liang Shengde is a gentle and polite humble son, although he is grateful to Leng Qing for saving Cheng Yiying at the beginning, he has always maintained a gentle and polite attitude towards Leng Qing, and he will never exceed half a point.

Cheng Yiying is more familiar with Leng Qing, but Cheng Yiying is now pregnant with Liujia, with the passage of time, Cheng Yiying's body is getting more and more bulky, and it is very easy to get tired, basically chatting with Leng Qing for an hour is tired.

And Cheng Yiying's health doesn't seem to be very good, Leng Qing has been chatting with Cheng Yiying every day in the past few days, and almost every time she can meet the old man with gray hair and beard to diagnose Cheng Yiying's pulse.

Later, during a small talk, Leng Qing asked Cheng Yiying casually, and Cheng Yiying said that she had lost her body before, her body was weak and weak, and her fetal gas was very easy to be unstable. Liang Shengde couldn't rest assured, so he invited the imperial doctor in the palace to stay in the prince's mansion, and asked for a pulse for Cheng Yiying every day to determine whether Cheng Yiying's fetal image was safe.