The eldest lady glanced at him charmingly and said: "The Lantern Festival is also known as the Lantern Festival, and it is said that this custom originated from the Taoist "Three Yuan Theory"; Shangyuan means the first full moon night of the new year. The origin of the Shangyuan Festival, "Miscellaneous Records of the Year", records that this is according to the Taoist stereotype. Taoism once called the fifteenth day of the first month of the year the Shangyuan Festival, the fifteenth day of July as the Middle Yuan Festival, and the fifteenth day of October as the Lower Yuan Festival, collectively known as the "Three Yuan". At the end of the Han Dynasty, an important sect of Taoism, Wudou Midao, worshiped the gods of the heavenly officials, the earth officials, and the water officials, saying that the heavenly officials blessed, the local officials forgave their sins, and the water officials relieved their misfortunes, and matched the three officials with three yuan, saying that the Shangyuan Tianguan was born on the 15th day of the first month, the Zhongyuan Diguan was born on the 15th day of July, and the lower Yuan Shuiguan was born on the 15th of October. In this way, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is called the Shangyuan Festival. This day is the day of the blessing of the Heavenly Officials. "Therefore, the lantern should be lit on the Shangyuan Festival."

Yang Zheng said "oh" and said: "So that's the case, no wonder everyone here lights up the lanterns, I thought it was all dead here, and I almost didn't escape?" “

The eldest lady covered her mouth and smiled, glanced at him, and said: "This lantern is a custom left by Taoism, but this lantern appreciation began in the Eastern Han Dynasty during the Ming Emperor period, the Ming Emperor advocated Buddhism, I heard that Buddhism has a monk on the fifteenth day of the first month to view the Buddha relics, light the lamp to worship the Buddha, so he ordered this night in the palace and temple to light the lamp to worship the Buddha, so that the common people of the scholar clan are hanging lanterns. Later, this kind of Buddhist ritual festival gradually formed a folk grand festival. The festival has experienced from the court to the people, to the time of the Tang Dynasty, the scale of the lamp market in Chang'an is very large, 50,000 lamps are burned, the lanterns are varied, the emperor ordered people to make a huge lamp tower, more than 20 rooms wide, more than 150 feet high, the golden light is brilliant, extremely spectacular. In the Tang Dynasty, a curfew was imposed, and travel was prohibited as soon as the drum was sounded at night, and offenders were punished for violating the night; Only on the Shangyuan Festival, the emperor granted permission to open the ban for three days, which is called "night". Later, the Song Dynasty ancestor Zhao Kuangyin yellow robe added to create the Great Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty heavy literature and light martial arts, there are many literati, the Lantern Festival is the most like, so the Song Dynasty after the lanterns extended from three nights to five nights, fireworks are also set off in addition to the lanterns, all kinds of juggling are performed, and the scene is more lively. Every Lantern Festival, on the Royal Street of Kaifeng, 10,000 colored lanterns form a mountain of lights, fireworks and lanterns, gold and blue shoot each other, and the splendid scenery is intertwined. Kyoto girls sing and dance, and thousands of people watch. "Visitors gather under the two corridors of the Royal Street, thaumaturgical ability, singing and dancing, scales tangential, music noisy for more than ten miles." In the streets and alleys, the lights and candles of the tea shops are lit, the gongs and drums are sounding, the firecrackers are ringing, and the lights are endless.

After Emperor Hongwu ascended the throne in Jinling, in order to make the capital prosperous and lively, it was stipulated that the lights were on the eighth day of the first month, and the lights fell on the seventeenth, even Zhang ten nights, every household hung five-color lanterns, and the lanterns depicted various characters, dancing and dancing, birds flying and flowers. The dragon leaps and the lantern fireworks shine all night. Drum amusement. Noisy Dadan, this custom has been used, now although Kyoto is in Beijing, but now the prince is in Nanjing, and Nanjing's prosperity is not inferior to Beijing, this lantern festival is still very important. The eldest lady explained the origin of this lantern in one breath.

Yang Zheng didn't expect that there were so many interesting things about this small lantern, and he couldn't help but look around in surprise.

The two of them stopped and walked for a short time before they saw the Confucius Temple, and seeing Duan Yu and the others waiting for the two of them in front of them, Yang Zheng said: "They are waiting for us, let's go together?" Anyway, there are no outsiders? “

The eldest lady's face was red, and she glanced ahead, but others couldn't see it, but Duan Yu looked at the two with a smile, as if she had already seen that the two had a relationship, the eldest lady's heart jumped, she gritted her teeth and pulled her old appearance, and said coldly: "Who wants to go in with you?" ”

"My day, I turned my face so quickly and didn't recognize anyone, and we lingered together last night?" Yang Zheng muttered to himself.

"You, you're so shameless?" Hearing this, the eldest lady's heart trembled for no reason, remembering the lingering between the two last night, a trace of shyness came to her heart, she hurriedly lowered her head and didn't dare to answer, hurriedly walked a few steps, and saw that Duan Yu and the others in front of her were smiling more and more, and hurriedly blushed and said: "You, don't follow me, I'll go first!" ”

"The old husband and wife are still shy, and the ugly daughter-in-law always wants to see her in-laws, could it be that the eldest lady likes to be sneaky?" Yang Zheng followed behind and said with a smile.

The eldest lady was happy, but she said, "I have nothing to do with you, why do you sneak around?" “

Yang Zheng smiled and said, "It's okay, then do you want to know me tonight?" ”

The eldest lady's heart trembled, and a bright blush immediately appeared on her face, she turned her head and glared at him, and turned around and walked towards the Confucius Temple without saying more, as if she really wanted to break up with him.

"This girl pretended not to know me when she ate it was all gone, mother, a typical hooligan?" Yang Zheng muttered and said, "Miss, my little girl, be careful of your liver, why are you walking so fast, wait for me, I'll let you lead?" ”

The eldest lady was twisting her waist and walking forward, when she heard this, she stumbled, almost fell to the ground, glared at him fiercely with a red face, did not dare to look more, turned her head and left.

Yang Zheng smiled and shook his head helplessly: "This girl is good at everything, but this girl is a little thinner-skinned, it seems that she still has to practice hard?" ”

"Hey, where are you going, Miss, where is the Qinhuai River?" Yang Zheng said with a smile behind the eldest lady.

The eldest lady just walked with her head down, and didn't dare to look up at the direction at all, at this time, listening to his words, she hurriedly looked up, and suddenly blushed like fire, turned her head and said angrily: "You, you hate it!" After speaking, he stretched out his hand and touched his hot little face, stomped his feet and walked towards the Confucius Temple again.

Yang Zheng laughed and hurriedly chased after him.

Yang Zheng chased the eldest lady and walked over, and saw that the Confucius Temple was surrounded by a sea of people, which was a little more crowded than the tourists in Hangzhou's West Lake.

"This Nanjing people really love the old master, don't go to see such a good Qinhuai River, Qinhuai famous prostitutes don't touch it, and they crowd here to see Confucius, tsk, no wonder I'm getting bigger and bigger literati?" Yang Zheng finally pushed aside the crowd and squeezed beside everyone, muttering to himself.

Duan Yu smiled when he heard this, and said, "You don't know, they are not from Nanjing, maybe there are many northerners?" ”

"Northerners?" Yang Zheng paused slightly, and took a closer look at the crowd, and sure enough, he saw a lot of fat and healthy northern men with neat manes: "What are they doing here, don't go to see the good Beijing city, come to Nanjing, could it be that these people are full and have nothing to do?" “

"You're full and have nothing to do? Are they all students? The eldest lady on the side suddenly turned her head and glared at him.

Everyone laughed at it just now, the eldest lady's face was a little unbearable, and she was annoyed, so she didn't talk to him for a while, and then she snorted with her small mouth, and her tone was a little annoyed and a little sad.

Yang Zheng suddenly heard the voice of the eldest lady, glanced around in surprise, and saw Duan Yu and the others looking curiously at the Confucius Temple, but did not pay attention to them, and said with a smile: "Not angry?" ”

The eldest lady pouted and said, "You want to take care of it?" After saying that, he blushed and was about to leave.

Where can Yang Zheng let her leave, taking advantage of the fact that there are more people, he took her little hand and said: "How can I not care, you forgot, you are my little heart, little baby ......?" ”

At this time, there were many people, such embarrassing words, where did the eldest lady expect that this shameless person would say it casually, listening to the laughter around her, she only felt that her little face was burning, turned her head, glared at him fiercely, and said, "Such a shameful word, don't say it?" ”

Yang Zheng smiled, not caring at all, as if the surrounding spectators didn't exist at all, and shouted again: "Be careful of your liver, little baby, ......?" ”

"You hate-?" The eldest lady stomped her foot with a shy face, didn't dare to stay longer, turned around and left, as if staying here for a moment longer, she would listen to a few more words about the little baby, the little girl.

"This girl—?" Yang Zheng looked at the eldest lady's graceful waist and beautiful figure, and couldn't help sighing: "This girl is becoming more and more feminine?" “

Looking at the distracted man, he suddenly heard the two young men in front of him whispering: "Do you know, today's waiter of the Ministry of Rites, the scholar of the Huagai Palace, and the scholar of the Ministry of War, Yang Shiqi Yang has come to Nanjing, I heard that he is the chief examiner of this spring boudoir, aren't these students all coming to his old man's house?" ”

"Lord Yang has good knowledge, and it is the most suitable for the waiter of the Ministry of Rites to be the chief examiner, I heard that Lord Yang is going to come to this Confucius Temple today to see the Tribute Academy, if you can hear Lord Yang's words, can this imperial examination not be high school?" Another student said.

The student just now said, "Isn't it! It's a pity that there are a lot of people here, I don't know what Lord Yang will say in a while? ”

The two of them said a few words and lowered their voices, mostly about the imperial examination.

The conversation between the two is not loud, in this noisy crowd, if you don't listen carefully, you really can't understand, but Yang Zheng is a martial artist, it is effortless to listen to these words, and when you understand the words of the two, this time I understand why these students don't go to the Qinhuai River, but crowded in the Confucius Temple, not that these students' admiration for Confucius is like a surging river, endless, but Yang Shiqi came to the Confucius Temple as a waiter of the Ministry of Rites.

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Unconsciously there are only the last 20 days left in 2014, I have to sigh that time flies too fast, the middle of the month, the monthly pass is very important, please send you a monthly pass, a qiē please, two more tonight, don't forget to check!