Chapter 296: Lantern Flying Ceremony
Back in the dormitory at night, Huo Zongtang turned on the computer, connected to Shi Yuwei, and started a video call with her. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Shi Yuwei in the video is dressed in a capable professional outfit and looks like a beautiful girl president.
The special temperament of a pure girl and a mature royal sister looks very charming.
There was a hint of exhaustion on her face, but when she looked at Huo Zongtang, there was some moving look in her eyes. "It's a rarity. You're going to come to me. Could it be that you are here to ask for money? ”
Huo Zongtang smiled bitterly and said: "I'm not a little white face raised by a woman, how can I ask for money every time I meet." ”
Shi Yuwei smiled and said, "I heard that you and the daughter of the Shangguan family, every time we meet, you either borrow money or repay it?" I said, do you prefer money or beautiful women? ”
This is...... Equivalent to ward rounds? Is it jealousy and jealousy? Huo Zongtang was even more helpless. "You know that? You really care about me. As for money and beautiful women, I like both. What man doesn't like both wealth and sex? ”
"It's naturally good to have both wealth and sex," Shi Yuwei suddenly held her cheeks, leaned her face closer to the screen, looked at him and smiled: "But the ancients said well, women are a disaster." After you know me, you should know it deeply, right? ”
"You are a troublemaker, I am a troublemaker, and I am a good match." Huo Zongtang also held his cheeks and brought his face closer to the screen, and the two of them looked at each other with a smile like this, and a strange affection flowed in the eyes of both parties.
There was a moment of silence.
They just looked at each other like this, and the more they looked at it, the better they looked, and the more they looked at it, the stronger their smile became.
I really don't get tired of seeing each other, and I have infinite affection.
Huo Zongtang suddenly stretched out his hand and gently touched her face on the screen. "I want to touch you."
Shi Yuwei stretched out a finger on the other side of the screen and pressed it against his finger. "You're blatant teasing."
"If you like it, it's not flirting."
"How do you know that Ben Qianjin likes it?"
"Look at your eyes, they are full of autumn waves."
"Nonsense, sullen."
"It's been windy and rainy lately, so you have to be careful."
"You don't have to worry. As long as my business can make money, they can't do anything about me. Although money is a mundane thing, sometimes it is really useful. ”
"If you have difficulties, you don't have to hold on alone, you can talk to me."
"I'm fine, you're over there, it's estimated that there will be some hidden arrows to guard against, be careful yourself."
Huo Zongtang nodded, looked at Shi Yuwei and smiled again.
Shi Yuwei looked at him affectionately: "So, that's it tonight?" ”
"Wait, I'll show you something." Huo Zongtang said, slowly stretched out a hand, approached the fingertips of the screen, and soon condensed a plum blossom. Then, his finger seemed to turn into a thin branch, and several white, red, black, and pink plums bloomed one after another.
The extremely beautiful flowers also bloomed in Shi Yuwei's eyes like fireworks.
It's as illusory and beautiful as a dream, yet so real.
"It's beautiful......" she couldn't help but admire.
Huo Zongtang smiled and withdrew his finger and tapped her nose. "Not as beautiful as you."
Shi Yuwei wrinkled her little nose very womanly, and her body naturally revealed an innocent demeanor. "Are you finally willing to admit it, huh!"
"I've always admitted that I just don't say it." Huo Zongtang said goodnight to her with a smile and turned off the screen.
The moonlight outside the window is bright, and the gentle and beautiful affection like the moonlight still lingers in my heart for a long time.
The moon is nearly fifteen minutes away.
November 16, autumn and winter, is the season of frost and snow in Meilan chrysanthemum bamboo.
This shows that Gentlemen's Day is coming.
From the 16th to the 18th day of the 11th month of the lunar calendar, the festival will last for three consecutive days.
November 16 is a solemn gentleman's sacrifice.
The highlight of the gentleman's ritual is naturally to worship those famous gentlemen in Chinese history.
When it comes to gentlemen, the Confucian sage Confucius himself is, of course, the greatest gentleman, and many of the sages under his disciples can also be called gentlemen. However, these sages will be worshiped by all the people in the special Confucian sacrifice ceremony, so they are not included in the worship list in the Junzi Festival.
The first ancient Chinese gentleman to worship in the gentleman's sacrifice is the willow Hui who is not chaotic.
In fact, in addition to not being a promiscuous woman, Megumi Yanagishita's gentlemanly style is also reflected in many aspects. He is open-minded, generous, eloquent, and courageous, Mencius praised him as "the willow is favorable, and the one who is holy is also", so the world is called "and the saint".
In addition to Yanagishita Megumi, the ancient gentlemen who worshipped also included the "Four Sons of the Warring States".
Jia Yi of the Western Han Dynasty praised these four gentlemen in "On the Passage of Qin": At this time, Qi had Meng Wei, Zhao had Pingyuan, Chu had Chunshen, and Wei had Xinling. These four monarchs are wise and faithful, generous and loving, virtuous and noble.
In addition, the gentlemen worshiped by future generations include Zhong Ziqi, Yu Boya, Fan Zhongyan, Wen Tianxiang, Fang Xiaoru and others.
At the time of worship, the people who participate in the festival often wear crowns, wear wide robes and ancient clothes, or hold the flowers of gentlemen such as Meilan chrysanthemum and bamboo, or hold ancient books in their hands, or carry huge floats together, and walk to the gentlemen's temples on the mountains everywhere.
Along the way, there is a special band playing the guzheng xylophone, there are also girls dancing with flowers, and there are men in literati robes dancing ancient swords to help the fun.
All in all, this ritual is extremely lively and joyful, but the etiquette behind it is strict, and there is a kind of calmness and moderation.
In addition to sacrificing the ancient gentlemen, it is also necessary to sacrifice the "four gentlemen in the flowers" such as Meilan chrysanthemum and bamboo.
In the previous stage of cultivation, Huo Zongtang and other freshmen each chose one of Mei Lan Juzhu and began to cultivate the image of the soul.
In this sacrificial activity on the Gentlemen's Day, the college specially arranged for the freshmen to sacrifice the four gentlemen in this flower.
The process of sacrifice is actually an assessment and a competition.
There are two main phases of this ritual. In the first stage, all students are divided into four teams according to their own cultivation imagery: plum, orchid, chrysanthemum, and bamboo. Then, during the first night of the festival, the four teams competed in the power of the soul.
In the second stage, four teams of students escorted their respective Hua Jun and sent Hua Jun all the way to the altar god seat on the top of the mountain. Along the way, the Quartet can start a melee, or protect their own Huajun, or destroy the opponent's Huajun, and start a gentleman's battle.
The first four Flower Monarchs to reach the top of the mountain will fight the Battle of the Lord Monarch under the altar, and decide which Flower Monarch can accept the worship as the Lord Monarch through the battle of the Soul Spirit.
Huo Zongtang cultivated plum blossom imagery, and was naturally classified into the team of plum blossom king. He is only a double champion in his team, and there are not many strong teammates.
Correspondingly, the team that cultivates orchid imagery is the team with the highest call to win the championship. Because in this team, there are two double champions of Shangguan Yuer and Yang Xiaona.
The team that cultivates the image of green bamboo is as popular as the orchid team, because they also have Helian Tao and Sima Wan, two double champions.
The last Chrysanthemum Blossom Jun team only had Li Lianjing a double champion, and from the momentum point of view, it was at a disadvantage like Huo Zongtang's Plum Blossom Jun team.
On the night of the sixteenth, the cold was already heavy. But under a mountain on the west side of the Imperial Academy of Civil and Military Affairs, there was a surge of people, and the warm atmosphere diluted the cold air a little.
The teachers and students of the entire Imperial Academy of Civil and Military Affairs gathered at the foot of the mountain at this time, waiting to watch tonight's "Lantern Flying Ceremony".
The so-called lantern flying ceremony, is an important ceremony in the Junzi Festival, at this time of the year, the world will gather inside and outside the Junzi Temple, put off all kinds of lanterns, light the sky full of fireworks, extraordinarily lively and festive.
The Imperial Academy of Civil and Martial Arts is a place where the cultivation of civil and martial arts is the top, and this lantern flying ceremony naturally reflects the results of the cultivation of the literary soul.
Huo Zongtang was wearing a wide robe and ancient costume at this time, waiting in the designated area with a group of classmates who also practiced plum blossom imagery.
On everyone's body, they carry a wooden statue wearing a plum blossom suit, which is the plum blossom king they want to protect and sacrifice in this ceremony.
Above their heads, each of them hangs a large lantern with a plum blossom pattern. The lampshade of the lantern is made of high-grade soul paper, and the soul paper has special soul runes on it. As long as the soul power is injected under the lantern, the lantern will slowly fly into the air like a Kong Ming lantern, and its power is so great that it can even take a person into the sky.
In addition, with the infusion of soul power, the lantern itself will also emit light, and the plum blossom mark on the lampshade will emit a dazzling light, which is exceptionally bright and dazzling in the night.
Tonight's lantern flying ceremony, they will drive their own lanterns, rush to the sky with their soul power, and pay tribute to the four gentlemen in the flowers. Whoever has stronger soul power will be able to rush higher and the light will be more dazzling.
This was their first battle at the festival tonight.
And the process of flying into the sky with lanterns with soul power is also the process of mountaineering.
When the spirit power in the lantern is exhausted, they will land on the mountain, continue to climb the mountain on foot, and then escort the flower monarch to the bottom of the altar. Therefore, the higher the lantern flies, the less it is necessary to walk.
This kind of soul power competition method is not unnovel.
At eight o'clock in the night, there was a burst of drum music from the Junzi Temple on the mountain, and there was an extremely loud drum sound in between, like thunder for nine days, and even the entire mountain peak was shaking!
"It was the dean, Fu Shizhi, who personally beat the drum to announce the start of tonight's ceremony!"
"The lantern flying ceremony is about to begin!"
After the sound of the drum that shook the nine days, thousands of new students at the foot of the mountain poured their long-accumulated soul power into the lanterns, and all kinds of lanterns of Meilan chrysanthemum and bamboo were shining brightly at the same time, making the foot of the mountain become a sea of lanterns, which was extremely bright and bright.
With the injection of soul power, the runes on the lantern began to play a role, and a strong buoyancy suddenly appeared under the quaint and beautiful lampshade, and the entire lantern began to rise slowly.
Many of the freshmen flew into the sky with lanterns in their hands.
From a distance, it looks like there are countless kites soaring into the sky, among which the lights are covered and the stars are dotted, which is very beautiful.
After a while, the thousands of students standing at the foot of the mountain all seemed to have ascended to the heavenly realm, holding lanterns in their hands and ascending to immortals.
The sight of thousands of people taking off into the sky at the same time is truly spectacular.
The countless lanterns have turned into a sea of rising and moving stars, emitting different brilliance such as yellow, cyan, red, and white, just like the stars in the sky, giving people the illusion of being in the starry sky of the universe.
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