Chapter 117 In the Spring Festival of the Ming Kingdom
On Chinese New Year's Eve, Xingqing Palace went to the Taimiao early in the morning to worship the ancestors of the Zhu family, and then carried out a special ceremony, the palace guards and police team wore masks, wore clothes handmade by craftsmen of the Ming Kingdom, held golden spears and dragon flags, some wore a gold-plated bronze armor general, some pretended to be a door god, some pretended to be judges, some pretended to be Zhong Kui, some pretended to be land, and some pretended to be a god of stove. The event also caught their attention.
At night, the whole city sounded the sound of firecrackers, the sky was full of colorful flowers, beautiful, and the sound of firecrackers was very similar, but the palace was deserted, and Zhu Yushan went to Zhu Daliang's house in Kaihuafang early to go past the year, which is also Zhu Wei's pity for them, if only the four of them are left for the New Year, it will be very boring, with Zhu Yushan there to accompany it, it can be more interesting.
There are only three guards in Xianning Palace who celebrate the New Year together, Qianyou, Hong Xueqi, and Zi Ranli, and the couple in the imperial dining room, they are responsible for making Chinese New Year's Eve dinner for the palace, and then Yang Jingjing, Yang Jingjing celebrates the New Year alone, and her relatives are not around, so she stays in the palace for the New Year, and there is also a palace maid You Lu, in addition to the palace guards and police who stick to their posts.
The time finally arrived at seven o'clock in the evening, and the five David TV of the Ming Kingdom, in addition to the Yingzhou Animation Broadcasting Company ECTV, which is still broadcasting the new Japanese animation, the rest of the four David TV Imperial Public Broadcasters EBC, Dongdu Wireless Broadcasting Company OBS, Yingzhou Broadcasting Company YTV, and Daming Broadcasting Company MBS began the competition for the first official ratings since the opening of the station, and all began to broadcast the Spring Festival Gala of this station.
At the same time, you can also watch Huaxia's CCTV Spring Festival Gala on the Internet at the same time, although Ming Guo restricted the channels of TV, but did not restrict the network.
The four companies have used mixed tactics to attract attention, because Mingguo is a free port, so advertising in Mingguo is also equivalent to advertising in the world, especially in order to attract attention, many foreign stars were also invited, and the four TV stations received orders from many advertisers at the same time.
EBC TV under the Daming Royal Family Consortium broadcasts live on two sets of channels in Chinese and English at the same time.
While watching TV, the emperor and Li Yun were wrapping dumplings, this year's dumplings should have been made by the imperial chefs, but Li Yun insisted on making dumplings by himself, Zhu Wei was clumsy and had never made dumplings, under the careful guidance of Li Yun and the palace maid, he successfully made several dumplings with good shapes.
Yang Jingjing is better than Zhu Wei, she still made dumplings at home, she pinched a dumpling, and said with a smile: "Queen Mother, I remember that during the Chinese New Year, every year my mother would put coins in the dumplings, and whoever eats them will have good luck in a year." ”
Li Yun said with a smile: "Our family is too, I remember that one year there were only three dumplings, and we all ate them, but your emperor didn't eat them, so I was so angry that I choked." ”
"Hahaha, Mom, I remember when you say that." Zhu Wei nodded to the husband of the palace maid: "Qiu Er, you go and get a few coins of 1 Wen, 10 Wen, and 50 Wen." ”
Soon, Qiu Er brought a piggy bank, which was full of leftover change in the palace, Zhu Wei smiled: "Today, let's make 20 plates of dumplings, only put 1 50 Wen, 5 10 Wen, 10 1 Wen, I'll see who can eat it, and all those who eat will be rewarded." THE FIRST PRIZE IS A JADE RUYI, THE SECOND PRIZE IS AN IPAD, AND THE THIRD PRIZE IS AN IPHONE."
For a while, the palace maids and the imperial chefs shouted long live all of a sudden, they were all very happy, and they became more energetic in making dumplings.
Zhu Wei was making dumplings when his phone rang, he wiped his hands, and then connected the phone. It turned out that Zhou Jun in the United States called to pay New Year's greetings, and not long after the phone hung up, Xu Bin from Japan, Xu Qingtao from Mingguo, Lu Lin, Liu Yun, Xu Jingyao, Yuan Shi, Guo Siyan, Su Zizhou from Huaxia, Ma Liang and other friends and classmates called him to sign up, and he couldn't even take care of dumplings for a while.
For these people, Zhu Wei sent someone to send New Year's benefits early, and each household had a large box with an imperial seal on it and the words "Huang En Yongxi" printed on it. It is filled with cherished Ming specialties.
After hanging up the last call, Zhu Wei noticed that he had received some text messages on his phone, and after he opened it, he saw that Li Xinyu and Tang Xinyan had sent him text messages. Li Xinyu's text message is very long, but Zhu Wei doesn't care what Li Xinyu's mobile phone text message says, what he cares about is Tang Xinyan's text message, only a few nine words "Take care of yourself, happy new year." ”
Zhu Wei quickly dialed a few words and sent it back to Tang Xinyan: "You are the same, Happy Spring Festival!" ”
In the TV program, EBC TV's gala was even more performed**, the first female idol group of the Ming Kingdom, Yaochi SG seven-person group officially debuted, seven people just came out with the first MV a few days ago, the MV was shot by the professional team director from South Korea, in the MV, seven fairies wearing Ming Hanfu were bored in the heavenly court, ran to the world and came to the Eastern Capital, wearing the costumes of fashionable girls while singing and dancing, and occasionally giving everyone a close-up of Hanfu from time to time, which is a combination of ancient costumes and modernity, which can be called perfect.
This time they performed on stage, they also performed in this way, because they didn't have time to change their costumes, so they wore Hanfu in addition to the beautiful girl's costumes. The performance was very successful, and Zhuang Yanxiao, Qi Xiaoyue, Chen Dongling and others officially debuted.
In order to create a high-quality Spring Festival Gala suitable for all ages, EBC has made great efforts to integrate a large number of Ming characteristics, and invited a number of hosts from major TV stations in China to participate in the hosting, such as Zhu Dan, He Jiong, Wang Han, Xie Na, Wu Zongxian, Chen Luyu, and participate in the hosting.
At the same time, a lot of powerful singers were invited, Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, Song Qian, Zhang Liangying, etc., including EXO from South Korea, Girls' Generation and F (X), as well as a number of powerful singers from the American Grammy Awards, including the powerful students of The Voice of China this year, more stars Zhu Wei didn't have time to read them one by one, the time had reached 11 o'clock, the dumplings had been cooked on many plates, and the palace maids packed the dumplings into the imported Lock safety box, Then the emperor personally took the palace people to deliver the dumplings to the policemen and guards who were on duty at the palace police posts. The police were very touched by this move.
After finishing his work, Zhu Wei returned to Xianning Palace for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. Xianning Palace made a table of Yingzhou's exclusive meals, and there were special Yingzhou jade liquor on the table, as well as various wines, Yingzhou Tusu wine, Ming Kingdom has always had the tradition of drinking Tusu wine, and it is rumored that it is rumored to drive away evil spirits and avoid taxes, and there are no diseases. So everyone in the palace will drink a little bit on Chinese New Year's Eve.
Seeing that the time has passed 12 o'clock, all the people in the palace have given the queen mother and the emperor New Year's greetings, the queen mother and the emperor have already prepared red envelopes, different from the red envelopes in China, the red envelopes of the Ming Kingdom are made of red hard paper, which are printed with orchids, cherry blossoms, peony flowers, crape myrtle flowers, pine trees, bamboo and other patterns. There was peace in the palace.
At this time, the highest ratings of the five Ming countries were the imperial public broadcaster EBC, reaching 58%, and the worst performance was Yingzhou Animation Broadcasting Company ECTV, with an audience rating of only 1%, and the other shares were divided by Dongdu Wireless Broadcasting Company OBS, Yingzhou Broadcasting Company YTV, and Daming Broadcasting Company MBS.
Although the studios of the Spring Festival Gala of Mingguo are very average, the quality is still good, and the Spring Festival Gala of the four TV stations has signed a network broadcast contract with Mingguo's iQiyi, LeTV, TengQ video, and Youku Tudou. At the same time, the advertising revenue is also okay, and the four companies are not less profitable.
After eating the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the guards completely closed the palace gate, and the last off-duty policeman took Zhu Weibao's dumplings and several boxes of special auspicious fruits, Ruyi cakes, pear blossom cakes and other pastries to the Zhu family house and the Zhang family house in Kaihuafang.
On the first day of the first month, it is the great court meeting of the Ming Kingdom, the great court meeting is the most important official activity of the Ming Dynasty in a year, all the officials above the seven grades of officials all wear crown court clothes to the Xingqing Palace, with the upper center of the curved collar, holding the wat board, to congratulate the emperor on the New Year, the palace is surrounded by the royal coat of arms and national flags, and the four brocade clothes guard thousand commanders (artificial life forms) stand in the four corners of the palace. There are many guards of honor in the hall.
The Provincial Shangbao Division of the palace set up a treasure case on the east side of the throne of the Xingqing Hall the day before, set up an incense case on the south side of the palace Dan Majesty, and set up a Zhonghe Shaole in the east and west of the palace in the Ministry of Rites. Waiting for the dawn of New Year's Day, the brocade guards display the guard of honor and the guard of honor on the Dan Majesty and the Dan Qi, set up a Ming fan in the hall, and display the train wheel on the Dan Qi. Four people with whips, standing on the left and right sides facing north, the teaching workshop division in the east and west of the Dan Majesty, at the same time facing the north, the Ministry of Rites and Ceremonies set up the same copywriting, jade silk case in the east of the Dan Majesty. The guards set up guards in the palace and above the Dan Majesty, sent armor soldiers wearing ancient military uniforms outside the Danqi to the palace gate, and the Jinyi guard set up a general at the west gate of the palace, and set up a flag outside the east, all east and west arrays.
The Ministry of Rites also built a guard of honor horses and rhino elephants in the palace, facing each other from east to west, Si Chenlang's time is located in the east of the inner road, and the Ministry of Rites sent two correction officials, located in the north of Danqi, two internal praise officials are located in the palace, two external praise officials are located in the north of Danqi, and the transmission system and the propaganda table stand in the hall, all facing each other from east to west.
The drums sounded in the early morning, the hundred officials started from the prime minister Song Ximo, the officials of Zhongshu Province, Menxia Province, and the Eighteen Ministries, wearing court clothes, and lined up outside the Xingqing Gate in turn, and the reporters from China, South Korea, Japan, and other countries had already prepared long guns and short cannons, and when the two drums were beaten, the right officials entered from the left and right doors of the Xingqing Gate, went to the east and west of Danqi, and stood to the north, when the three drums were beaten, the officials of the deacon went to the Xingqing Hall first, Zhu Wei wore a black crown, and the bell stopped.
The ceremonial secretary sang the deacon's salute, sang and bowed five times, the singer invited him to ascend to the hall, Zhu Wei got up, the teaching department immediately played the neutralization music, Shang Baosi walked in front with the treasure seal, the guide guide in front, the treasure seal was placed on the table, the music stopped, and all the etiquette proceeded slowly.
After all the officials were in place, Xia Haiyan (Minister of Commerce), the acting speaker, knelt in the center of His Majesty and said loudly: "Xia Haiyan, the official minister, meet Zhengdan, Sanyang Kaitai, and everything is salty and new." The official in charge of the East Zhiguan said: "The law should be Huang Zhong, and the day should be long." Xia Haihai continued, "Respect to His Majesty the Emperor, Yingqian Nahu, Fengtian Yongchang."
All the steps are strictly in accordance with the ancient rites, and UNESCO is also amazed at how well the etiquette system of the Ming Kingdom has been preserved, and it seems that there must be no problem with the world-class intangible heritage of the Great Dynasty Meeting.
After a few more links, after that, the chanting officer inserted the wat board, bowed three times, and danced. Praise kneeling and kowtowing and shouting long live, the officials put their hands on their foreheads and shouted "long live", and sang the mountain chant "long live" and "long live". The reporter noticed that when the ceremony was shouting long live, the performers and guards had to shout long live together, praise and then pull out the wat board, lean over the ground, get up to play music, praise and worship four times and get up and stop the music, and finally the ceremonial division played the end of the ceremony, played the middle and music, waved the whip quietly, the emperor Zhu Wei got up on the throne, Shang Baosi held the treasure seal, the guide officer guided in front, left the Xingqing Palace, the music stopped, and the hundred officials walked out of the Xingqing Hall in turn.
The ceremonial ceremony was traditional and solemn, and the whole scene shocked the world's media, and the participants and foreign journalists were unforgettable and full of praise. It took a long time for the officials to get to where they are now.
The ambassador and consul from Japan in Ming gave a thumbs up and praised: "Ming is really a country of etiquette, leaving an unforgettable impression for a lifetime." ”
South Korean Ambassador Ahn Jae-hyuk said in an interview with reporters: "This ceremony is very spectacular, and I think only our Korean ritual of sacrificing holes in the world can be compared." ”
The South Korean ambassador's unashamed remarks immediately aroused the bitter scolding of Chinese netizens.