Shangyuan Festival may not be as warm as the family reunion on Chinese New Year's Eve, and not as festive as visiting relatives and paying New Year's Greetings on New Year's Day, but it is definitely the most lively festival of the Chinese nation.

The whole city of Nanjing, since the sunset dyed red sky, everywhere will be lit up, all kinds of lanterns are hung all over the streets and alleys, and the most prosperous Liren Street, West Chang'an Street is full of dignitaries and dignitaries of the scholars, the voice of the boiling people on the Qinhuai River, is resounding half of Nanjing.

Shangyuan Festival set up a hundred official banquets, the elderly banquet, even if this custom is a typical product of alienated Confucianism, there was no such custom in the Sui and Tang dynasties, since the Song Dynasty and scholars shared the world, the rules under the world suddenly became more and more, and then the need for officials to do more and more.

Zhu Yunwen didn't know what the meaning of he, the emperor, would come forward and give a banquet to hundreds of officials and the elderly? Is it to strengthen the courtesy of people in the world to respect the elderly?

During the Qin and Han dynasties, there were old people among the people, and the Son of Heaven gave him a rod, thinking that his person should be respected, and later abolished this rule, because the emperor found that not every old man was a kind and kind good person, and if the scepter was given by a non-human, it would tarnish the emperor's face in vain.

Why should a stranger who doesn't know anything respect him? Just because he's old, you have to respect him?

The emperor is unwilling to suffer this loss, and he is not willing to come forward to pay tribute to the old man in person, respect for the old is completely a spontaneous behavior of the people out of the beautiful side of human nature, everyone knows each other in the short time, and knows whether the old man is a good person or a bad person, so he will respect, rather than forcing the world to respect the elderly.

But this rule was strengthened and alienated in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and it seemed that disrespecting the elderly had become a sin. You should be blamed by the world, even if you are good and the old man is bad, because the world does not know the past of the two of you, it is a crime to say that you disrespect the old man just because of this, which can be described as deformed politeness.

If you don't respect the old and love the old, how can you rely on the old and sell the old?

There are more and more rules of politeness and etiquette, and the Chinese nation has turned from a lion who is not subordinate to the Quartet to a sheep.

A group of students who lived in the beautiful fantasy world of "the beginning of man, the nature is good", when they grew up to the court, became the country's cabinet ministers, six scholars, when they began to step into the post of education prince, the dynasty up and down became sheep.

He couldn't say anything about his partiality, because the rule of giving banquets to the elderly was still carried forward in the hands of Taizu.

Taizu loves the people like a son, and feels that there is an old man in the family who has a treasure, how to deal with local political affairs, what is the state of people's livelihood, and the local old man can give him some suggestions, so he is very happy to entertain the elderly.

Later, Taizu found that these old men who didn't know a single big character, even if he lived for three hundred years, he only had one acre and three points of land in front of him, how could he put forward any good policies for governing the country, coupled with the inconvenient transportation and bitter cold weather, so it was changed to entertain Nanzhili.

Regardless of whether these old men and old ladies are useful or not, this custom can be regarded as preserved, so that after Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne, he had to follow the ancestral system every year, and he couldn't overturn the rules set by Taizu now, even if there were some things he didn't like, he couldn't touch them.

The place where the banquet was set up was arranged in the Huagai Palace, which is a hall in the middle of the three major halls, which is used to canonize the queen, edict the prince, feast on the festival and banquet of hundreds of officials, edict the feudal king, princess, meet the Yan Shenggong, accept the great pilgrimage and other large-scale political activities and congratulatory ceremonies, and is regarded as the most popular hall among the three major halls.

(Don't take Baidu Encyclopedia as the standard, canonizing the queen and establishing the prince is not in the palace, but in the canopy hall!) The author flipped through the actual records for almost two hours, from Taizu to Emperor Jiajing, both of which were held in the Huagai Palace.

After Jiajing, the three major halls were struck by lightning, and the reconstruction was not long after being struck by lightning, and was razed to the ground by fire, the Ming Dynasty has no spare strength to rebuild the three major halls, only hastily repaired the Huagai Palace, very simple, so the responsibilities of the Huagai Palace were transferred to the Jinshen Hall and the Qianqing Palace, if the Huagai Palace is still there, the Ming Dynasty must all be in the Huagai Palace to do these ceremonies. ）

(Zhu Laosi, who is forced to work, has been fighting against the three major halls for hundreds of years since he moved the capital to Beijing, and there are no teachers of astronomy and geography who are involved to talk about why the Beijing Imperial Palace is always struck by lightning.) ）

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live."

Zhu Yunwen ascended the hall, the ceremony and music rang out in unison, hundreds of people knelt down together, singing the sound of long live, and the snow on the glazed tiles of the earthquake fell down.

"Today's festival, all the ministers are exempt, and the elderly are exempt!"

Zhu Yunwen threw off his sleeves and sat down.

With a chime, the mountain shouted thanks and resumed his seat.

Zhu Yunwen glanced at it, and Shuangxi took out the prepared edict for the festival and read it out, which was nothing more than the splendid articles of the Hanlin students, a lot of gorgeous rhetoric praising the nonsense of the prosperous era, and after reading it, Zhu Yunwen raised his glass:

"Congratulations for the holidays!"

Everyone in the hall raised their glasses.

"Congratulations for the holidays!"

Zhu Yunwen frowned and raised the cup to his mouth, his nose moved slightly, and his brows suddenly stretched, and he drank it all quietly.

This little clever ghost, when did you change it to boiled water?

It's better to boil water, it's a cure for all diseases!

Now Zhu Yunwen is down-to-earth, he was almost not poured to death by the clan relatives and martial artists last night, and today he took boiled water to top, the frequency of this toast is much higher, and the four members of the cabinet were almost not spit out by Zhu Yunwen.

"The minister is not strong enough to drink!"

Fang Xiaoru's face was red and his neck was thick, and his tongue was knotted when he spoke, and he didn't want to raise a glass anymore.

Emperor Lao Tzu is too good to drink, such a large amount, worthy of being the grandson of Taizu.

Zhu Yunwen made a face, raised his cup and gestured at Fang Xiaoru: "Today's Shangyuan Festival, Fang Ge Lao still doesn't give me this face?" ”

No one would have thought that the emperor would be so shameless, where did Fang Xiaoru dare to refuse Zhu Yunwen bluntly, and he couldn't tell him to forgive, so he had to pinch his nose and frown, gritted his teeth and raised his neck to drink it all.

Fang Xiaoru's appearance reminded Zhu Yunwen of the scene when he first joined the work in his previous life, drinking with the office leaders, and he was so reckless.

"It's good to be young."

Tyrant Zhao looked at Fang Xiaoru and was happy, he was over sixty years old, and the emperor wouldn't pour him wine, so he was happy to watch the jokes on the side, and he had the leisure to squeeze Fang Xiaoru.

Fang Xiaoru only felt that the world was spinning at this time, where was there still time to build stubble, as soon as he heard the words of Storm Zhao, it was estimated that Fang Xiaoru had never drunk so much wine like this when he was a child, and at this time he could be regarded as letting go of himself and drinking hi, and staggered and picked up the wine glass: "Come on, come on, Storm Pavilion Old, I will respect you later." ”

Call you a!

Storm Zhao's face twitched slightly, and he smiled embarrassedly: "Xizhi, you are drunk." ”

"I'm not drunk! I can still drink! ”

Fang Xiaoru was babbling: "The festival is very good with wine, come and drink this cup with me." ”

The two of them argued for a long time, but after all, they were defeated, and they accompanied Fang Xiaoru with a bitter face, and before they could eat a mouthful of food, they saw Zhu Yunwen smile at him: "Old Tyrant, the cabinet should be in charge of state affairs, fortunately, I respect you." ”

Well, the emperor used the word respect, and he couldn't drink it.

Tyrant Zhao knew that tonight, he probably wouldn't want to go straight out of the palace!