In fact, there was no Wanshou Festival before the Tang Dynasty, and there was no ceremony for the birthday of the Daqing Emperor in the palace, to be exact, the Wanshou Festival started from Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty.

Today is May 12th, the Longevity Festival has begun, and the Holy Birthday Banquet is held in the palace at this time, the scene is quite grand, and the artists in the workshop are singing and dancing. At the beginning, the musicians first imitated the song of a hundred birds, inside and outside solemnly, only to hear the mid-air and the song, if the Luan phoenix soars to set. Zaizhi sat in the hall with the prince and foreign envoys, and the group of officials and foreign envoys sat in the two corridors outside the hall. In front of each person are all kinds of food, such as ring cakes, oil cakes, jujube tars, fruits, etc. The food of the Liao envoys is the most abundant, and the pigs, sheep, chickens, geese, rabbits, and cooked meat with bones are added. Those who poured wine for the emperor raised their sleeves and sang: "Suiyu wine ......"

The musicians of the teaching workshop have already set up instrumental music in the color shed under the mountain building, there are clappers, pipa, gonghou, elevated drums, drums, iron and stone square rings, flutes, sheng, xun, zhen, squirts, dragon flutes, etc., and there are 200 sides of the cane drum on both sides.

The first imperial wine is raised, the musician is a song board, the sheng, flute, and flute are played first, and then the music is sounded in unison. The ministers raised wine, the officials poured glasses, and the artists danced on the stage, dancing and solo.

The second light is the same as before. By the time of the third imperial wine, the left and right armies entered the theater. The so-called left and right armies actually refer to the left and right sides of Jingshifang City, and the actors are all folk artists. Hundred opera items include: pole up, rope jumping, handstand, waist bending, bowl injection, bottle kicking, somersault, and so on.

Where the royal banquet to the third lamp, the party under the wine and meat, drums, explosive meat, double hump slots. Four lamps, miscellaneous theater. In the fifth, the musicians played the pipa and the square sound, and after dancing the three dances, the playful color of the army entered, and more than 200 people from the children's dance team entered, and the dance steps marched together and knocked on the temple steps. Joining the army and the first child class asked questions, the first line (slogan) of the children's class was recited, the music started, and the children's dance team sang and danced.

Then the miscellaneous drama entered. This one, under the wine group fairy burn, smallpox cake, Taiping Biluo, dry rice, wisp meat soup, lotus meat cake. The sixth imperial wine, first sheng played a slow song, three dances, and then the left and right armies played the ball. In front of the hall, a three-foot high goal was erected, and whistles, whistles, canes and drums cheered for the two teams. This appetizer is fake turtle fish, honey floating crispy flowers. In the seventh light, more than 400 girls dance team took the stage. The girls are all young and beautiful people selected from the market, and they are dressed like fairies, holding flowers and dancing, dancing and singing.

Then the acrobatics entered, and the military color interspersed with witty words between singing, dancing and acrobatics. This one is the eighth lamp of cooking sheep, Hu cakes, and burning golden sausages, singing songs, playing slow tunes, and dancing three dances. The appetizer is fake sand fish, steamed buns and belly soup. In the ninth, the left and right armies performed sumo, drank and eaten, and ate with nails. The emperor set off.

The above description is quoted from the plot of the Longevity Festival in Meng Yuanlao's "Tokyo Menghualu".

At this time, Meng Ming was also at the banquet, and now it is still a separate meal system, each person has a small table in front of him, with all kinds of food, Meng Ming is the seat of the members of the Liao State Mission, there are four seats, towards Zhao Zhen in the front is the envoy Liu Shenxing, followed by the deputy envoy Zheng Hongjie, Xiao Pidi, next to Meng Ming There is also a handsome young man. At this moment, the royal banquet to the third lamp, the wine table is wine and meat, drums, explosive meat, double hump slots, acting is a hundred operas, in fact, it is to write acrobatic projects, such as top bowls: the actor's head is a stack of porcelain bowls, performing splits, golden rooster independence, other ingots, handstands and other technical actions. Another example is tightrope walking, jiu-jitsu, stacking arhats, etc., which will not be described one by one. Meng Ming looked at it for a while, then lowered his head to eat and drink, he was eating a double hump slot (that is, the current dumplings), this slot is half meat and half vegetarian, a small plate is only fourteen or fifteen, after a while, Meng Ming finished eating. There were also drums and meat on the table, and Meng Ming launched an attack on them, and for a while, there was only a small half left. He noticed that someone was watching him, and he ignored it for the time being.

Meng Ming is basically full of wine and food, and the following dishes are basically tasted, and the meals at this time are allowed to be packed and taken home, and Meng Ming prepared a food box in advance before coming. He has other tasks today, one is to issue new coins today, and Meng Ming wants to go to the third envoy Li Di to assist; Then it was to take Zhao Mingyue home, Zhao Mingyue and Meng Ming were angry in the past few days, so they went to the palace to accompany the Queen Mother Liu E, and after four days, there was also a decree from the palace to let Meng Ming take her home. Meng Ming's scalp was a little numb, he didn't want to see Liu E, the scandal between him and Yelu Yanni must have been known by the Queen Mother, and there would definitely be no good fruit to eat if he went, and it was certain that he would be reprimanded.

Fortunately, Meng Ming engraved Liu E's head on the coin, which made her heart flutter for a while, and it is estimated that she will not be too harsh on Meng Ming.

Meng Ming was looking down to find the matter of picking up Mingyue, suddenly a gust of incense wind came, and a person came to him, Meng Ming only saw a pair of small leather boots, black embroidered with auspicious cloud patterns, Meng Ming raised his head and looked, it turned out to be Yelu Yanni again, he secretly said, "It's really ghostly." I saw that she was wearing men's clothes, a moon-white brocade dress with fine patterns inlaid with fine patterns, and a soft-footed head (which was lined with a "scarf" (i.e., a wig) under the head, or a "wooden scarf" to make the appearance of the scarf neatly fixed, and the feet of the scarf were thickened and painted to become soft feet, making it droop and fluttering when moving, which was loved by civil officials and scholars. ), a blue auspicious cloud wide-brimmed brocade belt is tied around the waist, and a Hetian jade pendant is hung on the brocade belt. Coupled with her tall stature, she has a smell of dust, and people who don't know her will think that she is a handsome Langjun. I only saw Yelu Yanni looking at Meng Ming, showing a narrow and playful smile, which was also unique, which made Meng Ming feel that his eyes were bright and a little distracted; She secretly grimaced at Meng Ming, and her red lips made a flying kiss, and suddenly Meng Ming became a little nervous. She didn't pester him, and sat back in her seat, which was the closest to Meng Ming in the Liao State Mission, and it seemed that she had deliberately done it. Although Yelu Yanni sat back in her seat, she held her chin with her jade hand and looked at Meng Ming with affection, looking like a nymphomaniac, which also attracted the strange eyes of others, as if she thought that the two were good friends, which made Meng Ming restless. Meng Ming approached her and said, "Your Royal Highness Princess, please pay attention to the occasion and etiquette, you are not good like this." Yelu Yanni didn't listen either, looking at Meng Ming and smirking softly, Meng Ming had no choice.