The snow is falling, and the "Winter Solstice Festival" is coming as scheduled.

"Before and after the winter solstice, the gentleman is quiet, and all officials are dead." Choose the "capable man", drum and blow the sheng, and play the "law of the yellow bell" to celebrate. The people visited relatives and friends and gave each other cakes and delicacies. Happiness knows no bounds.

The so-called "before and after the winter solstice" refers to a three-day holiday with a head and a tail. King Ji set up a state banquet to entertain his ministers. More than 300 stones, all attended. The main hall can't sit down, and there is a side hall. Below 300 stones, Liu Bei also ordered the city mayors and officials to set up a banquet on behalf of the magistrate to reward the young officials. Don't slack off.

The refugees who moved to the country of Ji were not given good homes and fields, fields and horses, cattle, and farm tools, all of which were obtained for free. Installments are required. Fifty acres of fertile land yields more than six stones per mu, and the fields of grass and carp are also bumper every year, and the hospital has a medicinal garden, weaving blankets, and so on, each with its own input. Excluding taxes, loans, and household expenses, there is still an annual surplus of 200,000 yuan.

The treasury is balanced, and there are no bad debts. It shows that the wind and rain are smooth, and it also shows that the people of the times are honest and trustworthy.

Although there are many wealthy merchants in the country, there are no usurers. The reason for this is the treasury. There are interest-free loans with a treasury, and who else will lift the usury that is exploited with heavy interest. And the reason why the library can run successfully. The detailed system of compiling households and uniting the people has made great contributions. Therefore, the advancement of the Han Dynasty is reflected in all aspects.

The so-called charcoal in the snow. Lonely and helpless, at the moment of life and death, someone sent a bowl of hot soup, and I never forgot it, and I was grateful. The hearts of the people of thistle are back, so there is no need to say more. Following the example of the Western Regions, Liu Bei will be headquartered in Lousang's treasury and promote it throughout the country. All the cities in the Ji Kingdom have different levels of treasury. Again: Ling, Zai, Cheng, Peng, Shi and other subordinate officials. The two ministers are solely responsible. The first rank of Qianshi's "Treasury Order" was the fourth brother Liu Xiu. Liu Zongren, the eldest brother Liu Wen is in charge of Taicang, and the fourth brother Liu Xiu is in charge of the treasury. The money and grain are all in the hands of the Liu family, which has attracted praise from top to bottom. The old patriarch came to the palace and thanked the princess.

The country is the world. If you can't work together, you can't talk about governing the country. If you don't sweep a house, how can you sweep the world?

After the winter solstice, the days get longer. From time to time, there is a custom of "offering shoes and socks" to show the meaning of "long-term auspiciousness". It is said that in ancient times, there was a custom of subordinates offering shoes and socks to the monarch during the winter solstice festival. Therefore, the winter solstice festival is also known as the "long performance festival", taking the meaning of "the long track is the end of the track".

"Han has embroidered mandarin duck shoes, and Emperor Zhao ordered his aunt to go on the winter solstice." Women present socks to their in-laws during the winter solstice festival, and it has become a habit to follow each other.

Of course, the gift of shoes and socks is not limited to women. During the Three Kingdoms, Cao Zhi presented shoes and socks to his father Cao Cao. Cao Zhi's "Winter Solstice Socks Table": "Fushimi old ceremony, the national winter solstice, dedication socks, so welcome blessings and practice long." "Quanhou Hanwen" also includes an article in "Winter Solstice Socks": "The sun rises below, and the sun is forever in the sky; Long track Jingfu, as for 100 million years. "Take advantage of the winter solstice to offer socks to express good wishes and expectations.

Dedication to the socks, there are still reservations in later generations.

"Female workers in the Jin and Wei palaces, to the next day of the long line, the old woman to the aunt, to the day of dedication, socks, the beginning of the female workers." On the day of the winter solstice, female members will present their own hand-made shoes and socks to the elders of the family to practice the meaning of the festival, and also indicate that the female workers start from this year, try the female popularity and wish the respect a long life and happiness. "Youyang Miscellaneous" also contains: "Women in the Northern Dynasties often wear socks and boots on the winter solstice. In Du Shaoling's poem, "embroidery five patterns add weak threads" refers to the situation of women making socks.

Until the Tang and Song dynasties, women mostly bound their feet and did not have socks, and this custom gradually stopped.

The king of Chu has a thin waist, and the king of this Ji has long legs.

Plain gauze foot clothes swept the palace. Colors are not limited to skin tones, but also have seven colors. The heart clothes are short, all of them are Western Regions style and combined with the Han family weaving and embroidery skills, each with the style, not enough for outsiders.

The third day after the winter solstice is the wax day.

The gift also came as promised. Fourth, the money is popular, and it is popular in the country of thistle. It is known as the "Thistle Country Currency". Even a hundred officials are not exempt from vulgarity.

When the wax is given, the wives and mothers of the hundred officials will enter the palace to meet the princess and the princess. It is called "Chaoqing". The wives and mothers of hundreds of officials still have the old custom of staying in the palace. In order to avoid suspicion, Liu Bei led hundreds of civil and military officials to Xilin Racecourse to watch the annual horse racing finals. went back and forth for three days, just to avoid staying in the palace of the wife and mother of the hundred officials.

The so-called "Kangzhuang gallops away, and the poor alleys bow." ”

It means that the nobles race horses, and the commoners bow to the horses. The only difference is that there are horses and no horses.

The country of thistle is known as the state of ten thousand horses. How can there be no horses? So most of the people who bowed in the alleys were young children. The half-grown teenagers will accompany the horses to the forest track around Xilin and learn the art of riding.

The predecessor of the forest track was the forest horse track. Naxi Wu Tieqi and Xilin Xiao rode on weekdays to walk and walk horses, patrolling the path of the border. After the Han and Hu were not distinguished, there were more and more teenagers from Lousang and Xilin who came to learn equestrianism. So Lou Sang Ling Le Yin and Xilin Ling Yan Rou joined forces with the two cities to transform the horse road into a track.

The track that surrounds the forest is an excellent venue for endurance racing.

Endurance horse racing originated from the weight-bearing training of the cavalry of the Ji Kingdom, where horses had to carry a weight of five stones (150 kg) to travel 400 miles (160 km). The one who takes the shortest time wins.

Four hundred miles is too long. It was divided into 100 miles, 200 miles, 300 miles, and 400 miles, with different levels of endurance races.

Xilin is the natural border between the Ji Kingdom and the Ji Kingdom. From time to time, there are herdsmen returning to the south, dragging their families and mouths, and breaking into the forest track. So Yan Rou was outside the track again, carving out a horse path. For shepherds to walk. Very well thought out.

Around the track, many horse farm pavilions have also been built to stock the war horses of the thistle country. Everything related to horses: stables, horse farms, horse farms, forage fields, and so on, are all in the hands of Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping. Ma Zheng is not simpler than civil affairs. The two then divided the labor: Su Shuangguan raised horses, and Zhang Shiping was in charge of feeding horses.

Liu Bei said that Su Shuangren's "(thistle) family horse order" also led the palace housekeepers, held the horses of the thistle country, castrated and breeded, and raised suckling horses, and took milk to make cheese. Zhang Shiping served as the "(thistle) stable order" and led the palace housekeepers, in charge of alfalfa planting, forage storage, and cattle and sheep animal husbandry.

In a high position, "Shiping" should not be named. So I asked the great Confucian Chen Yu to name it: and. Zhang He, the word Shiping.

"Poetry, Xiaoya, Logging" has the sentence "God listens to it, and it is peaceful and peaceful". The name and word are agreeable, and it is also "Qingping World".

Since the construction of the undulating "Luanyu Qiu" canopy, it is used to shelter from the wind and keep warm. Horse racing can be held all year round. The final annual finals don't need to be rushed. It was fixed on the day of Wax.

The racecourse was full of people.

The snow has long since been cleared. The foal riding the thousand-mile horse "Qingyun" presented by Liu Bei is the biggest hit.

A group of friends beside him, Zhang He and others are all there. The so-called "light clouds are not frosted, and the branches are orange and yellow; The line is a well-known thing, and the breeze is fragrant with water. Liu Bei asked Su Shuang to select the horse from his own stable in the backyard of Lou Sang's old house, and presented it to Zhang He on behalf of the Qianli horse, which was named "Frost". "Light clouds" and "frost" are both white horses, but they are not solid colors. But they also complement each other.

Thinking of the white dragon in the old mansion, Liu Bei couldn't help but think about Zhao Yun who had been on the same page for ten years. Counting the age, there should be fourteen or five.