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When I got home, it was already noon, and my father and Uncle Qi also went out, so I guess they were busy with the toothbrush. + Li Dongsheng also returned to his room, slept and woke up to find that there was nothing to do. So in ancient times, although you could live a very ** life, it was really boring, there was no mobile phone, TV, and no entertainment. There was nothing to play, and at this time, someone came to report at the door, and someone came to visit the young master.

Li Dongsheng was curious at this time, the original body didn't have any friends, someone took the initiative to visit, he was so bored, so he went to the front yard to see which one it was. When I arrived in the front yard, it turned out to be my classmate Li Ting, the thin man who talked to him last time. I saw Li Dongsheng come out. Li Ting came up and said, "I saw that you haven't gone to school in the past two days, so let's see if you are in better health." Li Dongsheng also returned the salute: "My body is fine, but I don't want to go to the academy much." Li Ting said: "I know that Brother Li doesn't want to see which eldest grandson Hao, after two days of the Dragon Boat Festival, there are dragon boats on the river, I heard that the county order is also going, why don't we go too." Li Dongsheng was bored at home, so he agreed to go to see the dragon boat together the day after tomorrow.

The Dragon Boat Festival, which existed in the pre-Qin Dynasty and flowed through the Han Dynasty, has always been an important custom that Chinese in both the north and the south are concerned about, although there are different opinions about its origin. In the Tang Dynasty, the Dragon Boat Festival became a legal national holiday for the first time from folk customs, and has since become one of the most important festivals for Chinese for more than a thousand years. On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, Li Lin first gave Li Dongsheng five colors of silk threads, blue, red, yellow, white, and black, and tied them into "long-lived wisps". These five colors are very particular, from the theory of yin and yang five elements, respectively represent wood, metal, fire, water, earth; Tied to the arm, it can drive away the plague, ward off evil and stop evil, and it is also a kind of jewelry. Wrapped in zongzi, zongzi was originally a kind of seasonal food in the Tang Dynasty, also known as horn millet. Xiaoju and other girls called wormwood into human shapes "Ai Ren", and hung mugwort leaves in the air and cut them into tiger shapes called "Ai Hu"; Ancient girls vied to wear it to ward off evil spirits and drive away miasma.

After eating zongzi and waiting at the door for a while, Li Ting came over. Li Dongsheng followed Li Ting, because he didn't know the road himself. Out of the city gate, it is a road as wide as 2 lanes, paved with stones, pressed relatively flat, extending forward, with no end in sight. On both sides of the road are sparsely planted trees, and in the distance are farmland, scattered with farmers busy in the fields. Li Dongsheng didn't know where my father's land was or what he planted.

Li Ting didn't know what he was thinking, the two of them were gossiping, basically Li Ting was talking, Li Dongsheng was listening, and he knew everything about the things in the college, Wansong Academy was a small academy, and there was a dean surnamed Zhang and a teacher Ge, and the quality of teaching was not very good according to Li Dongsheng's ideas. It is estimated that it is to teach the basic literacy or something. But Dean Zhang and Dean Chen of Qingsong Academy in the same city, the two of them have not liked each other since they were children, and they have to compete in everything. At the time of the founding of the country, neither of them was admitted to the imperial examination, and then they went home and opened a academy, and there was a contradiction for the sake of students. Lantian is a small county town, and there are few people who can study, and the big families are all their own family education, and the poor families can't afford to study, so they only want Li Ting, Li Dongsheng and the side children of the big family to go to the academy to study. There are only 4 or 50 people in this county who can go to the academy to study, and in order to compete for students, the two deans agree to compete in the academy once a year, and whoever wins will be recruited first. After recruiting the losing academy, it can only be recruited, and Wansong Academy has been losing for 3 years in a row. Dean Zhang vowed to win this year, and also made a promise in the college: as long as the students who win in the big competition, he will use his personal connections to send the students to Chang'an to study. For this commitment, students are desperately trying to make every effort to present themselves. In the academy, he thinks that the best student is Changsun Hao. So that day, seeing that the little fat man explained the Analects so well, he had scruples, so he attacked him.

Li Dongsheng didn't care, now his physical age is 15 years old, but his psychological age is 30 years old, how can he see it like a child. Let's go to Chang'an again, Chang'an is so easy to go? Look at the housing prices in Beijing later, the cost of living, the competitive pressure, not to mention that it is still a feudal society, in case you encounter a character such as a clean street tiger and a little bully, and you will be beaten by others or in vain.

After going out of the city for three or four miles, I turned an intersection and heard a noise of people. I saw that the river was crowded with people, and people wearing various colors of clothes gathered together, and now there is no distinction between men and women. There are people selling water, soup cakes, sugar gourds, stalls, selling across baskets, children crying, and adults scolding. There is also a high platform in the distance, made of wood, the wooden platform is covered with red and green, and it is estimated that it is the rostrum where leading cadres and powerful people such as county commanders sit. Offstage is the gong and drum team, which is estimated to be cheering for the dragon boat. The two of them did not squeeze into the crowd either, and walked directly to the rostrum, because where the seat of the academy was.

During the Tang Dynasty, the economy was prosperous and the people's lives were relatively stable. On the other hand, some folk customs and activities are also supported by the government. Therefore, the wind of racing is particularly strong. When the dragon boat races, the flute plays the ancient sacrificial movement, the boatman sings the high-pitched and agitated boat song, the music, the singing, the oars, the sound of the water waves play a magnificent symphony, the ladies on both sides of the strait are like clouds, the clothes are in groups, the silver hairpin reflects the sun, and the spectators are like blocking. According to the ancient and modern books of the Southern Tang Dynasty, the county and village communities are rewarded by the government for the colorful satin when the Dragon Boat Festival is raced every year, and the two are faster than it to determine the winner, such as the one who wins the championship, and a pair of silver bowls are rewarded, which is called "marking".

The two finally squeezed into the audience, and Li Dongsheng also met Dean Zhang, a very ordinary middle-aged man, the kind that you can't find in the crowd, and the image of the ancient scholar in white clothes fluttering, holding a folding fan in his hand, and the jade tree in the wind is too far from what Li Dongsheng thought in his heart. In fact, if you think about it, you know, how can an ordinary person like the dean, who is always worried about life, have something to worry about to clean himself up. Li Dongsheng went to salute Dean Zhang and Teacher Ge first, and Dean Zhang seemed to be familiar with Li Dongsheng, and asked him if he was well. Teacher Ge still looked cold. Then Li Dongsheng saw Changsun Hao, which guy was still dragging him, and when he saw Li Dongsheng looking over, he snorted, turned his head, and continued to talk to his classmates.

(End of chapter)

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