At the end of the year, there was a piece of news that caused a small ripple in Anlu City and then disappeared: the prince of Xiyang County had taken a concubine.

The chief manager Yu Wenliang has two sons, and it is rumored that there is a tiger and a cat, and the tiger refers to the eldest son Yu Wenming, the current Xiangzhou Thorn History, and the cat is the second son of this concubine, Gongyu Wenwen of Xiyang County.

I heard that the little widow surnamed Yang was from Yizhou, and she was widowed for a year, and this Yuwen Wen only married a lady like a flower at the beginning of the year, but she took a concubine before a year passed, and she was still a little widow with a daughter.

Yuwen Wen didn't care about the rumors outside, and some of the news was deliberately released by him in order to muddy the waters, and he wanted to 'be bright and bright' to include Widow Yang (Yang Lihua) in the mansion and didn't want her to change her surname.

Two days later is New Year's Day, the new year is coming, according to the custom at this time there are three important festivals to be celebrated in January: New Year's Day, Renri, and the fifteenth day of the first month.

The first day of the first month is New Year's Day, the beginning of the Yuan is also the morning of the Dan, New Year's Day is the beginning of one year old, so it is also called "three yuan", that is, the yuan of the year, the yuan of the month, the yuan of the day; Also known as the "three dynasties", that is, the dynasty of the year, the dynasty of the moon, the dynasty of the sun, the so-called one-yuan renewal, Vientiane renewal.

When the New Year arrives, people are reunited with their families at home to celebrate the New Year, and the first thing they do after waking up in the early morning of the first day is to burn firecrackers and grass in front of the courtyard to ward off evil spirits.

It is rumored that the evil ghost of the mountain is deep in the mountains, and people will inevitably have a serious illness when they encounter it, and its biggest weakness is that it is most afraid of listening to the sound of firecrackers.

Therefore, people use fire in front of the hall to barbecue the bamboo knots and make a crackling sound that makes the evil spirits of the mountain not dare to enter the door, which can not only drive away the ghosts but also add to the festive atmosphere of the festival.

"This is a real firecracker!" Yu Wenwen listened to the sound of firecrackers outside the window and smiled slightly, and Yu Chi Chifan was sitting on the side and grooming in the mirror.

None of the three glass mirrors made a year ago were left in the mansion, and the new mirror was not made in time, so Yu Wenwen planned to give it as a gift to his wife Wei Chi Chifan and Yang Lihua in the side room as a gift on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

The housekeeper Li Sanjiu commanded his subordinates to hang the statue of the god of the door in front of the gate of the mansion, and everyone in the mansion was wearing new clothes and beaming.

At this time, the door god is Shen Tu, Yu Lei instead of Qin Shubao and Yu Chi Jingde of later generations, according to legend, there are gods and Yu Lei in ancient times, and Yu Lei stood under the big peach tree on Du Shuo to inspect the hundred ghosts, if the ghosts plagued the world, they were tied with reeds and tied to feed the tigers.

Therefore, in order to pray for a year of peace, it is convenient to paste the statue of the god on the door on the first day, or write the names of the two gods on a peach board and hang them on the door to call them peach charms, and at the same time prepare a reed rope for the two gods to catch ghosts, so that ghosts do not dare to enter the door.

The statue of the door god attached to the two doors is also exquisite, with the left god and the right Yulei.

The first day of the first month is the day of the chicken, the Han Dynasty does not kill chickens during the New Year, to the Wei and Jin dynasties, people according to the view of the five elements that the first month of the earth sprouts grass and trees to grow, and the chickens feed on the five grains, and the sheep like to gnaw on the grass, so the sheep and chickens should be killed to help the growth of plants and trees.

That is, the chicken is killed and hung on the door to ward off the evil spirit and keep the peace, of course, it is only hung on the door of the mansion or painted on the paper pasted, if there is a dead chicken hanging on the doors of all the houses in the house, it will be too infiltrating.

After the façade of the dot is done, the New Year's Day greeting ceremony is officially carried out, the male owner of the Xiyang County Mansion Yu Wenwen and the hostess Yu Chi Chifan sit at the top of the main hall, and the side lady Yang and Yuwen Wen's stepdaughter Yuwen Little Girl sit on the side to accept the congratulations up and down the house.

Except for Yang Ji, who worshiped as a guest, the rest of the people worshiped the Lord Lang and his wife as a servant.

Yu Wenwen turned into a fortune boy and distributed a hanging copper coin of different sizes to everyone in the house, even the little boy held by Zhang Yu's sister-in-law.

Zhang Yu's sister-in-law helps in the house, and the one-year-old child also lives in the house, and the orphans and widows are taken care of in the house.

Yang Ji was alone, and he was not interested in starting a family, so Yuwenwen asked him to live in the mansion, and the two also discussed some secrets from time to time.

After the ceremony, it is to drink pepper and cypress wine, Tusu wine, peach soup, and eat gum tooth dumplings and Wuxin plates in order to make everyone healthy and live a happy life in the new year.

Pepper and cypress wine is a wine soaked in pepper flowers and cypress leaves, when people think that pepper is the essence of Yuheng Xing's food to make people young, cypress is a kind of fairy medicine food can avoid all diseases, drinking this wine is intended to wish everyone a light weight and healthy body in the new year.

The order of drinking is also quite special, the youngest drinks first, the oldest drinks later, first wishes the young people a successful career, and then wishes the elderly a long and healthy life, Xiyang County Gong's family Yuwen Eying is the youngest, Yang Lihua is the longest, but she is not yet twenty years old.

Peach soup is made of peach branches, peach leaves, and peach stems, and peach has the power to drive away evil spirits and ghosts in the eyes of the world.

Tusu wine is soaked in fine spices, dry ginger, etc., and people thought that eating it could make people remove the plague; It is said that eating gum tooth cake can make people's teeth strong, and it is syrup.

The five spice plates are made of five kinds of spicy vegetables, green onions, ginger, garlic, leeks and radish, which make people dredge the qi of the five internal organs and are beneficial to the body.

When you go out on the first day, you have to bring the ghost pill to expel the evil ghost to avoid the evil qi from invading the body, but the ghost pill is made of wax and realgar, and when you go out, the man and the woman wear it on the arm, Yuwen Wen can't cry or laugh at this kind of thing, but he still wears it according to the customs, but the ghost pill and his wife Wei Chi worship the elders.

Before going out, he worshiped the deceased Yuwen Yi in the ancestral hall, which was Yuwen Wen's patriarchal father and the source of his inheritance of the duke of Xiyang County.

Yu Wenwen has no acquaintances in Anlu, and his brother is far away in Xiangyang, so he took his wife to the governor's mansion to meet his father Yu Wenliang, and the father-in-law and mother-in-law next door will not be until the second day of the first month, because it is back to his parents' house.

However, sister-in-law Wei Chi Mingyue didn't care so much, on the morning of New Year's Day, she went to her sister and brother-in-law's house next door to find her good sister Yuwen Eying, Yuwen Wen secretly created a batch of new gifts, and specially concealed Yuwen Eying, until this morning, the curtain was unveiled:

Based on the children's playground equipment of the 21st century, he asked the carpenter to make slides, merry-go-rounds, and other things suitable for little girls, which is a New Year's gift prepared by Yuwen Wen for Yuwen Eying.

Although her father is the bastard, faint Junyu Wenyun, but since the Queen Mother Yang Lihua is already her own woman, she should be good to the little girl.

Yu Wenyun, did you think about today when you forced my wife to have bad intentions!

Yuwen Wen was unhappy when he thought of the face of Emperor Yu Wenyun of Tianyuan, but he saved his beloved wife from being defiled by the other party, and now he is still in love with the pretty widow Yang Lihua for life, which is really happy.

Of course, the ghost \\ father or something is pure rumors, and I will sue you for slander as well as if I was familiar with it!

The novel toys made Yu Chi Mingyue and Yuwen Eying, one big and one young, play happily, and they didn't want to go to the goldfish pond that they had to hang out every day before.

The goldfish pond in the house was urgently made by the housekeeper Li Sanjiu when Yuwen Wen had not returned to Anlu and stayed in Xiangyang, because he kept saying that he wanted to take Yuwen Eying's little girl to see the goldfish, and he didn't want to really become a goldfish guy.

The next day, after accompanying his wife back to his mother's house next door, Yu Wenwen had nothing to do for several days, and he accompanied Yu Chi Chifan and Yang Lihua, whose belly had been obviously bulging, to spend a few days in the house.

Next up is the second major festival of January: Human Day.

At this time, the first day of the first month is the day of the chicken, the second day is the dog, the third day is the pig, the fourth day is the sheep, the sixth day is the horse, and the seventh day of the first month is the day of the people.

On this day, every household takes seven kinds of vegetables as a soup, cuts the ribbon and forges it in the shape of a human or a gold figure and sticks it on the screen or wears it on the head as a symbol of the human day.

Huasheng is a kind of ornament worn by women on their heads.

Another custom is to climb high and look far away, which is a popular fashion in the north and south of the river, similar to climbing on the Chung Yeung Festival.

This is followed by the third major festival of January: the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Early in the morning, Yu Wenwen mysteriously asked Yu Chi Chifan to sit down in front of the dresser, and then put a wooden box in front of her: "This is a gift for her husband to Sanniang." ”

The beautiful woman who was still stranded on her cheeks after a night of wind and rain looked at her husband and then looked at the wooden box, she felt that it was the other party who was playing tricks, she must be thinking of something to help the thrush, and then she painted and entangled in the day of the day.

Wei Chi, who was about to put a moth to the fire, opened the wooden box with a red face, and after waiting to see the contents clearly, he let out a low cry, and his slender hand shook but was held by his husband.

It was a mirror that had never been seen before, like a bronze mirror, reflecting his face, but it was clear that it was full of hair.

"This is called a glass mirror, and it was made by the workshop in the house." Yu Wenwen whispered in her ear, "Do you like it?" ”

"I like it!" Wei Chi Chifan said without hesitation, looking at the mirror as if he had never seen the appearance of the person inside, and after a while, he began to tilt his head left and right to look at the reflection in the mirror.

She was completely settled, and looked at Yuwen Wen next to her as if she had nothing.

The same is true for Yang Lihua, when she gently opened the wooden box given to her by her husband, she instantly froze, and then she also tilted her head left and right to admire the beauty in the mirror.

As the former princess, queen, and queen mother of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Yang Lihua has seen countless treasures, but none of them can make her lose her soul like this mirror today, which is as unbelievable as the gods have cast a spell.

The two beauties were completely fascinated by the glass mirror, and Yu Wenwen even suspected that they would look at the mirror and ask, "Who is the most beautiful in the magic mirror and the magic mirror?" ”

Although Yuwen Wen said that the mirror should be ventilated and not shine too much, Yang Lihua was still reluctant, although for the sake of the fetus in the womb, Anu put away the mirror, but then couldn't help but take it out again.

The position of the head of the Yuwen Wen family was replaced by a glass mirror.

Eating Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is a custom after the Tang and Song dynasties, and at this time, people still regard the fifteenth day of the first lunar month as a day of sacrifice, especially the sacrifice to the silkworm god.

At this time, it is the time when the mulberry tree sprouts, and the growth of the mulberry tree is related to the harvest of silkworms, the living conditions of the people, and whether the government can collect the tax of three horses of silk per household on time.

Jingchu area is also popular ancestral door sacrifice customs, the fifteenth day of the first month to make bean paste on the top of the ointment to sacrifice the door, the specific process is first inserted on the left and right doors with the direction of the yang branch pointed, with wine preserved diet and bean porridge, cake and chopsticks to sacrifice.

For this custom of sticking chopsticks in the bowl and sacrificing, Yu Wenwen was speechless, and he could only follow the customs.

On the fifteenth day and night of the first lunar month, the land of Jingchu is popular for pregnant women to wear the cicada, which is another name for the daylily, and the cicada is to use the daylily to tie into a cicada shape for pregnant women to wear and pray for the birth of a boy.

Yu Wenwen started tossing and turning early in the morning, and it was not until the evening that he made a decent cicada for Yang Lihua to wear, and of course there was another one, and when Mrs. Wei Chi was pregnant, she had to wear it regardless of whether it was the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Today's era is not popular to visit the night market on the night of the fifteenth Lantern Festival of the first lunar month to see the lanterns, but the north, especially Chang'an, has begun to take shape, Yu Wenwen recalled the grand occasion of the night of Chang'an on the fifteenth day of the first month of the Northern Zhou Dynasty in the history books:

The first moon looks at the night and fills the street, the drums are beating to the sky and the torch is shining on the ground, people wear beast-faced men for women's clothes, advocating excellent miscellaneous tricks and strange shapes, and the coexistence inside and outside is not avoided.

It's been nearly a year since he came to this era, and he can't help but miss his parents in another era:

Dad, Mom, I don't know how your second elder is now

Looking at the starry sky from afar, Yuwen Wen couldn't help but be silent when he touched the scene.