Chapter 507: Qingming Sacrifice Sweep
Moreover, after Li Yi's five-year basic education promotion, the cultural popularization rate in Yunnan is getting higher and higher, and the people have to send their children to study even if they are frugal, so the learning atmosphere in Yunnan is very strong. Once the literary world section is launched, there will inevitably be many contributors, and cultural exchanges will be active accordingly.
For the newspaper established by himself, Li Yi of course has to do his part. Therefore, Li Yi plans to publish some poems and articles in the Yunnan Times from time to time, although most of them are plagiarized from the ancients, but they are very beneficial to promoting the development of local cultural undertakings, so he can't care so much.
During the preparation of the Yunnan Times, Li Yi also encountered a considerable problem. Although movable type printing technology is quite mature, there is a problem with the choice of paper. The main reason is that most of the paper does not meet the requirements of batch printing, either easy to crack, or too soft, uneven ink absorption, and the current paper price is high, and the cost of newspapers can not be reduced.
Although the invention of paper has been around for thousands of years, its development has been very slow. From the invention of paper in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, until Cai Lun in the Eastern Han Dynasty, he used bark, hemp and cloth, fish nets and other raw materials, through frustration, pounding, copying, drying and other processes, invented a relatively low-cost paper, before it was officially promoted to the people, before that, only the court and princes, nobles are eligible to use paper.
After the Wei and Jin dynasties, people began to use rattan fur (straw, wheat straw), orange peel, mulberry peel, hemp bamboo, nettle and other materials to make paper. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, hemp was used to make paper, and the paper made from this material was tough and white, resistant to water immersion, which should be the prototype of rice paper.
The Sui and Tang dynasties were the heyday of the development of papermaking. At this time, the varieties and styles of paper were basically formed, and the dyeing process of paper appeared. The more famous papers of the Tang Dynasty include Yangzhou hemp paper and rice paper made from the bark of the sandalwood tree, and some new varieties have also appeared, such as Poyang white and Chengxintang paper. The paper is dyed with color, which is a major feature at that time, and only the Shu paper in Sichuan has 10 kinds of color paper such as crimson, pink, and bright yellow. Xuan paper, Xue Tao paper, water pattern paper, Chengxintang paper, Xie Gong paper, Korean paper, golden chestnut paper, white deer paper, side paper, and Huang paper were the most famous types of paper in China five dynasties ago, but they were not affordable by ordinary people.
Therefore, it is the most urgent thing to manufacture a kind of paper that is low-cost, simple to make, and widely used, but Yunnan has always lacked talents in this area, and there are only two workshops for the production of paper, and the paper is inferior and useless. Others, such as government offices, schools, shops, etc., mostly used paper are shipped from outside, and the price is very expensive, and it is really worth the loss when used to print newspapers.
Therefore, it is a major problem for Yunnan to produce a complete range of low-cost paper as soon as possible, but now it seems that this problem cannot be solved temporarily.
In the blink of an eye, it was the Qingming Festival, as if she had quietly told Li Yi in private that Feng Xinyan was going to go back to Fengming Village in Songyang Mountain to pay tribute to her family, and she didn't plan to tell others, but she was carefully seen by her. So earnestly instructed Li Yi to accompany Feng Xinyan so that she could feel his affection for her.
In fact, Li Yi had this plan for a long time, and he didn't have time to say it to Feng Xinyan yet. Unexpectedly, Lan Xinhui brought up this matter, and of course Li Yi agreed to push the boat down. When she said it to Feng Xinyan, she didn't object, just nodded silently.
In the past few days, Li Yi can see that she has been sullen, and it seems that it has a lot to do with the upcoming Qingming Festival. You must know that she and Ran Yanchao have lived together for five years, and they already have a very deep relationship between husband and wife. Although he is now committed to himself and in harmony with himself, how can he not recall the sad past at this Qingming season!
On the first day of the Qingming Festival, Li Yi, Feng Xinyan, Lian Jun, Huo Feng, Lin Chi, and more than a dozen personal soldiers, with incense, candles, sacrifices and other things, together with Tang Jingtian, who was going to the western foot of Songyang Mountain to investigate mineral deposits, braved the drizzling rain, along the wide and flat official road, and rushed towards Songyang Mountain west of Ningzhou.
Coming to the former site of Fengming Village under Songyang Mountain, it has long been deserted. However, for most of the year, the abandoned site of Fengming Village was full of grass and rubble, and the vibrant scene of the year could no longer be seen.
Looking at this overgrown place, thinking of the lively scene of coming to Fengming Village as a guest and the warm hospitality of the villagers to me, Li Yi couldn't help but feel touched and sighed. It is really sad that a hero like Ran Yanchao died tragically at the hands of Uli Laodao.
Although he has taken revenge, his ending is still unacceptable. Especially Feng Xinyan, who is his wife, lost her husband at a young age, even if she now has a man who loves her and loves him, but this sad past is unforgettable in a short time.
In front of the graves of Ran Yanchao and Feng Xinyan's father and other clansmen, Feng Xinyan looked at this large cemetery in a daze, the original more than 100 people in Fengming Village have turned into a pinch of loess, and there is no longer the joyful scene of male farmers and women weaving, in the face of such a huge gap, how can ordinary people bear it!
Li Yi silently hugged Feng Xinyan in his arms and accompanied her to be sad and sad, while Lian Jun and others had begun to add new soil to many tombs. It took a long time for everyone to work together to put these tombs in order.
Li Yi and Feng Xinyan also stepped forward to take care of the weeds in front of and behind the grave, and placed the memorial tributes and incense candles they brought, and Feng Xinyan did not say a word from beginning to end.
It wasn't until all the arrangements were completed, Feng Xinyan knelt on the ground, filled all the wine cups and teacups on the table in front of the grave, and after splashing the sacrifices, she muttered to herself: "Fathers and villagers of Fengming Village, I, Feng Xinyan, sincerely pray to the Buddha, may your souls in heaven be rested, and may you have eternal life in the Western Heaven Elysium." Father! Please forgive you, an unfilial daughter, for not being able to serve you when you need it most, honor you, let you spend your old age in peace and joy, and make you sad and disappointed, please forgive me! ”
Li Yi saw Feng Xinyan's two lines of tears flowing down, wetting the clothes on her chest, and then she sobbed and couldn't speak.
Li Yi's eyes were also slightly moist, anyone can understand the pain of losing a loved one, but it is not so easy to get out of the shadow of pain.
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