On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Shangyuan Festival. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The Lantern Festival in the Ming Dynasty was actually not just one day, but a full ten days.

Under normal circumstances, the lights will start on the night of the eighth day of the first lunar month, and it will be extended until the day of the eighteenth.

This is the Lantern Festival set when Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, built the capital of Nanjing. Subsequently, all localities followed suit, and the Shangyuan Lantern Festival became the most valued festival, and its grandeur and liveliness were no less than that of the New Year.

In these ten days, there will be no night ban at all, whether it is the county or the city, there will be a lot of programs, in addition to enjoying the lanterns, guessing the lantern riddles, there will be dragon dances and lion play, stilts, fireworks and other plays.

In addition, various "meetings" in Kaifeng Mansion were also held around the Lantern Festival. There are many literary meetings, poetry clubs, temple fairs, etc., anyway, it is to make a name, and everyone gathers together to be lively.

However, in order to avoid conflict with the poetry meetings held in the city, some small literary and poetry societies consciously stagger the time and do not place them on the evening of August 15.

Therefore, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the most solemn is only the poetry meeting of Fucheng and the temple fair of Kaifeng Mansion.

The poetry fair is a grand gathering of literati, and the temple fair is a more popular form of entertainment, yes, it is a form of entertainment!

At this time, the temple fair has long since changed from a simple sacrifice in the earliest days to a kind of market gathering.

The imperial court pursued Taoism, and of course there were sacrifices, but most of people's attention to temple fairs was on sightseeing, not on sacrifices.

However, this year's Shangyuan Festival, there is one of the most lively activities in Kaifeng Mansion, that is, the triennial Oiran Competition.

The Oiran Competition, as the name suggests, is a competition for the selection of Oiran, Kaifeng Mansion will elect an Oiran every three years, which means the leader of a hundred flowers, and the woman who wins the first place will become the first beauty of the new Kaifeng Mansion.

The title of this Oiran is different from what people usually call the top woman in a certain green building as "Oiran". Strictly speaking, the top girl in a certain brothel is more appropriate to call her "line leader".

But after all, this is not an official title, and no one has set a unified statement, and when facing some of the top women in the Qinglou, they can also be called "Oiran" with dignity, and no one will delve into it.

The last Oiran was naturally Jinyun.

However, when the Oiran was selected, Lu Cheng happened to go to another county with his father to participate in a literary meeting during the day, and he rushed to the poetry meeting in Fucheng at night, so naturally he didn't have the opportunity to see the grand occasion of the Oiran competition.

In a sentence that my father said to himself back then, scholars should put their careers first, and they can't even get into the exam, so what else do they look at?

For such a grand festival, Master Lu does not need to give lectures to his disciples.

The young people and elders have never been able to play together, so the Wang family did not plan to go out with their son for the festival, so they went out with Wang Lin and his wife early, and only left Wang Xueyuan for him to take with him.

In the past few days, the two families of King Lu have also walked around in Lanyang County, and today is fifteen, so naturally they want to go to Fucheng to go shopping and join in the fun.

Lu Cheng's car was given to his mother to travel, and he had to go out later, waiting for Zuo Guoji and Li Lian to come and pick him up.

At three o'clock in the morning, Zuo Guoji and the two arrived, and the calculation time should have come from Fucheng early in the morning. Lu Cheng took two girls, one big and one young, into the car, and a group of five people rushed to Xiangfu County.

In the carriage, Zuo Guoji introduced with a smile: "The most worthwhile thing to watch this year is this Oiran Competition." It is said that this time, the group of people in Fangyuan was fortunate to get the lyrics of a certain celebrity, and vowed to compete with Jinyun girl. ”

"Everyone?"

Lu Cheng was a little puzzled when he heard this title, and he had a faint impression in his mind, but he couldn't remember where he had heard it, so he asked, "Why haven't you heard Brother Zuo mention it before?" ”

Zuo Guoji showed a look of disbelief, and wondered: "Could it be that Brother Lu hasn't heard of it?" ”

"Nope." Lu Cheng replied truthfully.

In the past three years, he has been guarding his filial piety home, and rarely goes out, so naturally he has not had contact with any literary friends, and it is normal for the news to be closed.

In addition, this body has changed owners, and the previous memories are even more blurred, not to mention the one-sleeved everyone, even the Oiran Jinyun girl from Kaifeng Mansion, he didn't have much impression before he saw it with his own eyes.

"Uh------ you're too lonely and unheard, aren't you?"

Zuo Guoji was really a little depressed in his heart, and patiently explained: "The one-sleeved girl is the top brand of that group of Fangyuan, and she is unique in color and art, and she also entered the list in the last Oiran Competition, ranking second. ”

"I see."

Lu Cheng nodded clearly, and he had a general understanding of the basic information of this sleeve girl.

In each Oiran competition, three women with excellent color and art will be selected, and it is indeed not easy to rank second, and the posture is definitely not much worse.

Although Lu Cheng doesn't have any thoughts about these oirans, line leaders, and everyone, there are still some thoughts of seeing each other------ men can't resist the temptation of looking at beautiful women.

Zuo Guoji saw that his face was calm, and he obviously didn't have too much interest in that sleeve, so he turned to ask: "Brother Lu, this time Jinyun is running for Oiran, you should have written a good word for her, why don't you read it to me first?" ”

"Good words?"

Lu Cheng shook his head and said, "Jinyun didn't mention this to me, I think he already has good words in hand." ”

"It seems that Zhou Wangye has arranged it for her a long time ago, and this is how the last Oiran Contest was ------"

Zuo Guoji sighed lightly, and suddenly felt that it was a little inappropriate to mention this matter in front of Lu Cheng, so he hurriedly changed the topic and chatted with Lu Cheng about other things.

"Brother Lu, how do you think we should arrange our itinerary today?" Zuo Guoji asked.

"I'm free, you can just arrange it." Lu Cheng said: "Oh yes, I won't go to the poetry meeting in the evening, just walk around the city and enjoy the lanterns." ”

"This poetry club really doesn't mean much, and I don't really want to go."

Li Lian also echoed: "We have eight scenic spots in Bianjing, if we don't go to the Fantai Poetry Club, there are other places to play, and today is enough time to pass the day." ”

Li Lian's echo was already surprising to Lu Cheng, but he never thought that Zuo Guoji didn't want to participate in the poetry meeting, but he deeply agreed with Li Lian's proposal.

Seeing the puzzled expression on Lu Cheng's face, he couldn't help but smile and said: "Brother Lu, you have been staying at home all these days, and you have never gone out to participate in the Wenhui Poetry Meeting, but I don't know the hardships of the two of us, counting the poetry meeting we participated in in Zhongmu yesterday, we have already gone to eight poetry meetings!" ”

Eight poetry meetings, counting from the eighth day of the first month, until today, it is equivalent to participating in one every day, and it will indeed be boring.

This is actually the same as diet, no matter how good the delicacies of the mountains and seas are, you will always feel tired of eating too much.

After discussion, several people finally decided to go to the temple fair first.

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