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At this time, Bianjing, the most prosperous and brilliant city in the eastern hemisphere, was already full of festive atmosphere, with the sound of children jumping and lighting firecrackers everywhere in the city, and the commercial streets were bustling with people wearing all kinds of bright robes as soon as the market opened every day.

In front of each store, there are colorful New Year's goods, fireworks, lantern couplets, chicken, fish, meat and eggs, all kinds of snacks and pastries...... The whole nine yards!

People either watched the street juggling together, or hugged each other to go shopping, or carefully bought New Year's goods...... Men and women, young and old, all had all kinds of cheerful and happy smiles on their faces.

The three most important festivals in the Song Dynasty were New Year's Day, the Cold Food Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival, but Chinese New Year's Eve was the last day of the year, and the people celebrated them no less solemnly. Moreover, the New Year's Day of the Song Dynasty is not the New Year's Day of the Gregorian calendar of later generations, and the Song Dynasty has no solar calendar, using our own Chinese calendar, the lunar calendar.

The New Year's Day of the Song Dynasty was the first day of the new year, which was the Spring Festival of later generations. Every year Chinese New Year's Eve and New Year's Day are linked together, and the people of the Song Dynasty prepare for these two festivals not without grandeur, and ordinary people are usually reluctant to eat and drink, these two days can definitely be full.

And for both adults and children, on Chinese New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, they will change from head to toe into a brand new tailoring clothes, shoes and hats, which must be their best outfit of the year.

Even if it is a wealthy family, adults and children are full of expectations for Chinese New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, because there is so much to eat, drink, play and watch...... Only on Chinese New Year's Eve and New Year's Day can you eat, drink, play and see!

It's hard to buy it even if you buy it.

For example, the blessing meeting of the Great Xiangguo Temple in the castle, such as the large-scale vaudeville performance in the streets, such as the sumo wrestling tournament in the southern city, and the theater performance in the eastern city...... For example, the collective "feeding" of the famous prostitutes in the Qinglou on the bank of the Bianhe River is the delicious dim sum made by the famous prostitutes of the major Qinglou, and countless gentle and delicate beauties go out of the Qinglou to distribute to the people for free, in order to repay the care of the guests in Bianjing for a year. There is only this kind of event on New Year's Day every year, and it is a grand event that countless men in Bianjing have been looking forward to for a year!

But what excites the men of Bianjing the most is the "horse market" in the west of the city.

The horse market in the west of the city is only available on New Year's Day and the three days after New Year's Day. Originating from the Zhenzong period, after the alliance of the Yuan Dynasty and the Liao State established a field, the Liao and Song Dynasty traded, and in order to secretly encourage the merchants of the Liao State to smuggle horses to the Song Dynasty, Kaifeng Mansion specially opened up a vacant land in the west of the city for the trading of horses during the New Year's Day festival every year.

Nowadays, the horses traded here are not the horses sold sporadically by ordinary horse dealers, nor are they comparable to those horses in the big horse farms, and the horse farms in the west of Bianjing City are concentrated in various breeds of precious and good horses!

Horses in the Song Dynasty were extremely scarce, and horses were the same for the people as the high-end cars of later generations, such as the government of the top prize in the examination, which would organize them to ride a noble white horse to parade through the streets, which was a pomp and circumstance for later generations to stand in the skylight of the top sedan and patrol the streets.

In fact, the horse market in the west of Bianjing City, where precious horses are concentrated, is actually the same as the luxury car exhibition in later generations, most of the people who come here cannot afford to buy these precious horses, and they are all kinds of dignitaries and nobles, and the second generation of officials and honorables choose the place to take a car. But this did not prevent the people from coming to feast their eyes and increase their knowledge.

The only pity is that there are BMWs in the horse market but no beautiful women...... This will have to wait for someone like Wu Zhi to create it in the future.

In short, the ancient New Year is full of all kinds of New Year's flavors, and the so-called "New Year's flavor" is some benefits that can only be enjoyed during the New Year, and are not usually available!

This is also the fundamental reason why modern people in later generations will not be able to experience the taste of the New Year, because some of them can be easily bought and enjoyed during the New Year.

In Bianjing City, there are a group of beggars with the God of Wealth printed with small red paper in their hands are going door to door to the door of the house, the people see the beggars from the front of the house after sticking the God of Wealth, one by one they are also relieved, this is the first time in a year that they hope that the beggar will come to the door.

This is called "sending the God of Wealth", and the beggars or Taoist monks in the city go door-to-door before Chinese New Year's Eve every year to paste next to the couplet, and then after the New Year's Eve, they come to the door again, at this time the people will give them some copper money or rice flour steamed buns to return the gift, indicating that the God of Wealth has lived in my house, and the family will have a lot of money in a year.

A good sign.

However, the monks and Taoists in Bianjing are busy every New Year, and they can't take care of this small custom, so the statue of the God of Wealth is monopolized by beggars, but there are not many beggars in Bianjing, so the people are afraid of missing their own statue of the God of Wealth, and some people find the beggar early to come to the statue of the God of Wealth.

Beggars always have countless palm-sized paper statues of the God of Wealth in their hands......

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On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, Bianjing was destined to be a sleepless night, and fireworks in the city were all set off, and brilliant fireworks lit up the entire night sky, and this grand scene lasted until the second half of the night.

The people celebrate Chinese New Year's Eve, although there is no Spring Festival Gala, but after eating the reunion dinner, people are pouring into the streets, there are countless entertainment programs on the streets, and there are even government-run big stages, which is enough for the people to be happy and lively until the second year.

The whole Bianjing City is not so lively, there is a place with magnificent architecture, full of red lanterns, red walls and green tiles, and splendid. But compared to the bustling and lively people outside, it seems very deserted here, and there is almost no loud noise in the huge place, and there is no New Year's atmosphere at all.

Faintly, only a faint flute could be heard somewhere inside.

This is the Royal Palace.

For the New Year, the feelings of the people in the Great Song Palace are almost the same as those of every Chinese in the 21st century, they don't feel the taste of the year, or they don't know what the taste of the year is.

The palace is strictly hierarchical, and it is also the most important etiquette rules, every major festival, the people inside have to complete various sets of etiquette for people of various statuses, this kind of thing is a kind of torment for both the person receiving the ceremony and the person who performs the ceremony, but they have to do it little by little.

Because it represents royal dignity.

Even if there is a reward in the end, there is nothing to be happy about, and such rewards often come and go.

Ling'er put down the jade flute and sighed faintly.

Tonight is Chinese New Year's Eve, the dinner is the most grand royal dinner, the emperor, the quasi-empress, several noble concubines, countless concubines, and their group of princesses and princes, all sat together and ate a meal in a regular manner, the atmosphere was very harmonious, but it was by no means lively, and finally after the father and emperor rewarded everyone, everyone who had been busy for a day dispersed.

It's grand, but it's also cold.

Aunt Murong and the others planned to accompany Ling'er to celebrate the New Year, but Ling'er excused herself to be tired, so she went back to the palace alone.

Ling'er is very depressed, today she very much wants to sneak out of the palace to go outside to spend the New Year, but every festival in the palace is the time of the personnel count, and she can't get out as a princess.

Ling'er yearns for the folk New Year's atmosphere, she wants to go out to listen to the drama and watch the performance, she wants to go out to eat all kinds of New Year's food, and she wants to play all the fun things that can be played!

But what makes her yearn for it more is what kind of New Year's scene is in Qingzhou, Shandong?

How did someone in Qingzhou spend this year?

Is he laughing with the ladies while keeping the New Year?

He will definitely be very gentle to peel melon seeds and hand preserved fruits to the ladies, right?

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