After this matter, Wei Renshi only waited for Li Yu to explain to Li Shi and promised him to repair the cement road from Weinan to Chang'an.

Then it was necessary to wait for the completion of the Chunshang Mansion and the official fiefdom of Weinan.

Then you have to start planning your own Zhuangzi and the green vegetables for the coming winter.

These are all things to consider in the future.

Wei Renshi breathed a sigh of relief and decided to rest at home during the period before spring. An Ansheng lived a comfortable life of feudal nobles.

The preparations for the New Year, there are families who are busy, and they will definitely arrange it properly.

The days passed day by day, and the end of the year was getting closer and closer.

The last court meeting before the Chinese New Year ended in the joy of the emperor and the civil and military officials.

There are three days left before Chinese New Year's Eve, which is the beginning of the "Spring Festival" holiday in the Tang Dynasty.

In fact, the Tang Dynasty did not have the term "Spring Festival", because the Tang Dynasty only had a lunar calendar, and the first day of the New Year was called "New Year's Day", "Yuan Day", "Yuan Zheng" or "New Year's Day".

Every year, the imperial court has a "Chinese New Year's Eve Yuan Zheng holiday", which adds up to a total of seven days, but the time arrangement is different from the seven days in later life, that is, the day of Chinese New Year's Eve and the three days before, together with the first, second, and third days of the new year.

After the dispersal of the dynasty, all the officials began to go back to their homes to prepare for the New Year, and they all rushed home with a hurried look, but there was joy in their eyebrows.

Chang'an City is full of joy, regardless of whether it is a high-ranking official or a peddler's pawn, a person who is white in spring and snow, and a person who is under the riba, all of them put aside their worries and trivial matters for the time being, and spend the year in front of them, ready to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, hoping to have good luck in the coming year.

Nothing can stop the joy of the New Year.

The servants bow to their masters, and the juniors salute their elders. He said greetings such as "Blessing and extending the new day, celebrating longevity without borders", "Blessing and celebrating the beginning of the new year, and extending longevity", and then they went out of the door together, and the neighbors visited each other, one by one.

Tang people like to socialize, love to be lively, on the first day of the first month, every household in Chang'an City has a banquet, regardless of whether the family is poor or rich, the difference is the difference in content, but this banquet will not be missing.

Neighbors greet each other for the New Year, go to whoever goes to eat to whom's house, the neighborhood eats from door to door, and greets the New Year from door to door, which also has a special name, called "Chuanza".

It's just that officials can't be so casual on this day.

The Yuan Ri Dynasty Meeting must be attended, and the civil and military officials in Beijing must go to the palace together, not to mention, and the officials from other places must also rush back to participate. There are also envoys of various countries and envoys of subject countries, all of whom must participate in the Yuan-Ri court. Summing up the achievements of the past year, imagining the goals to be achieved in the new year, the ministers will start to say greetings and salute the emperor.

After a lot of red tape, Wei Renshi felt that he was about to faint.

It's easy to pass a morning, and finally end the Yuanri Dynasty Meeting. Naturally, there will be a banquet in the palace, but Wei Renshi wants to spend it with his family. So he found an opportunity to pretend to be drunk and escaped.

Back home, his family was waiting for him.

Seeing him come back, Wei Renshi's mother said happily: "Today, on the first day of the new year, I should take the soup prison pills, and I will go to give you the next bowl for my mother!" A bowl for the first day of the New Year, no matter what, I should make it for my mother herself! ”

Although Wei Renshi did not celebrate the New Year in the Tang Dynasty, he had also heard of the name of this "Prison Pill in the Soup". To say that this "soup prison pill" is actually not an uncommon thing, it is the predecessor of a kind of food eaten in the north during the New Year in later generations. As the name suggests, the so-called "soup prison balls" are meatballs made of meat or vegetables wrapped in dough and cooked in soup to eat—dumplings made of Tang knife. It's just that the wrap is thick and big, the index finger is as long, and the two fingers are as thick, and the wrap is half a moon shape and boiled in the soup, and it is finished.

In later generations, Wei Renshi was a northerner, and the most eaten dumplings during the New Year's festival were dumplings, and he also liked to eat this thing, but he never ate what was sold outside, because Wei Renshi's taste was more unique, and he didn't like the thin skin of the dumplings outside, so he liked the thick and chewy skin, so he chopped the meat and made the stuffing and kneaded the dough and rolled the leaves on his own bag during the New Year's Festival, which was also a good hand at making dumplings, and was very curious about the dumplings of the Tang Dynasty more than a thousand years ago.

It didn't take long for a bowl of sparkling "soup prison pills" to be served by Wei Renshi's mother in a tray, with a plate of vinegar and a few cloves of garlic next to it.

Wei Renshi suddenly moved his index finger, and hurriedly picked up the chopsticks and picked one up and sent it to his mouth. As soon as you bite into it, the meaty soup flows out first, and your mouth is full of fragrance, and you chew a few bites of hot air again, and the strength of the dough and the fresh aroma of the meat filling are intertwined to create a wonderful taste and texture.

Since it is a "prison pill in the soup", it is natural to have soup, and if you take a sip and taste it, the soup will also be mellow. Although this soup prison pill is the predecessor of dumplings, this way of eating is somewhat similar to Chaos.

Hey, the cook at home is under his own tutelage, and the things made are really getting better and better!

Wei Renshi was very satisfied with the taste of the dumpling filling, and a bowl of dumplings in a minute - oh, follow the local customs, and a bowl of soup in the prison pills will be in the stomach.

After eating, he was warm, and when he walked outside, he saw people throwing broken brooms into the yard with a handful of brooms.

Around the huge fire, when a group of subordinates saw Wei Renshi passing, they all saluted and said hello, Wei Renshi waved his hand to let everyone get up, and asked, "These brooms are all worn out, and they are about to break, what are they doing here?" There is also this fire, when I came back, I wanted to ask, what are you doing with such a big fire in the yard, the weather is dry, isn't there a coal stove in the house? ”

As soon as these words came out, the subordinates were stunned, looked at each other, and looked at Wei Renshi suspiciously.

"Hehe, I want to teach Lang Jun to know that these are all habits for the New Year." When Boss Shi, who led the people, looked at Wei Renshi's appearance, he knew that Wei Renshi didn't know these things, although he was also a little surprised in his heart, Wei Renshi didn't even know the habits of the New Year, but he explained with a smile: "This fire is called Tingliao, and it will be used to burn firecrackers in the Yuan Ri to listen to the sound and drive away evil spirits." There is also the meaning of being hot and prosperous at home. The broom that is usually used at home must be thrown into the court when it is a child, so that the warehouse can be kept worthwhile. ”

"And that kind of statement?" Wei Renshi was a little surprised, and found that the Tang people paid much more attention to the New Year than in the later generations, naturally, the atmosphere was much more lively, and the New Year was full of flavor, not like in the later generations, and there was no New Year's flavor.

Wei Renshi sighed faintly, and said in his heart, whether he admitted it or not, it seems that the ancestors of the Tang Dynasty were more leisurely and leisurely than the people of later generations, and they also paid more attention to the number of festival etiquette.

People work hard for a year, keep watch by the fire, parade on the streets, and set off firecrackers without much movement, but they don't have to worry about the haze, and they don't have the laziness brought by modern civilization, and they have the earliest original intention of the New Year.

"It's a lively New Year, come on, add fire! Put everything you eat and drink out! Wei Renshi felt that he was suddenly infected by this cheerful atmosphere that filled the air, and immediately shouted: "Where are the firecrackers? Come and set off firecrackers! ”

The crowd immediately cheered, and they all began to run.

The fire was blazing, the yard was full of laughter, Wei Renshi stood by the fire, listening to the sound of firecrackers that did not move much, and a feeling of home lingered in his heart.

A lively night passed in a hurry, and the next day, the second day of the Lunar New Year, Wei Renshi should take things and gifts and visit everywhere in Changchang.