There is a beautiful love story in the Shangyuan Festival of the Tang Dynasty: Princess Taiping sneaked out of the palace with her maid on the night of Shangyuan when she was fifteen years old to enjoy the lanterns. Shangyuan Night's naughtiness made her remember a name: Xue Shao, and began a tortuous grievance and revenge.

Shangyuan Festival is a romantic festival, and unmarried men and women can also find a favorite object for themselves by viewing the lanterns. During the Shangyuan Lantern Festival, it is a great time for young men and women to meet their lovers.

It's really the best time for men and women to meet, and it's called appreciating the lanterns, but it's really to see people. For a fantasy person, "everyone looks for it thousands of times, and when I look back, the person is in the dim light." For more than 2,000 years, the love story that happened on the night of the Yuan Dynasty has been circulating in this ancient land.

Shangyuan Festival, also known as the Lantern Festival, is lit up at night with peculiar lanterns, like stars falling into the world, decorating the whole street beautifully. A lot of rich people set up stalls on the streets, all kinds of lantern riddle activities attracted a lot of people to stop and watch, on this day, many women in the green building also took to the streets, set up a colorful high platform to sing and dance, show a beautiful dance posture and singing voice, attracted many talented men screams and sighs.

Walking through the lively streets, the loss of thousands of years ripples in my heart, and my heart is full of emotion.

"The prosperous scene is like the smoke and clouds ......of the past", the smiling faces appeared in his mind like a projection, and Zhen Qian was a little drunk.

"Da Lang, across the small bridge in front is Yihong Courtyard", Wang Tianxing whispered in Zhen Qian's ear.

Zhen Qian and Wang Tianxing walked slowly in the crowd, stopping in front of the stall from time to time, looking at the small accessories made by hand, they couldn't help but reach out and grab them to take a closer look, and then put them back with some reluctance.

"These lanterns are so beautiful!"

Wang Tianxing said a little jokingly: "Is Da Lang talking about the palace lantern or the beautiful woman singing under the lamp?" ”

Under the lantern, a group of women dressed in gorgeous costumes are dancing, the beautiful dance posture makes people dizzy, the brilliant light is like a fairy in the sky under the daylight, these songs and dances are called "walking songs", some are called "stepping songs", anyway, the songs and dances are noisy, lively and abnormal.

On this festive day, many romantic talents travel in groups, playing and singing while carrying the band on horseback, comparing with each other and competing to bring forth the new, which greatly increases the lively atmosphere of the festival. There are also some pretentious scribes who write poems, and you and I compete with each other, which adds to the cultural taste of the festival.

There was a loud shouting sound in the distance, and several burly men were pulling hard with a thick rope in their hands, which was similar to the tug-of-war competition in later generations, but it was called "hook" in the Tang Dynasty. It is recorded that the tug-of-war in the Tang Dynasty was grand: "The two hooks are pulled together, the big neutral banner is the boundary, the drums are noisy, the phase is pulled, and the one who loses is called the tug-of-war."

Many people came from far away to see the lanterns, and one by one they were also dressed up and traveling, but they were crowded by the crowd and almost became packed enoki mushrooms.

Passing through several juggling platforms, he walked forward with difficulty, and there was a trace of sweat on his face.

"It's much livelier here than Luquan County!"

"Isn't that nonsense?"

Along the way, the lights on both sides of the road are brilliant, and the front of each shop is full of all kinds of colorful lanterns that come into view, which makes people dizzy. There is a sailboat shape, symbolizing smooth sailing; There are revolving palace lamps with the theme of the mythical story Chang'e running to the moon; There are nine layers of pagoda lights; There are fish-shaped lamps, symbolizing that there is more than one year after another; There are birds and beasts of prey Dapeng wings lantern ......, and colorful, Ambilight each workshop has its own program, some are performing lion dance performances, two well-dressed lion dancers roll, jump, you chase me, lively and lovely expressions make people laugh. After a lively performance, two lion dancers simultaneously droop red couplets from their mouths: Wanhu Spring Lantern Announces New Year's Eve; One day of snow and a good year, it means a bumper harvest and happiness in the coming year.

In some workshops, dragon dance performances are carried out, more than a dozen strong men hold a giant dragon more than ten meters long, hovering left and right, up and down, and an old man in the front is holding a big red color ball swinging up and down left and right, and the dragon is also chasing. Many men, women, and children were onlookers, laughing and dancing to the deafening sound of gongs and drums.

There are also in the workshop, carry out stilt performances, there are many people kicking on stilts of about one meter five, dressed as civil and military champions, historical figures, mythological figures, ......, strange, varied, even the height of stilts has reached more than three meters, some of them have a few people standing on stilts...... people on stilts, people on stilts make various movements, attracting bursts of cheers from people around.

"Why are there so many people at the gate of Yihong Courtyard today?"

Wang Tianxing was also a little dumbfounded, isn't today's holiday a day for family reunion? Why is the business of Qinglou still so hot tonight!

Seeing the crowd at the gate of Yihong Courtyard, Zhen Qian smiled a little dumbly and said, "It seems that we didn't choose the right time!" ”

Of course, Zhen Qian had no interest in visiting the kiln, and wanted to use the Qinglou to get rid of the golden cicada and get rid of the stalkers behind him, but he didn't expect that today's people drinking flower wine crowded the gate of Yihong Courtyard, and Zhen Qian couldn't cry or laugh, he really knew how to pick time!

"Forget it! Let's find another place! ”

As he spoke, a few people squeezed out of the crowd and walked towards the river.

"This Lang Jun, please stay", a voice suddenly sounded behind him, and a man in a green coat and a small hat squeezed over from behind, blocking the way of Zhen Qian and his party.

Zhen Qian's face was slightly gloomy, but he didn't expect the person who was following him to finally jump out impatiently.

"Are you calling me?"

The man in front of him touched the beads of sweat on his head and gave a salute to Zhen Qian: "May I ask if this Langjun is Zhen Qian Zhen Dalang of Luquan County?" ”

Seeing the man's question, Zhen Qian was slightly surprised, but he still nodded and said, "You know me?" ”

"It's really Zhen Dalang, my lord is really not mistaken!"

"Your lord?"

Seeing that Zhen Qian's face showed a confused look, the man pointed to the small building of Yihong Courtyard next to him with his hand and said: "My lord is the Wang family of Fei County, Yizhou, that is, Zhen Dalang's in-laws, and the lord asked Zhen Dalang to go upstairs with the kid, so it will naturally be clear!" ”

Zhen Qian looked in the direction of the man's finger, and an old man in his sixties on the small building was waving his hand towards him, and he couldn't see his face clearly from too far away, which made Zhen Qian's heart sink uncontrollably, "Could it be him!" ”

The Wang family in Fei County, Yizhou, his mother's family, five or six years have passed in his memory, and that figure has long been forgotten, and now he can't help but think of a hint of playful arc, "I jumped out impatiently, then it will be!" ”。

(End of chapter)