Chapter 54: The Great Canon (I)
Princess Zhaohua's re-education of Princess Bailian is now the favorite topic of discussion among everyone in Danyang City in private. Tan Weixin's strength can also be seen from this. is also a princess, and the same comes from a family that no one dares to disobey, but one is that in addition to eating, drinking, and playing big names, there is no other ability, of course, Princess Bailian's attainments in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are indeed not weaker than Tan Weixin, but what about other aspects? Almost completely out of the same class. Princess Zhaohua Tan Weixin was able to let tens of millions of taels of funds circulate in her hands, and she continued to produce various benefits with ease, so that the inner treasury, which had always been a little tight in the past, was now so full that the household department was a little coveted, and this did not even delay her much time, she still had a lot of leisure to engage in various activities she liked.
was warned by Tan Weixin in this way, and Princess Bailian Chang Ling really restrained a lot. Let the more than ten days before this wedding ceremony pass by unremarkably and quickly. As for what she thinks in her heart, whether she is reflecting on herself or resenting others, it is unknown. Anyway, Tan Weixin has never been afraid of other people's resentment, and she knows that even if Princess Bailian marries into the Dongping royal family, it will definitely backfire if she wants to lean on the pillow and the wind.
Although the marriage between the two countries is not impressed, in terms of the purchase of the wedding ceremony, the top management of Dongping still spares no effort to make it as perfect as possible, so that this wedding ceremony will become an unforgettable ceremony for many people.
The wedding of the royal family is different from the wedding of ordinary families, and even the wedding of those official families, and the number of marriages between countries is very small, and there is no precedent in practice. However, after all, it represented the beginning of friendly relations between two powerful countries, and the agenda had to be negotiated repeatedly, and a somewhat strange procedure was reached that was higher than that of marrying a princess and lower than that of a queen.
Early in the morning, Tan Xiaopei went to the Tan clan ancestral hall in the suburbs to pay respects. Then it was about noon and back to the palace. After lunch, Princess Bailian's car drove from Jingu Garden, and in the Dongping Palace, Chang Hongquan, the head of the family send-off group, presented his credentials, and a well-designed conversation between Chang Hongquan and Tan Xiaopei in the council hall...... time, about an hour. Having this kind of unnutritious conversation is a must for people like them.
For most ordinary people in Danyang, what they felt the most was Princess Bailian's car driving from Jinguyuan to the palace. The stretch from Jinguen to Suzaku Street, which runs through Danyang, is unremarkable, but the entire Suzaku Street is different. A total of 10,000 forbidden troops lined up on both sides at neat intervals was the expected grandeur, but behind these sergeants in armor were flagpoles two feet high, hanging flags of various colors. It has nothing to do with the army to which these sergeants belong, and the orders in the army, and this time the flags are completely thematic in nature.
The flags on Suzaku Street are divided into three themes: nationhood, development, and prosperity in different colors. Each flag is painted with a different pattern, all of which are designed in the style of woodcuts, and then different patterns are presented by color-printing and dyeing. Basically, every three to five flags, there will be a flag painted with more famous figures in the history of Dongping, including generals, officials, poets, literati, etc., and the location of these images is also just right, and their achievements and the places where they came from are all scattered in the flags around them as different elements.
The red background and black pattern represent the brave battle in the founding stage, the green background and white pattern depict the peace and prosperity of the vigorous development period, and the blue background and silver pattern express the wealth and magnificence of Dongping today, and at the same time imply the positive and enterprising spirit of Dongping...... The entire Suzaku Street has become a long scroll showing the development of Dongping in the past dynasties. In fact, from the beginning of the morning when the flags were set up, the various characters who began to discover them excitedly followed the flags one after another, and those who were quite proficient in painting even got large stacks of paper to record the rough patterns.
In this era, at least until now, woodcut is only an expedient measure for folk to draw simple New Year pictures and draw some commonly used patterns. It's not so much an art form as a craft. Something similar to the later Jinshan peasant paintings. However, everyone suddenly discovered that the original prints could be made like this, and the original hard brushstrokes of the knife and axe could be used to present such content.
Such an idea is naturally not something that people of this era can imagine. In fact, this arrangement is Tan Weixin's creativity, and it was jointly realized by Yip's workshop and several workshops belonging to the Dongping royal family. The most difficult thing is not the above content, although the number of 5,000 flags before and after is indeed amazing, but the number of old workers who can directly draw qualified plates for the printing and dyeing process with skillful pen power is also considerable. Such a craftsman with solid skills and a slight understanding of art is a kind of person that Dongping has never lacked. The more difficult thing is the color printing and dyeing technology. Ye Tao, who already has a deep understanding of lacquer and has even begun to develop the first generation of latex paint for interior walls, will not worry about the problem of lacquer, but he does not have such a way in printing and dyeing. The process is not complicated, but the economy of the materials used is relatively poor. But this process still attracts a lot of attention. In particular, the silver and blue color match, the silver grainy texture is full but light does not affect the hot dyeing and finishing process of the flag fluttering in the wind, and may be used in the future when customizing uniforms for some forbidden troops for protocol occasions.
Chang Ling opened the window of the car a very small bit, looked out of the car, looked at the neat and majestic queues on both sides of the street, and the flags behind each soldier, these printmaking styles of orderly planning, exquisite creativity, and strong pen power are printed and dyed, silently narrating that Dongping Kingdom undoubtedly has a so-called cultural governance that is different from the complacent and self-appreciating of other countries, but has another cultural ecology.
While this magnificent flag attracted the attention of many people of insight in the Chunnan Mission, it also played a greater role in diluting everyone's attention to Princess Bailian's car. And indeed, although the princess's car is hugging each other in front and back, and the formation looks very magnificent and luxurious, but on the occasion when the princess will inevitably not show her face, everyone's interest in the car itself is not very great.