The first day of the new year is called Yuan Day, which is New Year's Day. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Li Yu got up early in the morning and wore the white fox fur coat that he had prepared early under the service of Xin'er and Xing'er, and covered it with a coat made of Shu brocade.

裼 is a way to wear fur in order to distinguish it from the savages.

After being dressed neatly, Li Yu had breakfast and rode into the Daming Palace to participate in the Yuan Ri Dynasty Party and pay New Year's greetings to his father, queen mother and brother.

Li Xing, who was a deacon of the palace, walked over and saw that a few little eunuchs were still talking and laughing about what they had seen and heard about yesterday night, but the flags that were to be planted in the palace in the morning of the first day were put aside, and he immediately became angry and scolded.

"What are you guys doing there? and did not put these flags in the king's house. ”

"No!"

After the little eunuchs were reprimanded by Li Xing, they quickly picked up the flags that were put aside and divided into several waves to plant the flags.

The little eunuchs struggled to insert the bamboo pole with a long flag made of exquisite Shu brocade floating on the top of the pole into the soil, which is called carp floating, which is used to pray for blessings and longevity.

On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year in Chang'an, every household was busy planting carp floats in the yard.

This custom was introduced to Japan by the Japanese envoys to the Tang Dynasty and became a carp banner erected for boys to celebrate the festival.

When Li Yu went out, the peach talisman on the gate of the palace was replaced with a new one, two red peach talismans, one was written with Shen Tu, and the other was written with Yu Lei, the legendary door god of suppressing evil spirits, and it was said to have the effect of warding off evil spirits.

The portraits of the founding generals Qin Qiong and Wei Chi Jingde on the gate did not become popular until the middle and late Tang Dynasty, when the Li Tang royal family took the lead.

Li Yu thought a little crookedly, should we invite the two late door gods into the homes of ordinary people now, so that the two of them can be ranked in the immortal class as soon as possible!

At the dawn of the first day of the new year, the first day of the great court meeting began, one of the most solemn court meetings of the year, not only the civil and military officials of the Beijing Division, but also the local officials from all over the country also sent envoys or personally entered the Beijing Dynasty to congratulate the Dynasty, and the prefectures and vassal countries also sent people to send gifts to congratulate them, and the ceremonial procedures were extremely cumbersome.

Early in the morning, the ministers who participated in the Yuan Ri Dynasty meeting took a bunch of subordinates to raise a fire and light a lamp to the court, and gas a fire city in the black Chang'an City.

Li Yu stepped on the point and followed the ministers into the Daming Palace, at this time the sky was not bright, and the Daming Palace was brightly lit and crowded.

A group of people with the most power in the center of the Tang Empire gathered in the Hanyuan Hall, and the ministers congratulated the supreme ruler of the empire "Ersheng" under the leadership of the prime minister.

Dai Zhide, who was a waiter in Xitai and Dai Zhide in the same three products of the East and West Taiwan, read the obscure New Year's pun text, and after the inner servant answered for Li Zhi, the ministers withdrew from accepting the congratulatory table of foreign government officials and vassals, and selected a congratulatory table for high-ranking officials to be read by Dai Zhide.

Because they slept late last night and got up early today, Li Yu and the third brother Li Xian lowered their heads and endured the yawning. But listening to Dai Zhide reading the obscure New Year's text that Li Yu and the two of them basically couldn't understand, the whole person was almost drowsy.

In order to avoid making a fool of himself at a big celebration like the Yuan Day Meeting, Li Yu bit his tongue to boost his spirits, and reminded the third brother by the way. You must know that there are still many envoys from vassal states and the state capital who come to congratulate, if they see the prince of the Tang Dynasty dozing off at such a major celebration, I am afraid that they will despise the Tang Dynasty.

Li Yu glanced at the ministers in the court, and few of those ministers in their seventies and eighties seemed tired, and they were still full of energy standing in the hall listening to Dai Zhide reading a long congratulatory message there.

Rao is Li Yu pays attention to exercising every day, but because he gets up early in the morning, he is not in good spirits, so he enters the Hanyuan Hall and climbs the huge dragon tail road, and after climbing, he is also a little tired.

Li Yu had to quietly give them a thumbs up, the body was awesome.

Turning his head, he saw the third brother Li Xian standing on his right hand side grimacing at himself, but his weak eyes and frivolous body showed the fatigue of his body at this time.

However, the second brother Li Xian who was standing next to him was steady, and he was full of spirit. The eldest brother Li Hong is older, and he is naturally the tallest among the brothers, but because he has been weak and sickly since he was a child, although he stands steady, he can see that his body is thin.

Li Yu now misses the days before the opening of the mansion, and every year at the Great Court Meeting, he will stay with his fifth brother and sixth sister in the curtain barrier where the queen mother is, and comfortably watch a group of ministers stand there and listen to the prime minister's long speech.

Fortunately, there was no queen mother in the dynasty, otherwise I would have to go to the queen mother to talk at length later, although it was a little disrespectful, but Li Yu was still happy in his heart.

Finally finished the Yuanri court, and after the ministers went down to the court, it was the Yuanri reunion banquet of the emperor's family.

In addition to the sixth sister sitting next to the father and queen mother, on both sides of the hall sat the prince Li Hong, Pei Wang Li Xian, Zhou Wang Li Xian, Yan Wang Li Yu, and Yin Wang Li Xulun in order of eldest and youngest.

Looking at the Tusu wine and pepper wine that were first placed on the table, Li Yu was a little sad.

These two things are special drinks for the Chinese New Year, Tusu wine is made with a mixture of seven kinds of Chinese medicinal materials, and it is taken out and drunk today in the well soaked in the palace yesterday; Pepper and cypress wine is a wine soaked in peppercorns and cypress leaves; It is said that drinking it can drive away evil spirits, detoxify and prolong life, and it is called Denian wine.

Li Yuke, who has drunk it for thirteen years, knows that the taste of this wine is very strange and bizarre, salty, astringent, bitter and spicy.

Look, there are also the third brother and the fifth brother with the same expression as themselves, and the eldest brother and the second brother are obviously used to drinking, and they don't even blink when they drink every year.

"I get the wine every year, and the bitter ...... in my mouth when I drink it," Li Xian sat on the couch, staring at the two glasses of wine helplessly, frowning, Nan Nan said.

"Third brother!"

Li Hong saw that the third brother was looking at the New Year's wine on the food table with a bitter face, and he was talking to himself about the fact that the New Year's wine was undrinkable, which disturbed the festive atmosphere of the New Year's Day, so he had to remind him loudly.

"Hehehe!"

Li Zhi saw the ugly expressions of several young sons on the old wine, but this is a tradition, how can he not drink it because it is not delicious.

The father said slowly in his seat: "The younger one has the age, the first wine to congratulate him, and the old one has the old age, so the wine is the same." ”

Then the sixth sister, who was nestled in the arms of the queen mother, drank a small cup of De New Year's wine very reluctantly, and her little face was so sad and sad.

It was the turn of the fifth brother who was sitting on Li Yu's left hand, and he suddenly had a sad face, and his body twisted and refused to serve the two glasses of wine on the dining table.

The brothers waited for him to drink it, and then drained the wine in front of him.

"Asahiru, don't drink it yet." Seeing that the fifth brother refused to drink, the queen mother spoke.

"No......"

Xu Lun picked up two glasses of wine in the mood of going to Xingchang, and drank bitterly with the strange taste.

This time it's my turn, hey, frowning, drink, it's only once a year anyway.

Under everyone's attention, Li Yu finally dried up the two glasses of wine, and the bitter and terrifying taste in his mouth was really uncomfortable, but it was a pity that he couldn't eat other food or rinse his mouth.

The third brother endured the discomfort in his heart and drank the De Sui wine, so the eldest brother and the second brother calmly raised the two cups of De Sui wine on the case and drank them without any mud and water.

The wine is drunk, but there is still a dish before the banquet can be officially opened.

The maids served a white porcelain plate, which contained a piece of green and green spicy five kinds of vegetables: garlic, small garlic, leeks, brassica, and coriander, which was called the Five Lucky Plates.

It is also said that in order to diffuse the depression of the five internal organs, prevent the epidemic and prevent the disease. Li Yu really wanted to wring out the person who put forward this set of theories in the first place, and scolded him: "Uneducated, it's terrible." ”

That ancestor is too festive for the New Year, and he came up with such a set to toss the descendants.

Wait for the end of the five fortunate dishes before waiting for the normal food to eat for the New Year, gum tooth soup (maltose).

A dessert made from barley, wheat or glutinous rice, which is softer and softer but not as sweet as honey and cane sugar, is eaten by the elders of the family. On the one hand, it is a test of the strength of the teeth of the elders, and on the other hand, it is also a wish that the teeth of the elders will never fall out and live forever.

Recalling these Chinese customs that were lost in later generations, Li Yu really felt that these customs that have been passed down by Chinese descendants for thousands of years but have been lost in later generations are the essence of Chinese civilization!

Finally, I finally waited for the staple food: "Prison pills in the soup." ”

Every time Li Yu eats it, he wonders why the person who invented it in the first place gave it such a verbose name, this name is dumplings, what is it called Tangzhong Prison Pill?