Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Mengxiyue (January) has been designated as the first month, and the first day of Mengxiyue (the first day of the first month of the summer calendar) is called New Year's Day, which continues to this day. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the Tang Dynasty, the first day of the Lunar New Year was not only New Year's Day or Yuan Day, it also had a name called Chicken Day, and chicken could not be eaten on this day.

The second day of junior high school is dog day, and dogs cannot be killed; The third day of the new year is the day of the pig, and you can't eat pigs; The fourth day of the Lunar New Year is the day of the sheep, and you can't eat sheep; On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, you can't eat cows; On the sixth day of the first month, you can't ride a horse; On the seventh day of the first month, I have never eaten people.

The origin of this custom is a myth and legend, and each of the seven days represents a species created by God at the beginning of the opening of heaven and earth.

After the reunion dinner in the palace, Li Yu invited a group of brothers and sisters to the mansion for a talk.

If you don't talk about the exquisite and delicious food, you still have to count the Yanwang Mansion! On the Yan Wangfu, who has the most exquisite cooking skills, it is still the number of kitchen stewards Uncle Wang.

Uncle Wang, the manager of the dining room, is Li Yu's special cook, and Li Yu follows wherever he goes, in addition to managing the dining room every day, he researches new dishes to satisfy Li Yu's appetite.

The brothers happily entered the Yanwang Mansion, and the maid put the case on the table.

Li Xian smiled and said: "Brother Yu, invite a few brothers and little sisters to come and sit as guests, but you have to take out your treasured wine, otherwise don't blame your brother for not leaving your house?" ”

"Fourth brother, you have to instruct your special chef to cook all his best dishes, otherwise I'm sorry I'll go again!"

Li Lingyue pouted, as if Li Yu owed her eighteen million.

Li Xian said with a smile: "Brother Yu, I remember that you built a wine kiln in the mansion, which is full of a lot of good wine, and it has not been sealed in three years. ”

"I remember, the fourth brother's wine kiln is in the basement of his study, and a few days ago I saw the fourth brother put in dozens of bottles of Hedong red wine, and the aroma of the wine is particularly strong! What kind of overlord is drunk, Yuhuatai ......" Li Xulun was anxious to make a face as if he was afraid that others would say what he said, and poured out all the treasures in Li Yu's mansion.

Li Yu's face was black, and the emotional brothers and sisters made it clear what good things they had in their house!

It's been a few years, and Li Yu can't remember what wine was hidden in that wine kiln, but Xulun, a half-grown child, knows it clearly.

Li Hong said with a smile: "You guys are really not like words, as soon as you arrive at Brother Yu's mansion, you have to eat and drink, what kind of system do you become?" ”

is worthy of being a big brother, and it is rare to say a fair word. Li Yu looked at the eldest brother gratefully, but who knows, the eldest brother's last sentence immediately made Li Yu retract his gratitude.

"Brother Yu, every year, the attendants in your house will pick the old osmanthus trees planted in the Xingjiao Temple outside Chang'an City for decades, and the golden cinnamon trees that bloom in autumn and the wild mountain grapes in Zhongnan Mountain to make osmanthus wine. You also know that my body is a little unwell all the year round, but drinking a little osmanthus wine brewed in your house every day is good for your body. The imperial doctor also instructed me to drink a moderate amount every day, which can strengthen the spleen and stomach, invigorate blood and qi, and strengthen the spleen and replenish deficiency. So I thought ......"

"Big brother, don't be polite between brothers, since the osmanthus wine brewed in the house is beneficial to the eldest brother's body, I will order the house to send a batch of osmanthus wine to the East Palace when I go back."

"Brother Yu's kindness brother understands it, then send two or three hundred bottles!" Li Hong smiled heartily.

Li Yu vomited blood, and shouted wildly in his heart, how many osmanthus flowers does the old osmanthus tree planted in Xingjiao Temple produce before the Mid-Autumn Festival every year? The harvest is brewed every year, big brother, you want my year's output!

The other brothers and sisters gave the eldest brother Li Hong a contemptuous look, let's just want to treasure and drink, you first criticized us from a high level, and I really opened my mouth to ask for a lot of osmanthus wine.

Who of us doesn't know that the Yanwang Mansion has the least production of the best osmanthus wine, big brother, you are too shameless!

"Big brother, don't worry, the wine will be delivered to you!" Li Yu gritted his silver teeth and waved his hand magnificently, and Li Hong smiled back with reassurance.

This palace can explode the pot, and send so many good things to the eldest brother, how can the other brothers and sisters stop?

In addition to the little sister who asked Uncle Wang to be a special cook for her, the other four brothers ordered every kind of good wine produced in the palace of Mingyan Wang, and Li Yu sent them a batch, and they had to add thirty bottles of Li Yu's treasures for several years. By the way, each person asked for ten pieces of white cloth.

Maybe I shouldn't have invited them to the mansion, and when they gather, they would be naked to fight the local tyrants and divide the land! Li Yu wailed infinitely in his heart!

Uncle Wang was in charge of the spoon himself, and at the request of the little princess, the dining room was busy, and the delicious dishes prepared were constantly served by the little eunuch to the dining table of the prince, several princes, and princesses.

Smelling the fragrant dishes, although the brothers maintained their cultivation and ate slowly, the increasing number of dishes in front of them still increased their speed of picking up vegetables.

Li Yu was heartbroken, and ordered Xin'er to go to the study wine cellar and bring ten bottles of each of the good wines that had been stored for several years.

There are red wine and white wine, all of which are treasured for several years, and when the maid opens the wine jar, the rich aroma of wine will be intoxicated even if people who don't drink alcohol.

The soul leads and the overlord is drunk is the most domineering wine, with a degree of at least 70 degrees. Among the brothers, only the strong second brother Li Xian can drink.

As soon as the mud seal of the wine jar was opened, Li Xian went up and smelled the wine intoxicated, and exhaled three times in a row: "Good wine!" ”

"Second brother Ruoxi, if you don't get drunk tonight, you won't return?" Li Yu proposed, anyway, he only drank three low-alcohol wines, red wine, osmanthus wine and fruit wine, and was not afraid of the amount of alcohol of the second brother.

"Brother Yu is this true?" Li Xian, who had a big chance of fighting with Li Yu, looked at Li Yu directly.

Li Hong drank a glass of osmanthus wine and said leisurely: "Wine hurts the body, the second brother and the fourth brother can drink in a small cup!" Don't drink it, it's this liquor. ”

As the saying goes, the eldest brother is like a father, and when the eldest brother spoke, the two of them immediately became angry.

Among the brothers and sisters, only the youngest sister Ling Yue eats the most cheerfully, and the younger grade is a little girl, so there is no need to toast each other like the four elder brothers. The second is the fifth brother Xulun, who doesn't care about the image and eats with a greasy mouth.

After the banquet, Li Yu put down his chopsticks and said, "I wonder if the brothers are satisfied with the source of Datang folk information?" ”

Li Hong, Li Xian put down the dishes and chopsticks and looked at Li Yu with some puzzlement, Li Xian, Li Xulun and Xiaomei were puzzled but didn't care, they still ate and drank by themselves.

"For a long time in China, the imperial court has always relied on officials from all over the country to play the game, or visited by the imperial history, and the source of information is not timely and easy to be deceived by corrupt officials. If the imperial court has a policy of benefiting the people, the local corrupt officials are often deceived and do not inform the local people, making it difficult for the imperial court to implement the policy of benefiting the people in the local area. The suffering people want to convey their feelings to the central government and accuse corrupt officials and corrupt officials, but there is no other way, so that the central government does not know the truth of the people! ”

Li Yu explained, Li Hong and Li Xian pondered, the imperial court's understanding of the local people's situation can indeed only be through the local government, and the issuance of government orders is also through the government.

As the crown prince, Li Hong has been in charge of the country several times, and he has been carefully assisted by the virtuous and important ministers in the court, and he knows very well about the organization and operation of the imperial court, and he knows what his brother Yu is referring to.

"I don't know if Brother Yu has any way to solve this problem?" Li Hong asked.

Li Yu's serious expression suddenly smiled mysteriously, making Li Hong and Li Xian, who were concentrating on listening to Brother Yu's big talk, look a little strange.

"Newspapers!" Li Yu snapped the food table, and Ling Yue, Xu Lun, and Li Xian, who were burying their heads in eating, looked at Li Yu in surprise.

"What's a newspaper?" The brothers and sisters were puzzled.