On the third day of the Shangyuan Festival, Jinwu was out at night. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The people in Chang'an City went out of their homes and alleys, went to the streets to watch the lanterns and admire the moon, participate in singing and dancing, acrobatics, and dance gods, and walked freely in the streets and even in front of the palace.

It can be described as the most lively and festive three days and three nights in a year for the people of Chang'an!

On the night of the Shangyuan Festival, Chang'an's millions of people poured out of the nest, and the major tourist attractions such as the 11th Golden Week in later generations were blocked.

The streets are full of people, people shouting and neighing, blocking the Suzaku Street, which is about 45 zhang wide. Regardless of whether they are rich or poor, male or female monks, they are all happy to experience this festive atmosphere that is rare once a year.

When the congestion is serious, the tourists are squeezed to hang in the air, their feet do not touch the ground, and they walk dozens of steps in the air. The most vocal in this regard is Li Xulun's personal eunuch Zhang Yan.

Li Yu called his friends and took a little lady in the house to go out to enjoy the lanterns, and once a year he experienced the scene of squeezing the subway at work in his previous life!

Seeing that as soon as the Shangyuan Festival passed, he would go to Andong with Li Yu, the king of Yan, to make contributions and leave the prosperous Chang'an. Zhang Zhuo, Cheng Wuzhong, Dai Liangshao and others hooked their shoulders and followed Li Yu's steps to join the crowded army, ready to walk for miles in the crowd!

All kinds of lanterns on both sides of the street are flickering, and the dazzling and intense lights are surprisingly fascinating.

Outside the Anfu Gate at the intersection of the imperial city and the palace city of Taiji Palace, a huge lamp wheel, as high as 20 zhang, is wrapped with colorful silk brocade, decorated with gold and silver, and the lantern wheel hangs 60,000 lanterns, like colorful clouds, flowers and trees with ten thousand rays of light.

Under the lantern wheel, more than 3,000 young women wearing splendid Luo Qihua costumes, full of pearls and emeralds, and more than 1,000 women from ordinary families in Chang'an City gathered here, taking turns singing and dancing, which can be heard for several miles.

This huge lantern wheel was built by the royal family, approved by Li Hong, the crown prince of the prison state, according to the practice of previous years, and presided over by Li Xian, the king of Pei. Summoning the palace prostitutes who can sing and dance in the palace to perform songs and dances under the lantern wheel, signaling the royal family and the people to celebrate the Shangyuan Festival.

In addition, there is also the house of the powerful and rich in Chang'an: 150 feet high, up to 20 shelves wide, hanging pearls, gold and silver tassels on the lamp tower, and the breeze blows and clangs. There is also a hundred-branch lamp tree, 80 feet high, and a huge tree-shaped lamp holder is placed on the high hill, and it can be seen from afar within a hundred miles after it is lit, and it is dazzling.

There are hundreds of music and dances under the giant lantern wheels, lantern towers, and lantern trees, and thousands of court artists and folk song and dance lovers sing and dance in the brilliant lights.

In order to be in the limelight overnight, the organizers are worth 10,000 yuan for a flower crown and a xia veil, and the beauty is at least 300,000 yuan, and the luxury and wealth are staggering.

Li Yu also spent 10,000 dollars on the Shangyuan Festival and built a super giant lantern tower, which was as high as 19 zhang, becoming the highest lantern tower in Chang'an except for the royal lantern wheel.

The upper and lower lamp towers are decorated with splendid ribbons and gold jade beads. A 4.5-foot circular stage was built around the lantern tower, and the Yanwangfu Band played music in turn under the lantern wheel, while the courtesans sang and danced on the stage, attracting a large number of tourists to stop and watch.

The graceful dancing posture of the courtesans attracted the prodigal sons who couldn't take their eyes off it.

It is nine pairs of twin ladies dressed in splendid skirts, singing and dancing, pink makeup, and beautiful and colorful, which makes the hearts of the people in the group who think they are elegant like waves, and they forget to return.

In addition to the beauty of Middle-earth, there are also exotic customs.

Among the courtesans were ten beautiful bearded girls with blond hair and blue eyes like snow, which surprised the well-informed people of Chang'an.

Most of the bearded women in the Western Regions have brown eyes and green eyes, few blue eyes, no blonde hair, and no such ice and snow-like skin.

The dancers talked a lot, and they didn't know where Yan Wangfu bought these blonde and blue-eyed bearded girls.

Among the ten people, the lead dancer is named Devonie, and Sevia and Yelena are the most beautiful.

Li Yu led a group of friends under the stage to look at the ten orchids with satisfaction, to be precise, they were Germans and Slavs.

They were one-third of the thirty maidens selected by Tiberius, a Roman merchant who had defected to Li Yu three years earlier, and half of them were purchased from the Slavic tribes of northern Rome and Germanic girls bought by slave traders. The remaining half were Roman girls, Greeks, and bearded girls from the Western Regions who were bought on the road.

Li Yu sent them to the left and right teaching workshops to train in singing and dancing, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting for three years, and they completed their studies this year, and tonight is their debut on stage.

Cheng Wuzhong stared obsessively at the full chest of Devonie led by him, pulled down the corner of Li Yu's clothes and asked, "Si Yan, where did you buy such a beautiful bearded girl from the Western Regions?" I've been in Chang'an for nearly 20 years, and I've been to all kinds of orchid restaurants, but I've never seen blonde hair and blue eyes! ”

"Want?"

Li Yu asked with a smile, and Cheng Wuzhong nodded hurriedly: "Hey, hey, if you want to send me, send the three on the stage." He pointed to the sweaty Daphne, Sevia, and Yelena who jumped out of the stage. If he could, Cheng Wuzhong would like to ask for all ten people on the stage.

In this era, the East and the West are thousands of miles away, and it is very difficult to get Slavs and Germanic beauties.

Li Yu directly threw down a contemptuous look and replied: "If you want to, go to Yiningfang to find that Roman Tiberius." ”

"Is that the merchant of the Western Regions on the Silang Mansion?" Cheng Wuzhong asked eagerly, Tang Jianzhen, Zhang Zhuo and others were also very concerned, and squeezed their ears to Li Yu's side to listen, and their faces were so anxious that Li Yu wanted to squirt their saliva.

"Exactly!" Li Yu didn't have a good breath, except for Li Sishun, who was the same age as himself, he could only watch and not eat, and the others had already broken the maids in the house.

This will be as excited as a bull in heat, and Daphne and the others on the stage will look at it non-stop, and they will probably go on stage to take a closer look at their skirts.

Dai Nianxuan, Xiao Jinxuan, Yang Yuanniang and other little ladies who came together gave everyone a big white eye, and Yang Shiyan said with contempt: "What is so beautiful about this bearded girl, her yellow hair is almost white, and it is ......the same as mourning."

It's called white gold, Li Yu wanted to correct it, but he still forgot it, obviously these little ladies were comparing themselves to Devonie.

Looking at the group of animals around them howling as Daphne and the others began to pole dance, the crowd of onlookers began to be sensational and noisy.

Although the rich men of Chang'an have seen pole dancing in their drunkenness, they have seen the more glamorous blonde and blue-eyed women swinging their thighs, shaking their buttocks, and twisting their thin waists.

The men in the crowd began to get excited and boiling. One by one, the women were either red-faced or red-faced, or their faces were uncertain; There are vixens and sluts. What's more, they dragged their own men away.

The moral gentleman began to scold the river and quote the scriptures!

Presumably, within a few days, the imperial history impeached King Yan, and the document was quickly whipped and sent to Li Zhi of Luoyang Palace, the eastern capital.