In the winter of December of the thirtieth year of King Zhou He, as soon as the rooster crowed, Chen Yingcheng began to welcome the second heavy snow of this winter.

However, with the increasing snow, the people in Chen Yingcheng also had some resentment, and they couldn't go anywhere in their homes, even at home, those burning stoves didn't seem to be able to block the cold north wind.

But this snow can't stop the figure of Chen Ying's nobles, and there are enough warm chariots for them to travel in cold weather, and this heavy snow is just a beautiful scenery they enjoy after tea and dinner!

In this era of the supremacy of aristocratic blood, you are a low-level person without blood, if you have a noble bloodline, even a poor person can be valued by others.

"What kind of prince will Xiangning?" It's just a joke, which of the princes of this era is not a nobleman, even if he is poor, he is the lowest level of the taxi.

The "meat eaters" in Cao Di's polemic also included him, if it was possible for a poor savage to go to meet Lu Gong, he was also a countryman who belonged to the class of scholars.

During the Warring States period, there was no distinction between the country and the field, but the theory of bloodline was still rooted in their hearts.

Tian Jian and the others also drove a cart that was enough to show their identities, followed by a hundred guards to attend the palace banquet, and the vehicles that were constantly galloping next to them were also guests who went to this banquet.

It was Yang Yi who was in the royal hand, and as the personal guard that the young Prince Ling relied on, he needed to be familiar with all the skills, such as running a carriage, which he also had to master.

After months of hard training, although he could not compare with the experienced old master, it was a breeze to control the horse.

Tian Jian is also wearing brand new clothes today. It is still a purple garment, with wide sleeves, and various auspicious patterns are embroidered with gold thread on the sleeves.

In the Qi country, there has always been a tradition of respecting purple, and Tian Jian's dress today can reflect that he is a distinguished guest from the Qi country.

In addition, this banquet was held by his mother-in-law, Queen Chu, as her son-in-law, Tian Jian naturally couldn't lose face, after all, as the crown prince of Qi, he couldn't say anything about it.

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This banquet was held in Zhanghuatai, the queen of Chu, but not the main palace, but the palace room next to it.

By the time Tian Jian came, the invited guests had already arrived one after another, and this palace banquet was similar to previous years, all of which were used by the queen to envelop the government and the opposition, but in Tian Jian's opinion, some of the people here were fresh faces that he had never seen in Chen Ying.

Of course, Tian Jian is also a newcomer, how can he meet everyone, but there are a few people who are surrounded by everyone, and they seem to respect these people.

In Chen Ying, the so-called high-ranking official, Tian Jian thinks that he can also recognize eight or nine. These people seem to be the newcomer Chen Ying.

But he shook his head, he wasn't interested in any of that. As the crown prince of the Qi Kingdom, the people who stand at the top can make him look up to too few people, too few, and these people are no exception.

After waiting for a while, Queen Chu slowly walked out.

Her dress today is also unusually gorgeous, black and depressed solemn clothes, embroidered with gold thread on a radiant phoenix, from the waist of the tail feathers to the phoenix crown on the chest. The slender clothes outlined her figure very obviously, in other words, the queen of Chu is a little charming today.

For the phoenix on the chest of the queen of Chu, Tian Jian secretly groaned to himself, the tradition of the Chu people respecting the phoenix has existed for a long time, which was originally derived from the original belief of its distant ancestors to worship the sun and respect the phoenix.

It is said that the ancestor of the Chu people is Zhu Rong, and Zhu Rong is the god of fire and thunder, the Han Dynasty "White Tiger Pass" contains, Zhu Rong "its essence is a bird, away from Luan." "Bian Crow and Bird" notes: "Phoenix genus".

It can be seen that Zhu Rong is the incarnation of the phoenix. This is similar to the Song people's worship of Xuanniao, and the noble nobles always embroidered their totemic token Xuanniao on their clothing. "The Divine Destiny Xuanniao descends to give birth to business."

While I was thinking about it, the feast had begun.

The health of the king of Chu is not good, this is well known to everyone, and the current king of Chu is old, and the matter of receiving guests will be taken over by Yang Wenjun's two sons, which can make the government and the opposition of Chu not guess what the king's intentions are.

The banquet was handled by them, only to see Mu Sheng clapping his hands, the musicians on both sides began to blow, and the sound of silk and bamboo filled the entire hall, and there was also a beautiful Chu girl singing Qu Zi's resignation, "The emperor descended to Beizhu, and his eyes were sad." The autumn wind is curling, and the Dongting is under the rippling leaves. ”

The attendants who enter from the temple gate put the steamed and cooked wine and meat on each person's table, and there are also tableware such as wine, chopsticks, and daggers next to it, after all, eating is also a kind of aristocratic culture.

But what's even more exciting is not here, I saw Chu women with more than a dozen people slowly entering, their light clothes and thin sleeves, dancing with the sound of silk and bamboo in the center of the lobby.

This is a feast for everyone's eyes on a snowy day, and whether they are cold or not is not in the scope of consideration.

For a while, there were many shouts in the hall, and everyone's eyes were attracted by the graceful concave and convex places of those Chu women, and they forgot the taste of meat and wine in their mouths for a while. They also didn't forget to talk back and forth with the people next to them, but the content of the discussion hurt a lot.

Tian Jian was a little dull here, as the new son-in-law, he didn't have the courage to look at these Chu girls in front of his mother-in-law, although his heart was about to move, so he could only lower his head and start drinking.

But trouble always comes on its own.

At the banquet, Yang Wenjun's two sons didn't give Tian Jian a good look, after all, during the autumn hunt, Tian Jian's words made them worry for a long time, although these were their real thoughts, but Tian Jian greatly offended them when he said it.

"Zhou rites are precious to Xuan, but the prince is wearing purple, as the saying goes, the Qi State Jixia School Palace is a place where etiquette flourishes. Thinking about it now, it's a big fallacy! He picked up the wine cup and smiled at the crowd around him.

Tian Jian was a little stunned, as a good baby, he was found in trouble like this, but he couldn't be timid, he chuckled and said: "What the son said, forgive Tian Jian for not agreeing." Dare to ask what is the etiquette system of the child? ”

Mu Sheng waved his sleeve robe and said: "The prescription formulated by Zhou Gongdan is a courtesy." ”

Indeed, there is nothing wrong with this remark, most of the rituals and laws implemented by the countries now are born from Zhou Gongdan, the original Yin Shang, and the rituals of the Xia Dynasty have long been submerged in the long river of history, not to mention the rituals of Yu Shun.