The Mid-Autumn Festival is also the middle of autumn, which has been extended since it was listed as an official festival in the early Tang Dynasty.

Today, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also a legal holiday of the Great Song Dynasty, also known as the August Festival, which belongs to the medium-sized festival celebrated by the whole world.

When it comes to the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is indeed a detailed description in Meng Yuanlao's "Tokyo Menghualu": "On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, your family decorates the pavilion, and the people compete to occupy the restaurant to play the moon"; Moreover, "the strings are heavy and boiling, and the residents of the near interior are heard in the middle of the night, just like outside the clouds." children in the room, overnight wedding scenes; The night market is Khotan, as for the know. ”

And Wu Zimu's "Dream Lianglu" also mentioned: "At this time, the golden phoenix is cool, the jade dew is cool, the osmanthus is fragrant, and the silver toad is full of light." Wang Sun Gongzi, a rich family, all climb the dangerous building, play the moon in Linxuan, or open the wide pavilion, the tortoise feast is listed, the piano is sonorous, drink wine and sing, and the joy of the night. As for the home of the shop, they also climbed the small platform to arrange family banquets and gather children to reward the festival. Although the people in the alleys are poor, they are relieved of the agricultural market wine, and they are reluctant to welcome the joy and refuse to waste it. This night the street sells and buys, until the five drums, playing the moon tourists, the mother-in-law is in the city, and the fire is endless. ”

In addition, the custom of the Song people to worship the moon is also recorded in the "New Drunkard Conversations": "The children of the Alluring City do not rely on the rich and poor to reach the twelfth or thirteenth on their own, but they all decorate them with the eyes of adults, and go upstairs or burn incense to worship the moon in the atrium, each with its own dynasty; Men are willing to step into the Toad Palace as soon as possible and climb the immortal laurel...... The woman wishes to look like Chang'e and be as round as the moon. ”

Although Huangzhou belongs to Huainan, thousands of miles away from Bianliang in Tokyo, but there is no difference in terms of festival customs, as early as August 12, the market was opened on the street of Huangzhou City, and it will continue until the end of the end of August 18, so the poor people in this alley, the wine in the agricultural market, the conditions for reluctantly welcoming the joy can still be satisfied, but there is nothing to climb high and look at the moon in the whole city of Huangzhou, and the rich families can only open the feast, drink wine and sing, and drink happily at night.

Nowadays, the old store of the Huang family and Shihui Street have changed from the previous concave pattern to a hollow pattern. The original 16 huts had already been turned into half-brick wooden houses because they were unusable, and the number increased to 32, of which 26 were used as façade houses, the remaining eight were five for occupancy, and three were used for cooked food processing.

And the number of local snacks in Huangzhou that was invited to stay in Shihui Street has also increased to twelve, so the old store of the Huang family has also been greeted by the government, and it will be upgraded from a foot shop to a main store after the New Year. Speaking of which, many people may not know the difference between this main store and the foot shop, but in fact, it is simple: the main store can buy the monopoly koji for sake brewing and the grain from the government treasury, and make it itself and sell it, while the foot store can only sell liquor from the main store.

The Great Song Dynasty implemented a liquor monopoly system, so the hotels that could make wine had to buy koji from the government, and most of the others who were not qualified not only could not make it, but it was also illegal to brew it privately, but they always had to sell wine when they opened their doors, so the government's policy was to let these hotels buy wine from state-run wineries, or buy wine from those stores that could make wine.

For this reason, the hotel that buys sake from the official state-run sake brewery is called "paito", and the hotel that buys sake from the main store is the foot shop.

When Huangzhou was built, there were only seven stores, and now more than 100 years have passed before it has developed to twelve, but Huangjiadian has developed from a small mom-and-pop shop to a store that must be upgraded to a store by the government for just one month, which is also unexpected by many people. However, it is no wonder that the government, now the total revenue of Shihui Street is on average not less than 100 yuan, which does not count the increment of the listed market, and at this time, the government does not collect value-added tax and consumption tax, in order to overcharge the annual fixed business tax of hundreds of fixed sales taxes paid by the store, forcing Huangjiadian to upgrade is also a helpless move.

After the reopening of the old Huang family's shop, it should be regarded as the foot shop of Mingxiu Building, plus Yao Zheng, the land Bodhisattva, so it was affordable at the beginning, not only from Mingxiu Lou to sell wine discounts, but also Mingxiu Lou to provide ice fish wine, this upgrade to the main store really made Huang Lao Qian difficult for a while, first of all, the business tax of the foot shop suddenly increased to hundreds of times a year, and then the official government yamen up and down the filial piety and sprinkling costs also increased accordingly, and the only benefit is that you can make your own wine, But the koji sold by the government is extremely expensive, and the quality is not very good.

Even if the street is not really demolished, at least the property rights must be separated in name, Huang Laoqi had no choice but to go to his uncle Yao Zheng, who was on vacation, early in the morning of August 15, to discuss, but he was scolded by his uncle for a bloody sprinkler, saying that he was a person who knew how to make small profits and was short-sighted.

The old man wondered, so he could only discuss with his son, but asked Huang Dalang to ask with a smile: "Dad, is there a higher statement above this store?" ”

The old man shook his head, this food is a meal, the lowest level is the street practice stall, the government is not a penny, gradually become bigger and build a shed, it has become a tea house, a food house, there is a patrol of the street Bai do (government temporary staff) to collect a few dollars of tea money, the shed is bigger, and began to sell meat is also called a restaurant or wine shop, that is, pay a few more dollars for tea, until it begins to sell wine, it will be further upgraded to auction households, foot shops and hotels, which needs to pay a formal fixed tax to the government, and then come up is the main store, the highest level in this line.

Huang Dalang slapped his hand and said: "Isn't this it, it has been promoted to a main store, even if my family's Shihui Street expands to one hundred and eight shops in the future, it is also a main store, we can't be divided into two, right?" ”

Huang Laoqi thought about it, then patted his head and came to his senses, and laughed: "I'm still smart, dad will ...... next year No, you will pay taxes according to the rules of the main store next month, and you will not embarrass your uncle! ”

After speaking, the old man turned his head to leave, but Huang Dalang chased after him and said, "Dad, I'll go to the store with you." ”

The holiday of the Hongwen Museum is from August 14 to August 18, originally Huang Dalang still wanted to practice martial arts and fitness as usual, but last night, a small servant from the Wan family came to pass the word, asking him to wait in the store early this morning, and I don't know what it is.

followed to the store, Huang Dalang walked around the food street, looking at this food street that is theoretically his own creation, and his heart was also comfortable, and it didn't take long for a two-horse cart to come to the front of the store, followed by four horseback guards.

Wan Jinbao, who had not been seen for a long time, looked for Huang Dalang and pushed him into the car with a black face, Huang Dalang sat down and took a look, the little lady sitting opposite was naturally no one else, naturally Wan Chunnu.