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In the first month, it is said to be a holiday, in fact, it is not leisure, in addition to the banquet guests, in addition to the exchange of people, all kinds of celebrations are also continuous.\\

As far as the people are concerned, there are abundant entertainment activities in the market, and commercial activities form a climax. The celebration is extended. Colorful sheds were erected on the streets, and all kinds of goods were sold.

There are also dance halls and song halls for people to enjoy, and there are also gambling scenes for people to watch. Women also watched gambling without scruples, and went into the restaurant to feast and drink. There are two or three hundred teams of little girls who dance on the shoulders, but they are still not enough for the feast of the noble mansions;

Because every family banquet guests, these performers should be invited to perform strange tricks, play music and dance, in order to increase the festive atmosphere, and every night, whenever the building lights are on, then Xiao Drums have been dedicated to themselves, this kind of festival celebration will continue to the Lantern Festival.

The official activities are also dazzling, and the New Year envoys from various countries go to the Great Xiangguo Temple to burn incense on the second day of the new year.

On the third day of junior high school, an archery competition is held in the South Imperial Garden, also known as Yujin Garden.

The Great Song Dynasty selected the martial artists who were good at shooting to accompany them. More than ten people from the arrow squad stood in front of the arrow stacks, and the messengers shot arrows with crossbows.

First, a Liao man wrapped in a footless small head and wearing a brocade jacket stepped on the crossbow, danced, set up arrows, and aimed, and then the Liao envoy corrected and fired arrows.

After the Liao State finished shooting, it was the turn of each country to take turns to play.

The Great Song Dynasty accompanied the military ministers to shoot the target, and the emperor rewarded them with costumes, silver saddles, horses, clothes, and gold and silver utensils. The accompanying shooting won, the people of the capital covered the road and shouted slogans, and the spectators of the shooting activity were blocked, and the sea of people was like a tide.

On the fourth day of the first month, spring is established. It is also necessary to hold a grand ceremony of whipping the spring ox. The day before the beginning of spring, Kaifeng Mansion into the spring cow into the forbidden whip spring, the spring cow is made of mud, the emperor of the beginning of the spring day ordered people to whip the spring cow with color, called whip spring or beat spring.

The significance of whip spring is mainly to promote farming and help agriculture. The emperor wanted to watch it in person, and the officials all whipped the ox with a five-colored silk cane. The Imperial Medicine Institute routinely takes bull's eye to fill the eye.

In addition to the "spring beating" ceremony held in the Imperial Palace, this event is also held in various local government offices. Kaifeng, Fuxiang two counties, the day before the beginning of spring, in front of the drum gate to set up a native cow, the whole city of people rushed to watch. Large families sit in sedan chairs around the cow to watch. Legend has it that when I saw the cow, it was auspicious all year round,

After the spring bullwhip was broken, the onlookers came forward to snatch the pieces and take them home, in some places because there were too many people to rob, and even trampled on this incident, but because of this agrarian society, the spring cow gave an auspicious and beautiful meaning, and the people were still happy to do it every year.

After all, there are only a limited number of people who can grab the spring cow fragments. So the ingenious people made their own small spring cattle and sold them, and the day of the beginning of spring. It has become a common practice for people to redeem spring cattle as gifts;

Left and right in front of the house, the small spring cattle sold by the people often sit on the fence with flowers, and the characters of a hundred operas are listed on it, the spring flags, the snow willows, like a small garden scene, extremely ingenious, and flattering.

People are buying and donating their legacy.

Except for spring cattle. There is also the custom of giving spring plates on the day of the beginning of spring.

The so-called spring plate, is the beginning of spring with vegetables, fruits, cakes and other plates, to give to relatives and friends, this kind of spring plate also has the meaning of praying for a good year, the people of the Great Song Dynasty in this elegant taste to experience the most beautiful taste in the world.

In contrast, the spring plate of the palace is much more luxurious, and the spring plate made by the garden. Emerald red silk, golden rooster and jade swallow, extremely exquisite, each plate is worth 10,000 dollars. It is mainly used for entering the palace and distributing the noble mansion and the prime minister's important ministers.

In addition, the day of the beginning of spring. The Academy or the Hanlin Academy wrote the spring paste into the emperor, empress, concubine, etc. The so-called spring post is a short poem of five or seven words, mostly a work of singing the praises of virtue, and there are also spring post words that express the hope that the wind and rain will be smooth, the government is harmonious, and the political is clear, and these poems will be posted on the palace gate and the palace halls and pavilions.

Yang Yi is a scholar of Hallym University, and this matter is presided over by him, and there are thousands of palaces and palaces, almost all of which have to be pasted with spring stickers, which is actually the prototype of the Spring Festival couplets later.

The day before, he recruited dozens of talented officials from the Hanlin and Bachelor's Academies to write spring stickers, and he was busy all day before he could complete the matter.

In the midst of the hustle and bustle, the Spring Festival will soon usher in a climax.

Xuande Gate, Donghua Gate, left and right doors, east and west corner towers, city gate avenues, and large palaces and temples have all erected tall mountain sheds.

The mountain shed is a tall wooden frame for the lantern festival, which is shaped like a mountain forest, so it is called a mountain shed.

The size of the mountain shed is different, there is a bottom sitting diameter of dozens of zhang, the height is also hundreds of feet, majestic and magnificent, looking at it like a peak towering.

Starting from the seventh day of the first month, the mountain shed is colorful, the gold and blue shoot each other, the splendid and glorious, the fairy story is also painted on it, or the fang market is full of colors, the auspicious clouds are around, the birds and beasts walk, full of fun, although there is no lamp, but it has attracted hundreds of people to watch.

Under the mountain canopy, the canopy is full of roads, incense cars are crossing, although the small people of the Han family are also fresh clothes and bright clothes, celebrating and laughing, from their confident demeanor, it is not difficult to see the heroic spirit of the Great Song Dynasty as the most powerful country in the world.

The Lantern Festival of the Great Song Dynasty did not begin until the 14th day of the first lunar month and ended on the 18th night, which was two days longer than that of the Tang Dynasty.

The weather is gradually thawing, the ice and snow have thawed, Yang Yi has been busy for several days, and finally has time to rest.

He leaned lazily on the soft couch at the back window of the study, playing with the second egg;

Erdan is a little more than a year old, and he can walk a few steps by holding on to the wall, but his gait is more swaying than the models on the catwalk in later generations, and Yang Yi wants to laugh when he sees it.

And because of his teeth, he often drools and makes his front placket wet.

Aoba embroidered several beautiful saliva bags, this kind of saliva bags are embroidered together several layers of cloth, shaped like a crescent moon, two corners each with a cloth rope tied to the back of the neck, the front of the "crescent" can block the front placket, so that the clothes will not be wet with saliva.

Yang Yi also had a handkerchief in his hand, and when he went to help him wipe his saliva, the little guy probably thought it was a delicious braised pork knuckle sent it, and he bit it when he opened his mouth.

"Hey, hey, let go of the second egg.........." Yang Yi saw that shouting was useless, and hurriedly pinched the little guy's cheeks with his other hand, and when he pulled his hand out, the four tooth marks were clearly visible.

was so angry that Yang Yi raised his hand and slapped him on his little buttocks, but he was reluctant to hit him really hard after all, and the second egg thought he was playing with himself, holding on to the wall and giggling and pounced on him. Catch what bites.

Yang Yi subconsciously protected his crotch, he could bite anything, this is not good.........

"What's going on, is this? Hungry for eight lifetimes? "Yang Yi caught the little guy, the longer the second egg grows, the more he looks like him, in the future, he is afraid that he will be more popular than his brother Tiedan, but how to bite people indiscriminately.

Han Bi'er covered her mouth and smiled, like a fox spirit. Yang Yi glared at her and said, "What are you laughing at, look at your son, Lao Tzu dares to bite, like words?" ”

Han Bi'er said with a grin: "The child is teething. It's itchy in the mouth, and they like to bite. ”

"His eldest brother didn't do that."

"Who said no, Yang Lang was not at home at the beginning, don't you know, the old lady was bitten by our eldest man."

Yang Yi has nothing to say, but the second egg is making trouble here, biting people like a mad dog, and this can't be stopped.

After Yang Yi asked Yahuan to take the little guy away, it was finally quiet.

"Has the Western Regions been greatly affected?" Yang Yi put his hands behind his head. Leaning back on the soft couch, he asked.

Seeing him ask about business, Han Bi'er hurriedly put away her smile. replied seriously: "After the autumn last year, the concubine body intended to reduce the trade in the Western Regions, so the impact on our family was not very great, and after the winter, there were many fewer other merchants going to the Western Regions, and the overall impact would definitely be some, but it was not too big, and last year there was only a local war in Youchang City, and the two sides were not really torn faces, and all merchants could still pass." However, if the situation continues to deteriorate this year, the impact will be very great. ”

Han Bi'er's words made Yang Yi frown unconsciously.

In the past, when the Great Song Dynasty fought wars with the Liao State or the Western Xia, even if the official fields were closed, commerce and trade would usually not be greatly affected, and they might even be more prosperous than if there was no war.

Yang Yi raised his doubts, and Han Bi'er immediately explained: "Yang Lang doesn't know anything, whether it's the Liao Kingdom or the Western Xia. It is connected with mountains and rivers with the Great Song Dynasty, and the trade between the two sides has never been interrupted since the former Tang Dynasty;

Even in the event of a war and the closure of official shops, merchants were still able to transport goods through the commercial channels that had been established.

But the Black Khanate was different. Previously, the Great Song Dynasty and the Black Khanate had been cut off by the Western Xia, and the two sides basically had no contact, and the Hexi Corridor had only been opened for more than a year, and the Great Song Dynasty had a long way to go to the Western Regions, and it was only possible to go back and forth once or twice in more than a year, which was not enough to establish mutual trust with the Black Khan merchants;

Once there is a war between the two countries, without the internal response of the Black Khan merchants, it will be difficult for our goods to be shipped over. Therefore, the Black Khan and the original Western Xia or Liao State cannot be generalized, although the imperial court must solve this matter as soon as possible, otherwise this year's trade in the Western Regions will be greatly affected. ”

Listening to Han Bier's words, Yang Yi had to be cautious, the opening of the Silk Road has played a great role in promoting the commerce and trade of the Great Song Dynasty, if the Western Front is cut off for a long time again, it will be a great loss for the Great Song Dynasty, and it seems that the situation in the Western Regions must also be solved as soon as possible.

Yang Yi then asked: "What about sea trade?"

Han Bi'er smiled before speaking, and said in a greasy voice with a little pride and a little invitation: "Master, our family has sixteen sea ships, and there have been no major twists and turns, and there are still four more to be launched in two months." Last year alone, these 16 ships deducted the expenses of their crews, and made a total net profit of more than 3.8 million yuan......"

Yang Yi was not surprised at all by this number, in today's maritime trade, as long as the ship does not capsize, it can be said that a shipload of goods goes, half a shipload of silver returns, and the goods of various countries are transported back to the Great Song Dynasty for sale, which is a large profit;

Because of the arrival of Yang Yi, the widespread use of sextants and other navigational equipment, and his "Notes on the Qingqing Dynasty", he made a lot of expositions on the monsoon currents and other navigation-related knowledge, so that the merchant ships of the Great Song Dynasty were more accurate in finding routes and greatly enhanced their ability to avoid danger.

"How much money you make, you can report to Thirteen Niang."

"Master, the slave knows, the Japanese side is also going well, let me rest assured, Emperor Lingzi with the assistance of He Honghai and others, the current political situation in Japan is quite stable, Shiyan, Sado Island, Kagoshima These places, the concubines have also arranged for people to do preliminary exploration, and the ore deposits have basically been identified, as long as the master feels that the time is right, we can open the mine."

"How's it going on with immigration?"

"This master can't make a big move, and the progress is inevitably slow, and now he has only brought more than 5,000 people."

"Well, there's no need to rush this, we still have time."

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