Chapter 118: Shangyuan Night, Valentine's Day
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, in fact, the day before has begun to put up lights, and the curfew in Chang'an on weekdays has also been canceled for three days, starting from the fourteenth night, the whole Chang'an city has entered a state of carnival, people have fun all night long, up to the princes and nobles, down to the peddlers and pawns, all go out to enjoy the lights, the road in Chang'an City is jammed, the crowd is surging, and even the widest Suzaku Street is also difficult for cars and horses.
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Chang'an City is more lively, all kinds of lanterns are spread all over Chang'an, and what echoes with the colorful lanterns is the smiling faces that are as beautiful as flowers under the lanterns.
The Tang Dynasty is open, and there are not many constraints on women, and even it is common for women to show up on weekdays, and even their clothes are extremely arrogant, but these are the scenes of the 118th chapter of the Tang Dynasty and Valentine's Day, and people's concepts during the Zhenguan period are far from being as open as in later generations, so there are not many opportunities for women to go out.
However, the Shangyuan Festival is different, although this festival is called lantern appreciation, but for young unmarried men and women, in addition to lantern appreciation, the most important thing is to appreciate people, many young men and women are reporting and meeting a favorite person The idea, and for men and women who have been married or are in love, the Shangyuan Festival is a good opportunity to date blatantly. Since ancient times, the Shangyuan Festival has created many good relationships? Therefore, it can also be regarded as the oldest Valentine's Day in China.
On the fifteenth day, just in the afternoon, Li Zhen, this kid, came to find his little beautiful girl, in fact, he had taken people to play all night last night, and this morning he went back to the palace to sleep and immediately ran over again. Fortunately, both of them are children, and their energy is enviable, and they have to take Wu Meiniang with them. Wu Meiniang didn't want to go, the will of the palace has come down, and she will enter the palace to serve after the Shangyuan Festival, so it is not suitable to participate in the Shangyuan Festival, but she can't afford to stalk her sister and Li Zhen, and the Yang family also feels that as soon as her daughter enters the palace, it may be difficult to come out again. Therefore, she was also persuaded to go out to play, Wu Meiniang was helpless, the first hundred and eighteenth chapter on the first Yuan night, after Valentine's Day, I had to take the two little guys to enjoy the lanterns, anyway, Li Zhen was there, and I was not afraid of what others said.
For the Shangyuan Lantern Festival, Li Su has also been looking forward to it for a long time, and he has also participated in the Lantern Festival in later generations, but because of the catastrophe for many years, the Chinese tradition has been lost. Even the Shangyuan Festival has lost its original flavor and has become kitsch and shallow. Now that he can experience the original Shangyuan Festival in Datang, of course Li Su can't ask for it.
When the sun just set, Li Su and Xiao Wenxin went out with Wen'er, Hua'er, and Green Beads. Originally, Li Su still wanted to call Wang Xijun, but this girl didn't know what crazy she was doing, and she refused to come, and since Xiao Wenxin got married, she seemed to deliberately avoid each other, and when she was looking for Li Su for something important, she also stayed in the front yard and asked Wen'er to call Li Su, and she and Xiao Wenxin have not met until now. Even Xiao Wenxin didn't know that Li Su still had such a special maid. Although Wen'er and Hua'er knew, as long as the princess didn't ask, they never mentioned Wang Xijun.
Li Su went out, of course, the guards also brought a lot, but today is different from the past, and these guards have also changed into civilian clothes. Moreover, Li Su also rewarded each of them with a lot of silver, telling them that if anyone is not married, and they see the girl they like at the Lantern Festival, they can leave to chase after them, and don't delay the lifelong event. For the volume of Li Su. These guards were naturally grateful.
As soon as he left the house, Li Su immediately felt a festive atmosphere coming to his face. In front of the gate that had just been replaced by the Liang Palace, it was proposed by Gao Zhong and several stewards. Tea heavy money to ask craftsmen, in front of the small square set up a lighthouse as high as more than ten zhang, the top of the tower pulled dozens of ropes, densely hung with all kinds of lanterns, forming a layer of spectacular lanterns, these lanterns are the royal palace and the surrounding people made by their own hands, hanging on it to celebrate.
In addition to the royal lantern tree in front of the Vermilion Bird Gate of the Imperial Palace, the lighthouse in front of Li Su's door is the most majestic and magnificent in the entire Chang'an City, so it has also attracted countless people to come to watch. For this kind of activity that arose in later generations, Chang'an people also showed great enthusiasm, only one day, there are many people to learn, and now some of the most lively streets, there are people engaged in the activity of guessing lantern riddles.
Now the small square in front of Li Su's door has been crowded with people, there are not only lantern riddle stalls set up by Li Su on the side of the square, but also the ubiquitous small traders will certainly not miss this opportunity, the most of which are the stalls selling lanterns, and the others sell all kinds of snacks or lantern utensils.
Li Su had already expected this situation before going out, so the group came out of the corner gate next to it, which did not attract too many people's attention, and then asked people to buy lanterns and masks for the lantern festival. Li Su grinned and helped Wen Xin put on a ghost mask, and Wen Xin retaliated by putting on a lady's mask for Li Su, and then everyone got into the carriage and rushed to Suzaku Street.
Suzaku Street is located on the central axis of Chang'an City, and it is also the widest street in Chang'an, and today, it is the most lively place in the whole Chang'an City, especially the entrance of the Imperial City Suzaku at the end of Suzaku Street, where the square is set up with a lamp tree as high as more than 20 zhang, which is equivalent to a height of more than 60 meters, the middle of the lamp tree is a cylindrical headlamp, which is divided into many sections layer by layer, and the cylindrical performance protrudes a lantern of different shapes, among which there are cranes, flowing clouds, and more immortals in the heavenly realm, fairy in the Moon Palace, etc, all of them are beautifully shaped and lifelike, and they look extremely magnificent.
When Li Su and the others arrived, the square under the lamp tree was already full of people, the shouts of the small traders came and went, and the surrounding crowd was carrying lanterns, a few or a dozen people in a group, walking forward under the crowd of the surrounding crowd, if you look down from the sky, you will see that these people are like flowing magma, constantly changing shapes.
Li Su They finished watching the light tree in the carriage, and then got out of the carriage and got into the crowd, while watching the lanterns around them, while seeing if there were any favorite objects on the stall next to them, they bought them if they liked.
Headed by Xiao Wenxin, whether it is Wen'er, Hua'er or Green Bead, they are the most lively age, even if it is Wenxin, who has always been quiet, at this time he showed his lively side, several girls surrounded a stall selling inferior jade, and were dazzled by the skillful uncle, and with great interest picked a jade pendant that was useless except for the shape, and shouted at Li Su: "Husband, look at this jade pendant is beautiful, shall we buy it?" ”
"Beautiful, so beautiful! Buy it, be sure to buy it! Li replied incorrectly, he knows that women shopping ** is powerful, if he says a word, it will only make them pick up more garbage for themselves to see, so it is the wisest choice to follow them.
As soon as he heard Li Su's praise, Xiao Wenxin immediately turned around excitedly and discussed with Wen'er next to him, and then according to the conventional, several people bargained with the merchant uncle together, but with their shallow bargaining skills, if they could kill the old and treacherous opponent, then what the hell would it be?
Xiao Wenxin and they were busy shopping, but Li Su's interest was all transferred to the girls walking by, these girls were in groups of three or five, wearing new clothes and jewelry that they were usually reluctant to wear, and most of them did not wear masks, revealing beautiful or ordinary young faces, they were talking and laughing while pointing at the people around them, and from time to time they would burst into bursts of laughter, not caring at all about the eyes of the people around them, and the ladylike demeanor of the past was not a.
Although Li Su is wearing a mask, but he is gorgeously dressed and has a long body, he has a suave temperament, although he can't see his appearance clearly, but he still attracts the attention of many girls and children, and when he walks past Li Su, they discuss whether the masked man in front of him is beautiful or ugly, old or young, and he doesn't care whether his voice will be heard by the other party.
Looking at these bold girls, Li Su couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and only in this Shangyuan Festival can he see the true temperament of these women, and from these reckless girls, he also saw the demeanor of later women, and in a trance, he seemed to have returned to the twenty-first century, and the past that had been silent for many years in his mind also came up, and even a figure that he thought he had forgotten long ago appeared in front of his eyes again......
Thinking of the past that was too far away for him, Li Su smiled bitterly and shook his head, but he didn't expect that in Valentine's Day in the Tang Dynasty, he would think of people and things more than a thousand years later. turned around and looked at Wen Xin beside him, his heartbeat couldn't help but surge with a burst of warmth, the past is gone, let him go with the past, and the happiness in front of him is real!
Thinking of this, Li Su behind the mask smiled freely, squeezed into Wen Xin and the others, and began to help bargain. In his previous life, Li Su was also a person who had opened a shop, and his bargaining and anti-bargaining skills were also very good, so after a while, he killed the jade that the black-hearted uncle asked for 100 wen to less than 20 wen, Wen'er They saw that Li Su was so powerful, and immediately followed and picked a few, and the other party saw that Li Su was a knowledgeable person, and he didn't dare to ask for a price anymore, so he obediently gave a reasonable price to count.
After a few laps in the square, Li Su took them to Suzaku Street again, which was even more lively, and there were even people who organized singing, hundreds or even thousands of people sang and danced, the scene was very spectacular, and the participants were all voluntary, and anyone who wanted to dance could do so. Li Su also came to be interested, and pulled Wen Xin and they also went up and danced for a while, at first Wen Xin was a little unable to let go, but there was Li Su as an example in front of him, and he was wearing a mask, he was much more courageous than usual, and his movements became proficient, and the demeanor of everyone in the past was also thrown aside, and he jumped with Li Su until he was out of breath before withdrawing.
"Go to the Mansion of the Duke of Lu!" Li Su gasped, sat in the carriage with Xiao Wenxin, and commanded the coachman again. As early as a few days ago, Cheng Huailiang invited himself, saying that he had to go to him today, and it seemed that his father Cheng Yanjin asked him to invite him. It's a pity that Cheng Yanjin said it to himself at the wine table at that time, and he forgot to ask what it was!!