Volume III Chapter 5

"Hey, take a look, take a look, the best fan, wormwood weaving, Aunt Wang's craftsmanship in Dongshi, exorcism and evil spirits, the effect is wonderful, guest officer, do you want to take a look?"

"This guest officer, the calamus that he just picked from outside the city, buy some home to drive away the filth."

"The best medicinal materials, Coptis pills, cholera pills, Sun Shenxian's prescriptions, get rid of diseases and demons. It's not good, don't want money. ”

"Guest officer, what a lovely young lady, buy some colorful silk and tie it on your arm at home, it is beautiful and evil spirits, and bless Miss with a long life!"

"Chang'an's fan market really lives up to its reputation."

"Of course. Emperor...... Master Huang. Do you want to buy some colored silk for the young lady? "It was Gou Sheng who spoke, and the old man Huang in his mouth was naturally Li Yu, and the young lady who could follow Li Yu was naturally Youning. Li Yu was followed by two people, one was Li Chun, and the other was Wang Shuwen. If you have a good look, around the five of them, there are more than a dozen people scattered, these people have all kinds of clothes and trades, but they refuse to do business, just walk closely around these five people, but the leader is Li Yu.

Before Li Yu could answer, he felt a tightness in his hand, lowered his head, and saw Youning raising his head, his two beautiful little eyes flickering, full of pleading. Unconsciously smiled slightly, nodded, Gou Sheng hurriedly went to pay, and bought a large handful of colorful silk back, which made Youning very happy. At this time, Youning's teeth had already grown, and she was not afraid of leaking wind when she spoke, so she happily said to Li Yu: "Thank you, Daddy." A mouthful of white millet teeth was revealed.

Today is the third day of the fifth month, and two days later will be the Dragon Boat Festival. In fact, before the legend of Qu Yuanda was widely spread, the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival was still based on the taboo of the evil day, and the main principle was to health care and avoid epidemics. In the Tang Dynasty, the Dragon Boat Festival has become an important festival, and both the folk and the palace attach great importance to the abnormal. During the time of Taizong, on the Dragon Boat Festival, he gave the civil official a black tortoiseshell belt, and the military attache a black and silver belt, and Xuanzong dedicated his clothes and fans to the ancestral tomb during the Dragon Boat Festival. Moreover, during the time of Xuanzong, "every Dragon Boat Festival in the palace, flour balls and horn millet are made and stored in gold plates." The bow is made with small horns, delicate and cute, and the arrows shoot the flour in the plate, and the middle one gets food. The cover dough is slippery and difficult to ejaculate. This drama is prevalent in the capital. ”

Li Yu is obviously not as rich and sentimental as Xuanzong, and as a modern person born in the countryside, Li Yu is deeply disgusted with extravagance and waste. But the approaching Dragon Boat Festival still made him excited, and as soon as he saw the festival plan presented by the prime minister, Li Yu remembered the Dragon Boat Festival of his childhood. The era of Li Chen's life is the era when traditional festivals tend to die out, and various grand and grand festivals in ancient times, such as Lantern Festival, Shangsi, Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, Bon Festival, Chongyang Festival, etc., have lost their original charm in the tide of industrialization and modernization, and some have even only become nouns on the calendar, on the contrary, many festivals from the West are popular, Santa Claus defeated Confucius, so that Li Yu, who loves traditional culture, often sighs. Originally, the country had attached great importance to this issue, and Qingming and Dragon Boat Festival began to have holidays, but unfortunately Li Yu did not wait for that day to cross. Li Yu, who originally planned to take this opportunity to educate his son in traditional culture, had no choice but to shift the object of education to Youning.

Last time Youning's birthday was disturbed by Xue Yingzhen, Li Yu wanted to compensate Youning, so he specially set up Youning's dormitory, but Youning didn't want him to educate at all, and when he arrived, Youning was already lying in the arms of Queen Wang and listening to Queen Wang's story about the Dragon Boat Festival. Li Chen, who felt that he was late, had to retreat to the second, and wanted to compensate with a gift, and asked Youning what he wanted most for the festival, but Youning said pitifully that he heard that it was the fan market in Dongshi in the past two days, and he wanted to go outside the palace to see the excitement. Li Yu knew that the royal descendants had been confined to the palace since childhood, and they almost did not eat fireworks in the world, and they seemed to be rich and noble, but they had no freedom, and they were very pitiful. And he has been in the Tang Dynasty for more than three months, and he has been living in the courtyard of the deep palace, except for state affairs every day, that is, he stretches out his hands to eat and open his mouth, this kind of life is accustomed to large families, but Li Yu was almost stuffed out of the bird. I just took this opportunity to go out to breathe and feel the breath of life that I had not seen for a long time. So he happily agreed, and summoned Zuo Jinwu Wei Zhonglang to escort Li Yu, Queen Wang couldn't stop persuading, and seeing that Li Yu himself had comprehensive security considerations, he had to let them go.

Before leaving, Li Yu remembered that Li Chun, the successor of the internal design, had the need to understand the people's livelihood, and was just about to go to Xuan, but Li Chun happened to come to ask for peace, called at the moment, changed his clothes, took Wang Shuwen, who was on duty today, sat in two inconspicuous carriages, ordered Gou Sheng and Li Yu to open the way, and quietly slipped out.

The carriage was running on the street of Chang'an, but the cars on the street were not crowded, and there were laughter in the ears from time to time, so it was not lively. In the carriage, Youning excitedly lifted the curtain and looked around. In the Tang Dynasty, there were 12 north and south streets and 14 east and west streets in Chang'an City. Among them, the six main streets that run through the three city gates on the south side and the six city gates on the east and west sides are the main roads, known as the "six streets".

The three main streets in the north-south direction are Qixiamen Street, Zhuque Street and Anhuamen Street, all of which are more than 100 meters wide. At 150 meters wide, Suzaku Street is the widest street in the city, and if the players can keep up with the physical strength, the World Cup can be completed in one day. The name of Suzaku Street comes from the Vermilion Bird Gate of the Imperial City, it connects the Vermilion Bird Gate in the north, reaches the Mingde Gate in the south, runs through the north and south of Tang Chang'an City, and is the main axis of the whole city. Among them, the northern section from the Suzaku Gate to the main gate of the palace city Chengtianmen - section, located in the imperial city, also called "Heavenly Street". In Han Yu's "Early Spring Chengshui Department Zhang Eighteen Members", "The light rain in the heavenly street is as moist as a crisp, and the grass color is close but there is none." It is the most beneficial spring of the year, and it is better than the smoke and willows all over the imperial capital" is the scenery of the heavenly street.

To the south of the Imperial City, the main street connecting Chunming Gate and Jinguang Gate is the main street in the east-west direction, which crosses with Suzaku Street, connecting the whole city as a whole, making the whole Imperial City and the palace city appear more majestic and the image is more lofty.

The 25 main streets in Chang'an City, which are intertwined from east to west and north to south, divide the whole city into two cities and one hundred and eight squares. Among them, the urban area is divided into two parts, east and west, with Zhuque Street as the boundary: the west belongs to Chang'an County, and there are 55 squares in the city. The eastern part belongs to Wannian County, which is the part under the jurisdiction of Han Yu, and there should be a city of 55 squares; Because the southeast corner of the city Qujiang Scenic Area occupies two squares, there are actually fifty-three squares.

When he arrived in the East Market, he heard the cries from afar, and Youning couldn't wait. Don't talk about Youning, even Li Chun has lived in the deep palace for a long time, and he also feels refreshing at this time. When he arrived in the city, as soon as the carriage stopped, Youning wanted to jump down, so frightened that Li Chun grabbed him, but he got out first, went down to hug Youning first, and helped Li Yu down with Gou Sheng, who got off from another carriage. Originally, I wanted to help Li Yu to go shopping, but Li Yu was unwilling to show a weak posture in front of the public, so he refused at the moment and walked with Youning in his arms. The emperor's will was so strong, and he saw that Li Yu and others secretly admired it.