The celebration of August 15 in the palace is more lively than the folk 100 times, in addition to the royal banquet and the banquet between the orchestra and the gonghou and other song and dance performances, there is also a huge and spectacular grass dragon as decoration, and more chrysanthemums as auspicious clouds embellished in it, lifelike and extraordinary

At night, there are many programs in the palace, such as "fire dragon dance", "burning Mid-Autumn Festival", "lighting tower lanterns", etc., but all the royal relatives, relatives, princes and ministers living in the capital are called into the palace to participate in the royal banquet

Until midnight, the princes and nobles will go to the moon altar with the emperor to worship the moon god to pray for the wind and rain in the coming year, and the country and the people will be safe

After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival was regarded as one of the grand festivals, because the Manchus had the custom of sacrificing the sun, moon and stars since the time of the ancestors

After entering the customs and taking charge, the Manchu and Han ethnic groups influenced each other in cultural customs, infiltrated each other, and the Manchu moon worship activities gradually mixed with the moon appreciation customs of the Han nationality, and then became the moon festival, Shengjing and the old Manchu tribe in the northeast border, the Mid-Autumn Festival is not called moon appreciation, but the moon is the legacy of the moon sacrifice

Because the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet is mainly based on the moon sacrifice, the banquet time is also specially arranged in the evening, after the unitary hour, the princes and ministers in the capital have taken chariots, horses, official sedan chairs, etc., and rushed to the capital in the imperial city, and the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet is set up in the Baohe Palace

A few days ago, Huai Sleeve received a little eunuch sent by Li Dequan to inform him of the time and place of the banquet, and after lunch, he ordered Jian Yue and others to wait, change clothes, comb makeup, and go to the Empress Dowager's Cining Palace

Because the place where the harem lives is far away from the front hall, the day before, Li Dequan was ordered by Kangxi to send a poplin soft sedan chair to Qingzhi Hall with sleeves

Walked to the main hall of Cining Palace, got off the sedan chair, and walked into the inner hall with the help of Jian Yue, and walked into the inner hall, Dongnuan Pavilion, Xiaozhuang, at this time, was served by the little palace maid who was combing her hair

The little palace maid looked at her face, she should have just been assigned to serve, and she had been curled a few times by Xiaozhuang, and a wisp of broken pieces on the side was still not good, and Xiaozhuang had already shown a slight impatience, but she was not patient, and the beads of sweat on the corner of the little palace maid's forehead had already flowed down her cheeks

Huai Sleeve let go of Jian Yue's hand, took a few steps forward, and said gently, "Let me come," the little palace maid hurriedly retreated to the side and took a closer look

I saw Huai Sleeve reach out and take the grate, his fingers dipped in a little osmanthus head oil, dexterously rubbed on the silk, the slender jade-like fingers twisted lightly, the fingers made a few bends, and then used the jade skewer dexterously hooked, the wisp was hidden in the back of the head, and the heads on both sides were immediately smooth and smooth

Xiaozhuang took a left and right look at the bronze banner mirror and nodded with a satisfied smile

Huai Sleeve took the bright yellow auspicious clothes from the hands of the palace maid on the side, changed into Xiaozhuang, put a string of bright red and blood-like agate three-eyed Chao Zhuzai carefully on Xiaozhuang's neck, and looked carefully from top to bottom, and couldn't help but admire: "The ancestor is plain and has an extraordinary temperament, and the more he looks mentally strong when he changes into this auspicious clothes."

Xiaozhuang heard Huai's sleeve words, but smiled and waved his hand and said: "Now that I'm old, I'm afraid that I'm tired of wearing this."

With a smile in his sleeves, he helped Xiaozhuang to sit on the soft couch and asked, "Why don't you see Aunt Su Ma?" Because in the past, all such important festivals, Xiaozhuang's makeup was taken care of by Aunt Su Mala herself, but today she is not seen

"I told her to go back and dress up, you are still young, you should dress up brightly, and you will be on weekdays to ...... this festive season."

Xiaozhuang said while looking at the sleeves, and saw that she was wearing a light lotus sleeve shirt on her upper body, and she was wearing a yellow and white long pleated skirt with a horse face ruyi pattern, and a fluttering hibiscus was painted on the skirt

"Look at how good you are with Sister Man, I saw her, so I urged her to change her clothes, but now I can't look at you, but I can't do it," he said, pointing to the dressing table and saying to the palace maid: "Take my jewelry box."

When the palace maid heard this, she hurriedly brought over the wooden box containing the hairpin ring jewelry

Xiaozhuang picked out a rose and gold magnolia hairpin, the hairpin head of the magnolia flower half-open and half-closed, pinched in the middle of the thin silk stamen, dotted with a few pink plum blossoms and jade beads, the treasure is like a pearl, the color is alive and fragrant, at a glance, it is a rare ornament

Then Xiaozhuang picked out a pair of lotus leaf-shaped earrings of watermelon tourmaline, stretched out his hand and pulled his sleeve and said, "Let's put this on."

Huai Sleeve hurriedly pushed it away and said: "Ancestor, this is absolutely unacceptable, you gave me jewelry last time, and I really can't accept this this time."

Xiaozhuang pretended to be angry and said: "Who told you not to dress yourself well, if you do this again in the future, I will give you jewelry every time to see if you are embarrassed."

Huai Sleeve heard Xiaozhuang's words in his ears, and there was a little bit of grandmother's taste, and his eyes were red at once, and he only dared to let the tears roll down easily in front of Xiaozhuang

Xiaozhuang knew her thoughts, although it was taboo to cry in the palace on auspicious days, he did not complain about her

Xiaozhuang pulled down her sleeved arm, gently inserted Jin Hai into the black silk show, and replaced her original pair of Hetian jade earrings

Huai Sleeve was originally excited in his heart, his face was slightly red, at this time, lined with the elegance of sand gold and the soft and bright color of watermelon tourmaline, the soft and bright color of the tender powder, the more and more the complexion was like jade, and Ren Xiaozhuang looked at it carefully, and then nodded with satisfaction

Suddenly there was a commotion outside the door

"I want you to take care of the crow's mouth," the young woman's coquettish voice knew that it was the crescent moon Xiaozhuang and Huai Sleeve couldn't help but look at each other and laugh

After a while, someone opened the curtain and came in, but it was Prince Gong Chang Ning

I saw that Chang Ning had changed into a new official uniform today, embroidered a dragon on the chest, and the double horseshoe sleeves were turned high to reveal the snow-white lining, and the peacock feathers with red eyes were dragged on the top, followed by the crescent moon in the emerald pink auspicious suit

Chang Ning and the crescent moon first greeted Xiaozhuang, and then greeted each other with their sleeves, and the crescent moon saluted, and when they got up, they pouted and looked displeased, and stood beside Xiaozhuang

"What's going on with the big holiday," Xiaozhuang asked, looking at the crescent moon

Crescent Moon Ben Xiaozhuang asked, raised his eyes and glared fiercely at Chang Ning, his face was slightly red, and he lowered his face without squeaking, but Chang Ning squinted at the pair of black beans, and looked at the crescent moon with a smile

"You tease her again, the crescent moon is as big as a day, and you always tease her like a child, beware of that day, it really annoys you," Xiaozhuang said with slight annoyance, Chang Ning

At this time, Su Malagu also opened the curtain and walked in, and when she saw Xiaozhuang talking to Chang Ning, she quietly stood beside her sleeve