Chapter 9: The New Year
Autumn went to winter, and when the first snow fell in the winter of Kangxi's twenty-fourth year, the New Year came.
The Spring Festival has been a day for the people of our country to celebrate together since ancient times. Modern people are getting weaker and weaker in the New Year, and even many people regard the Spring Festival as a burden because they have to purchase New Year's goods and prepare various supplies during the New Year, or rush home with the crowds of people who travel thousands of miles to catch up with the Spring Festival, and visit relatives and friends.
But in the Qing Dynasty three hundred years ago, the Chinese New Year was such a sacred and important thing. The New Year is not only a summary of the harvest of the past year, but also a farewell to the old and welcome the new, and the expectation of the coming year, people welcome the arrival of the New Year with grand ceremonies and great enthusiasm. Compared with the previous life, when the New Year was spent at home, Wanru liked the lively New Year of the Qing Dynasty very much.
After entering the wax moon, the flavor of the New Year will become stronger day by day, until the fifteenth and sixteenth of the first month after the Spring Festival, and the New Year is basically over.
The first important day after entering the wax moon is Laba, Laba was originally a Buddhist festival, and later people in order to also touch the Buddha's Buddha spirit, to form a good relationship, so ordinary people also began to celebrate Laba Festival.
On the day of Laba, you should drink Laba porridge. Every year at this time, the emperor, the queen, and the princes will also give Laba porridge to the ministers of civil and military affairs, and the attendants of the palace maids, Laba porridge is made of yellow rice, white rice, Jiang rice, millet, water chestnut, red river beans and peeled jujube paste, cooked with water, and then decorated with peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, white sugar, brown sugar and grapes.
Laba porridge with such abundant ingredients is also a beautiful expectation for people to worship the gods, celebrate the harvest, and wish a greater harvest in the coming year.
This year, Feiyangu's infantry army commander's mansion received the Laba porridge given by Kangxi, and the porridge in the winter came to the infantry army commander's mansion from the palace all the way, and it was basically too cold to eat, but the porridge was not the point, the focus was on the Laba porridge given by Kangxi Yuci, showing that Feiyanggu's holy favor has not declined.
After Laba, the New Year begins. In the first four days of the new year (i.e., the twenty-third day of the lunar month), that is, within the nineteenth to twenty-second days, the auspicious day is "sealed" by the Qin Tianjian Prison, and the local government institutions stop working, and various private schools and schools are closed, and the celebration of the New Year officially begins. So Feiyangu's annual leave and Wanru's winter vacation began.
On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, sacrifice to the god of the stove, twenty-three, the candy is sticky.
Twenty-four, sweep the house. This day is the most lively, and the maids and maids in the house all roll up their sleeves and go into battle to clean. Wash tea bowls and other utensils, dismantle and wash bedding and clothes, sprinkle and sweep gardens, and dust and cobwebs in corners.
At this time, Wanru was holding her little hands behind her back and walking around the backyard with great interest to watch everyone busy. From time to time, I took out a small notebook from the purse I was wearing, took out a section of charcoal, and then wrote a few sentences in the small notebook.
This little book, Wanru named it micro. Bo Essay Collection.
This micro. Bo's essay collection was made by Wanru when she couldn't move in the bed for twenty days, people will always be very fragile when they are sick, although the Ama Eniang in this life is very good to her, but when she is sick, Wanru first thinks of her parents in her previous life, but she can never see it again, and Wanru secretly cries at night for several nights.
After her body was completely healed, Wanru secretly made a book that was bigger than the maid's code, and used it as a diary. Even the most lively and cheerful people will have something on their minds, and there will be times when they don't want to speak, not to mention that they are such as Wanru, who occasionally inexplicably bright and sad sensual otaku, and they are alone in the Qing Dynasty three hundred years ago, there are many words that can not be drunk by others, and they are afraid of not adapting to the confusion of this world, and they can only secretly write them down in the book, joy, anger, sorrow, and taste.
Later, I remembered that I used to update my status from time to time to change my mood and send a micro. Bo or something, so I got a smaller one, put it in the purse I wore with me, and asked Jue Luo to get charcoal, so that the Qing Dynasty version of ** was born, even if I can only entertain myself, Wanru is still happy.
Jue Luo's strange thoughts and strange ideas that pop up from time to time are no longer strange, anyway, it is not difficult and harmless, so he went with her, his daughter, no matter how you look at it, it is good.
On the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, push and grind to make tofu. On the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, stew big meat. Twenty-seven, kill the stove chicken. Twenty-eighth, put the face hair. Twenty-nine, steamed steamed buns.
Although the Infantry Commander's Office did not prepare New Year's goods according to this folk proverb, it was still largely the same. On the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the whole family, including Feiyangu's concubines, all gathered together for a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and after the meal, Wanru was young and did not need to keep the year, and then returned to her yard.
After washing and bathing, he nestled on the bed, let Meilan Zhuju go out in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and get together for a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. Wanru wants to be satisfied with the bed of the Qing Dynasty, standing wide and wide under the window, putting a few quilts as backrests, and a small solid wood table in front of it, on which are placed the snacks and teas that you love to eat.
Just like at this time, the maids all went out, and she was left alone, took out her notebook, wrote down the blessings and thoughts of her parents in the previous life, wrote down her thanks and wishes to Ama Eniang in this life, and wrote down her heartfelt expectations for a comfortable life in the future.
Even if it is her own private diary, Wanru doesn't dare to write anything about things that are incompatible with this era, for fear that if someone sees it, it will cause trouble.
After I finished writing, I put it away, stayed for a while, and went back to bed. Tomorrow I will follow Feiyangu and Jue Luo into the palace. Tomorrow is the first day of the Lunar New Year, Kangxi is going to hold a state banquet to feast the ministers, Wanru has been performing well, so Feiyangu decided to take her into the palace this year, so that she can see the world.
The banquet was set at noon, but early in the morning, Wanru was dug out of the bed by Ju Xue. Since the twenty-third day of the lunar month, Wanru has stopped the plan to get up early to exercise, and Wanru has a good reason for the winter vacation.
After lying in bed for seven or eight days in a row, Wanru woke up early this morning as usual, and Wanru felt very painful. I'm embarrassed to let a little girl who is less than ten years old dress and wash her face, Wanru does it herself, sleepy-eyed and hazy put clothes on her body, until she is completely awake after washing her face. There is no way, children are sleepy when they are growing up.
Looking at Wanru in a new red dress, Lan Xue opened her mouth and boasted: "Gege's clothes are really festive, and after wearing them, people look more energetic than usual, and this red lining Gege's skin is whiter, just like a little fairy child in the sky, it's really good-looking."
Lan Xue is a lively little girl, with a straight temperament, the most scheming of the eight girls, she can't hide her words, she tells others everything, she can't hold on to a little thing, she really lives up to the name of the basket that Wanru gave her.
However, Wanru likes people with such a temperament very much, so she indulges Lan Xue more. She usually doesn't stop talking, and she doesn't get angry even if she says something wrong.
As soon as Lan Xue's words fell, Zhu Xue said: "What do you mean to be more energetic than usual, aren't we usually energetic?" "Zhuxue and Lanxue have the best relationship on weekdays, so they talk casually.
At this time, Ju Xue interconnected: "Although we Gege are a little lazy on weekdays, according to Gege's words, we are enjoying life." So in the eyes of the slave maid, even the fairy children in the sky are not as comfortable as we have been, and if you look at our skin, I'm afraid even the fairy children can't compare."
The girls who said this nodded again and again, Wanru's skin was white and tender, and it was very soft, and the flesh on her body would sink into a nest when she touched it slightly, and it was a hundred times more comfortable than the best silk, so their favorite thing on weekdays was to serve Wanru to bathe.
After listening to Ju Xue's words, Wanru looked at herself in the mirror, if she ignored the half-long and funny hair, the white skin and big round eyes were really cute for Yuxue.
When she mentioned her cheating father's hair, Wanru was full of resentment. Manchu women's hairstyle, when they were young, because they had to practice riding and archery, so the hairstyle was the same as that of boys, all of them were shaved off the hair around the front, leaving only the back of the head, braided into a braid, coiled at the back of the head. It is not until adulthood that you are ready to marry that you can grow your hair.
So before the age of six, Wanru's hairstyle was the money rat tail hairstyle of Qing Dynasty men who appeared in some TV series! Note that it's the money rat tail hairstyle, not the yin and yang head that appears in the bead grid and shaves off the front and leaves the back!
Most Qing court dramas actually beautify the hairstyles of Qing Dynasty men, and the real Qing Dynasty men's hairstyles are money rat tail style.
What is the "money rat tail" pose?
The money rat tail is to shave all the hair around to reveal the blue and bright scalp, only a small piece of hair with the size of money (about 3 cm) in the center of the head is left, braided into a thin and long braid, hanging down like a rat's tail, so it is called "money rat tail".
Look clearly, it's a thin and long mouse tail, not a thick and black braid! And the yin and yang heads of men in modern Qing court dramas did not appear until the fall of the Qing Dynasty!
The yin and yang braids in modern Qing court dramas are a beautification of history, after all, no matter how handsome and open-minded a male star is, he can't calmly accept the shape of a monk's bald head with only a thin and long mouse tail behind his head.
And not only the actors can't accept it, but the audience can't accept the evil and handsome Qing Palace idol drama on the screen, even if he has a bald head, after saying goodbye to the heroine with a sad and affectionate face, he turned around, and a thin and long mouse tail appeared behind his bare head! The tear-eyed and sadomasochistic parting scene is definitely a funny sitcom! The audience in front of the TV set who has experienced great sorrow and joy will definitely turn black immediately!
The money rat tail hairstyle definitely has the ability to turn magic into decay.
Therefore, the truth of history is speechless and disillusioned.
The generation gap is the most annoying, and it's a deep ditch across three hundred years of time and space!
Wan who knew the truth fell like tears.
When she saw her unconventional and ugly postmodern hairstyle in the mirror for the first time, Wanru couldn't wait to faint and never wake up again.
But no matter how helpless she is, she doesn't like it, Wanru usually doesn't look in the mirror, and often conducts self-hypnosis: her hairstyle is very good-looking, very contemporary, and in line with the trend of the times.
finally survived to the sixth birthday, Wanru played coquettish and cried to Feiyangu and Jue Luo, and finally made them agree that they would start to grow their hair at the age of six, so the hair that used to be shaved every ten days has been cultivated for half a year, and now it has become an ultra-short hair with a pinch of thin braids in the back.
However, Wanru later learned that during the Qing Dynasty, ordinary men's hairstyles were money rat tail style, but the emperor's elder brother clan was the later yin and yang head, maybe the emperor also felt that the braided with a rat tail on his head did not match his ninety-five and eight kings, so he kept his hair.
When she knew this, Wanru secretly vented her anger in her heart, such a funny hairstyle, which appeared on the four or four heads that the Qing Wear women wanted to pounce on, was so unacceptable to Wanru.
And when the Qing army entered the customs, in order to let the Han people shave their hair, they killed so many people, but their emperor only allowed the state officials to set fire to the people after entering the customs, and the people were not allowed to light the lamps to keep their hair.
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