The day after tomorrow is Chinese New Year's Eve, and tomorrow morning after breakfast, the ancestor worship will begin.

Listening to Ruqi, this ancestor worship is the most complicated. First of all, I want to follow the emperor to go to the temple to worship the ancestors, and then I have to go to the apse of the ancestors and the middle hall of the emperors and queens after the ancestors.

On this day, as soon as the sky was hazy, Su Wanqing changed his clothes and put on the palace clothes newly sent by the Shangyi Bureau a few days ago and used in today's worship, and then combed a symmetrical bun.

After the emperor washed and took the throne, the rituals began, the greetings were read, and the "Chapter of Shengping" was played to welcome the gods; That is, the first offering, the music played "The Chapter of Suping", and the dance of the relatives; Later, Yaxian, played "The Chapter of Concord, the Dance of the Dance of Feathers"; At the end of the dedication, the music played "Yuping Chapter", and the dance was the same as the sub-dedication; Finally, the palace was returned, and the music "Chengping Chapter" was played, and the emperor led the ministers and concubines to finally kneel and bow nine times. After that, the gods were worshiped and returned to the nave and apse. Courtesy.

By the time everything was completed, Su Wanqing was almost paralyzed. "Picturesque, you first give the master a hammer to relieve fatigue. I'll go to the imperial dining room to get some food, and let the master cushion his stomach. Ruqi and Su Bangqing returned to Wanqingwu, so they helped Su Wanqing into the inner room to make it soft, called Ruhua to give Su Wanqing a beating, and he went out and turned around to go to the imperial dining room.

"Here, here." Su Wanqing closed his eyes and pointed to a certain place on his shoulder. After beating for a while, Su Wanqing felt much more comfortable. Just when Su Wanqing was drowsy, Ruqi also came back from the imperial dining room with a snack. While eating dim sum, Su Wanqing thought to herself that after this New Year, she should not like the New Year again in the future. Today is just to worship the ancestors, and tomorrow Chinese New Year's Eve seems to be even more tired.

Chinese New Year's Eve, first, receive God. The emperor and the concubines got up at the time of Yin, went to the east and west Buddha halls of the Yangxin Hall and more than ten other places in the palace to pay homage to incense, and there were firecrackers at the door. It means to invite gods and Buddhas from all over the world to come to the palace for the New Year.

Second, step on the year. On Chinese New Year's Eve, from the household garden to the gate, everywhere you walk, you will sprinkle sesame oranges and so on, and walk on it, which is called "stepping on the year", that is, the auspiciousness of the district "backgammon", and it also means saying goodbye to the old year. But this is in the imperial palace, mainly in the Cining Palace, where the Queen Mother lives, the Emperor's Heart Cultivation Hall and the Kunning Palace of the Imperial Palace. There is no such custom in the rest of the concubines' palaces below.

Third, breakfast. Every year on Chinese New Year's Eve, the emperor no longer eats alone, but has dinner with the empress, concubines and others of the harem. There are many varieties of dishes for breakfast, all of which are some yellow rice, bird's nest duck and meat. One dish of wild hot pot, one hot pot of bird's nest hibiscus duck, one hot pot of duck stewed in ten thousand years of sake...... A total of twenty-one products. In addition, the queen and the concubines each used a curtain and a table to arrange tea at different levels, and there were green dragon yellow bowl dishes, Ji red bowl dishes, etc.

Fourth, family dinners. The family banquet of the emperor on Chinese New Year's Eve is accompanied by the empress's harem concubines. In normal times, the emperor and the queen's concubines generally do not eat together, unless the edict is called. After all, there are many concubines in the harem, and it is impossible to eat together at ordinary times. Therefore, family banquets will only be held during the Chinese New Year.

Fifth, the dinner. On Chinese New Year's Eve, the emperor would hold a feast at the Bohol Hall to give the princes of the foreign clan a feast.

After that, there was a farewell ceremony, and the emperor and the palace family respectively paid a farewell ceremony to the Empress Dowager Cining Palace. The queen and her family members went to the Yangxin Palace to give the emperor a farewell ceremony, and the palace dependents went to the queen's Kunning Palace to give the queen a farewell ceremony.

Sixth, turn on the lights. On Chinese New Year's Eve, and on the eleventh, fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth days of the first lunar month, the emperor and empress and the concubines of the harem routinely went to the Wanshou lantern on the Danbi of the Qianqing Palace to light candles. This is also called "lighting up".

The above six are only Chinese New Year's Eve, and when the next day arrives on the first day of the first lunar month, there will be incense salutes. When it is ugly, the emperor will get up and wash his auspicious clothes, and in the sound of firecrackers, in front of the god card of the Heart Cultivation Temple, in front of heaven and earth, he will make incense and salute.

After the incense salute, the emperor will go to the open window of the East Warm Pavilion in the heart palace in the sound of firecrackers. Carved with red lacquer cloud dragon plate, on which a copper auspicious furnace is placed, according to the pen on the stove, dipped in vermilion ink, written auspicious words, in order to pray for the new year, political peace and affairs.

After breakfast, it is to say goodbye to Xinji and hand over Ruyi. First, after the emperor saluted the gods, Buddhas, and ancestors everywhere, he went to the Taihe Hall to receive congratulations from ministers and civil and military officials. After that, he and the queen and the concubines went to the Cining Palace to salute and congratulate the queen mother, and then went to the Yangxin Palace to accept the queen and the concubines to salute and congratulate, after that, the queen accepted the concubines in Kunning Palace to congratulate them.

After saluting and congratulating, the emperor led the kings and ministers to kneel three times and bow nine times in turn, and retreated. Then the queen led the concubines, and the palace dependents to perform the six su, three kneels and three bows in turn, and the princess, the prince, and the wife followed the entourage outside the threshold to perform the three kneels and nine bows.

New Year's Day, that is, after the first day of the first lunar month, is a feast one after another. First of all, there was the banquet of the Taihe Palace, which was mainly a banquet between the emperor and the kings and civil and military officials. There is also the celebration of the queen mother's inner court, the queen's inner court celebration, these are mainly in the queen mother's Cining Palace and the queen's Kunning Palace's banquet, the main ones to participate are the harem concubines and princesses, princesses, princesses, women and others.

On the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, the whole New Year is almost over.

Su Bang liquidated, from the beginning of the Laba Festival to today, for more than a month, almost every day was spent in heavy palace clothes to salute, participate in banquets, and banquets. Sitting in front of the dresser, looking at herself in the mirror, she felt a lot thinner.

She remembers that in the past, her favorite was the Chinese New Year, where she could set off fireworks, and her cousins, cousins, uncles and aunts who usually worked hard outside...... Will be back. At that time, they would come home late every day, and in addition to playing, there were also a lot of delicious food, all of which were their specialties from abroad. Alas, what a nostalgia......

Su Wanqing felt that the most tired people in this year were Concubine Shu and Concubine Ning Gui, both of whom were concubines who were pregnant with dragons. Although sometimes they could make an exception and not participate, some were still necessary, but she felt that it was enough for both of them.

In addition to the two of them, she also felt that the emperor was also very tired, and every time the banquet and salutes and congratulated the emperor, the emperor took the lead every time. Looking at the emperor in the past few days, Su Wanqing felt a little distressed in his heart. Thinking that it seems that the emperor doesn't have a lot of government affairs today, Su Wanqing wants to make some snacks and soup and send them to the emperor. Do what you think.

"Like chess, go. Accompany me to the imperial dining room to make something for the emperor and the queen mother. Su Wanqing got up and called like chess, and went to the imperial dining room with him.

After the things were done, Su Wanqing remembered that it was not good to give it to the queen mother and the emperor alone, but not to the queen. He divided another portion and sent Moyu to Kunning Palace to send it to the queen. As for whether the queen eats or not, it is not something that Su Wanqing needs to consider.

Send Mozhu to Cining Palace and send it to the Queen Mother. And he took the two of them with a copy to the palace to send it to the emperor.