In the middle of October, the entire Taiyuan city began to become lively. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoSome Taoist priests in Taoist temples have also offered food and dipping gods in various places in the city, and the good men and women of Taiyuan City have also gathered together to pray for blessings and disasters.

October 15th is the Xia Yuan Festival, and in the traditional season, there are three very important festivals, namely the Shangyuan Festival, the Middle Yuan Festival and the Xia Yuan Festival. These three festivals are collectively known as the three yuan.

Shangyuan Festival is the Lantern Festival, on this day, almost everywhere, there will be the custom of watching lanterns, very lively. The midyear festival is a festival to worship ghosts, and it is also the biggest ghost festival. As for the Xia Yuan Festival, it was originally just a day for Taoist heavenly officials to bless their sins, local officials to forgive their sins, and water officials to relieve misfortune. Later, it gradually developed to the people, and many people would sacrifice and pray on this day in order to avoid disasters.

Unlike the other two festivals, the content of the Xia Yuan Festival is more mixed, because the direction of the sacrifice is different. For example, in the village, many people will sacrifice to the local officials, hoping that the crops will be harvested, and the people in the city will sacrifice to the water officials, hoping to eliminate disasters and solve problems. As for the imperial court, the sacrifice to the heavenly officials is only for the country to be able to adjust the wind and rain.

Also, depending on the status, the specifications of the altar sacrifice are also different. There are nine kinds of altars, the upper three altars are set up by the state, the middle three altars are set up by the ministers, and the lower three altars are set up by the scholars.

Basically, the two altars in Shangzhong have nothing to do with ordinary people, these are all matters of the state government, that is, the Lin family, and they only put three altars of sacrifice at home.

"Cousin Fang Hong. On this day, Fang Hong was leaning on the railing to read as usual, and a crisp voice sounded beside him, pulling him out of his contemplation.

Fang Hong looked up, but it was a bright girl, with an apricot-yellow dress, and a tray in her hand, in which there were more than a dozen steaming pancakes.

"It turned out to be Cousin Xiu'er, why do you have the leisure to come and walk around with me today?" Fang Hong put away the book and said with a smile.

When Fang Hong said this, Xiu'er's face was a little red. "Cousin, this is a shadow cake made at home, you can taste it. She pushed the tray forward, her voice full of shyness.

Fang Hong looked at the dozen or so oily pancakes, which were still stained with some green onions, and put them in the sun, faintly penetrating.

He casually pinched one and put it in his mouth, the shell of the shadow cake was fried crispy, but the inside was extremely soft and glutinous, and the taste was salty and delicious, which made people appetite greatly.

"Uh-huh, it tastes good. Fang Hong ate several times in a row before stopping. Changning didn't have this thing, and he hadn't eaten it.

"Cousin, this shadow cake is made of freshly harvested glutinous rice, you can try this again, it is red bean paste. Xiu'er saw that Fang Hong was happy to eat, so she pointed to a few reddish pastries on the side and said.

She is actually very grateful to Fang Hong, a few days ago, the family wanted her to marry the son of the Tan family with her sister as a concubine, she was about to despair at that time, and someone as a concubine, it was basically not much better than a maid, she was the eldest lady of the Lin family, how could she be self-despise? But at that time in the Lin family, who would consider her opinion? Only Fang Hong's cousin stood up for her and beat that Tan Gongzi.

Fang Hong Yiyan picked up another kind of pastry, this time it was sweet filling, the red beans were crushed into bean paste after cooking, mixed with sugar, and fried in the pot with glutinous rice bread, which was very sweet.

"Xiu'er, you can eat a few too, don't just look at me. Fang Hong was a little embarrassed when he saw Xiu'er watching here, so he took a shadow cake and handed it to Xiu'er's mouth.

"No...... No, I have to go. His action only made Xiu'er's face red, and he immediately lowered his head and hurriedly left the yard with a plate.

"......" Fang Hong was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that his action just now was a bit Meng Lang, especially since Xiu'er was just a teenage girl, and his actions were indeed inappropriate.

This is also to blame him, as his cultivation deepens, everything in the mundane world, he gradually begins to look away. In his eyes, there is no difference between Xiu'er and Lin Ziyan, but for Xiu'er, this is already almost indecent. If it were someone else, he would definitely have to be labeled as a molest.

This was just a small episode, the sky gradually darkened, but the Lin Mansion was lively.

In the middle of the Lin family's courtyard, a large offering table was placed, on which were placed killed chickens, fish, and a huge pig's head. At the front of the offering table was a huge incense burner, in which finger-thick pillars of incense were inserted, and faint green smoke rose from it.

"Daoist Qingyuan, please. "The Lin family is a big family, although it is only the specifications of the lower three altars, but it also invites a Taoist priest to pray at home. Lin Jingyuan was wearing a dark Confucian shirt and holding a cane, while next to him was a Taoist priest with a thin face.

This Taoist priest wears a crown on his head, a blue-brown robe, a pair of shoes on his feet, and a pole of floating dust in his hand.

"I would like to pause, the First Heavenly Venerable, the Taishang Daojun, the Taishang Laojun, the Sanqing Saints, the Ten Extremes of the High Venerable, the Polaris Monarch, the Nine Yao Star Monarchs, the North and South Two Dipper Star Monarchs, the Heaven and Earth Water Three Yuan Star Monarchs, the Xuanzhong Grand Master, the officials of the Three Realms, and all the true spirits. Daoist Qingyuan walked to the offering table, his face solemn, holding a piece of green rattan paper in his hand, on which a lot of small characters were written in red paint.

This is called Qing dip, also called Qing Zi, which is a blessing to the heavens during Taoist sacrifices.

"In three days and two places, in the cover with selflessness, miserable yin and yang, the reality is unpredictable. There are always all souls and are listed, and Zhen Shuwu is coming. If it is smooth, it should be auspicious, and if it is reversed, it will be worse than a disaster. This passage has a long paragraph, except for the introduction of the gods and goddesses at the beginning, the rest of it began to become condescending, and the sentences were obscure and difficult to understand, and people could hear them in a fog. Not to mention ordinary people, even if they are readers, there are few who can read it.

This thing was originally written for the gods, of course, it had to be made a little more profound.

The Qingyuan Taoist priest read a whole stick of incense, and the whole green word was read. After reading it, he put the green rattan paper in his hand into the fire, and as soon as the flame tongue was rolled, the whole paper was burned to ashes and turned into a wisp of green smoke.

At the moment when the green smoke drifted away, Fang Hong's divine eyes directly saw through the present world and entered another world. When this green smoke entered the netherworld, it turned into a winding river, and the river swirled and turned into a whirlpool. An invisible force spread in all directions.

Countless points of light were sucked by this river and went to it.