Chapter Ninety-Six: A Thousand Autumn Feasts

readx;? Wait until about the end of the day, it is considered to be the end of the congratulatory gift, and everyone will return home with them, of course, this is not without a follow-up, this homecoming is just to tidy up the appearance again, ready to participate in the evening of the thousand autumn banquet. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

When you arrive at about the unitary hour, you can see the Zhengde Gate, the frames coming and going are endless, this is ready to enter the palace to participate in the Qianqiu banquet, this banquet is a special Qianqiu banquet, naturally it is the same as the Spring Festival banquet, or placed in the Zhengyang Palace.

In the morning, there were only some tables for sitting in Zhengyang Palace, which was already full of lights at the moment, and there was a festive taste everywhere, and the palace maids and eunuchs who came and went were also brand new.

This thousand autumn banquet can be described as: "The treasure makeup is colorful, and the fruit is fragrant." The sugar dragon is entangled in the crowd, and the cake ingots are dragged to the oven and the phoenix couple. ”

This was first by the left and right prime ministers, then the prince, then the clan, and hundreds of officials entered one after another, and the musicians began to play the repertoire, and those people in the teaching workshop first imitated the sound of a hundred birds, and when they heard this sound, the ministers and relatives of the clan inside and outside were all silent, and the pleasant sound, as if in mid-air and together, everyone closed their eyes and felt that there was a scene of Luan Feng Xiangji in front of them.

At the bottom of the dragon chair sat the prince, the clan, and the envoys of various countries, as well as the prime minister and the ministers in charge of the six ministries, while the rest of the civil and military officials in the court sat in the two corridors that extended out of the hall, and the officials from the counties who came to celebrate their birthday were lined up behind the mountain tower, and the tables and tables were all slightly shorter with red faces, blue and black paint.

Each case is placed with ring cakes, oil cakes, jujube towers, etc. as a plate, and then the fruits of the season are placed, and a bucket of slurry water will be placed between three or five people, and there will be a copper spoon with a long handle in it for easy scooping.

The various musicians of the Jiaofang Le Fang and some of the palace people who served sat on the side of the railing on the main hall of Zhengyang Palace, and the palace people who were busy pouring wine back and forth were all uniformly wearing the wide purple robes and golden belts, and some of them were sitting in the colorful shed under the mountain tower, and they were also unified in their costumes, wearing the purple and crimson three-color wide shirt, surrounded by the gilded concave belt, and the cypress board was placed in front of it, ten strings in a row, and the other in front of the pipa had fifty sides, plus two Konghou.

It was about three feet high, shaped like a half-sided wooden comb used by a woman for dressing, and was decorated with black lacquer and gold on it.

There is also a special pedestal below, a twenty-five-string piano, which is held by a person kneeling and caressing, and there is a big drum erected high on both sides, and the golden dragon is painted on the top, and the drummer is wearing a golden knot on his back, wearing a red wide shirt, and holding a drum stick with a golden tassel hanging in his hand.

Waiting for Emperor Zhaohua to wear a bright yellow dragon robe, accompanied by the voice of Chief Cui Da, "The emperor has arrived" slowly entered.

Everyone saluted, "Long live my emperor, long live, I wish my emperor a long life, good health, and a long life!" From the hall to the corridor outside the hall, the voice was deafening and shocking.

"Everyone, please get up. Emperor Zhaohua flicked his long sleeves, sat down, raised his hand slightly, looked at Cui Fuwei, and signaled that he could start the banquet.

"Open ......!" Cui Fuwei said in a high-pitched voice.

So, the musician began to play the tune slowly, along with this graceful tune, the dancers slowly entered, the beginning of the loose sequence is a slow free rhythm of the loose board, by the chime, flute, zheng, flute and other instruments solo or in turn, no dancing or singing, accompanied by the dancers into the field.

The next song begins with a slow lyrical section, the middle tune will change from slow to fast several times, the dancers are singing and dancing according to the beat of the music, and when it comes to the ** part of the whole song, it is not necessary to sing, but the musician plays the complex and urgent section, the music is sonorous, the speed from the loose board to the slow board and then gradually accelerates to the rapid beat, the rhythm is moving, not to mention that the dancers are all wearing pale pink gauze clothes, fluttering and misty like immortals.

"It's better to be famous than to see it, this is your country's neon dress and feather dance. Sitting in front of the envoy of the Northern Underworld, Shangguan Dongdun high-fived and applauded.

"It's a dance of neon clothes and feathers, it's really a feast for the eyes. King Yu Ze, the envoy of the West Sea Kingdom on the side, also high-fived and admired.

Here is a song break, followed by the juggling of a hundred operas can be, the hundred operas are really varied, what on the pole, jumping rope, handstand, bending the waist, making bowl notes, kicking bottles, somersaults, and wearing everything, the opening saw the male and female artists, wearing red scarves and colorful clothes, from the front of the palace to enter, this is the beginning of the hundred plays.

I saw that they were spinning the pole, or playing with the jumping rope, during which there were also somersault boys, and in the last one put on the shape of the birthday, and then the boy unfolded the scroll respectively, and the top was written with a golden pen with all kinds of words and phrases of the birthday, and everyone high-fived and followed to congratulate the birthday.

Emperor Zhaohua naturally wanted to respond, he picked up the agate pomegranate talter in his hand, drank it in front of the civil and military officials, and everyone also ordered to pick up the green jade carved flower pattern cup on the case and drink it together.

The program on the field is still performing, followed by a solo pipa song, a birthday pipa song, played very festively, the rhythm is also cheerfully tight, it can be described as "light and slow twisting and wiping and picking, the big strings are noisy like torrential rain, and the small strings are cut like whispers." This noisy cut and miscellaneous bullet is a big bead and a small bead falling on the jade plate. ”

At this time, the table also began to be prepared by the palace maids and eunuchs one after another, serving all kinds of dishes, first five appetizers, respectively, the 10,000-character coral white, the longevity five-spiced prawns, the wordless salted buffalo beef, and the Xinjiang word red oil and shutters are full of color and fragrance, which is extremely attractive, of course, more importantly, these together are the "longevity without borders".

Of course, the singing and dancing on the field naturally does not stop, the musicians also continue to play the tune, the dancers are naturally dancing non-stop, but this side has continued to serve, first a Changchun deer whip soup, followed by the four dishes of the imperial dish: respectively, the jade palm offering longevity, pearl tofu, shou wu chicken and hundred flowers duck tongue.

Without waiting for everyone's reaction, the palace maid who served the dish brought two kinds of dumplings, the most eye-catching of which is the longevity dragon whisker noodles, an uninterrupted long dragon whisker noodles, in the white glaze and yellow pastel entwined lotus bat pattern bowl, light yellow soup, with emerald green onions, is really exciting, and the longevity peach-style pastry, the entrance is sweet, people can't help but eat more.

Then there are the four dishes of imperial cuisine: this time it is the stewed white phoenix with ginseng, the dragon hugging the phoenix egg, the father and son are happy and the mountain treasure big leaf celery, the stewed soup, just smelling the taste, I have involuntarily picked up the dishes and chopsticks to taste.

Immediately followed by two kinds of gluttony: they are Changchun rolls and chrysanthemum bergamot crisp, the chrysanthemum bergamot crisp is slightly yellow in color, shaped like bergamot, the skin crispy filling is sweet, the entrance is crispy and sweet, and the aftertaste is long.

Because there are not only civil and military officials, but also envoys from various countries, the imperial dining room really used all the strength of the whole body to prepare for such a banquet, this is not, the monarch just raised the cup in his hand to drink, and brought four dishes of imperial dishes, respectively, what is the golden leg roasted round fish, skillfully roasted goose kite, peach kernel mountain chicken, crab meat double bamboo shoots.

The envoys of some small countries, where have they seen such a scene, in addition to burying their heads in eating, they don't have time to toast with people, and then they bring up the two kinds of gluttony, this will be the ginseng fruit, and walnut cheese, speaking of this walnut cheese, it is also a must of a chef in the imperial dining room, the color is light gray and slightly red, the taste is delicate and sweet, moist and not delicious.

"It was an eye-opener. The envoy of a small country carefully followed the exchange.

"Yes, sir, you see a new menu. The attendant responded, and when he turned his head, he saw a team of palace maids holding ebony plates in their hands, and they came with money.

This will be the four dishes of the imperial cuisine, namely the pine lion's mane mushroom, cuttlefish soup, lotus leaf chicken and beef tenderloin fried white mushrooms, just looking at it makes people's fingers move.

Next is two special grilled dishes are hanging on the stove sand plate chicken and hemp seed venison skewers, the imperial chef has long considered the situation at the banquet, personally appeared, in front of everyone to perform, of course, this performance is not only a throwing of a knife, but also the hanging stove sand plate chicken quickly sliced into a piece, and then there are palace maids respectively put on the plate and served to the people present.

Everyone was happy, naturally toasted and celebrated, and the envoys of various countries stepped forward to toast Emperor Zhaohua separately, congratulating, and in the end, the banquet was slowly approaching the end, and finally a rare black rice porridge was served, the entrance was sweet and smooth, which can be said to be the end of the meal.

The envoys of various countries thought that this was going to end, but they never thought that it would be followed by the performance of the tea art, the tea of the Xuanchi country, everyone also knows, the tea masters on the field, the movements in their hands can be described as very coherent, pleasing to the eye, and so on, and then the tea will be presented to the envoys and the officials in the hall respectively.

"Good tea. "A jasmine tongue, really a sip, feeling like a feather ascending immortal, Rao is some people who don't know the art of tea, but also drink the sweetness in this tea.

Finally, by the musician, played a lotus dance music, the virgin dressed in lotus lotus clothes, holding the lotus leaves of the season and entering, with the beat, cheerfully dancing, Emperor Zhaohua got up and left, and then everyone drank wine with each other in the palace.

Later, all kinds of fireworks were set off on the city tower outside, and one after another bloomed in the night sky, and the people in the imperial city also raised their heads to watch, and those carriages also drove away from the palace one after another......