In the Zou Guo Mansion in Chang'an, Zhang Zheng, who was bored and was flirting with the little green dress, suddenly sneezed twice.

"Strange, is someone reading me?" Zhang Zheng rubbed his nose, unaware that his sister-in-law Liu had not yet returned to Chang'an, but was already preparing to choose a future daughter-in-law for him.

After teasing Xiao Lushang for a while, Zhang Zheng also felt that it was not interesting. This Nizi casually said two words of meat and her face turned red, and she had no sense of accomplishment at all.

So Zhang Zheng decided to go and see what the two brothers were doing. After passing through several corridors, Zhang Zheng came to the courtyard of his second brother Zhang Dasu, but found that the second brother was not there.

When the people in the house asked, it turned out that the second brother and the third brother were all pulled by the old lady to do coolies. After asking the place, Zhang Zheng walked to a room in the backyard.

But it was the old lady who pulled the second brother and the third brother over to write New Year's greetings. The so-called 100 festivals are the first, and the Tang people have the most intense festival of the year: "Yuan Zheng".

It is much more important than traditional festivals such as the Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. For example, when Yuan Zheng, there was no curfew at night in Chang'an, not only was there no curfew, but the people would spontaneously organize temple fairs, lantern festivals, puppet operas and other activities, and Chang'an at night was extremely lively.

And the officials will not only have a seven-day holiday, but will also be given a rich reward. During these seven days, in addition to the grand court gatherings on the first day and the first day of the people, officials will also participate in the fun of the people and the people.

In addition to setting off firecrackers and pasting colored paper, Yuanzheng of the Tang Dynasty also had vigils, New Year's celebrations and other activities as in later generations.

One of the more important links is New Year's greetings, and the Tang people pay more attention to family blood relatives. On the morning of the first day, the descendants of the elders of the big family will pay early New Year's greetings to the elders of the family.

Regarding the etiquette of New Year's greetings, Datang also has special regulations, men mainly kneel down and kowtow, while women do not need to kneel on the ground, just stand and bend forward and bow their hands.

This is also a characteristic of the Tang Dynasty, women are generous and natural, revealing the open and inclusive spirit of the Tang Dynasty.

And the Yuan family will Zhang Dasu and Zhang Da Allah to write a New Year's sticker, and this New Year's sticker is used to pay New Year's greetings. According to the custom of the Tang Dynasty, you must bring it when you pay New Year's greetings

"New Year's greetings". The inventor of the New Year's greeting sticker is none other than His Majesty Li Shimin, the current emperor. Li Shimin made greeting cards with red gold leaf, imperial books

"The whole world celebrates", given to the minister. This form quickly spread among the people, and people could not all use gold leaf, so they replaced it with plum blossom paper

"New Year's greetings" were also called at the time

"Flyer". The people of Datang even seem to be generous in their way of celebrating the New Year. On the first day, every household in Chang'an City has a banquet, and the guests will eat wherever they go.

The host family is generally not stingy. Therefore, no matter who the Tang people visited at that time, they had delicious food to enjoy.

And the proof of enjoying the food, this is it

"New Year's greeting sticker". It can be said that the prosperity, openness and inclusiveness of the Tang Dynasty, from the court to the people, are reflected in all aspects of the Tang people.

And writing New Year's greetings is also very particular, there are gold stickers written to familiar relatives, and there are flying stickers written to neighbors.

For example, after the first day, Zhang Zheng needs to go to his uncle Yuande Cao's house to pay New Year's greetings, so he must hand over the gold sticker first. This is the romantic place of the Tang people, no matter what you do, it is very ritualistic.

"Little brother, come and help!" Zhang Dasu rubbed his sore wrist, and when he saw Zhang Zheng standing outside the door, he couldn't help but shout in surprise.

"It's coming!" Zhang Zheng entered the door and took a stack of New Year's greeting stickers that had been written by the second brother and the third brother and looked at it.

The Zhang family is a big family, Zhang Gongjin is in a high position, and it is not an exaggeration to say that his protégés and old officials are all over the world, so there are a lot of worship stickers to write.

In addition to the ministers who were officials in the same dynasty as Zhang Gongjin, there were also the elders of the Zhang family, as well as the gate valves of the major families who were good friends with the Zhang family.

Roughly calculated, even if a family only writes one, it is still hundreds. It's no wonder that Zhang Dasu wrote that his wrist hurts.

Don't underestimate this few words of worship, this is also part of the relationship between the Maison's door valves.

So it's not so much a post as a human sophistication. The relationship is gradually getting closer in this little thing.

"Second brother and third brother, why don't you have Du Xiang's family?" Zhang Zheng read the contents of the worship stickers one by one, but did not find the late Du Ruhan's worship stickers, and couldn't help but ask the two brothers in confusion.

Zhang Dasu frowned when he heard this, and replied: "Du Xiang, don't use it, since Du Xiang died, Du Gu Duhe has no contact with our family." Hearing the second brother's words, Zhang Zheng was stunned for a moment, thinking that it was really a person who went to tea and cooled down.

But the second brother is right, since Du Ruhui died, the Lai Guo Mansion seems to have fallen silent overnight.

Du Ruhui's eldest son, Du Gou, succeeded to the Duke of Lai Guo, and was promoted to Shangshe Fengyu by Li Shimin, and his younger brother Du Heyin was given an official position of Shangcheng Fengyu, and then disappeared.

But that being said, things can't be done that way. And Zhang Zheng, as a traverser, knows more things than the two brothers.

The attitude towards Li Shimin is also clearer than that of the two brothers. Don't look at the Du family as if it is silent now, but Zhang Zheng knows that this is just Li Shimin's deliberate attempt to completely eliminate Du Ruhui's influence in the court.

Without mentioning the influence of the Jingzhao Du family in the Tang Dynasty, it is said that the two brothers of the Du family will still gain power again in a few years.

Du Wei will serve as the assassin of Cizhou next year, and will lead troops to Dengzhou and Laizhou. Although Du Gou took the position of the Duke of Jue Lai, he was able to assassinate any state with no merit, which is not Li Shimin's overuse in any case, on the contrary, this is a kind of reuse.

And Du He, in a few years, will also be Li Shimin's daughter, Princess Chengyang, and will be given the title of Duke of Xiangyang County. The family of one family and two dukes, even if they have no influence in the court, is still worthy of the Zhang family's friendship.

As for Du He's participation in Li Chengqian's rebellion more than ten years later, that was more than ten years later. Besides, now that Li Chengqian has faintly been changed by himself, who can say clearly what will happen more than ten years later.

"Let's write a letter, I, Zhang, don't burn the cold stove, but there is no need to fall into the well. No one can say what will happen in the future, and besides, with His Majesty personally supporting Du Xiang's coffin, no one can guarantee that Du will not rise again. So my thoughts are, what happened in previous years and what is going on this year, second brother and third brother, what do you think? Zhang Zheng thought for a while and said his thoughts to the two brothers.

After listening to Zhang Zheng's words, Zhang Dasu thought about it, it was not a matter of much effort, there was no need to brush off the little brother's intentions for this.

Besides, what the younger brother said also has some truth, it is normal for the court to be up and down, and it is really difficult to say clearly about the future, so he replied.

"It's okay, you know better than us about the affairs of the court, junior brother, you are in charge, it's just a matter of a letter of worship."