Since the Xia Dynasty, there has been a calendar, and the ancients determined the division of the twelve months of the year, and the year was accurate to three hundred and sixty-five and a quarter of a day. So, which of the twelve months is the beginning of the year? It is called the first year of the first month, but it is different from generation to generation.

There is a saying in the history of the calendar that there are "three positives", which means that the three dynasties of the Xia and Shang dynasties were different: the first month of the Xia Dynasty was January, the Shang Dynasty was December, and the Zhou Dynasty was November. When the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period collapsed, various countries deviated from the Zhou system and began to choose the first year of the country.

Of course, in the era of King Zhou Li, the world was still the world with the surname Ji, and naturally November was the first month of the year.

As a matter of fact, the "first year of the year" has no calendar significance for celestial deduction. In other words, the fact that the year is different from country to country does not mean that people divide the length of the year differently. No matter which month is the first month of the year, the year is 12 months.

The significance of the beginning of the year lies in the fact that each country has a special year based on different cultivation traditions, living customs and other reasons. Considering today's concept, it can be regarded as a kind of artificial national civilization chronology. For example, in later generations, September was used as the beginning of the "academic year" and July as the beginning of the "fiscal year", which only had the meaning of "professional" and not the meaning of the calendar.

The first thing is to get rid of the old and cloth the new. This "new" is different from year to year because of the difference in the "old". For the people of Zhou Tianxia, the novelty of this year lies in their son of heaven - Zhou Li Wang Jihu has reached the age of 20 and is about to be crowned pro-government and become the real son of heaven who truly holds the royal power.

So, in the heavy snow, the people of Hojing ushered in another new year.

The first year of the new monarch is also the first year of the new monarch. The preciousness of such a year lies in the fact that it can be met but not sought. If the monarch lives a long life, many people have lived a lifetime, and they have never met the head of the new century. For example, King Mu, who reigned for 55 years, only the first year of his reign was the head of the Kaiyuan year, and the following years were almost three generations of Chinese people, how many people died, how many people lived, how many people were old, but still did not encounter a Kaiyuan year.

But the long-lived King Mu of Zhou seems to have taken up the life of his children and grandchildren, and then King Zhou Yi, King Xiao, and King Yi are not long-lived, and the people of Hojing always come to the first year of the first year in three or five years. Now that this young son of heaven has ascended the throne in the year of binding his hair, and has successfully grown into the year of his coronation in the ardent hope of the people, he is free of illness and disaster, and is full of energy, how can he not be rejoicing?

Only in this way, the head of the Kaiyuan year has always been regarded as the year of good luck by the Chinese people, the more ups and downs in the years, the more we have to celebrate greatly, the picture is just four words - Kaiyuan Daji!

On the fourth watch of the day, the white pickaxe Beijing was lively. The lights of all the government shops are lit up, the streets and alleys are bright, the flying snowflakes are falling leisurely, and the market is like a dream. The rumbling sound of golden drums exploded in all directions, and the torches of the brigade carried the red cloth banner of "Kaiyuan Daji, Dragon Flying Nine Days", leading the community fire to drive away evil spirits and suppress demons and hug the long street.

All the shops along the street have become wine shops that enthusiastically accept Chinese people, and people carry prepared old wine pot helmets and large pieces of beef and mutton in sauce, gather in any store to drink, and applaud the fire of the team; After drinking a few bowls of hot sweat, he hugged the long street and sang and danced in the heavy snow, and the strings and pipes in the high-rise buildings of the shops played with the bells and drums that resounded throughout the city.

In an instant, the city is full of generous and sad songs, and the old Zhou people are shouting pathetic old songs happily in the chaotic world------

When the five watchmen fought from the four gates of the arrow tower boring and boring and rang continuously, a team of horsemen flew out of the pickaxe capital and ran to the avenues, all the way holding the official order arrows and shouting: "The people of the country have listened, the Son of Heaven and Zhao Gong decided to hold the crowning pro-government ceremony on the day of the spring equinox - the new deal and the revitalization of the Great Zhou——"

"New Deal! Revitalize the Great Week! ”

"Long live the Son of Heaven! Calling a thousand years old! ”

With the shouting, the inexplicable crazy people were stunned for a while, and then suddenly realized what the meaning of this official decree at this moment was, and suddenly shouted excitedly, and the shouts of thousands of people shook the heavens and the earth, and the entire Hojing was like a boil.

The Great Zhou has been going downhill since King Mu, dead as a pool of stagnant water internally, and tired of defense externally, although there have been occasional big victories, the territory has not expanded an inch. If this continues, whether it is in the courtiers or the common people, everyone only wants to get by, and does not want to make progress. Although Zhao Gong Bohu is a good minister who governs the world, he is confined to the old system of "Zhou Li", and he only struggles to maintain it, but he does not see the determination to forge ahead. People hope that this young man with strong blood and strength can drastically eliminate the old evils and lead the Great Zhou Dynasty to achieve Zhongxing.

When the royal city of Haojing was boiling, a royal book suddenly descended on the Rongyi Mansion, and the whole mansion immediately became busy.

The book of the king stamped with the seal of the king and the seal of the seal says: On the day of the spring equinox, the Son of Heaven will perform the crowning ceremony in the Taimiao, and he should first bow to Rongyi. The book of the king was read by the chief Shi Rui Liangfu himself. After reading out, Rui Liangfu said a few words, leaving a group of etiquette officials in the Taimiao and went away.

The next day, Rong Yi began to be busy before the coronation ceremony.

In ancient times, various tribes in China had various forms of "Chengding Ceremony". In fact, when a man or woman has reached a certain age and has a normal body and has learned basic survival skills, the clan recognizes the man or woman as an official member of the clan with specific etiquette, which is called "adult".

Entering the Western Zhou Dynasty, when the ritual system was developed, the Chengding ceremony became the world's first major gift - the Shiguan ceremony. At that time, the so-called scholars were all men and women who enjoyed the status of a countryman. The crown ceremony is a ceremony to crown a man who has grown up and a woman to tie her hair and insert a flute to identify her adult status. Because it involves every living being in the world, it is regarded as the first gift in the world.

Later, although the ceremonial procedures were greatly simplified and varied from country to country, the ceremony largely followed the ancient tradition, but the degree of complexity varied according to the status of the crowned person. Ji Hu is already the supreme king of Zhou, and his coronation is not only a coming-of-age ceremony for a king, but also the beginning of announcing to the world that he is personally in charge of the king's power, which is naturally extraordinarily solemn.

In essence, the Shiguan ceremony is not a family ceremony, but a public ceremony. The public, the township pavilion also, the clan country also. In other words, the Shiguan ceremony is the etiquette of the group to recognize the individual, not the etiquette of the parents to recognize their children. Only in this way, the Shiguan ceremony cannot help but be moved by the parents, nor can the parents preside, and the parents and the crowned person are the same guests and parties in the Shiguan ceremony.

Depending on the status of the crowner, the ceremony was presided over by the initiative of the virtuous village elder, the patriarch, and the monarch or specific minister.