When Cheng Pu and Han Dang came to Liangzhou, it was already the end of the year, and after this episode passed, it was the New Year.

In the year he was in Liangzhou, Liu Bei lived quite a stable life, at least because of the defense of Liangzhou, he didn't need to go to Luoyang to give gifts to Emperor Liu Hong in person, he only needed to send someone to give gifts.

But then again, with Liu Bei's current political status, there is no need to stand in the cold wind to taste the taste of summer ice drinks, even if he goes to Luoyang to worship, he must be standing in a large hall with heating settings, and he can eat hot food.

Thinking of the bowl of summer ice drink in the early morning of the first day of the first month of Guanghe's sixth year, Liu Bei still couldn't help but stiffen from his body to his soul.

This time it's fine.

Liu Bei is in Liangzhou, that is, the emperor of Liangzhou, only the officials line up to give him congratulatory gifts, and there is no such thing as him queuing up to give gifts to others.

And he can be regarded as a serious person who has personally operated the New Year's customs that will only be operated by the official head, which is completely different from the past tense.

The Han Dynasty was still in the early stage of the imperial society, and many social customs did not jump out of the customs of ancient times, from the emperor to the commoners, people believed in ghosts and gods very much, and even the Spring Festival had a great connection with ghosts and gods.

In the Han and Han dynasties, people's activities at the end of the year basically revolve around exorcising evil spirits and praying for blessings.

It is hoped that the past year's troubles will be eliminated by carrying out exorcism activities, and the most important of the many exorcism activities is the dancing ceremony held at the end of each year.

Expecting to jump a little god can solve the problem that is not there, it is too picky.

Before the sound of gongs and drums, the official cavalry was fully armed to take the burning statue out of the city and send it to the smaller water system in the city to be set on fire and sent away, meaning to send away and burn the calamity of the coming year.

After sending the plague ghost god, it is not the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner that the small family celebrates the New Year's Festival, and the Chinese New Year's Eve meal was not available in that era, and it is also a small family reunion meal, and those who can return to the family will try to return to the family and have a reunion meal with their favorite family.

That year, the official representative knights of Liangzhou were Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, the two of them came to Ji County to report on their work and celebrate the New Year, and they were called by Liu Bei to act as knights to send the plague, and the two readily agreed.

What to eat?

We were fully armed, with one hundred and seventy knights who were also fully armed, and we sent the statue of the plague ghost and god all the way to the Weishui in the city of Ji County, and put the statue under the boat that was not yet full of igniters.

At that time, there were no statues symbolizing epidemics, ghosts, and gods, so the small family danced and beat drums together, and made statues with peach arcs and thorn arrows, and sowed them with Akamaru and Nanachi.

That night, Liu Bei said that he would let the subordinates who had worked hard with him for a whole year have a bad meal.

Even so, it was a piece of boiled meat, dipped in salt, at least in sauce, and there was no other way to remove the fish, so I ate it like this, and I can't imagine that this fishy smell is not less strong.

Wealthy people are limited by the limitations of the times, and although there are few ingredients that can be eaten, there are no restrictions on the means of cooking, and the deliciousness of the food is comparable to that enjoyed by people today.

The type of Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is certainly far from the Chinese New Year's Eve meal in Zhao Cai's memory.

The origin of the jumping is very long, in the Western Zhou Dynasty was not a very important sacrificial ceremony, in the Zhou Dynasty into the category of ceremony, become an important national ceremony.

But it is important, the existence of today's people is difficult to swallow, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, it has to be regarded as a rare delicacy, this person can be expected but reachable, struggle all year round, just for this mouthful.

At the front, the official representatives, heavily armed knights, made their debut.

So I chose to slowly integrate into the folk atmosphere of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and led the Liangzhou Prefecture to engage in a grand and small dancing ceremony.

For the common people, it was a night of reunion, a rare night of being able to eat a little meat all year round, which means that they have to rely on the meat they ate tonight to taste the taste of meat all year round.

The official organization of the imperial court required the selection of 170 children under the age of 10 and over the age of 17 of the official eunuch family, wearing soap clothes, holding small moles, dressed as "Fang Xiangshi" wearing masks and bear skins, wearing rigid mao, and frolicking and dancing with the seventeen beasts.

At the end of the year, I am afraid that the people will be able to eat a mouthful of meat and a little bit of meat on the evening of that day, and it is a wrong meal to eat bran vegetables at that time.

In order to solve the problem of disasters, it is necessary to build water conservancy, reclaim wasteland, plant trees, eat cooked food, drink cooked water, live in houses, wash hands frequently, exercise, isolate in case of trouble, and develop medical technology.

The local officials in Liangzhou all went home to celebrate the New Year with their families, while the officials in Lidi were beckoned by Liu Bei to go to the state pastoral mansion for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

The dance was terrible, but that was important, what was important was the atmosphere, there were very few onlookers, and the small families came to pray and make noise, and before the statues of ghosts and gods that symbolized the epidemic were introduced, the noise was even smaller.

At first, the statue was set ablaze along with the boat, pushed out, and made it go all the way down the current, and then it sank to the bottom rapidly under the surface of the water because of the burning.

The big boys who danced the statue used peach arcs and spiny arrows to shoot around the statue, and used Akamaru and Nanaya to sow it, jumping, shooting, and smashing around the statue, in short, the whole atmosphere has not been set off to the peak.

The main purpose of the dancing ceremony is to get rid of the epidemic and pray for happiness and health in the coming year, there is neither official nor non-governmental, the official event is called the national ceremony, and the folk people are not holding a small ceremony, anyway, the content is essentially the same, it is the same and not the scale.

Liu Bei paid out of his own pocket, the women set up a position in the inner courtyard, Liu Bei was personally responsible for the hospitality, and the men and children set up tables in the inner courtyard, and Han Ning and Han Dadie were responsible for the reception.

Yes, that's all important.

Fried chicken.

For the officials, it was also a night of relaxation and joy, where all the unbusy affairs could not be put up, and all the precautions could not be temporarily unloaded, and they could be reunited with their families and spend a small Chinese New Year's Eve comfortably and happily.

For example, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Xu Huang and others, Jian Yong, Han Hao, Ruan Yu and others from the Ministry of General Affairs, there are hundreds of bad people, and even if we have no family, we were also invited by Liu Bei together.

In the two Han Dynasty, the national ceremony held by the imperial court has not lost its fixed mode, and it is very particular.

What to eat is important, to Liu Bei's status, to eat for the small family is to look at the type, mainly depends on the mind, the mind is there, carefully eating a white rice can make the little guy grateful to Dade, if you want to reach that level, this must have Liu Bei's housekeeping skills.

It's Zhao Cai, and now he has the capital to be able to do that thing, no.

For people like Liu Bei, that ritual was unfounded.

That night, Liu Bei announced that he wanted to cook in person and make his own delicious food for the small family.

The people in Ji County continued to cheer and clamor to send the plague ghosts and gods out of Ji County, and they were going to come back to Ji County the year before.

On the evening of the first day of the eighth year of Zhongping, Liu Bei personally presided over the dancing ceremony and selected 170 children from Ji County to dance.

Zhao Cai set up a flowing water seat outside the small courtyard of the State Pastoral Mansion, tonight is a set of separate meals, a small table can seat less than ten people, silent.

Liu Bei himself, with his family and the families of important civil and military generals, watched us around the fire, dancing with a very peculiar posture, as if our hands and feet were not conscious.

(End of chapter)