Chapter 392 Lantern Festival (Ask for a subscription and ask for a monthly pass)
Along the way, she not only held the ingots to introduce it to the outside scene and some things it encountered, but also occasionally stopped to buy some things for children.
Especially some clothes and toys, although I bought tiger head hats and tiger head shoes before, but those are only suitable for wearing in winter when the weather is cold, especially during the New Year, after all, wearing is festive.
After the first month, when the weather warmed up, it was not suitable, so they stayed in a larger town for a day during this time, and asked the town tailor to help make some winter clothes and other small clothes and shoes and hats that could be worn in the season.
The hat is made of a relatively thin one, that is, two layers of cloth, and can be worn when it is a little warmer.
Today's children, whose family conditions are average, will only wear hats in winter, in order to keep warm, and only children from large families will wear hats all year round.
Most of the poor people don't wear it, except when the weather is very cold, they usually either wear a small bald head, or leave a small troll.
So they stayed in town for a day just to wait for the tailor to make a few hats, and cotton clothes and singles were ready to buy.
When I was making hats, I was looked at by the boss with a very strange eye, probably because I thought it was strange for them to make hats on hot days in winter.
Now it's okay to have a tiger head hat to wear on this day, and there is no need to make so many hats.
Of course, they can't tell the truth directly, in order to cover the ears of the ingots, they just say that the child likes to wear a hat and can't take it off.
After that, sometimes when they encounter a place with better scenery, they will stop to have a good time, so it will take five days to walk to the next county seat, otherwise if they just keep hurrying, they will arrive in two days at most.
This county seat is called Shiyang County, and this time Tilt Yan can't match the number of later generations, and I don't know if it was not later, or it was changed to another name.
After arriving at the county seat, they went directly into the city and wanted to live in the inn, because today happened to be the Lantern Festival, and there was a very lively lantern festival in the city.
It happened to happen, so it was definitely a place to visit.
In fact, if you want to go to Fucheng, the lantern festival should be more lively, but it will take several days to walk from here to Fucheng, and it must be too late, so you can only feel the ancient lantern festival here.
This county is larger than the previous Xiangyin county, and the population is much denser than that of Xiangyin County, and this county is a little better than Xiangyin County, it has a city gate that is in the direction of the official road.
There are more vehicles and customers coming and going, unlike Xiangyin County, although they are all the same county, but because there is still some distance from the official road, if you want to enter the county, you have to walk a small road, so there will be fewer pedestrians passing by.
After they entered the city, they went straight to the largest inn, but unfortunately this time they came late, and all the rooms were already full, and only a few bunks were left in the Chase Shop.
They definitely won't live in the chase shop, so they can only retreat to some slightly smaller inns to have a look.
It turned out that the inns of all sizes in Shiyang County were full, if it was just because of a Lantern Festival, it should be the surrounding villages or some towns, most of them would go back after visiting the Lantern Festival, and basically would not live in the inn, after all, most of those people did not have money to stay in the inn, or they were reluctant to spend money to stay in the inn.
And although there are really rich people, they may be people in the county, and they don't need to live in guest houses if they have their own houses.
Looking at it like this, the outsiders who come to this county town may not come for the lantern festival, and it can't be that there are other activities in the county, right? Otherwise, how could it attract people to come all the way?
Eventually, they bought a few lanterns from a lantern stall, and only found out the reason by inquiring about it.
It turned out that these people were all passing by here, and most of them were going to a nearby place called Shending Mountain tomorrow to participate in the sacrificial festival.
Legend has it that Shending Mountain was the place where Emperor Xuanyuan mined copper to cast tripods, which is also the origin of the name of the mountain.
It is said that at this time of the year, there will be a sacrificial event, which is quite grand, it is said that every year it is a famous abbot of the master, and after the sacrificial activity is over, it will give people a fortune calculation and answer questions, so people from several nearby counties will basically go at this time, so there will be so many people.
It seems that there are many outsiders, but in fact, they are just people from nearby counties or towns, and because it is the closest county town to Shending Mountain, so so many people will live here.
In addition, when we encountered the Lantern Festival again, everyone was like them, and they came to take a stroll by the way, and they all had a good time.
After listening to the words of the lantern stall owner, they all glanced in the direction pointed by the boss, thinking that they could use their divine sense to probe the situation over there for a while, and they didn't know if the master was already there, and they could also see if it was really a master.
There is also that Shending Mountain, since it is the place where Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor mined copper and cast Ding, there should be copper mines, is there something strange here?
Otherwise, the master would not have chosen to do things there, there should be something magical, of course, the master must be real.
Of course, they won't pay attention to this now, let's go to the lantern festival first, it happened that it was already five o'clock in the afternoon when they entered the city, and it was almost dark, so they would go to the inn to book a room first.
Now since there is no inn to live in, then they simply don't look for it, and when the time comes, just go out of the city and find a place where no one enters the space, which is very convenient, and now you can take a good look at this lantern festival.
Don't think that the ancient lantern festival is just to look at the lanterns, but it is much more wonderful than the lantern festival and temple fairs in later generations.
There are not only all kinds of juggling, but also a lot of snacks, guessing lantern riddles is a reserved program, as well as a series of competitions such as throwing pots, archery, poems, etc., most of the final lottery heads are lanterns, after all, it is a lantern festival.
They visited all the stalls selling snacks, and not only ate but also bought a lot to take away.
The jugglers also watched it, rewarded the wonderful ones, and applauded the unsightly ones.
They also read the poems for a while, and most of the poems used were more appropriate at this time, although some of the words were not well understood, but they could still hear the rhyme.
In addition to buying a lot of lanterns at the stall where they inquired about the situation before, they bought all the lanterns they liked one by one, and they also bought a lot of lanterns at other stalls.
This lantern is not like those in later generations, where the things sold in the stalls are all the same, and they are all wholesaled from one place.
Today's lanterns have their own characteristics, because they are all handmade, almost every one is different, and there will be some differences.
They bought almost all of the more elaborate ones they liked, and then put one of their favorite spots on it and walked around it in their hands.
Yuan Bao is carrying a rabbit lamp in his hand, which is small and cute, which is very suitable for it.
In her hand, she was carrying a lotus lantern, the petals of which were dyed pink, the most expensive of the lanterns they bought.
Chou Chou and Jin Yang also have an octagonal lamp in their hands, each with a pattern or poem on each face, and they each chose their favorite pattern.
The ugly one is written with a lot of poems, there are two sides painted with landscape ink paintings, the golden one is a fish and insects painted with flowers and birds, and the golden one is a fairy standing on the top of the mountain.
I didn't expect the craftsmen who made the lanterns to have such high painting skills, and now there is no copying and printing, and now they are all hand-painted, which shows that all the craftsmen are painters and calligraphers.
It can't be that they make the lanterns and then find some literati to help them write and paint, those people should not be willing, after all, they are all very high, and they must have been painted by those craftsmen themselves.
At first, Yuan Bao walked by himself with a lantern, because he was too short, not to mention being squeezed around, and he couldn't see the scene on both sides, so he looked for Tianyan to hug it.
But Tilt Yan's height is also limited, and the ingots are also quite fat, this big fat doll will fall when he looks at it, and he has been looking at them all the way.
Later, it was simply picked up by Jin Yang and carried it around his neck, which can make the ingots beautiful, it has seen many children being put on their father's neck before, in fact, it also wants to try it, isn't it embarrassing.
After all, Ugly and Jin Yang are not its fathers, and it is impossible to spoil it, I didn't expect Jin Yang to take the initiative to put it on his neck, isn't it beautiful now.
One chubby hand was a little twisted on Jin Yang's head, and the other was holding its rabbit lantern. A little excited, he twisted his little ass, and his big head turned left and right to look around.
Originally, the appearance of their group was quite high, but now coupled with the behavior of the fat doll Yuanbao, it has attracted many people to stop and look over.
They all had kind smiles on their faces, and some of them would greet them familiarly, praising the child's true appearance.
Because when the ingots were transformed, they were transformed according to them, so its current facial features are actually somewhat similar to them.
If it weren't for the fact that Qian Yan didn't dress up as a girl with her hair in a bun, everyone would have thought that Yuan Bao was her and Jin Yang's child, and now they all think that it might be her younger brother or nephew.
Carrying it like this, it really looks like two fathers and sons, and the handsome young man is carrying a cute doll, who can not like it.
Gold also likes ingots, and wants to hug it, but ingots don't give face, this guy is a face control, and he has always disliked the appearance of his human form, who doesn't meet its aesthetics, and he refused to let gold hug when he was a cat before.
Gold can't help it, but it's not angry, and from time to time he will tease the little guy.
After they bought lanterns, they also went to participate in games such as guessing lantern riddles, throwing pots and archery.
Needless to say, guessing lantern riddles, including Tilt Yan, is not the kind of person who has studied ancient texts.
The current lantern riddles are not like later generations, they are all very straightforward, there is a description that is very close to the object, and now they are written in what verses, and then let you guess which word or which object, to be honest, they really can't guess, so they just made up a fun, and didn't get any color.
It's no problem to throw a pot or something, archery is also OK, they still have the right head, but the color head didn't guess that the lanterns on the side of the lantern fans are exquisite and beautiful, they have bought them, so they didn't get much excited when they won, and they didn't play anymore after only playing twice, and they didn't think it was interesting.
I went to see people guessing lantern riddles for a long time, especially in the largest booth, where a man and a woman guessed the end, and the competition was quite fierce.
Not only did they finish guessing the lantern fans on those lanterns, but when they competed for the best lantern, they guessed all the questions made by the boss, and they were still comparable, and then they simply asked each other directly. You come and go, and the people around you are also very excited.
Tilt Yan is even more relishing, just like watching a TV series, and the appearance of those two people is quite high, there are no plastic surgery cosmetics here, they are all natural beauties and handsome guys, which are still very attractive.
Qian Yan was even thinking about whether these two people would not know each other without fighting, and then finally appreciate each other and cherish each other, and become a pair of beautiful people, after all, the two still have a sense of CP when they stand together.
The man is seventeen or eighteen years old, his facial features are handsome and white, although he is not very tall, he is considered to be above average here, about 1.7 meters, and the southerners are generally shorter, and the tall and burly in the north must not be compared.
The woman's facial features are also very marked, her height is a little short, about 1.55 meters, the two of them stand together is quite compatible, and the skin is relatively fair, at first glance, it is a better family condition.
If it really becomes a couple, it will really be a good story, and judging by their clothes and temperament, it should be considered a good match.
It's a pity that they can't stay here longer, they definitely can't see the end of this pair of success or not, so they can only make up for it by their own brains.
Just at the lantern riddle guessing booth, they stood and watched for about an hour, and it was already past eight o'clock in the evening.
In later generations, nightlife had just begun, but in ancient times, it was relatively late.
Although there were still a lot of people on the road, there were already stalls that began to be cleaned up one after another, so they were also ready to go out of the city to find a place to rest.
Before leaving, I went to the food stall to buy some, maybe the stall is about to close, not to mention the price is cheap, I will give a few more.
While they were waiting for the Lantern Festival to be fried, a cry suddenly sounded not far away, and it could be heard intermittently that it was a woman's child who had lost it, and she was crying and begging everyone to help find it.
When she looked into her senses, she saw a woman in her twenties sitting on the ground, crying breathlessly.