The time entered 353 A.D., that is, the first day of the first month of the sixth year of Emperor Wei Kaihuang, which was the Spring Festival, but it was not called the Spring Festival in this era.

The name of the Spring Festival in ancient times was different. In the pre-Qin period, oars on the day", "Yuan day", "change the year", "offer the year", etc.; In the Han Dynasty, it was also called "Three Dynasties", "New Year's Day", "Zhengdan" and "Zhengri".

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, it was called "Yuanchen", "Yuanri", "Yuan", "Sui", "Suishou", etc.; In the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, it was called "New Year's Day", "Yuan", "Year's Day", "Xinzheng", "Xinyuan", etc.; In the Qing Dynasty, it has always been "New Year's Day" or "Yuan Day".

In ancient times, the Spring Festival used to refer to the beginning of spring in the solar terms, which was also regarded as the beginning of the year, and later changed to the first day of the first lunar month as the new year. In the early period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the date of the Spring Festival seems to be unified, since the first year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, with the first month of the lunar calendar as the first year, the date of the Spring Festival is fixed and has continued to this day.

At this time, the Wei State called the Spring Festival the "first of the year".

The New Year is coming, and Ran Min, as the emperor, naturally can't be idle.

Ran Min is going to have a shrine sacrifice.

Ran Min put on a big crown when he was in the dang, this big crown with twelve crowns, a single dress, a big coat, and a black robe.

The shoulders of the robe are woven with sun, moon and dragon patterns; Weaving stars and mountain patterns on the back; The sleeves are woven with fire, Chinese insects, and Zongyi patterns. There are two algae, two powdered rice, two yellow, and two yellow. The so-called "12 coats of arms" pattern.

This crown is a black dark garment with a red bottom, the so-called Xuanyi Silk.

In addition, there are yellow, white, red, Xuan, ethereal, green six-colored ribbons and ribbons, jade hooks, jade pendants, gold hooks, jade rings and red socks, and scarlets. And this kind of crown dress is the dress worn by ancient emperors to hold major ceremonies.

Ran Min also took the lovely Xie Daoyun into the palace to live, put on a new dress for her, and served her with delicious food and drink.

"Your Majesty, the clothes you are wearing are really beautiful." Xie Daoyun squatted under Ran Min's waist and pulled his red bottom, blinking his big eyes and sparkling.

Ran Min smiled and said, "This is the emperor's most cumbersome set of dresses, specially used to attend grand occasions." How's it going, Jiang'er, do I look domineering now? ”

"Hmph, it's less stinky and beautiful. You're not domineering at all! ”

Hearing this, Ran Min touched Xie Daoyun's head and said, "You are the first one who is not domineering in this crown." Guy, do you know what day it is? ”

"Yes, it's the first year of the year. There are good and delicious things today! ”

"Then do you know what the year old does?"

"You know, our children have to keep the New Year."

"What about my lord? What are your parents doing? ”

"In the ancestral worship, I also killed a few chickens, a few ducks, and even bought a sheep and a pig. Tonight's menu is hearty! ”

"Then I, the emperor, also want to worship my ancestors. However, I am an ancestor worshipper, but it is different from your father's ancestor worship, what I want to sacrifice is ghosts and gods! ”

"Oh." Xie Daoyun tilted his head, half-understanding.

Ran Min asked Ran Ming, who was staying aside, again: "A-Ying, do you know what I want to sacrifice?" ”

"It's the god of the land, right? Father, you want a social sacrifice, the society, the lord of the land, the land is not respectful, so the land is sealed for the society to repay the merit. In addition to the shrine god who worships the landowner, all the gods of the land, such as the god of the lord of the hundred grains and the god of mountains, forests, rivers and all things, are usually also sacrificed to the shrine. ”

Ran Min bowed slightly: "It seems that you know a lot." In the "Sacrifice Law", the king is a group of people and a society is called a big society, the king is a society called the king society, the princes are the people and the people are called the state society, the princes are called the Hou Society, and the doctors are called the group of the society. ”

"The Taisha, the Wangsha, the Guosha, and the Hou Society belong to the official society, and the doctor is not a special society, but a common society with the common people, and it is a private society. The tradition of social festivals flourished in the pre-Qin period, and then gradually declined, but there are still people who organize social festivals on their own. Ah Ying, do you know what my intention is to revive the shrine this time? ”

"Father should want the people to know and observe etiquette, right?"

"Not bad."

Ran Min said with emotion: "My Huaxia has been a country of etiquette since ancient times, but many old etiquettes seem cumbersome and annoying, but in my opinion, these are essential things. If a man does not know etiquette, how is he different from a beast? In troubled times, wolf smoke is everywhere, etiquette collapses, I must regain the etiquette of my ancestors, even if I can't let the whole Xia return to the pre-Qin era everywhere etiquette, everyone knows etiquette, righteousness, honesty, patience and self-denial, but, at least let them understand the ethics of the Gangchang. ”

"Father's benevolence." Ran Ming said.

The festival had no influence on the political and social life of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the official belief in this belief was to consolidate the power of the ruler and to give away his political and religious strategies.

When the outcome of the war is uncertain, and the occurrence of abnormal or uncontrollable disasters occurs, it can inspire the spirit and calm the turbulent people's hearts.

Folk social sacrifice, the common people in the troubled times can have a pillar of spiritual faith, temporarily seek to live together, act in harmony, joy and forget worries, its function of stabilizing social order, is also the official expectation, so the folk community sacrifice can be parallel with the official social sacrifice and not in the forbidden grain

It is probably that the doctors who were stipulated at that time did not establish a special society, but shared it with the common people, and it had the official political intention of guiding the people and teaching the people to become rituals.

In the earliest shrine festivals, the gods were honored through fixed rituals and offered rich offerings to them, asking the gods to help people fulfill their wishes that would not be possible with human power.

The object of the shrine sacrifice is the gods.

In essence, sacrifice is the curry favor and bribery of the gods. The emergence of sacrifices is related to the mystery and fear of the natural world in the early days of human beings.

Wind and rain, thunder and lightning, the sun, moon and stars, mountains, rocks and trees, birds and beasts are all considered to be dominated by gods, the concept of "all things have spirits" also arises from this, human beings are grateful to the gods, but also have awe of them, and since ancient times, the Chinese people believe that people have a soul after death, and the soul can communicate with the living in dreams, and can be a haunt to the living, so that they are sick or suffered, this fear of the gods is an important reason for the sacrificial behavior.

Ran Min's purpose in this social sacrifice is very clear, that is, he wants his subordinates to observe the ceremony.

The altar of the shrine, that is, the shrine of the son, is placed in the suburbs of the west of Daliang City, corresponding to the ancestral temple in the east, and is called the "left ancestor right society".

The community seals the soil as an altar, and uses the soil to divide the five colors of blue, red, white, black and yellow, and each matches according to the direction of the east, south, west, north and middle.

In addition, there is a wall near the altar, which is made of bunched wood and covered with mud. Most of the private societies are located in the suburbs. There are pine, cypress, chestnut, catalpa, acacia and other community trees planted in the community, and there are also owners, or standing stones, or wood-based.

There were a lot of people who came to watch the sub-community festival, and Ran Min also brought the ministers to participate in the community festival.

This is the official social sacrifice, different from the sacrifice, except for the three animals, there is no need to read the sacrifice, but it is obsessed with etiquette, solemn and solemn too much.

The society sacrifices to the earth and the main yin is also, the south of the king is under the north wall, and the righteousness of the yin is also.

Ran Min's every move in the shrine sacrifice must be included in the ritual system, standing south and facing the north wall of the shrine wall, and neatly dressed, crowned and worshipped, posing mighty, showing piety, and lacking vitality. And often at the same time as the shrine god, it also sacrifices to the god of grass, the gods of the mountains, rivers and land.

Ran Min is like a walking corpse, at the mercy of the ceremonial officer, and the cumbersome etiquette is one after another.