Twenty-sixth year of Hongwu, Chinese New Year's Eve.

Jingshi is a city during the day, lively and extraordinary, and colorful lanterns are hung everywhere, which is magnificent.

In the evening, it was getting dark.

The spacious and magnificent Imperial Palace is lit up and filled with a festive atmosphere.

On the square of Fengtian Temple, colorful fireworks flickered, reflecting the palace as bright as day.

The dragon pattern ring pillar is towering, the glazed blue tile gold coin is brilliant, and the carved fence jade is fluorescent.

Tonight is the annual Chinese New Year's Eve banquet.

All princes, grandchildren, concubines, and princesses in Beijing all enter the palace for reunion to participate in the imperial banquet.

In addition to the members of the imperial family, Zhu Yuanzhang also invited the imperial family and the Chinese military ministers to show the unity of the monarch and the courtiers.

The imperial banquet is planned by the Ministry of Rites, and Guanglu Temple is responsible for the implementation of specific affairs.

Despite the requirement to keep the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet as simple as possible, Guanglu Temple still creates a festive and lively atmosphere.

The music in the Fengtian Hall is melodious and full of mist.

The red carpet on the ground is splendid and solemn.

The doors and windows are curtained with beads, and the extravagance is compelling.

The royal family and nobles, civil and military ministers gathered together, and the palace ladies with thousands of manners shuttled in the meantime, serving and welcoming back and forth.

The hall was filled with laughter, like a festive ukiyo-e painting.

"Your Majesty has arrived!"

With the shouts of the court etiquette officials, the laughter of the whole hall was like a cassette, and there was silence.

Everyone stood with their hands down to greet the emperor.

Eight eunuchs and palace maids on the left and right opened the way, and two huge feather fans appeared.

Surrounded by a large group of palace people, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Yunxi's ancestors and grandsons walked in slowly from the main gate of Fengtian Palace.

According to past traditions, during the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, Empress Ma accompanied Zhu Yuanzhang to attend, and the empress sat at the same head.

Today, only grandparents and grandchildren work hand in hand.

After Zhu Yuanzhang sat down, Zhu Yunxi sat down not far from his head.

Take a look around the banquet.

A lot of people who hadn't noticed before.

For example, Concubine Guo Ning, the mother of Zhu Tan, the king of Lu, Concubine Guo Huifei, the mother of Zhu Gui, the acting king, and Concubine Li Xian, the mother of Zhu Huan, the king of Tang.

There are also some imperial grandsons in Beijing.

In previous years, Zhu Yunxi's identity was the emperor's grandson, and he came to the banquet at this time of year, and he didn't care about anything else.

Now that he is the grandson of the emperor, he knows that everyone present represents a family.

As a person in power, how to deal with their relationship is a technical task.

For example, Concubine Guo Ning, her brother is Guo Xing, Marquis of Gongchang, and there is also a brother Guo Ying, Marquis of Wuding.

The concubine and the princess who had not yet left the court had the opportunity to meet the ministers of the imperial court only during the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet.

Those who can come to the banquet are all important ministers of the DPRK and the central government, and ordinary officials have no chance.

It's like the boss hosting a banquet at home to entertain employees, and inviting either the manager or the supervisor, I'm afraid that even the foreman is not qualified to come.

At this time, you can affectionately call the boss's wife "sister-in-law" and laugh and tease the boss's children.

The reason why the boss invites the management to get together is nothing more than to enhance the friendship with his subordinates, retain talents, and let them work hard.

The emperor held court banquets, which also had a strong political purpose.

This not only strengthened the connection between the emperor and the hundred officials, but also helped to enhance the cohesion of the imperial court and inspired the hundred officials to serve the emperor.

For example, Shen Shixing, an official of the Wanli Dynasty, wrote a poem with emotion after accepting the banquet from the Wanli Emperor: "...... After ten years of empty food, it is still difficult for Junen to repay a meal. “

As the emperor and the imperial grandson sat down, everyone sat down one by one.

Among a bunch of women, the crown princess Lu is the most conspicuous.

She is dressed in a gorgeous palace dress, and her face is lightly powdered, which looks dazzling and charming.

I think it's brushing up on the sense of presence.

Lu Shi sat next to Concubine Guo Ning, laughing and talking all the time.

Since the death of Queen Ma, Concubine Guo Ning has taken the harem.

For the Lu family, Zhu Yunxi just glanced at it indifferently.

"Your Majesty has a will, pass on the meal!"

With the voice of the ceremonial officer, a team of palace maids served the wine and food like butterflies wearing flowers.

The banquet is divided into four stages: upper table, upper middle table, middle table, and lower table.

The dishes at each table are certainly different.

The dishes on the table include chicken chicken, double stick bones and other dishes, five kinds of wine, four kinds of vegetables, three kinds of soup, and horses and beef and lamb gizzard rice, which can be described as very rich.

The upper and middle tables are no different from the upper table, except that the variety of dishes and the amount of wine are a little less.

Compared with the other dishes, the dishes on the lower table are slightly inferior, only some fine powder soup, pepper vinegar meat and head and hooves, pork rice, steamed buns and several kinds of wine.

There are many kinds of banquets held by the imperial court, and according to the scale level, there are three kinds of banquets: large banquets, medium banquets, and small banquets.

According to the etiquette system, the feast is accompanied by wine nine times, and there is music and dancing during the feast.

Whether it is a wine or a chopstick, it must be started by the emperor.

As usual, Zhu Yuanzhang opened his speech and said some words of encouragement and warmth.

Everyone raised their glasses in celebration.

In the sound of silk and bamboo wind music, the banquet officially began.

The bell and drum division first played "The Song of Flame Essence Good Luck" and then played "The Song of the Imperial Wind".

Outside the Fengtian Palace, two dancers led the dance and performed "The Dance of Pacifying the World".

There are 32 dancers, all of whom are holding the left hand and the right hand, divided into four rows, with eight people in each row.

Dance posture to carry forward, sit as a stabbing posture.

The dance of pacifying the world is the official banquet dance of the Ming Dynasty, symbolizing the use of martial arts to determine the chaos, and there must be this dance at every banquet, which lasts for nearly 300 years.

Zhu Yunxi saw the rise.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Han and Tang dynasties continued to be martial, which is what a strong dynasty should look like!

Dance music after song.

After exerting their majesty, a group of dancing girls came to the palace, singing and dancing, their skirts fluttering, and the streamers fluttering, showing their weak posture.

After the ceremony, everyone eats, drinks, talks, laughs, watches, sings and dances, and advises each other to drink.

Zhu Yunxi simply ate some and quietly observed the state of everyone present.

Who is good with whom, and the effort of a meal is probably well known.

Look at Lao Zhu again.

It's rare for the old man not to go crazy today.

Recently, Zhu Yuanzhang has a very bad temper.

A year ago, an official was also cut.

"Imperial grandson!"

There was a crisp cry in my ears.

Zhu Yunxi turned his head to see that it was Zhu Yiwei, the county lord of Jiangdu, his own sister.

Zhu Biao has a total of five sons and four daughters.

The eldest son, Yu Wang Zhu Xiongying.

Zhu Yunxi, the emperor's grandson.

Huiwang Zhu Yunwen.

There are also Zhu Yunxi and Zhu Yunxi, who were born to the Lu family, who are too young and directly ignored.

Among the four daughters, the county lord of Jiangdu and the county lord of Yilun are from the Chang family, and they are the same mother as Zhu Yunxi.

The other two were born to the Lu family.

Zhu Yiwei, the county lord of Jiangdu, is the eldest daughter of Zhu Biao, two years older than Zhu Yunxi, and was born slim.

"Sister Huang." Zhu Yunxi said with a smile.

The county lord of Jiangdu walked up to Zhu Yunxi, smiling and squinting his eyes to wish him a happy holiday.

Zhu Yunxi returned the salute and said a few words.

"I heard that the imperial sister is going to marry the Marquis of Changxing, is it true?"

According to the news from the Ministry of Rites, Zhu Yuanzhang intends to marry Geng Xuan, the son of Geng Bingwen, the Marquis of Changxing.

The county lord of Jiangdu nodded, his face shy, and he seemed to be quite satisfied with Geng Xuan.

Zhu Yunxi had already prepared and ordered someone to take a brocade box, which contained gifts.

The eldest sister, the county lord of Jiangdu, has a more cheerful personality.

The second sister, Lord Yilun, is very quiet, and even a little withdrawn.

She barely spoke to anyone during the entire banquet, and she didn't smile a bit.

After Zhu Biao left, she has not been able to come out of the melancholy of losing her father.

Among them, there are many reasons for Lu's.