Yue Guanchao and the others stood on the front gate tower of the Governor's Mansion, staring at the team that was gradually moving away, and when the long dragon team completely left the city and hurried in the direction of Longquan Mountain, they were finally relieved.

Win or lose, today.

On this day, the ethnic minorities and Hakka people in the north and west of Sichuan and the east of Sichuan will make lanterns and floats according to the legend of the mountain spirits and wild monsters of their own nationality, and the gods and witches of the people, wear clothes and wear colors, beat gongs and drums to celebrate everywhere, in order to pray for the blessing of the gods at the beginning of the year, and the wind and rain are smooth.

At this time, the village town will stage the mountain spirits and wild monsters, the ancient gods of the sacrificial stove community play, the people bring their families to call friends to the vicinity of the stage, enjoy the grand festival of spring, where there are many people, often also gather vendors to juggle, all kinds of folk snacks, juggling acrobatics will form a temple fair near the stage, attract more people to participate.

At its most prosperous, it will even crowd the countryside!

In addition to the rural towns, the county town and the state capital are even more lively, from the morning these people have been ready lantern floats, only in the early morning when the first rays of light appear, they will wear bright drums and blow sheng to the main street, along the way, it is rare to meet other floats.

The two cars intersect, and they are both parade floats, and it is inevitable that there will be a winner and a loser.

At this time, the artists on the float will improvise the dance and chant, if the song and dance are wonderful, the surrounding people will reveal the color ball copper coins in their hands, add color to the momentum of the float, whose float adds the most color, can be the first to pass the intersection.

So heavy, the floats of each county continue to select the best, and finally will be selected from the county to the gorgeous carriage and horses, the wonderful dance of the float artist, by this artist to Shucheng and other counties of the float to continue to compete on the same stage, until the selection of the top Sichuan and Shu god float, which is considered a complete victory.

This top float artist, that is, this year's god of Wu, used to go to the Shu General's Mansion to accept the color of the stationed general, and in the Republic of China era, the messenger who issued the color head was also pointed to the governor of Sichuan and Shu.

What is a jackpot?

The color of the god of Wu, is the annual tax reduction, at the same time I will also be rewarded by the governor, after the festival, there is the name of the god of Wu, more than the squire and sages let them go to the sacrifice to pray for blessings, the silver money given is countless, reputation and benefits are all there.

Over the past 30 years, the Nu God Sect has relied on the strange power of the rivers and lakes to confuse the gods, and every year it will win the first place in the competition of the Wu gods in each county, standing in front of the Governor's Mansion to accept the lottery, and it has been a practice for more than ten years, although the Wu God Sect has won the first place every year The Wu God Sect is different, at least all of them are from the Wu God Sect is an indisputable thing.

"The holy woman, that is, the woman selected by the Divine Sect from more than 30 gods, the Divine Religion intends to turn the holy goddess into a goddess, and does not show her true face at all, so far, no one knows what the saint is, only know that once the holy woman appears, it must be sprinkled with the fragrance of flower petals, so that it is divine, and the common people eat this set."

Everyone listened to the master's words and walked into the watchtowers on both sides of the front gate tower of the Governor's Mansion, where the guards stood guard, the walls were tight, and the telescope was expected to be available to observe the whole process.

"A few people, please, it's absolutely safe here, and it won't hurt a few people when the fire starts, you can stand here and observe the situation in the whole city."

Yue Guanchao walked to the lookout, here is located in the center of Shucheng, you can directly see the whole picture of Shucheng, because the tower is tall, it is even more clear than standing on the city wall, and even can already see the two rivers and lush fields and forests outside the city.

Shu is foggy and cloudy, a sunny weather, there must be people out of the street to bask in the sun, today's festival is coming, the golden sun shines on the ancient city in the morning, the sky is blue and wide, the countless cirrus clouds are like algae in the water, floating at will overhead.

The people in the city are waiting on the side of the road early, or holding the window to look out, or walking along the street, waiting for the lanterns to enter the city for amusement, the street is full of colorful silk lanterns, flower stands and colorful fangs, and the richer portal simply ties up the Shu Jincai Building, in the sun, the bright light of the Shu Jincai Building trembles, brilliant as the glow, thousands of households compete for luxury and luxury!

From a high place, the ancient city is already full of rainbow flowers and trees, worthy of Jinguan Rongcheng, thousands of years of wealth to create a colorful Vientiane, not an ordinary city can be compared.

After a while, the gongs and drums sounded outside the ancient city, as long as these music sounds were heard, it also meant that the float parade was getting closer and closer, and there were countless lantern carts and horses coming slowly in the distance, from the major gates of the ancient city, slowly entering the city.

Wait for the floats that have come to this point, most of them are the colorful heads in the county floats, which are already wonderful in themselves, these dozens of floats continue to gather, dazzling, dizzying, even if they are thousands of meters apart, they can also be amazed by the floats!

These floats, there are nine gods of Chudi, there are also Jiangnan women and women, wild worship of a hundred ghosts, there are more Lingnan mountain spirits and wild monsters, flowers, plants, mountains and stones, the immigrants after Huguang filled Sichuan have different customs, and the statues of the gods that can be exhibited in the grand festival are more complex and diverse, colorful, and the statues of the gods of each float are like giant gods, wandering in the streets and alleys.

As mentioned earlier, most of the float color heads are the people of the Wu gods, which also means that dozens of floats, almost all of them are Wu gods, these people wear the sacrificial clothes of the Wu God Sect, stand on the floats and splash flower petals, drum and hammer beating, everywhere the people cheer like thunder, Xuan He is lively, and countless colored balls and copper coins are thrown.

In this farce, Yue Guanchao could see at a glance that the float of the Holy Maiden of the Divine Sect was rushing from near the city gate to the Governor's Mansion.

The float is as big as a house, together with the flower frame is about 15 meters high, the overall shape is a lotus sitting Bodhisattva, it should be borrowed from the statue of the Buddha with a thousand hands, the whole body is made of iron bars as the skeleton, and then the skin and flesh are filled with mulberry silkworm paper, it looks lifelike, the round face is wide cheeks, the heavenly court is full, the earth pavilion is round, and it is quite blessed.

However, because the Buddha is different from the Buddha, they have mixed the characteristics of witches and witches on the statue of the Buddha, and they are even more strange and chaotic.

I saw this rosette Buddha with his hands folded, holding a lotus flower in his hand, wearing a light brown gauze robe, covered with a wide sleeve robe made of gorgeous Shu brocade, with colorful embroidered cloud shoulders hanging on his shoulders, two ribbons like a xia curtain covering the front of his body, the five-color leather belt tightened his waist, hung with silver bell color pieces, and unfolded a thousand arms behind him like a fan, these arms either pinched the Dharma seal, or held different treasures.

Looking up, you can see that she has a string of agate beads around her neck, her arms are trapped, her eyes are raised, her lips are red and her teeth are white, her eyebrows and eyes are smiling, the crown of horned lotus flowers on her head is shining, and the woven gold veil is fluttering in the wind, which is indescribably weird.

The most subtle thing is the aura behind the modeling!

These spiritual lights are first made of iron bones into three layers of rings, and then cut into tassels of the thinnest gold leaf paper and pasted on top of the circles, and when they walk down in the sun, they will inevitably glow with colored halos, and the surrounding neighborhoods are bright.

Some people died, but not completely......