[In essence, whether in ancient or modern times, because the first day of the first lunar month is actually the beginning of the year, so all the chores are concentrated on this day, and it is rare to be idle.

For civilians, there has been a custom of keeping the New Year since the Jin Dynasty, and the Chinese New Year's Eve is only over at dawn on the first day of the first lunar month, and after celebrating each other, they go back to their respective houses to sleep.

The emperor and the hundred officials will be a little busier, for example, the great dynasty will be written in the "Zhou Li", which is the highest standard of the court ceremony in the feudal era, from the Qin and Han dynasties to the Ming and Qing dynasties, the great dynasty will be followed through the dynasties and has never been broken.

In addition, each dynasty will have some other work, such as the first day of the first month of the Qin Dynasty also needs to sacrifice to the sky, the Tang Dynasty moved the sacrifice to the winter solstice, but added a "big furnishing" to open the eyes of the vassal country, the Song Dynasty is not good at war, and it is naturally difficult to give the vassal country eye medicine, so simply extend the process to three days, the first day of the meeting, the second day of eating together, the third day of the sports meeting, so that the Great Song Dynasty generals and Western Xia, Jiaozhi, Dali and other countries than archery.

For example, the Tang Dynasty, where the New Year's etiquette has been preliminarily perfected, has a lot of works about the first day of the new year, among which the more well-known one is Bai Juyi's "Yuan Day to Wine".

This poem written by Bai Juyi at the age of 70 is more about expressing his feelings about the changes of the years, but it also records the entertainment that Tang Dynasty people had to face during the New Year:

If you go out on the first day, you need to be the head of your peers, you need to bow down when you see your elders, you need to drink alcohol when you feast and drink, and you have to work hard when you go home, which is really much different from our modern times in a sense.

It is also because of this that the Shangyuan Festival, a festival that everyone can really participate in, has officially flourished.

The prosperity of the Shangyuan Festival, similar to Laba Chinese New Year's Eve, etc., is basically the process of the Han Dynasty setting the time and the Tang and Song dynasties. 】

"On this Yuan Zhengri, the Tang and Song dynasties in later generations are certainly busy, why do they skip my Han alone?"

Liu Bei complained with a smile on his face, pinched his fingers and calculated:

"Since Emperor Guangwu, my Han Dynasty Emperor has all needed to visit the Deyang Palace, and the ministers will be civil and military officials, state and county magistrates, tribal chiefs, and envoys from dozens of countries in Fanbang have all entered the table to congratulate, and this matter alone can be called hard work."

"In addition, it is also necessary to test the local book, and the gains and losses of the local area in a year need to be determined according to this.

said that it was a complaint, but there was no dissatisfaction in Xuandegong's tone, so everyone looked at the helpless disposal of the Song Dynasty, and then looked at the smile on the corner of the lord's mouth, so they could only say that the lord was tired.

Regarding the unique process of the New Year in the Song Dynasty, all those present are not fools, who can not understand.

If it was a good idea to compete with the envoys of the vassal states, then why didn't the Han and Tang dynasties think of it?

To put it bluntly, isn't it the decline of martial arts, so he is known as a hero with the method of side door left skills.

When he was not in Song, he naturally couldn't judge whether it was right or wrong, but everyone looked at such a process, and they did feel a sense of helplessness.

Liu Bei, who gave his hand to everyone, just said that the Son of Heaven worked hard, and he was ashamed.

After all, when Yuan Zhengshi was just drinking a glass of wine and eating a meal with his subordinates, why bother?

On the contrary, it is the Son of Heaven who is now coerced to Yecheng by Cao thieves that is really bitter.

Speaking of the Son of Heaven who was held hostage by Cao Cao, everyone also agreed:

It's wow, it's wow, it's really hard for our Han Tianzi.

After a short pause in this matter, Kong Ming remembered what he had seen in the light curtain before:

"Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty stabbed in the name of gold, and the words of celebration were all used by the officials and the people in later generations, or they worked hard to understand such a New Year."

This thing was also received in later generations, and Kong Ming still has an impression.

At the same time, I remember clearly the evaluation of it by later generations, saying that greeting cards are still used in later generations.

[Different from the first day of the first lunar month, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month can basically be said to be "pinched" by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who pursued "cultural integration and unification".

Doctrine Shang Wu Emperor "deposed the hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism", and in the Shinto sacrifice to Emperor Wu also began to advocate "the sole respect for the Taiyi God".

In the Western Han Dynasty, Taoism had not yet been formed, and the objects of worship at that time were not only the three emperors and five emperors, but also the gods of mountains, rivers, rivers and mountains, lacking the concept of a unified supreme god.

In the process of "respecting the Taiyi God alone", Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty can also be said to be familiar with the road.

First of all, a monk jumped out to say how powerful Taiyi was, and was praised by Emperor Wu, breaking the concept of the emperor and god in the pre-Qin period, and began to formally set up an altar to worship.

A few years later, Hedong dug up an ancient Ding Xiangrui, and it was a coincidence that this Ding was engraved with the scene of Taiyi assisting the Five Emperors.

In the next two years, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty carried out sacrifices, and even used the ritual of sacrificing Taiyi when he sealed Mount Tai, and officially pinched Taiyi into the supreme god of the Han Dynasty.

At the same time, in the "Taichu Calendar", Emperor Wu also personally designated the fifteenth day of the first lunar month as the day of sacrifice to Taiyi, and lit the lamp in Ganquan Palace until dawn, which was a sacrificial ceremony, and the people began to follow suit.

Judging from here, Wu Zetian later engaged in Xiangrui's set of gameplay, and it is difficult to say how many scriptures he took from Liu Che, and the level is far behind.

Later, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the "Taiping Sutra" was gradually perfected, and Zhang Daoling, a genius figure of Taoism during the time of Emperor Huan, first put forward the saying of "Sanyuan Festival", that is, "the heavenly official blesses, the local official forgives the sin, and the water official relieves the misfortune", and respectively designated the sacrificial time, the core logic is actually a little similar to the Fu Shui of Zhang Jiao later, all of which are to bewitch the people by exorcising misfortune from the gods.

As we all know, religion has always been good at rubbing heat, and the earliest Taoism is no exception, and the "heavenly official" has naturally become the reference to the god Taiyi of the Han Dynasty.

The day designated by Liu Che to worship Taiyi, with the demise of the Han Dynasty and the evolution of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, was naturally named Shangyuan Festival.

After the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Sui Dynasty already had the tradition of the Shangyuan Festival, and waited until the Tang Dynasty went further - after all, "as we all know", the Li Tang royal family is the descendants of the Taoist Laozi, so the Shangyuan Festival has become a legal holiday in the Tang Dynasty.

Although it has become the Shangyuan Festival, the method of sacrificing to the Taiyi God personally formulated by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty has been handed down, that is, "burning the lamp".

After all, you can't light the lanterns during the day, and if you celebrate the festival at night, the curfew will be temporarily canceled, and the people will be able to carnival all night, which is unimaginable in ancient times before the Song Dynasty.

In addition, Shangyuan energy saving was extremely popular in the Tang Dynasty, in addition to the fact that after New Year's Day, everyone can release their stress to their heart's content, but also because it is Valentine's Day in the actual sense of the Tang Dynasty.

Shangyuan opened, the curfew was lifted, men and women met, there were no taboos, this is the real scene of the Shangyuan Festival in the Tang Dynasty.

According to the "Old Tang Book", on the Shangyuan Festival four years after the Shenlong coup, Li Xian and Empress Wei Weifu sneaked to Chang'an City to watch the "burning of lanterns".

In order to show the grace of heaven, Li Xian issued an additional edict to let the palace maids travel thousands of nights, but what he didn't expect was that there was a big gap in the number of palace maids who were re-inspected at dawn.

Li Xian sent Xiaoqi to investigate, and finally found out that many palace maids fell in love with the teenagers outside the palace on the night of the Shangyuan Festival, and finally chose to "escape and not return" with Ruyi Langjun, which is commonly known as elopement.

Later, during the Song Dynasty, the Valentine's Day attribute of the Shangyuan Festival became more and more obvious.

For example, Ouyang Xiu wrote, "On New Year's Eve last year, the flower market was as light as day. On the willow tops of the moon, people make an appointment after dusk" to write the scene of men and women dating clearly.

Xin Qiji's popular poem "Looking for Him in the Crowd Thousands of Degrees" was also written on the Shangyuan Festival, and it will not be repeated because it is too famous. 】

"This Taiyi Zun, the change of the Three Yuan Festival, actually follows this principle."

Du Ruhui felt novel.

These historical materials talked about by later generations, they, are actually more familiar with them, but if they follow their fundamentals and investigate their internal principles, they are more than a step worse than those of later generations.

For example, later generations said that Emperor Wu wanted to "integrate and unify cultures", which made people suddenly enlightened.

But looking back at the various things that later generations said, combined with the historical materials he personally studied, it also made Du Ruhui more aware of the statement that "Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty installed software on this machine in China".

Culture, which can be seen and touched, but can hardly be called an entity, is indeed a bit of a reason to call it "soft".

Qin Huang hardware, Han armed software, so now it is Zhenguan's turn to do something to make this machine "remove the old and innovate"?

Du Ruhui came up with a lot of ideas for a while.

Li Shimin looked at the word "well-known" in quotation marks, and although his cheeks were red, he still argued:

"Lao Tzu's surname is Li, and I am also surnamed Li, thousands of years ago, I must be in the same lineage, how can I not be commensurate with my ancestors?"

Everyone nodded perfunctorily, expressing their disagreement with the Tang Emperor's opinion.

Empress Eldest Sun didn't even want to give a perfunctory nod, but just looked at Li Shimin with a little expectation.

And the thoughts are almost all written on his face: Then Li Xian can take the queen to a micro-trip, how can Your Majesty not do it?

Li Shimin thought about the sudden rise of micro-clothes out of the palace last year, and it seemed that it did cause the queen to complain, so he also responded with his bow.

This year's festival has been determined to capture the advantages and disadvantages of the millennium and make the people celebrate.

Then he, as the emperor, has to go out of the palace to monitor the achievements of that time, and it is normal to bring the queen to have fun.

"But if it's going to be a curfew, it's ......"

Others are looking forward to Chang'an City with a curfew, and the eldest grandson Wuji is very worried about Chang'an City with a curfew.

Fang Xuanling understood the difficulty, and also said:

"Burning lamps all over the city is already in danger of running water, and if there are thieves making trouble, I am afraid that something unspeakable will happen."

The suggestion of the two courtiers also immediately calmed everyone down, after all, how many people there are in Chang'an, they know very well, usually it is okay, if the curfew is lifted, then even if the lamp is bright, it will inevitably have a dark place, if there is a thief in chaos, I am afraid it can be ten times easier than usual, and it can cause a hundred times more disaster.

"Don't choke on food." Li Shimin was the first to express his position.

"Your Majesty may send a hundred horsemen scattered on the streets to supervise, be prepared." Wei Zheng suggested.

Wei Chi Jingde's rare first objection:

"There are only more than 1,000 cavalry divisions, and Yu Chang'an is just a drop in the bucket, if you want to appease the curfew, you must have two forbidden armies."

Du Ruhui frowned:

"The forbidden army is all bloody and brave, and if there is a confrontation with the people, it will be difficult to break the punishment, no."

Qin Qiong stood on the side of the old brother and agreed:

"If you want to town a city, you have to ban the army, you can send elites to scatter according to the streets, send hundreds of cavalry divisions and six door eagle dogs to fill the vacancy, and then merge with the bad commanders and commanders, so that the town is peaceful."

Such an opinion made Zhong Wenwu suddenly silent, and they pondered in their hearts and felt more and more feasible, but the only problem was:

"If you work so hard to mobilize the people, I am afraid that it will be a waste of national strength, and the people will celebrate and the army will be annoyed, and I am afraid of resentment." Wei Zheng worried.

Li Shimin took a step forward, not looking at the courtiers, but looking at the prosperous scene created by the imitation ancients in later generations on the light curtain:

"How can there be labor to move the people? After waiting for the town of the Western Regions, there will be Wanyi into Chang'an to pay tribute, and the complexity of affairs will be far better than at this time, and the Lloy of Shangyuan will be the later performance. ”

"I don't exaggerate the abundance, I don't take any of the Huke's people, the forbidden army is fair to the town, so that the Tang people can earn the wealth of the Huke and think they are rich."

How can people not know about the boasting of abundance? In the sixth year of the great cause, Emperor Yang praised his achievements, gathered all the chiefs in Luoyang, and performed a hundred operas for Zhuhu with a formation of 5,000 steps and a number of 18,000 people.

In the middle of the market, Hu guests were invited to buy wine and food without a penny, and silk and satin were wrapped around the tree to show arrogance, which led the Hu people to ask why the silk wrapped around the tree was not given to those Chinese people who were not clothed?

This matter disappeared with the death of Sui and became a joke, but Li Shimin once told them after watching the prosperity of later generations that such a grand event would be repeated by Tang, but this time it would be deterred by swords and soldiers, so that Zhuhu would sing and dance to Tang.

Now it seems that His Majesty remembers this ambition clearly, Wei Zheng is pleased, Du Ruhui is looking forward to it, and Wei Chi Jingde is excited, and they all bow accordingly.

[In addition, the most noteworthy thing about the Shangyuan Festival is, of course, the lantern festival.

Historically, from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty, lighting lamps has always been the preserve of the ruling class, after all, ordinary people don't have so much lamp oil to waste.

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty can be regarded as a lover of spectacle by today's standards, and he first raised the standard of the Shangyuan Festival, using dozens of piles of expensive agarwood supplemented by spices to burn until dawn.

The Tang Dynasty couldn't do such a bad behavior, so it could only overtake in technical corners.

In the past 100 years, the lanterns of the Shangyuan Festival can also be regarded as innovative, and in the early stage, they were limited to the image of animals in terms of structure, and in the later period, there have been "shadow lanterns" made of thermodynamics similar to Kong Ming lanterns, which are commonly known as marquees.

By the time of Xuanzong, the Shangyuan Festival of the Tang Dynasty had reached a peak, from the anthropomorphic lamp maid to the hundred lamps of the lamp tree planted in Dengshan.

However, in the feudal era, ordinary people never had an emperor to play, and in order to celebrate after Li Dan became the emperor, Shangyuan Festival spent a lot of effort to build a seven-layer marquee lantern twenty zhang high.

Not to be outdone, Li Longji built the Shangyuan Lantern Tower in Shangyang Palace, which is one hundred and fifty feet high, hanging pearls and jade wind bells, and the breeze is full of rhyme, which can be called brilliant and magnificent.

Similar to other folk customs, in the Song Dynasty, the right to appreciate the lantern was delegated to the people, and the people could not fight the spectacle, and the merchants at that time placed lamps to solicit customers in the Shangyuan Festival.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, lantern riddles were already a very important part of the Shangyuan Festival, but in terms of celebration, due to the shortening of holidays and other reasons, the prosperity of the Tang and Song dynasties declined.

In our modern times, the custom of visiting the lantern festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is still preserved.

However, because of work and study and other reasons, the degree of carnival is not comparable to that of the Tang and Song dynasties - after all, people's Shangyuan Festival is a legal holiday, and it can't be compared.

But if you talk about the exquisiteness and complexity of the lanterns, and the grandeur of the lantern display, compared with ancient times, it is completely bullying.

After all, whether it is brightness, color richness, or stability, electric lights kill the eighteen streets of ancient candle lights. 】

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