Chapter 5: The Winter Solstice Sacrifice

"It's actually this time?" Feng Ye sat in the Divine Domain, his eyes looked at the Xianyang Ye Dragon Temple, and the Qin Dynasty Taishi Ling was taking several historians to worship the Ye Long Clan.

"I guess it's for the next year's calendar and the year's historical manuscripts. Nuwa understood.

The Yelong clan is revered by the human race as Emperor Ye, and is the supreme god of the human race recording history and the calendar, and Emperor Ye is also the founder of the historian. Tai Shi Ling was the chief of the historian in the imperial court, responsible for recording history, drafting edicts, and taking charge of books and astronomical calendars. But most of these things are directly related to Emperor Ye, so after the history of this year is written, it will be presented to the Yelong Temple, and the Yelong clan will take the lead in reading and marking it before it can be sealed in the history library.

And this sacrifice is usually at the end of the year, which is the end of the year. However, if there is any remaining part of the year after the sacrifice, the remaining days are recorded together with the next year.

The Qin Dynasty initially defined the New Year's Day and New Year as the tenth lunar month, but during the Fusu era, the New Year was postponed from October to January, that is, the first day of the first month of January. But in the end, Qin is the lord of the world, and the original New Year festival of winter will still be celebrated. In addition, the Qin State originally pursued the four-season calendar of "winter first" for a long time. Therefore, when the historian handed in the manuscript for a year to worship Emperor Ye, he also chose the day of the winter solstice. From the day of the winter solstice to the next winter solstice is the scope of the historical manuscript.

Historians must be fair in recording history, even the emperor and the Son of Heaven cannot change and read the records of the historians at will. In order to record the emperor's words and deeds, historians also have special courtiers to record the emperor's words and deeds for recording the annals of history.

Arguably. The profession of the emperor is also very tragic, at least for the sake of his own name, it is not good to do some things that discredit his reputation at will. Otherwise, it will be easy for a while, but it will be infamous for eternity in the future, and of course, there are some kings with excellent psychology who will choose the so-called "only for pleasure and comfort in life, and no matter how big the flood is after death" and enjoy themselves with peace of mind.

On the day of the winter solstice, the historians, headed by Tai Shi Ling, will hand over the history recorded in this year to the ancestral gods worshiped by Emperor Ye and Emperor Shi, which is also to get the approval of the two ancestors, and this historical manuscript will have fairness. After that, it will be handed over to the history library to be sealed for future generations to understand the history.

This manuscript of history with the seal of the gods can be said to be the most authentic and fair history. Not only the Qin Dynasty. The following dynasties did the same. As a result, the historian maintained a more detached position. Until a certain emperor of a certain dynasty looked through his living notes despite the obstacles, and then moved the idea of rewriting the history library and rewriting his own history. And this matter naturally will not be recognized by Emperor Ye and Emperor Shi, and the historical manuscript of that year was not blessed by the divine seals of the two ancestral gods. It can't be sealed into the history library.

But there are policies and countermeasures. The emperor directly exiled Tai Shiling and the others. The re-establishment of an institution to write the history of the human race for thousands of years has knocked down the transcendent status of the historians. This incident naturally offended Emperor Ye and Emperor Shi, and then the emperor's dynasty also experienced a lot of turmoil because of its guilt and sacredness. Even the dynasty is in danger of changing hands.

In the current Yelong Temple, Tai Shi Ling threw the manuscript entrusted by the historian on the side into the brazier in front of him.

This brazier is the pot of divine fire that is connected to the Yelong Divine Domain, and the manuscript inside falls directly in front of Feng Ye in the Divine Domain through the golden divine fire. Feng Ye Shennian read the historical manuscripts of this year, because the historian has the "Historical Treasure", which is a spiritual treasure of Zhenyun, he can completely use this treasure to observe the past events in the world, and the historical manuscripts are compiled by many people together, relatively speaking, they still maintain credibility.

Feng Ye was flipping through the historical manuscript there, and Nuwa on the side was a little bored, so Feng Ye immediately pushed a plate in front of her: "It's also the intention of these people, Niangniang might as well try it." ”

"Is it the Moon Junction?" This tribute was sacrificed by Tai Shiling and the others, and Nuwa saw the tribute on the plate and said: "Speaking of which, this kind of Lunar Junction can be enjoyed by us during the New Year's Festival, that is, you will set it as your designated tribute." ”

The moon is the so-called dumplings in Feng Ye's previous life. Jiaozi, when intersecting, there are still some origins with Feng Ye, the god of the calendar, and it is also Feng Ye who casts a spell to pass on the practice of dumplings to others. This kind of jiaozi is also a custom food on the day of the winter solstice, and it is quite popular in the whole of Kyushu.

It's just that in addition to major festivals such as the winter solstice and New Year's Day, only Yelong will be worshiped here from time to time, and other gods are rarely worshiped by this kind of food, and more are melons and fruits.

"It's just a gadget for us. Feng Ye said angrily.

Of course, the tributes embodied in the Divine Domain are not the tributes that are being placed in the Yelong Temple, but the food that is specially consumed by the immortals and gods by borrowing the incense in the Divine Domain.

Nuwa stared at the plate of Jiaozi in front of her and looked at it, it was a tribute from Tai Shiling and others to Emperor Ye, the god of the calendar. To say that the workmanship is not worse than that eaten by the emperor, there are nine types of fillings alone, and the shape of Jiaozi is also different.

The moon is conjunctive, Jiaozi is originally a moon-shaped, and the moon is also a reference to time and years, so Jiaozi has the meaning of years in addition to the alternation of fingers.

Although the Jiaozi enshrined by Tai Shiling and others are all moon-shaped patterns, they vary according to the cloudy and sunny circles of the moon in the sky, from left to right according to the circle of the moon, and there is a full moon pattern in the center with two semicircles of Jiaozi together.

"In the end, it's the difference in treatment. Nuwa smiled and said, "Even if the palace and my brother have Jiaozi to worship even during the winter solstice, there will be no special person to prepare any moon platter." ”

You must know that with the different shapes and sizes of Jiaozi, the degree of raw and cooked is also different, and the largest one in this plate of Jiaozi is twice as large as the smallest one, so it is necessary to cook it separately, and this plate of Jiaozi alone is also full of effort. And the tribute from Nuwa Niangniang and others is just a big pot to cook a plate, and the delicacy is immediately revealed.

Nuwa tasted a little, and because the incense was manifested with the help of the real tribute outside, the taste was exactly the same as that of the tribute outside.

"Sure enough, there are only five kinds of fillings in this palace, and you have a lot of them here. Nuwa said as she tasted it.

"Alright!" After Feng Ye saw that there was nothing wrong with the manuscript, he marked it and threw it down again.

If you want to say that there are special rituals in the poor road during the major solar terms, don't you also have a so-called Christmas Day? At least the human race today will not give the poor road Christmas. ”

In the present world, Tai Shiling and the others waited for the divine fire to burn, and the golden divine fire began to turn red, and the manuscript that had been burned to ashes reappeared in the flames. A layer of golden light shone on the manuscript to shield the flames, and Tai Shiling hurriedly stepped forward and took out the manuscript when he saw it appear.

"You take this manuscript to the Shihuang Temple, and after the Shihuang Golden Seal is stamped, it will be stored in the Shiku. Tai Shi Ling handed the manuscript to the historian on the side and said. The Yelong clan is in charge of the main sacrifice, while the Shi Huang side is in control of the history library, and it will only be sealed into the history library after the blessing of the two emperors' seals.

However, after the historical manuscript, today's ceremony is not over. In addition to the reading of historical manuscripts, there is also the next year's auspicious divination, and the almanac is compiled.

Taishi ordered someone to replace the tribute on the incense case, and then put a roll of gold silk back into the brazier. This gold silk is naturally painted with the December calendar of the next year, as well as the auspicious days of the zodiac and other arrangements.

Feng Ye glanced at it slightly, and then returned with the same mark.

Zuihou, Tai Shi Ling threw a piece of tortoise shell into the brazier to explore the situation of the Qin Dynasty in the next year.

At this time, Feng Ye's brows furrowed slightly, and he tapped lightly on the tortoise shell in front of him, and an almost invisible word "Ke" appeared on the tortoise shell.

After Tai Shiling saw the evil fortune of tortoise shell divination, his heart also tightened a little. To say that this kind of auspicious divination is something that historians will carry out every year.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, the word "may" was only when there was a rebellion at the beginning, and since there was no so-called threat that could subvert the entire Great Qin Empire, there was naturally no sign of great evil. Next, the previous emperors such as Fusu are also working hard, although it is not said that every year is a "good luck" image, but when divining the national fortune, it is also more haode evaluation.

It's just that in recent years, the evaluation has gradually declined, and the auspicious omen will gradually not be revealed, and people of insight naturally know that this is the beginning of the decline of the dynasty, and the luck of the Qin Dynasty has indeed changed somewhat. Tai Shi Ling is a historian cultivator, and he also has some unique secret methods for observing qi luck, and he also has some speculations about Daqin's national fortune in his heart.

"Lord Sima?" The courtiers on the side also saw the results of the divination.

"Forget it, just present it to Bixia. Tai Shi Ling thought silently in his heart, anyway, our historians only need to maintain absolute neutrality, and now it is not a big murderous phenomenon, the Qin Dynasty should be able to last for a long time, maybe there is some turnaround!

Of course, since the Qin Dynasty's luck of the country's demise and the immortal path killing and robbery were connected, the Qin Dynasty's luck was delayed for a long time, so there will be one or two Zhongxing rule under the operation of the days.

And with the change of the heavenly machine, there are also various visions in the heavenly court.

In the Heavenly Court Qingfu Palace, Hong Fu was originally refining the Qi of Fortune he had collected for cultivation. Suddenly feeling that there was something unusual in the god list hanging in front of the hall, Hong Fu hurriedly opened his eyes to check the situation above.

But I saw that there was a colorful glow surging on the list of gods, and there seemed to be some god names on it that were still floating, and there were also some blank gods in the list text.

"Is this the rhythm of being a god for the second time?" Hong Fu knew that he could not be arbitrary in this matter, so he hurriedly went to Ziwei Palace to find the two elders, Emperor Ziwei and Emperor Zhenwu.

In the Heavenly Mandate Palace, Qian Ying was originally compiling the life net, but he saw a new oracle falling at the top of the Heavenly Mandate Palace.

After Qian Ying glanced at it, he ordered the boy to present it to the Golden Mother, and then he also went to Ziwei Palace to discuss with Emperor Ziwei. (To be continued......)

PS: Well, this chapter is mostly for today's occasion, and of course there are some small foreshadowing and other places, so it's not nonsense.