Shangyuan Festival, also known as Tiangong Festival, according to the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, is the first full moon night of the year.

In the eyes of the ancients, the moon was a magical thing, so major changes in the moon had to be sacrificed and prayed for blessings from heaven. Therefore, this day is far more important than the Spring Festival of the Yuan Day, from the emperor to the commoners, who dares to be disrespectful to the gods.

Later generations have already known that the old bottom of the moon is not just a cold planet, and it is still the little brother of the earth, so naturally they can't raise too much awe. So eating became the main theme of the festival, and the plot of the sacrifice faded.

But at this time, people still don't know the truth, so eating is not the main thing, and there is no name for the Lantern Festival.

Since the moon in the sky is big and round, the mortals on the earth naturally have to be in sync with God, even if they can't make the earth as bright as the moon. The specific method is to watch the lanterns, appreciate the lanterns, hang the lanterns, and use various lamps to express their good wishes to the sky.

From the 14th day of the first lunar month, the lantern-watching activities in Bianliang, Tokyo, are launched, and every household will hang lanterns at the entrance and in the courtyard, with more hanging and less hanging, and the rich will hang lanterns and the poor will also hang red lanterns.

These lamps are to be lit all night, for five consecutive days from the 14th day of the first lunar month, and the city is brightly lit every night until the 18th of the first lunar month.

How can the horse mansion belong to a rich family, so from the twelfth day of the first month, the princess took over the power of the house, through three personal maids and a wet nurse to command the mansion up and down, vowing to become the lamp leader of Guangdefang!

Hong Tao was noncommittal about the princess's hobby, anyway, he didn't interfere in these things, so naturally he wouldn't help.

Originally, he also wanted to make a big lantern to take the lantern in his hand to make the princess happy, in order to know himself and know that he would win a hundred battles, he deliberately inquired about who the main opponents were, but after listening to the answer, he was not interested at all.

There are less than 30 official residents in Guangde Fang, and only two of them can be called big households. One is the Horse Mansion, and the other is the Yang Ye Mansion in the north, which is the home of the Yang family general and the Yang family general in the novel.

It's a pity that there are no female generals in Yangmen, She Taijun's surname is Zhen, and Yang Ye died soon after his death. If you want to say which woman in his family is the most famous, it should be Yang Yanzhao's wife, that is, Yang Liulang's daughter-in-law. She is the daughter of the Later Zhou Emperor Chai Rong and the Lord of Cheshire.

Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin should be regarded as more humane in terms of temperament, pay attention, it is a comparison, as long as people who are involved in politics cannot be judged as ordinary people. What's more, he is the emperor, and there are a large number of civil servants and military generals under his command who need to be appeased, and if there is more human touch, it will definitely be death.

Why is he still humane, because he never forgets the kindness of the old master, although he usurped the power of the Hou Zhou, but he did not put a hat on someone like a dumb king to kill them all, let alone play with the smear of his life.

Instead, he clearly admitted that he was a usurper, and the reason was that the previous one had done it too many times, so step down and let me do it!

Whoever doesn't believe it can ask the old leader, it doesn't matter if he dies, there are descendants. Future generations will not dare to say it, because Zhao Kuangyin made a will:

"The descendants of the Chai family shall not be punished if they are guilty, and if they commit rebellion, they will be given in prison, and they shall not be killed, nor shall they be allowed to sit on their subordinates, and those who have this oath will be killed by the heavens!"

Lao Zhao's descendants are also considered filial, and for more than three hundred years in the Song Dynasty, none of their descendants have killed each other for power, and no emperor has violated the rules set by their ancestors.

So, the descendants of the Chai family are transcendent in the two Song Dynasty, as long as they don't rebel and do anything, whoever dares to say half a word, it is useless to find someone to beat him. Whether it is the emperor or the imperial history, no one is willing to trouble the Chai family.

According to Gao Cuifeng and Hong Tao in private, the reason why no big officials are willing to live in this place is because the Cheshire Lord was too powerful, and whoever was a neighbor with their family was unlucky, so this good place could fall into the hands of the eldest princess of Shu.

Others have nothing to do with the Chai family, but the emperor's own sister naturally doesn't have to be afraid. The Chai family will not be blind to bully the royal sister, and it is easy to be labeled as a rebel if you do that.

Don't think that there are few residents here and desolate, in fact, the scenery of this place is very good, and it is still in the upper reaches of the Jinshui River, in addition to the forbidden army camp, there are few workshops, basically no pollution, it can be regarded as a peach blossom source in Kaifeng City.

It's a pity that the Yang family has also fallen into a general circle, that is, one generation is not as good as the next.

Yang Liulang was still a general who was highly regarded by the emperor, and when his son Yang Wenguang was in charge, at best, he was a general guarding the border passes, and then Yang Wenguang's son Yang Huaiyu was in charge, and the Yang family had faded out of everyone's sight.

This Yang Huaiyu is just a minor official in the forbidden army, and his rank is not as high as that of Hong Tao. Compared with such a neighbor who is going downhill, Hong Tao feels that there is nothing to be happy about winning.

Besides, with the glass lantern that the princess got from the emperor, the average family really has no hope of winning. Then let the princess toss it herself, and it will be more rewarding to win without her own help.

The house was being cleaned and decorated everywhere, and even the children in the West Cross Courtyard were requisitioned by the princess, each carrying a small basket with cooking cakes and sourdough fillings, and set up a good food stall at the entrance of the house.

It is to distribute food to the poor, at this point Hong Tao feels that the ancients are still more conscious, no matter what the usual reputation is, all rich and noble families will express their expression during the New Year's Festival, without anyone forcing them, it has become a habit.

Hong Tao didn't want to clean up or pretend to be a good person in the cold wind, so he took Chen Niang and rode on the horse to the Wujin Xing construction site in Jinmingchi.

From the tenth day of the first month, the workers have been on vacation, and it is on the eighteenth day of the first month. It's not that Hong Tao is reluctant to pay overtime, but that the workers are resolutely unwilling to go to work during the Shangyuan Festival, which will be laughed at.

No matter how poor and lacking money you are, you have to have several festivals every year, and Shangyuan Festival is one of them. Because they firmly believe that if they offend the gods, no matter how hard they work, they will not be able to live well. As for offending the colt...... The horse is a fart, and the prime minister's family doesn't dare to force others not to be festive.

The workshop of Wujin Xing has been almost built, two water wheels stand by the water inlet, Peng Da said that after the completion of the water-saving mill and stone mill, it will be transported, and after the installation of these, Wujin Xing can officially start production.

The construction progress of the circular coking kiln is relatively slow, and the foundation has just been dug, and it is currently a large circular pit with a diameter of more than 6 meters and a depth of less than 2 meters.

"The horse is really interested, is it specially to accompany my brother for the holiday, why is there no wine to accompany him?" But there is one group of people who must work overtime, and that is the forbidden army of the Water Tiger Wing.

Every year on the 19th day of the first month, Jinmingchi will hold a dragon boat competition, the emperor will bring the beauties of the harem and the civil and military officials to come here to enjoy with the people, then the Jinmingchi is open to the public for one day, and there will be other dragon boat teams of the forbidden army to compete here.

Whoever wins will get the big red envelope given by the emperor, and if he loses, even if this class is added in vain, he will have to be blamed by his boss.

The Song people are good at gambling, they bet on everything, and they will naturally not let go of the dragon boat race, which is such a suitable activity for gambling, and every dragon boat team has someone to bet on.

If the boss loses money and loses face, the consequences can be imagined. Wang Guan was watching the soldiers training on the dragon boat on the dock, and when he saw Hong Tao from afar, he immediately came over.