Chapter 42 Spring Ploughing Ceremony
1929 did not shoot,
Three-nine-four-nine ice walking,
Five-nine-sixty-nine look at the river willows,
The seventy-nine rivers are frozen,
Eight or nine geese come,
Ninety-nine plus one-nine, ploughing cattle everywhere!
The sun and the moon shuttle, time is like an arrow, and in an instant, the small cold has passed, the big cold has passed, and the New Year has passed...... In the children's songs, the spring breeze blows the earth, the frozen soil gradually melts, and the spring ploughing season has arrived!
The Chinese nation is a farming nation, with the sky as the father, the earth as the mother, and the water as the parent, planting grains and raising all the people, as the so-called: spring ploughing, summer long, autumn harvest, winter storage, all year round, each has its own arrangement, people move on time, diligent, multiply!
If you want the country and the people to be safe, you must have a bumper harvest of grains, everyone has something to eat, and the people will not rebel, so the rulers of all dynasties have attached great importance to farming, and have evolved a set of spring ploughing ceremonies, passed down from generation to generation, year after year!
In the fifth year of Jian'an, on the sixth day of the second month, at the time of the spring equinox, the yin and yang are half, the day and night are average, the birds are coming, and the thunder is rising......
In the morning, hundreds of civil and military officials wore ceremonial dresses, held tooth wat in hand, gathered outside the Sima Gate, under the leadership of Prime Minister Cao Cao, entered the imperial city, ascended the Qilin Palace, and invited Liu Xie, the son of the Han Dynasty, to go out of the city for the spring ploughing ceremony, praying for a bumper harvest and national peace and security!
In the morning, after the preparations were secure, the little emperor wore a crown of heaven, a golden dragon robe, and a sword of the Son of Heaven at his waist, and sat on a dragon and phoenix chariot, taking the queen, the concubine, the palace maid, and the eunuch...... A total of hundreds of people, holding a full set of imperial honor guards, left the Han Imperial City, surrounded by civil and military officials, out of the south gate of Xuchang City, and went to Shennongtai to worship!
"The Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty travels, worships the ancestors of Shennong, and prays for smooth weather and abundant grains!"
"The Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty travels to worship the ancestors of Shennong............"
Since coming to Xuchang City, the little emperor is like a caged bird, trapped in the imperial city, although he has no worries about food and clothing, but he is also lonely, so he cherishes every time he goes out, so that the eunuchs and palace maids around him shout in unison, which is used to strengthen the momentum, and also let the people of Xuchang see who is the co-master of the world!
"Long! …… Prosperous! Prosperous! ”
Followed by the team of the Prime Minister's Mansion, Cao Cao wore a red robe, held a sword in the sky, stood on a Yuan Rong chariot, three thousand tigers and leopards in front and behind, the team was neat, marching like a forest, although he did not say a word, but it was magnificent, proving with strong strength who is the master of the country!
According to the size of the official position, the civil and military officials followed in turn, as well as their wives and children, who also set off with the trip.
Shennongtai is located in the south of the city five miles, covers a vast area, the building is simple, the stone man and the stone beast, arranged neatly, in the middle of the hall, the cigarette smoke is swirling, the drum music is ringing, worshiping one of the five gods of China - Shennong's!
On the land of China, after the rule of the Three Emperors, after a long period of time, five clans appeared: Chao Clan, Suiren Clan, Fuxi Clan, Nuwa Clan, and Shennong Clan!
Shennong's tasted herbs, cured diseases and saved people, planted grains, raised livestock, and advanced the Chinese nation from the primitive state of gathering, fishing and hunting to agricultural civilization, and wrote "Shennong's Hundred Herbs Sutra", educating the people, blessing the world, so it is admired by all the people, and the incense is endless!
As for the identity of Shennong, it is a historical mystery, and one view is that Shennong's is Emperor Yan, one of the three ancestors of China, because the Yandi tribe has the earliest farming records; Another point of view is that Shennong was born in the Jiangshui River Basin, is a large tribal chief, gifted and intelligent, and created a farming civilization.
Spring is late, and the trees are blooming,
Cang Geng, Cai Su Qi Qi,
The interrogator was ugly, and the thin words were returned,
Hehe Nanzhong, Xuanqi Yuyi,
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"Liu Xie, the twenty-fourth generation of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty, prays to the Emperor and the Queen of Heaven: protect the Han, harvest the five grains, the peace and happiness of all the people, the imperial power is eternal, there is no time for ten thousand years, and cut out the traitorous ministers...... Hit and die, choke to death by drinking water, and shoot ...... with hidden arrows"
In the bursts of Yale, the attendants carried the three animal tributes of the cow's head, the sheep's head and the pig's head, and sacrificed Shennong to the 'Taigao', the little emperor held the incense, knelt three times and knocked nine times, and silently recited the sacrificial text, as for what was being recited, then no one knew, maybe scolding people behind his back!
After the sacrificial ceremony, it is the spring ploughing ceremony, ploughing the land is a chore, a bead of sweat falls eight petals, diligent and diligent for a whole year, in order to harvest food, if God does not give face, there is a flood, drought, locust plague and the like, a year of hard work in vain!
In order to encourage farming, after sacrificing to Shennong's family, the emperor led hundreds of civil and military officials to personally cultivate a piece of land to show that they attach importance to agriculture and mulberry, experience hardship, and set an example for all the people in the world!
"The Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty, plough the fields and acres, persuade farmers diligently, and prosper forever!"
The cultivated land is next to Shennongtai, Tianzi No. 1 is the royal cultivated land, specially reserved for the little emperor, a total of one acre and three points, with the shout of the ceremonial officer, the pro-ploughing began!
The little emperor stood in the field, holding the iron plough in his right hand, waving a whip in his left hand, driving a Guanzhong ox, and began to cultivate the field, and there were two eunuchs to help the little emperor work, otherwise with Liu Xie's physical strength, he really couldn't support the heavy iron plow!
According to the etiquette regulations: the emperor of the Han Dynasty supported the plow, and the princes of the clan took the ox, but Liu Xie had no brothers, and the clan relatives of the Han family withered away, so they had to let the Guozhang - pay to replace it, Queen Fu and Cao Guifei held the box and followed behind to scatter seeds, and several palace maids held wooden lifts and were responsible for burying the soil......
"Smack! …… Moo! …… Steady, don't run around! ”
The long whip sounded, the ploughing ox stepped forward, the ploughing ox used by the emperor was naturally a thousand choices, the physique was strong, docile and obedient, and the ploughing experience was rich, but a good ploughing ox also needed a good farmer, the little emperor was born in the deep palace, long in the hands of a woman, never did farm work, and had no strength in his hands, an iron plough was crooked, it was simply twisted......
The ploughman is not good, and the one who leads the ox is also the 'two knives', and he is from the Fu Shi clan, enjoying wealth and wealth, and he has never done farm work, and he has not gone far away, so he pulled the reins crookedly, and the ox roared more than once, but it was Queen Fu and Cao Guifei, who worked decently, and it is estimated that they had practiced in private!
One acre and three points of cultivated land, as long as four back and forth, can be cultivated, even so, the little emperor can't hold on, his hands are full of blood blisters, he gave up halfway, let the two eunuchs help the plow, and follow behind, one foot deep, one foot shallow, pretending indiscriminately!
Princess Haiyan also came, but she looked very low-key, wearing a long-sleeved skirt and a white gauze cover, supported by the maid-Lingling, sitting quietly on the ground, bowing her head and pondering something, the last 'hunting incident' hit her very hard, and she has not been able to recover!
However, this woman is tenacious, and she has already recognized the things, and she will not look back when she breaks through the south wall, and she will never give up!
Tianzi No. 2, one acre and two points of field, that is the prime minister's mansion farming, Cao's father and son went into battle, Cao Cao supported the iron plow, the second son Cao Pi petuniage, the third son Cao Zhang, the fourth son Cao Zhi helped his father, and the fifth son Cao Xiong, specially wielding a whip, the father and son worked together, the ploughing cattle were also very obedient, and the ploughing was quite smooth......
Mrs. Bian led a group of concubines, changed into coarse cloth clothes, and also followed behind to sow seeds, they are all from small households, they are no strangers to farm work, and they are doing a good job!
Xiao Yi is lucky, assigned to Tianzi No. 3, one acre of land, for cultivating land, Xiao Yi is no stranger, at the beginning in the small Taoist temple, the master and apprentice two self-sufficient, they cultivated two acres of mountain fields, a few years down, it has long been a good crop!
The problem is that Xiao's men are scarce, and the two sons are still breastfeeding, so they can't help at all, Xiao Yi had to go into battle alone, waving a long whip in his hand, light as a snake, directing the ploughing ox to move forward, without being led, walking straight, holding the iron plough with his right hand, ploughing deep and straight, and the speed is also extremely fast, doing it to a happy place, and improvised a poem:
Persuade Er to cultivate the fields diligently, and Yinger Cangzhong millet,
Persuade Erva mulberry plant, reduce Er's body to obey,
The frost is on the ground, and the grass is not green,
As soon as the hurricane enters the forest, there are no trees,
If youth is not cultivated, how can it end............
Xiao Jing and Daoxiang led several women's troops to sow seeds in the back, they were all from poor backgrounds, and they were very good at farming, and they were evenly and in place, and they quickly planted one acre and one cent of land...... History has proven countless times that only those who are familiar with the land are the true masters of the land!
At the same time, the civil and military officials also began to cultivate, most of them hired old farmers, helped to cultivate the land, waved a few whips themselves, just make a show, in the concept of the Han people, after all, farming is a cheap industry, even the sage - Confucius, is not diligent, the five grains are not divided!
An hour later, the acres of land are cultivated, people are tired and panting, sweating, and then return to the ground, take out the wine, food, enjoy it, there are some noble concubines, but also play and sing, singing and dancing, a good spring ploughing ceremony, and finally become a song and dance level!
As for these fields, there are experienced old farmers, specializing in fertilizing, watering, catching insects, hoeing weeds, and waiting until the golden autumn of October, no matter where else it is, it will definitely be a 'big harvest', and then report it to the imperial court to celebrate!
With the end of the spring ploughing ceremony, countless messengers rushed to the Quartet, edict to the people, spring ploughing officially began, wait for the land, strive for more grain, but also pay a little more imperial grain...... For a time, on the land of the Central Plains, farmers were like clouds, ploughing cattle everywhere, diligent, living and reproducing!
Spring ploughing has begun, and the pace of war is not far off......
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