"Chinese New Year's Eve" originated from the "expulsion" in the pre-Qin period. According to the record of "Lü's Spring and Autumn and Season Winter", the ancients beat drums to expel evil spirits on the day before the New Year. This is the "Chinese New Year's Eve" festival.

Chinese New Year's Eve, known as the "first of a hundred festivals", is the last day of the old year, so it is called "twilight", "year", "day" and "night". And because Chinese New Year's Eve is also the day before the new year, it has the dual meaning of "removing the old" and "welcoming the new".

This is Zhen Qian's first New Year in the Wufeng Islands, so it is extraordinarily grand.

The war between the Silla Kingdom and the Wa Kingdom continued, but it could not stop the joy of the New Year, and they began to get busy early in the morning, "planting peach branches", "pasting spring books", "hanging spring flags", "painting tiger heads", and "writing words".

The "peach branches" here are really plucked from the peach tree and inserted on the door of the home.

Why do you want to plant peach branches? Zhang Shuo, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, said very clearly in "Yuezhou Shou New Year's Second Song": "Peach branches can ward off evil", that is to say, peach branches can ward off evil spirits and drive away ghosts.

The peach tree is an early spring plant, which is an iconic plant for the arrival of spring and the change of seasons; At the same time, the peach is "easy to plant and multiplying", with many fruits, and is a plant that brings people a good harvest, so it also has the blessing of many children and grandchildren.

Legend has it that after Kuafu chased the sun, after dying of thirst, "his staff turned into Deng Lin", and "Deng Lin" was "Peach Forest". The purpose of Kuafu's day-to-day pursuit is to pursue the secret of the sun's immortality. Therefore, Kuafu finally turned into a peach forest, and it was Kuafu who obtained eternal life in another form.

Peaches, therefore, have become auspicious plants, with the meaning of longevity, therefore, the ancients liked longevity peaches on birthdays.

Also, it is necessary to pay attention to the "peach branch", you must pick the southeast branch of the peach, or the peach branch in the southeast direction, so as to have the effect of warding off evil spirits and driving away ghosts. The reason for this may be that the southeast direction is the direction of the sun, and the peach branches there receive more sunlight and more yang energy.

"Paste spring book" is similar to the spring couplets of later generations, also called "spring post", made of paper, there are five or seven quatrains on it, the content is generally related to the New Year, the Spring Festival, and spring, and then pasted on the door, window, account, screen, etc.

"Hanging spring flags" are small cyan flags. The Tang people believed that the utensils should change with the times, and the color of spring should be cyan, so the green flag is a symbol of spring.

"Draw the tiger's head" and "calligraphy", why draw the tiger's head? Because tigers eat evil spirits. This statement originates from the "Classic of Mountains and Seas": "In the middle of the sea, there is a mountain of Dushuo, there is a big peach tree, its Qu Pan is 3,000 miles, and the northeast between its branches is called the ghost gate, and ten thousand ghosts enter and exit." There are two gods, one is called God, the other is Yulei, the Lord reads and leads ten thousand ghosts, evil ghosts, and insists on eating tigers with reeds. So the Yellow Emperor is a gift, to drive it with time, set up a big peach man, the door is painted with gods, Yu Lei and tigers, and the reed rope is hung to resist the evil charm. ”

So why do you want to book the word "聻"? The official explanation is, "People die as ghosts, and ghosts die as deaf." The fear of ghosts, the fear of ghosts. ”

In the book "聻", ghosts will be afraid, so they can also avoid evil spirits.

This is considered the door god at that time, as for Qin Shubao and the door god of Wei Chi Gong, which were liked by later generations, they have not appeared at this time?

It's just that these are not what Zhen Qian wants to do, what he wants to do is to hold a meeting, which is equivalent to the year-end summary meeting of later generations, and there are hundreds of people who participate, and it can't be done in the conference room at all, so it has to be held in the council hall of the parliament building.

Although the parliament building has been completed, there has not been a formal meeting, not because Zhen Qian doesn't want to hold it, but because there is no one.

It is not easy to elect parliamentarians from tens of thousands of people in the Wufeng Islands, the Wufeng Islands have just been established, and people come from all over the world, who knows whom! In the end, it is not Zhen Qian's final say, since this is the case, it is better to wait for a while, and when the people around each other have an understanding, it is not too late to take your time.

Those formalisms that go through the motions, Zhen Qian has long hated them, liar!

The people who participated in the meeting this time were all leaders in all walks of life, and they first set a charter, and with the charter, they had the effect of a city gate pillar, and Zhen Qian wanted to slowly change the mentality of the participants through this method, so that they could have a real idea of being in charge.

"Today is the last day of the old year, although the parliament has not yet been formally established, but there is a saying: there are no rules, there is no circle, and today's meeting is to first set the constitution of a parliament ......."

He Guan Shi came to the forefront, although Wang Lun is the chief steward, but it is He Guan Shi who really manages the Wufeng Islands, which is equivalent to the county order of Datang County, and the council naturally wants He Guan to preside, and after the speaker is elected, He Guan will retreat into the background.

"The first item of the council is the work report of the old year!"

The vast majority of people who participated in this parliament didn't know how this council should be held, and Zhen Qian certainly didn't know either, but in later generations, small meetings were often held, but they were all lies, clichés, and a lot of empty words, so they always dozed off when they were in meetings, and their left ear went in and out of their right ear.

But fortunately, in later generations, information is developed, and there are often scenes of parliaments in TV and movies, and you can remember some after watching more, even if you can't touch the essence, but in this era, it is also a breakthrough, and it is time to correct some problems.

Zhen Qian didn't know what kind of freak this council he had created, but it seemed that the charter was clearly organized, and after Wang Lun read it, he felt that this was a bit similar to the family proceedings, and he also felt like this.

"The second item of the parliament is group discussion, you are not formal members of parliament now, but you already have the responsibilities of parliamentarians, you can evaluate the performance of the old year, you can also put forward plans for the new year, you can involve all aspects, and even how to elect parliamentarians in the future, of course, except for the military, each parliamentarian has the right to make a proposal, first discuss it in the group, think it is feasible, and then bring it to the general assembly to discuss ......."

"The third item of the parliament is to put forward a plan for next year's development, especially the arrangement of funds, such as whether to increase investment in education, where new schools need to be built, or where roads need to be built, houses need to be built, and even foreign trade in the Wufeng Islands, etc."

He set the tone for the future conduct of the Parliament, and of course this could be changed, but no one can raise any objections at the moment.

Everyone felt that this council was a little fresh, similar to the usual chatter, everyone had the opportunity to speak freely, and their hearts were also active, thinking that they would one day be able to participate in the management of the Wufeng Islands, it was inevitable that they would be a little excited.

Zhen Qian sat down and listened quietly, he is not the protagonist today, he is attending as a special guest, this is also what he strongly requests, the smaller his influence, the less his influence is, and when he leaves, the function of the council can really play a role, if he speaks, the council will definitely become a hall of words, which is not what he wants to see!

(End of chapter)