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Daqin, Nanjing.

The first day of the Lunar New Year is called New Year's Day, or New Year's Day.

On this day, the emperor and empress were the most tired, and they had to get up in the middle of the night.

On the morning of the first day of the new year, all dynasties and dynasties have to hold ceremonial activities for the emperor and the queen of the emperor, and the prince, prince and their concubines must also congratulate the emperor and the queen mother respectively.

In the locality, there is also the etiquette of "the world's big and small yamen worship the que", that is, on the day of the New Year's Day, in addition to the Beijing officials, the officials of various large and small yamen offices across the country wear official uniforms and go to the yamen where they are located to hold the ceremony of "looking at the que and congratulating".

Officials danced and chanted, performed 14 prostrations, and verbally congratulated the Son of Heaven on the New Year. After the court and local officials finished the pilgrimage and wangque ceremony, they also interacted with each other and performed the "New Year's greeting" ceremony.

In the palace, on the morning of New Year's Day, five watches should burn incense and set off paper cannons, and there are custom activities such as "falling a thousand gold", "drinking pepper and cypress wine", "eating dumplings" and so on.

Sometimes silver money is put on bread in flat food, and those who eat it are a sign of good fortune in the coming year. On that day, the people in the palace greet each other to congratulate each other, which is called the New Year.

In the people, sometimes because of the New Year's greetings everywhere, the doppelganger lacks skills, so some places that do not have to come to the door in person will use the name post to congratulate.

Since the Ming Dynasty, the wind of casting names to celebrate the New Year has spread all over the town, so many people have posted a red paper bag on the door, on which is written the owner's surname, called "door book", in order to accept the name sticker.

The folk also pass the New Year's Day in the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors, and then worship the parents, relatives and friends worship each other, make pepper and cypress wine, and relatives and neighbors are good, etc., there are generally "Wangbai", "Xingchun", "Festival Gao", "Baishiji" and other festive decorations in the house.

In addition, due to the different conditions in different places, the customs of each place also have significant local characteristics. Since New Year's Day, various entertainment activities have been launched in various places. In the first month, the folk have daily entertainment activities such as walking the bridge, touching nails, beating the Taiping drum, dancing a hundred ropes, playing a big-headed monk, fighting ghosts, touching shrimps, catapulting, and walking.

In the market, restaurants and tea shops, rural wild markets, village heads and alleys, the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze warms, and the festive atmosphere permeates the north and south of the river. In such a liking atmosphere, people can't help but count the tremendous changes in all aspects of Daqin over the years.

I don't know if I don't count, I count it. Everyone couldn't help but feel emotional.

Looking back, it has only been a few years, and the Jurchen Tartars, which once made the whole world smell and change, seem to have become a distant legend and have been erased from the entire earth. The bandits and bandits that once filled the land are now gone.

Think about it, five or six years ago, there were still fires all over the world, and people were displaced. Hungry and cold, selling sons and daughters, eating different children, and exposing white bones in the wild. There is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles.

Look at the present, the fields are not finished, the cattle and sheep are full of slopes, and new crops are being promoted. It is also to make the granary of every family solid, rich in food and clothing, and the Son of Heaven implements free education. Let the children of ordinary families at the bottom also have the opportunity to go to school.

In the northwest, in order to protect the ecology of the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River, the government has even provided subsidies to families who build reinforced concrete houses, and new, bright small buildings have risen from the ground.

All over the country, flat asphalt roads are extending at an incomparably magical speed, just like the big arteries on Daqin's body, with blood rushing

Many people in the north, on the occasion of the New Year, also ate fresh vegetables in the greenhouse, which in the past, but only the royal family and nobles had the opportunity to enjoy the winter food.

Steam engines drove huge spinning machines, factories were rumbling, truckloads of goods, and newly built avenues were galloping.

The imperial court's policy of vigorously encouraging industry and commerce, coupled with the prosperity of maritime trade, led to the emergence of domestic factories and workshops.

No matter how poor a person is, he can also be "distributed" to his daughter-in-law from the government and give birth to a third child, and the government will not only provide you with food, but also go to school for free, and even get an additional reward of ten acres of land.

Government hospitals have been set up in all counties, and the Son of Heaven has decreed that all infectious diseases will be treated free of charge. Like smallpox vaccines and stuff, you can't get it if you don't want to.

In the past few years, the Son of Heaven has twice reduced taxes for the people, and there are rumors in Nanjing that if the current pilot of the medical insurance system in six counties is not successful, the Son of Heaven will reduce taxes again for all the households.

In terms of science and technology, all kinds of novelties are endless, huge treasure ships have been built, the speed of flying clippers is amazing, cement has been made, rubber has been refined, gliders have flown into the sky, generators, batteries, electric lights have been developed, and even realized "thousands of miles of sound", a telegram, can instantly transmit the news thousands of miles away, in short, all kinds of fresh scientific and technological achievements make people dizzy, marvel at endless changes.

Enjoying the days of abundant food and clothing, enjoying a life of peace and contentment, can you imagine that five or six years ago, the entire land of China was still full of corpses and bones, hungry people everywhere, and different children were eating?

Thinking back to these, everyone is like a dream, pinching their thighs, it hurts, it can be determined, this is not a dream, continue to be happy

All in all, Zheng Daqin is trapped in a sea of joy at this time. Especially in Nanjing, the imperial capital, it goes without saying, everywhere is full of lights and flowers.

The roads in the city could not be widened, but in terms of the planning of the outer corridors, some of the newly paved asphalt roads were up to 100 meters wide, and the narrowest ones were 20 meters wide, so they were straight and smooth.

The current outline, all the streets on both sides, according to the unified planning to build a brand new reinforced concrete building, but also make the eaves and arches, glazed tile roof, is the antique appearance. The original scene of Xianmo was gradually replaced by bustling streets.

In addition, a large area of green land is set aside, so that the whole outline looks like the city is in the landscape, the landscape is in the city, now in these "parks", flowers are in full bloom, green bamboo, plantain in rows, all kinds of wonderful performances, it is the most favorite place for the people in the city, often a whole family with the old and the young come, the children fly kites in the open space, the ladies play in the grass, and the scholars who enter Beijing to take the exam exchange knowledge between the flower and tree pavilions

The hawkers were pushing carts or carrying burdens, and their shouting was completely different from that of later generations, but with a musical beat, which sounded very charming.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the Son of Heaven put aside all his affairs and drove to Nanjing Institute of Technology, where he personally held a grand ceremony for the Royal Science Prize.

The winners of the first Daqin Royal Science Award are Huang Sheng and Li Yi of the Internal Supervision R&D Department.

Li Yi is only fifteen years old this year, because of the invention of the electromagnet, which in turn promoted the emergence of the telegraph, so that Daqin's information transmission has made historic progress, with this invention, although he is only fifteen years old, and he is only the son of a craftsman, but he successfully won the first Daqin Royal Science Award.

Needless to say, the improvement of the textile machine has made revolutionary progress in the textile industry of Daqin, and the invention and application of generators, batteries, electric light guns, and telegraphs, although Qin Mu provided a theoretical basis, but without him, I am afraid that these things will not be invented soon. Taken together, he deserves to win the first Daqin Royal Science Award.

The prize money for the Royal Science Prize is 10,000 dragon coins, which is definitely a huge amount of money that can make people crazy. It's enough for you to live a life of abundance for the rest of your life.

And there is also a royal gold medal, with this medal, you can enjoy a lot of national benefits in Daqin, such as traveling can enjoy the hospitality of the post house, you can go directly to the emperor, you can go in and out of the royal library at will to consult materials, and you can receive free medical treatment from the state.

In short, there are many benefits of all kinds. And it was awarded by the emperor himself, which represented the highest honor.

It can be said that this is more glorious than being admitted to the top prize.

The establishment of this award was opposed by many ministers of the DPRK and China, but the funds were paid by the Son of Heaven himself, and the ministers could not manage it if they wanted to. The selection of this year's science award is also handled by the Son of Heaven alone.

You have to object, unless you can pull the Son of Heaven off the dragon chair, then you have to have the ability to do it. (To be continued......)