The Lantern Festival is also a big festival that Song people attach great importance to. Before and after the Lantern Festival, lanterns are displayed everywhere, and everyone looks at the lanterns. Most of them gather in the Daxiangguo Temple.
Colorful ropes are pulled over the market to hang "street lights", there are also "light bridges" on the moat, and "light poles" as high as several dozen feet. The types of these lanterns are all kinds of strange, and there are all kinds of materials and shapes, and they have exerted the wisdom of the people of the time.
Ouyang Xiu has a famous poem, the first sentence is: Last year on the night of the new year, the flower market was lit like day.
How many lights are there during the Lantern Festival? It turned the night of Bianjing into the same day.
Fireworks are also very important entertainment. At this time, there are already many kinds of fireworks, and the big ones can be set off into the sky. The little ones can teach children to hold them in their hands, and put them in various shapes such as pear flowers, apricot flowers, chrysanthemums, etc., which adds light to the night in Bianjing.
Yun Yan agreed early that if Shuang Yi learned to cook well, she would take her to watch the lanterns during the Lantern Festival.
On the fifteenth day, Shuang Yi was able to make steamed buns without filling, and because of his strong hands, the noodles were well-blended, and he was particularly muscular. Zheng Ping saw hope and was willing to let her out.
The Lantern Festival lasted for five days and sixteen nights, and women went out to get sick. Walking together in the streets, walking to the city gate, and touching the nails on the gate, the implication is to eliminate all diseases. At the same time, beautifully dressed women go shopping together, which is also a time to show their charm.
Therefore, on the 16th night of the first lunar month, Yunyan went home and acted separately. Zheng Ping went to visit Baiji, Fu Yunfeng wanted to take Xiaobao to see Baixi, and Yunyan returned to take Shuangyi to see the lanterns.
The Lantern Festival’s five-day lights are described in a poem one by one, saying that on the first day, the lights on the night of the thirteenth were “Newly Putting Hua Deng to Connect Nine Moments”, on the fourteenth night, “the lights became more and more gentle”, and on the fifteenth night. "Nine Qu lanterns are burning in the sky", Sixteen Nights is "the first time to see the old traditions of lanterns", and on the last day of Seventeenth Nights, the lamps should be burned down, that is, "Try to see that burning lamps are like daylight".
That is to say, today is a good time to watch the lanterns on the last day, in addition to the old customs and diseases.
Yun Yanhui took Shuangyi to the lamp market, only to see that the lights were bright everywhere, she chose a lotus lantern for Shuangyi and held it in her hand. This is the bamboo split and tied with hemp ropes, bent into the shape of lotus petals, pasted with paper, lit up with lights, and placed next to them as decorations.
Shuang Yi also has a girlish heart at these times. Looking at the new lamps researched this year, he will be smiling.
Although Yun Yanhui was younger than her, her temperament was much more mature. When the two walked together, people who didn't know the inside story would think they were a well-matched couple, and cast envious glances.
And those who knew each other knew that they were two brothers and sisters traveling together.
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Today, the Nine Sons and Mother Hall of the Daxiangguo Temple and the East and West Pagodas are all lit with candles, and there are also many music booths.
In fact, the largest shed is for the royal family. Every year on the Lantern Festival, officials and officials of the royal family will visit the Daxiangguo Temple to watch the lanterns and have fun with the people. Today is the sixteenth, the official family has been here for a day, and will not come tonight, but the shed is definitely still there, and other nobles of the clan will use it.
Yun Yanhui was thinking, on such a day, I wonder if Zhao Yunchu will come. Most of these years, his family avoided him. After all, the prince was "sick", and the princess came once or twice, and if she came, she would bring Zhao Yunchu with her.
Thinking of this, Zhao Yunchu really appeared.
There were many people on the Lantern Festival, Yun Yanhui heard someone calling her, and when she looked back, she saw Zhao Yunchu's smiling face in the crowd. The two looked at each other, and Yun Yan waved back to him.
Zhao Yunchu took some effort to get through the crowd, followed by a servant. At this time, he could see that he was also carrying a sheepskin lamp in his hand, thinking that he was struggling to protect the lamp just now.
This thin sheepskin is engraved with the characters of the Three Kingdoms, and the light inside is softly reflected, making the pattern clear, which is a very labor-intensive lamp.
Shuang Yi looked at Zhao Yunchu, but jokingly said, "Are you coming to return our brother Yan's scarf?"
On the first day of the new year, Yun Yanhui lent Zhao Yunchu the scarf and umbrella, but he never had time to return it to Yunyan back home, so Shuang Yi said this.
The scarf was now hanging around Zhao Yunchu's neck. He touched it and said, "Yes, I forgot to bring the umbrella."
"Forget it, it's just an umbrella." Yun Yan waved back, "Did you come two days ago? Where's the princess?"
"My mother didn't come, and I didn't come two days ago. I still don't watch the lights in my house this year. I came out by myself." Zhao Yunchu said, "I didn't expect to see Brother Yan as soon as I came here. It's really fate."
Yun Yan replied relaxedly: "Then let's swim together."
Shuang Yi smiled and said nothing. What is the fate? The Lantern Festival Grand Xiangguo Temple is full of people, but if you can recognize Brother Yan from the crowd, it is really fate.
The servant opened the way in front, and the three walked side by side to admire the lights.
Zhao Yunchu asked, "Brother Yan, why don't you see the lantern in your hand?"
Even Shuangyi's hand is the most common lotus lantern.
"I didn't see anything I liked." When Yun Yanhui was in modern times, he also liked to play when he was a child. At that time, many of them were plastic electronic lights. In fact, they are far less interesting than today's lights, but he has passed his age.
"Let's buy one, come to the lamp market to see the lights, why not buy one." Zhao Yunchu said, "Which one do you like, I'll give it to you."
In front of the bright lights, there are people performing a hundred operas. The performers climbed to the top along the bamboo poles and hung the lights on them, winning bursts of applause.
Yun Yanhui's gaze wandered above blankly for a while, and when she saw a series of animals among the street lamps, she pointed to the bear lamp and said, "That one looks good."
It's good, it's good, but it's for decoration. If you want to buy it, I don't know where to find it in the light market.
Shuang Yi urged: "Let's take this one off."
Zhao Yunchu: "How can I take this off! Alas, I asked the little servant to find out where to sell it."
"Wait, you can't take it off, it doesn't mean that others can't take it off." Shuang Yi stopped him, rubbed his hands, and glanced at the surrounding furnishings, knowing what to expect.
Shuang Yi took a few steps to the side, and without running, he climbed the lamp pole and jumped up, jumped up and grabbed the eaves of the second floor in the middle, and turned up with his waist up, and then passed the street lamp lightly like a flying swallow. walking on the rope.
The people below were suddenly in an uproar, and they all stopped and looked up at her.
Not far away, the performer who played Baixi had just climbed to the top, but found that there was no cheering. Looking back, everyone was looking at the little lady who was stepping on the rope at a higher place.
The little lady took a lamp and did not go back the same way, but jumped directly from the two-story building, her body was as light as a leaf, and after landing, the lamp in her hand shook a few times. But it is not extinct.
After a while of silence, the onlookers cheered loudly!
Shuang Yi took a few steps to Yun Yanhui quite proudly, handed him the lamp, and smiled at Zhao Yunchu again.
Yun Yan took the lamp back, unable to hide her smile, "See what you can do."
Shuang Yi made a face, and turned around and clasped his fists at the enthusiastic onlookers.
Yun Yan went back to look at Zhao Yunchu, but found that the child's eyes were all red, and he was speechless, "Why are you crying?"
"I didn't cry." Zhao Yunchu said with a cry.
Yunyan replied: "..."
Zhao Yunchu is sad! He made a big talk and bought any lamp Yan Geer wanted. In the end, Shuangyi lost face in front of Yan Geer.
Yun Yanhui also figured out the joints, and felt that these two were like children, especially Zhao Yunchu, how could he only grow taller and not have a heart, so he said, "You bow your head."
Zhao Yunchu lowered his head and asked, "Why..."
Yun Yan raised her hand and rubbed his eyes, "Look at your poor energy, can you compare to Shuang Yi? She has been practicing martial arts since she was a child, and she climbed up and down." Fu Yunfeng also highly praised him, even in his martial arts hall, no one can match Shuangyi.
Zhao Yunchu felt Brother Yan's fingertips rubbing lightly on his eyelids, so he took advantage of the situation and said coquettishly, "Blow your eyes."
Yun Yanhui flicked on his forehead, "It's not sand, what are you blowing, are you a little girl?"
Unexpectedly, Brother Yan's tender moment was so short, Zhao Yunchu didn't dare to act like a demon anymore, he stood beside Yun Yanhui and said with a smile, "Brother Yan, I'll help you carry the lantern."
He took the bear lantern from Yun Yanhui's hand, and was so diligent that the little servant wanted to cover his face when he saw it.
Yun Yan returned to take them to swim to the middle of the moon, and wanted to send Zhao Yunchu back.
Who knew that Zhao Yunchu would not leave, "Brother Yan, let me spend the night at your house. My eldest brother is always singing every night recently. My yard is next to him, so I can't sleep because of the noise."
Shuang Yi: "I don't have any spare rooms in my house."
Yun Yanhui also said, "If you don't have anything to spend at my house, you don't want to go back to the place where you sleep with Zen Master. Your mother will definitely allow it."
Zhao Yunchu, however, sighed and said: "Just sleep for one night... It's the holiday, brother Yan... Sister Shuangyi, please..."
Yun Yan looked back at him with a stern face. Although Zhao Yunchu forcibly held hands and leaned on his shoulders, he was a clingy child who worshipped him, but he was not clingy enough to sleep in their house.
Zhao Yunchu snapped his fingers and said, "I met Zheng Ling a few days ago when I was celebrating the festival in the palace. He said that he slept with Brother Yan on the fifth day of the new year..."
For this reason, Yunyan replied. Zhao Yunchu and Zheng Ling have always disliked each other, and occasionally they would compare each other, but it is really naive when compared to this. Besides, Zheng Ling is his cousin, but Zhao Yunchu is not.
So Yunyan said coldly, "I want to sleep in the donkey shed outside."
It made Zhao Yunchu so sad, and suddenly the whole person shriveled.
But either way, there is no way to do it. Just when Zhao Yunchu's heart was cut by a knife, a group of submerged fire teams passed by. There were buckets and other things in their hands. There were so many people that Zhao Yunchu couldn't dodge and collided with each other.
Zhao Yunchu was fine, but the man flew out, the bucket in his hand spilled, and the water splashed on Zhao Yunchu.
"Ow!" The man screamed in pain, and when he got up, he had to apologize to Zhao Yunchu. He poured water all over his body in the cold weather, and he knew how uncomfortable it was. His captain was already calling him, so he had to pick up the bucket and continue running.
This submerged fire team is the fire brigade of Bianjing. The houses in Beijing are mostly brick and wood structures. Once a fire breaks out, the losses will be heavy. There have been several fires before, so they attach great importance to fire prevention and fire fighting, and there are submerged fire teams on duty from time to time. , patrolling, and building a fire-proof building to observe the fire in time and detect the fire in time.
Now that the Lantern Festival is lit everywhere, it is a period of high incidence of fires. The Submersible Fire Team is at its busiest time, wondering where the fire is again, and to fight the fire.
Zhao Yunchu was also unlucky. His servant was so anxious that he jumped and was pulled away by Yun Yan. He took off his coat and put it on Zhao Yunchu, asking Shuang Yi to carry him and go back to his house.
There is hot water at home all the time, not far from here. With Shuangyi's skill, it didn't take long for Zhao Yunchu to arrive. He quickly told him to take off his wet and cold clothes and soaked in boiling water to ward off the cold.
By the time Yun Yan returned one step late, Zhao Yunchu was already sitting in the bathtub.
Shuang Yi was still trying to cook Hu spicy soup, when Yun Yanhui saw her face changed greatly, "Okay, I'll come..."
Shuang Yi let go angrily, "Tell him to taste my craft."
You want Zhao Yunchu's life, what a grudge?
Yun Yan thought back to herself that fortunately, Zhao Yunchu didn't know the inside story, and now she might still be impressed that Sister Shuangyi is actually a good person.
Zhao Yunchu shouted weakly inside: "Brother Yan, can you come in..."
Yun Yan walked back in, "Why?"
Zhao Yunchu: "I'm afraid alone."
Yun Yanhui didn't believe it at all, "You don't need to be afraid of reading Duanjing yourself."
"..." Zhao Yunchu was speechless and had to be silent.
Because Zhao Yunchu was bigger than him, Yun Yan went back to find a set of Fu Yunfeng's clothes, and after Zhao Yunchu finished washing and told him to put them on, they barely fit, and then drink a bowl of hot Hu spicy soup to drive off the cold.
During this period, Zheng Ping, Fu Yunfeng, and Xiaobao all came back, indicating that it was sleet outside.
It was raining heavily this night, Zhao Yunchu looked at Yun Yanhui with tears in his eyes, and didn't want to go back, Zheng Ping couldn't bear it anymore, so Yun Yanhui had to stay with him for the night.
Zhao Yunchu happily sent the little servant back by himself, and by the way told the mansion that he was frozen and would go back after a night's rest.