Due to express delivery, the time for the book's name change will be delayed. If it is expected that normal, it will be officially renamed "The Leisure Tang Dynasty". At that time, please don't be surprised if you can't find the book. The most important thing is not to forget to subscribe, dear!

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As time goes by, compared with modern time and space, the New Year atmosphere in the time and space of the Tang Dynasty has become much more revived.

As the New Year was getting closer and closer, without Li Anran’s instructions, Wang Youde, as the housekeeper, had already begun to direct his servants and prepare for the New Year.

There was no custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets in the Tang Dynasty. It was often written with peach wood boards on the two names of Shentu and Yulei, which were hung at the head of the door, and were called "Xianmu" or "Tao Fu".

Legend has it that Shentu and Yulei were brothers, "played with ghosts" and lived under a peach tree. During the Five Dynasties, Meng Chang of the Later Shu wrote an inscription on the peach talisman, "New Year greets Yuqing, Jia Festival is called Changchun". It is said that this is the first spring couplet. Later, "peach talisman" became an alias for the spring couplet.

In fact, there was no saying about the Spring Festival during the Zhenguan period. According to the festival tradition of the Tang Dynasty at that time, the last day of each year was separated from the first day of each year. The end of the year was called the expiration of the year, and the beginning of the year was called the New Year's Day.

Before New Year's Eve, people try to rush home to reunite with their relatives. On New Year's Eve, the whole family reunites and feasts, drinks the peppercorn wine to drive away the cold and remove dampness, that is, put the peppercorns on a plate, and put a little into the cup when drinking. After the banquet, the whole family sits around the brazier until dawn, which is called "Shouqing".

Du Fu once wrote a poem saying: "A Rong's family stayed at the age of the year, and the pepper plate was already praising the flowers." Dong Sigong's poem says: "For this, we have a happy banquet, and we are waiting for the dawn." Chu Guangxi's poem says: "The door is closed and the fire is burning until the morning." It describes the scene of the banquet and the holiday.

There is also a superstitious ritual to drive away the plague on New Year's Eve. It is called "nuo" (nuo, pronounced Ruono) or "Da Nuo". This is an activity passed down from ancient times. There is a record of "Nuo people in the Analects of Confucius".

On this day, the Tang people selected boys, wore terrifying masks, red and black clothes, and danced to drive away ghosts. The leading dancer was called "Fang Xiangshi", the accompanying dancer was called "天子", and there were twelve other deacons. The "Nuo sound is to get rid of the epidemic" (Yao He), and "replaced as Nuo Xian children" (Xu Xuan), which refers to this kind of activity.

The royal family of the Tang Dynasty will hold a grand "Da Nuo" ceremony on this day. The number of people reaches more than 500. Shen Quanqi's poem "Shouqing Sui" says: "The lanterns in the palace compete for fire, and the sons in the palace drive away monsters." Wang Jian has a more detailed description: "The name of the Nuo is in the late night, and four teams of painting trousers and red clothes are walking. The lanterns in the courtyard are like the day, and the agarwood sits and blows the sheng."

The same is true for the New Year in later generations. On New Year's Eve, the whole family and the young and old had to gather together to eat, drink, play and sleep. This is the "New Year's Eve" custom that has been passed down to this day.

People in the Tang Dynasty liked to live in large families. If there were elderly people of higher generations, not only the old people's immediate children and grandchildren, but also the younger brothers, nephews, married sisters, and nephews who had already started a family gathered together to reunite and stay together for the New Year. In the customs of the Tang Dynasty, the elders had to drink later, and the last drinker was called "blue tail".

When the hour of the year comes, bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. People get up one after another. The younger generation bows to the elders, and the slaves bow to the masters, and everyone wants to say auspicious words to greet New Year. Men mainly knelt down on their knees. The time, number of times, and body posture depend on the status of the two parties who bow.

The formal etiquette of women is called "Suhou". In the early Tang Dynasty, "Suhou" was to kneel on the ground first. Then hold your fists in front of your chest and bow your hands or fold them, and your body and head lowered slightly forward. The movement was not large. After Wuzhou, the "Suhou" ceremony for women in Tang Dynasty was simpler than before. There was no need to kneel on the ground, just stand and bend forward and bow down.

On the second day, the first day of the New Year, commonly known as the New Year. People in the Tang Dynasty liked socializing and lively. Every household in Chang'an City held a banquet on the first day of the first lunar month, and neighbors greeted each other. To a certain extent, it can be said that they went to whoever they had eaten. There is also a special name called "Shutchao".

Shortly after New Year's Day, the "Bird of Spring" is the "Five Pin Pan" that will be eaten on this day. It is composed of five kinds of vegetables with spicy smell to divert the aging energy in the five internal organs. In addition, there are gum-toothed oats, cypress and tusu wine, which are also traditional foods and beverages.

On the day of the beginning of spring, the Tang people also had the custom of wearing swallows cut in colorful silk and pasting phrases on the door, which was called "Yichun". People with some literary talent in their belly would write a poem and paste it on the door lintel, which had the same meaning as the Spring Festival couplets in later generations.

Li Anran was not impatient with the habits and traditions introduced by the old butler Wang Youde. On the contrary, this tradition with a strong historical and humanistic atmosphere became more and more interesting the more he listened to it.

For this reason, Li Anran also deliberately imitated it in modern time and space. Unfortunately, there is only one person in modern time and space, and Wei Yuanyuan is only two. Even if he makes some arrangements and arrangements, he can't get the taste of Xiaoyao Villa.

Since Xiaoyao Villa doesn't need to ask anything by themselves, and because nearly two years ago, whether they were visiting each other to get in touch or helping doctors and asking for medicine, they stopped wisely. Li Anran, who was bored, simply spent most of her time in modern time and space, and took Wei Yuanyuan to purchase for the New Year.

What Li Anran didn't expect was that Hu Jing, who originally thought she would stay in France to celebrate the New Year with her mysterious brother-in-law, actually returned to Nanjing a week in advance and contacted herself as soon as possible.

Seeing that it was originally only two people who could celebrate the New Year, it was very deserted, but now there was one more person, and it could be said that he was his closest sister, Li Anran was in a very happy mood.

Although there was only one more person, the house became more lively. Hu Jing and Wei Yuanyuan chattered and expressed their opinions on the New Year, while busy inside and outside the house. The originally faint New Year atmosphere became more interesting invisibly.

Three people rode together a SUV with a large trunk capacity, which kept appearing between major shopping malls and wholesale markets. Even many things were worth it and were bought back. It was not a luxury or waste, but just a pleasure.

Moreover, a large part of these things can be given as gifts when you look back. For Li Anran, who has a net worth of billions, it is not a waste at all.

In addition to eating, drinking, dressing, and dressing, there are naturally no missing items such as fireworks, lanterns and other items that are indispensable during the New Year. These things were not bought in the market, but were taken by Li Anran to a market that was held in the county before the New Year. As a result, not only were there many useful and useless things bought, but the belly of the three people in the group was filled with special snacks from all over the market.

The only thing I didn’t buy were window grilles and couplets, which was not that I was reluctant to let go but that I looked down on them. After buying the right red paper, Hu Jing and Wei Yuanyuan each had a pair of scissors, and they quickly cut out a bunch of window grilles that were both beautiful and auspicious.

As for couplets, Li Anran, who was well-written, naturally disdained to use the batch-made goods, but instead took out good pens, good inkstones and inks from the time and space of the Tang Dynasty, and wrote them by hand.

But unexpectedly, this writing has a little "trouble".

When the villagers found that the couplets posted outside the Li family compound were not only auspicious and festive, but also the characters were better than those bought from the market. First, some villagers with good relationships came to ask for words, and finally, they developed to the point where everyone in the village came to ask for words.

PS: Due to express delivery, the time for the book’s name change will be delayed. If it is expected that normal, it will be officially renamed "The Leisure Tang Dynasty". At that time, please don’t be surprised if you find the book. The most important thing is not to forget to subscribe, dear!
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