Chapter 137 Lost civilization

Zhao Xing looked at the Shu Party and Luo Party officials standing on both sides of the stage, and sighed softly.

Today's Xiyuan rally was a performance. Zhao Xing carefully planned for more than 20 days, and after repeated rehearsals, the first program to open in this dress-up performance caters to the taste of Lu Dafang - a rural drinking ceremony. With the faint sound of silk and bamboo, a group of Japanese girls with fake beards stepped forward in two pairs to imitate the courtesy and respectful recitation of the elderly in the countryside.

The whole process of verbal resignation is a process of asking each other about age, family background, and sorting by age. The oldest of them are given to the first seat, and the rest are sorted in order according to age. The Japanese girl's movements are strictly according to the Zhou Li record, and every move shows the harmony of the villagers.

Then the "Wine Transmission" was carried out, and local officials - in Japan, the King of the Japanese - held a glass of wine, started to toast from the first seat, and then passed it down one by one. Every time they arrived at someone, there would be some blessings...

The atmosphere at the scene was solemn and solemn. Zhao Xing stood on the stage to direct the actor. He heard someone talking softly behind him: "This rural drinking ceremony is still recorded in the Han Dynasty. For example, Liu Bang, the Emperor of Han, invited the rural drinking ceremony to hold the rural drinking ceremony, and made a "Song of the Wind" on the table - the wind blows and the clouds are flying, how can the warriors guard the four directions...

After the Han Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, this ceremony declined. However, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty also held a rural drinking ceremony... The first time in this dynasty to promote rural drinking ceremony was the credit of our Luo School, Guanzhong Neo-Confucianism..."

The person who spoke was unknown, but at the end, Qin Guan said "hum", and Zhao Xing said without looking back: "What I performed today is Zhou Li, and the stage teaches gentleness and dunmu. Who dares to be noisy and uneasy at this time? Believe it or not, I will beat him with a peach blossom on his face!"

Zhao Xing's words were actually directed at Qin Guan. Qin Guan heard his anger and realized that what he had done just now was inappropriate and did not say anything. But the man who was talking quietly just now did not know what was good and let out a heavy "hum" to show contempt. In response to this "hum", Zhao Xing's answer was to slowly raise the knife in his hand.

When the Sumen disciples came today, they all wore the "Baizhong (Tang) armor" neatly, looking heroic - because they would cooperate with the Japanese to perform the archery meter later. Zhao Xing was especially well equipped. His knife raised his hand and felt like an angry bull. Although he did not turn around, the people behind him had already felt Zhao Xing's seriousness and had begun to move secretly under his feet.

"Don't make noise in the audience!" Lu Dafang on the stage saw that the momentum was wrong, and shouted. He stared at Zhao Xing deeply, who shrugged and put down his hand holding the knife indifferently - from beginning to end, his knife was not sheathed, so it looked like he was waving a wooden stick to shout.

Among the Su family disciples, Qin Guan likes to cause trouble the most, but he knows Zhao Xing best. He knows that if the other party gets angry, he will be ruthless and no one can persuade him. He has done this wrong, and it is useless to make a big fortune, so he quietly moves a few steps and starts to concentrate on watching the performance. He is quiet. Among the Su family disciples, no one else is as leaping away as Qin Guan. Su Shi nods gently when he is on the stage and does not show up.

After the dispute subsided, Lu Dafang on the stage felt embarrassed. He shook his head slowly and said to himself to the others on the stage: "The Zhou Li is no longer here - people are performing a drinking ceremony in the countryside, and there is a lot of noise in the audience. Isn't it that the Japanese people are laughing at?"

Wen Yanbo was one of the famous "Three Gentlemen" in ancient China. He and the ancients Guo Youdao and Jie Zhitui were called "Three Sages of Jiexiu". It is said that when he was young, Wen Yanbo prepared two jars. When he did good things, he put a red bean in one jar, and when he did bad things, he put a black bean in the other jar. He checked the number of red beans and black beans every day. Over time, the number of red beans increased...

A gentleman is not to blame others easily. This gentleman is still the first person to return the territory to Xixia - he is willing to give up all the country and territory. What else can excite him? So when he was complaining about Lu Dafang, he shook his head gently, indicating that the latter should not be entangled in this topic anymore and continue to watch the show.

The drinking ceremony in the countryside ended, followed by the archery ceremony. The Koreans, Japanese, Yue and Sumen disciples took turns to show the ancient Chinese archery artifacts to the Chinese Song people. This seems a bit ridiculous, but when you think deeply, you will be sad.

After the simplicity ceremony, we followed the trend to enter the reconciliation ceremony. The stage performed the Chinese food inherited by Goryeo and Japan. The Goryeo people who came on stage started barbecuing with a charcoal stove. A group of Goryeo dancers accompanied by various instruments, including the famous Thirteen-string zheng in the Tang Dynasty - the music played was Bohai music, or Marine music. This Thirteen-string zheng is modernly called "Japanese zheng". The Goryeo barbecue technique is "roasted meat", which is called "Korean barbecue" in modern China.

At the same time, a group of Japanese people also came to the stage with tables. Their plates were filled with fragrant fish sashimi, carp sashimi, and the most famous delicacy in the Jin Dynasty - sea bass sashimi. Modern China called "sashimi" "Japanese sashimi" or "Japanese sashimi".

The Koreans and Japanese people recreate the scenes of ancient banquets on the court. The Korean dancers wore women's skirts in the Han Dynasty. This dress is called "Korean clothes" in modern times. It has a high waist, a tie, and a fat skirt. Modern China can only see its patterns in ancient tomb murals; while Japanese men wore deep-clothed skirts worn by people in the Jin Dynasty, and women wore Tang style "Twelve Singles". This kind of men's and women's clothes are called "kimono".

The two people were holding wooden clogs under their feet. Historical records: When Xie An heard the news of the victory of the Battle of Feishui in the Jin Dynasty, he excitedly broke the wooden teeth on the clogs on the threshold - the kind of clogs that Xie An wore was called "Japanese clogs" or "whe clogs" in modern China.

The two countries performed toasts from the Han and Tang dynasties at the banquet. One of them drank to the bottom of the house, and the Japanese came to dance and invited their companions to dance together. It was recorded in "The Three Kingdoms" that Tao Qian also invited people to dance like this at the banquet. This shows that in the Three Kingdoms era, this kind of inviting dance etiquette still existed in China, but in the Song Dynasty, even the knowledgeable Su Shi did not know the existence of this kind of dance.

The Japanese called this dance "Han Dance" in the Song Dynasty, and the Chinese called it "Japanese Candidate" in modern times; the Tang music accompanied by it was called "Mihe Music" in Japan at that time, Bohai Music, and Tang Music, but we call it "Japanese Candidate" in modern times; the Tang music displayed by the dancers was already untold in the Song Dynasty at that time, and modern China called it "Japanese Candidate".

The Japanese were dancing, while the Koreans performed Tang hands—the thing called "Taitbox Do" in modern times—they sang in unison: "You ask about my customs, my customs are the most pure; the Tang system of clothing, rituals and music of the Han monarchs and ministers..."

Fortunately, there was no rebuke from "Har, Japan, Ha, and South Korea" in the Song Dynasty, so the princes of the Political Affairs Hall watched with appreciation and admiration. They were conquered by their own civilization, and even the ministers in the audience were addicted to it and temporarily forgot to fight.

The Goryeo Japanese retreated, and the Vietnamese were following the show. The Vietnamese showed architectural art. The county magistrate Li Yuan came from Vietnam and brought a group of skilled craftsmen. They presented them with stacks of architectural drawings, carved beams and painted columns, and exquisitely...

However, it seemed a bit early for him to display architectural art in the Song Dynasty. China lost the technology of building large buildings after the Mongolian invasion. However, Li Yuan's display of this technology was specially arranged by Zhao Xing. After listing the lost culture, Zhao Xing asked the Vietnamese to present the architectural technology of the Han and Tang dynasties. It has to be said that this is a metaphor.

Unfortunately, people on the stage couldn't understand this metaphor. Instead, Lu Dafang found an opportunity to attack. He complained dissatisfiedly to Su Dongpo: "What did you do with your apprentice? Why did you let the Jiaozhi people present a bunch of messy things? Jin Mingchi is still open. Ask your apprentice to lead this group of Jiaozhi people around Jin Mingchi, seeing that they are still embarrassed to come here to show off... Such skills are so embarrassed to take it out."

The Vietnamese skilled craftsman retreated speechlessly. Then the Vietnamese kabuki team came up... The first one to play was a 40-person team. They held two sticks and hung their waists, dancing and hitting the waist drums while walking. The sound was simple and cool, like the old man of history gradually progressing, awakening the awe hidden in everyone's genes.

Su Shi on the stage introduced very knowledgeably: "This is the music of a stick and drum. Nowadays, people often beat drums just by beating, and there is little solo. However, when playing drums in ancient music, both ends of the drums were used to express the meaning of the music, which was called "scepter and drum music". This music still existed in the Tang Dynasty. It is rumored that "The King of Qin Breaking the Array" was the last music of a stick and drum. Many people have not heard of it now. This music..."

When Su Shi said this, he called Zhao Xing and asked: "This joy is even simple and ancient. It must be an ancient relic. Why is this joy?"

Zhao Xing's face was filled with sadness that seemed almost despair. He was so decadent that he whispered: "Teacher, this... is... "Huangdi Yan"."

With a "boom", the seats on the stage fell down, and even the oldest Lu Gongzhu stood up and asked in surprise: "Is it "Yellow Emperor Yan"? Are you sure?"

"Yan" is a type of melody, or "Salt". Tang verses include "Turkic Salt" and "A Que Salt". Therefore, the stick drum music is also called "Yan stick and salt stick".

It is said that the origin of "Yellow Emperor Yan" is longer than oracle bone inscriptions. It is rumored that it originated in ancient times and was the national initial sound of the Yanhuang nation that praised the ancestors of its own nation. In the Hongmeng era, our primitive ancestors simply used drum sounds to play their respect for the ancestors of the nation. This sound passed through the thousand-year sky and recorded the history of the origin of our nation... But now, even the most knowledgeable Su Shi does not know this "the initial sound of the nation".

For a nation, what kind of sorrow is more desperate than this!

Our nation is the best nation to praise. Even if the earthquake is killed, it will be praised as "even if you are a ghost, you will be happy!", but even the "Yellow Emperor Yan" which praises the origin of the Yanhuang nation is lost...

Now, the Vietnamese started singing, and they sang while drumming:

"First take the twelve states in Shanxi,

Others will beat the head of the yamen.

Looking back at Qin Sai as low as a horse,

The Yellow River flows northward.”

He sang again, "The power of heaven passes through the Yellow River,

The Han songs are all over the world.

Don't be able to flow backwards from mountains,

From the teachings to the west, I will be the Enbo.”

Sing again "The ponytail huqin follows the han car,

The song still complains to the Shanyu.

Don't shoot the geese in the clouds with a bent bow,

The return goose now does not register the books..."

Su Shi still murmured on the stage: "This is the old song of "Zhezhi". He used Yongliang military songs in the Han Dynasty. He used Jie drum as the sound of the Tang Dynasty, so he was called "Jie Gu Lu". The song is called "Huntujie". There are still singers in Qinliang area to this day..."

Mr. Lu pointed to the group of Vietnamese, and his voice trembled: "Stay, keep them, let them leave the song before leaving... "Yellow Emperor Yan"! Our emperor is powerful and his martial arts are trembling. The old minister can hear this again today, wuwuwu..."

Wen Yanbo was also excited, but he was still able to control himself and persuaded: "Lu Gong, they can't leave now, so why not listen quietly and see what information they have, and look for them together!"

Next, the drum music of the drum music of Zhuang Zhou, "Dream of Butterfly in Zhuang Zhou", Bai Juyi's "Farewell to the Mother" and so on. The people on the stage listened more attentively, and Zhao Xing felt sad.

Is it useful to keep these Vietnamese?

In fact, in normal history, "Huangdi Yan" will also be passed back to the Central Plains at this time. In order to thank the Song Dynasty for its territory, Vietnam specially sent envoys to the Song Dynasty for their return. The envoys brought this musical troupe brought by Li Yuan. So "Huangdi Yan" returned to China... But this was useless - another dynasty has changed, and from then on, we will lose "Huangdi Yan" forever.

The drums were sounded less and some Vietnamese walked off the stage and carried a larger drum. A few Vietnamese left on the stage continued to sing: "You ask about my customs, my customs are the most pure; the Tang Dynasty system, the rituals and music of the Han Dynasty monarchs and ministers..."

While singing, Li Yuan personally took the drumsticks, and a group of Yue Ji followed up. With Li Yuan's drums, they sang in a simple and beautiful way with the sound of drums and sandalwood boards. The lyrics were Bai Juyi's "Pipa Song" and Li Bai's "Swordsman's Walk"...

This kind of singing method is called "Tao Niang Song" in modern times. UNESCO rated it as a "world cultural heritage" of Vietnam, "living fossil of ancient Chinese songs", and "Vietnamese". The "Tao Niang" mentioned here is a Song phila from the early Song Dynasty. She and the male phila Liao Shouzhong were successively hired to Vietnam and sang in the Vietnamese palace. From then on, the original "Sui and Tang Dynasty Yuefu Ci" singing skills were brought to Vietnam.

Therefore, "Tao Niang Song" is also called "Song Ji Song" in Vietnam. The more rigorous translation is: "Sui and Tang Dynasty Yuefu Ci"... But now it is called "Vietnamese Song Cultivation Art" and "Tao Niang Song". In modern times, if Chinese people want to hear the original "Pipa Song" of the Chinese Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi, Li Bai's "Swordsman's Walk" and Tang Le's "Zhuang Zhou Dream Butterfly", they all have to go to Vietnam because it is the national treasure of Vietnam.

Li Yuan’s drum beater on the stage was called “Chao Drum”. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the drum beater at the banquet was called “officials”. Perhaps the work itself was taken care of by officials, and the Vietnamese continued this title according to the script. This drum beater was also called “outsider”. He was not only a “outsider” who appreciated the singing and vocals, but also a “insider”, and sometimes even criticized Tao Niang on the spot with drum sounds. Therefore, when singing the musical music of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the role of drummers was the most important. Before the Tang Dynasty banquet, artists often asked each other about the official who was the drummer.

The song is full of songs in the sound of the sandalwood drums. The people below were shocked by the songs that have traveled through hundreds of years. They whispered and talked in a low voice. However, Zhao Xing couldn't help but feel sad... The cultures shown above will eventually leave Yanhuang forever. In this surging wave, is personal efforts useful?

The saddest thing in the world is: maybe we still praise the loss of this civilization...

The program on stage did not stop for Zhao Xing's sorrow, and Li Yuan next showed the brocade weaving craftsmanship.

There is an important figure in the history of Chinese textiles called Huang Daopo. She is from Hainan. About two hundred years later, she will introduce advanced Indian textile technology to the Central Plains. Her technological origin, Hainan "Li Jin", has always preserved its Song Dynasty craftsmanship to the modern era and became a expensive fossil-grade treasure. It is said that the textile technology brought by Huang Daopo was brought by immigrants from Vietnam across the sea to Hainan Island.

The silk displayed on the stage is as brilliant as clouds. Modern Vietnamese call it "Tang Jin" in murmur, and Chinese call it "Vietnamese silk".

This time, Li Yuan showed that Vietnamese silk happened to be exactly the same pattern as the Tang Dynasty ladies wore in "Picture of Lady with Flowers in the Hairpin". This silk faintly reflects layers of scales, like luminous brocade, and is covered with a layer of implicit coat on the gorgeous and gorgeous. It exudes unobtrusive humility in its gracefulness and luxury, which is suitable for the gentleman to be modest.

"Tang Jin? Is this Tang Jin?" Wen Yanbo was shocked: "I didn't expect that the Tang people could weave a colorful cloud of heaven... Tell your disciple, let the Jiaozhi people leave a weaving method - internal creation, and let the palace build a weaving workshop. Zizhan, Tang Jin, I can reappear in this life, which is worthy of my ancestors!"

Lu Gong touched his beard and said, "I am old and dying - I will do this. If I can restore Tang Jin, Shooting, Tang Yue, and hear "Huangdi Yan" and "Pipa Xing" again... This is my lifelong wish. I will make a book in the morning and die in the evening!"

What did Lu Gongzhu say? The highest ideal of scholars he mentioned is to leave a name in history. If you do this, you can leave a name in history.

Therefore, the problem now is not the question of whether or not the recovery of Zhou Lihe, but who will do it!

The officials on the stage immediately had their own ideas and started to discuss in a low voice. Zhao Xing continued to direct the "actors" to take turns to play in the audience.

The performance venue was a clearing area specially leveled in the courtyard of the Xiaowang Prince Consort Wang Shi. Several prime ministers in the Political Affairs Hall built an inch-high wooden platform, which was just a layer of wooden boards. Several officials on the wooden platform sat and watched, while the chairs of others were scattered among the turquoise stones. They either stood or sat, with a leisurely expression.

After the excitement just now subsided, the calm atmosphere returned to the scene. Everyone's attention was on watching the show. When Zhao Xing heard that there was no movement behind him, he muttered in his heart: "That's right, you have to quarrel when watching the show. What's wrong with this person? He doesn't even forget to 'struggle' when entertainment."

This performance was carefully rehearsed by Zhao Xing. In order to show his culture, guests from the Three Kingdoms also performed hard, striving to perfect every detail to reflect their Chinese heritage. The gorgeous performance costumes, meticulous plot arrangements, and regular performances, even Zhao Xing, who had watched all this many times, could not help but be fascinated by their performance at this moment.

This is culture, the culture created by the Chinese nation itself. This culture is hidden in the genes and bloodlines of every Yanhuang person, and now it is being awakened.

What is civilization? Civilization is cultural etiquette. A nation that understands etiquette is the "civilized clan" and loses etiquette...

After Yashan, do we still have the Yanhuang etiquette?

At this moment, Zhao Xing suddenly remembered the song of Israel in his heart—"""On the banks of the Babylon River,

We sat down and thought of her,

When I think of her, I can't stop crying, Ah Zion..."

The Israelites lost Zion, and they still have the right to cry, and they can cry loudly! But we...

What kind of sorrow is more solemn than this?!

Zhao Xing just wanted to cry hard in this era of qualifying pain. He wanted to shout: "My husband and mother, my clan and my sect, what did you lose?"

...

Zhao Xing, a modern man, was moved by the full set of ancient rituals, not to mention the Song people present. After watching for a while, they were also fascinated by the glory created by their own ancestors.

The praises became stronger and stronger, but life still had to continue. Zhao Xing turned his eyes to Li Gonglin and Mi Fu, as if unheard of, and the two men were writing quickly under the servitude of the new group of Japanese girls, describing the scene.

This is a grand ceremony, worth writing with heavy ink and heavy colors.

Li Gonglin and Mi Fu's brushstrokes are completely different from the original "Elegant Collection of Western Gardens". The two of them painted the luxurious paving of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Every branch and leaf, pine and stone in the West Garden are depicted in their pens like a fairyland on earth. The son-in-law Wang Shi stood behind the two of them, touching their beards with satisfaction. After this gathering, his Wang Shi and his garden will surely be passed down through the ages.

Zhao Xing slowly walked behind Li Gonglin, looked at the upcoming "Xiyuan Elegant Collection Picture" with excitement, and shouted in his heart: "I am here, I see it-I fucking love all this..."

If anyone hears his voice, he will be shocked because he has used too many modern words...

This is Zhao Xing, a person who should not have appeared in this era.

Li Gonglin had begun to polish the flaws on the picture. Zhao Xing couldn't help but stretch out his hand and shouted: "My, all mine, no one is allowed to compete with me?"

Wang Shi glanced at Zhao Xing with contempt and said proudly: "Of course this thing belongs to me in my garden. Without my instructions, let's see who dares to allow a piece of paper to leak out of the West Garden."

Zhao Xing was very respectful to Wang Shu. The other party helped him solve the trouble in the balm factory. He owed the other party a favor, but at this moment, he couldn't help but be polite, because "Xiyuan Elegant Collection Picture" is a Japanese national treasure worth billions of dollars: "Xiao Wang Prince Consort, I don't know if my teacher told you. Once I am anxious, I like to solve problems with my fists..."
Chapter completed!