Chapter 653: The Winter Festival
The New Year in Danzhou is not called the Spring Festival, and it has nothing to do with the farming season.
It is called "Cold Festival".
But its essence is similar, and it means that the cold is about to pass during the year, spring is warm, and the world is revived.
There is also a legend that in the age of ancient ancestors, extreme cold suddenly appeared and frozen in Danzhou for nine hundred years, so life was devastated and all things were extinct.
Later, the true sun god of the sun came to the Danzhou continent with nine golden crows. The golden crows flew around the Danzhou continent, sprinkling the true sun fire, melting the ice cap, and the continent recovered.
In order to commemorate the true god of the sun, ancient ancestors named the day when the true god came to the cold festival.
As for whether there was a true god coming during that period, or whether the rules of the laws of heaven had changed, it was no longer verified.
But the weather will warm up from the day of the Cold Festival, but it is true.
Lin'an City, which is out of the Cold Festival, is very lively, but for Qinhe, it lacks the New Year atmosphere.
It’s not food, not popularity, nor a dazzling array of goods, but smoke of gunpowder.
There is no gunpowder in this world.
So there were no firecrackers and no fireworks.
The protagonist of the Cold Festival is the lamp.
All kinds of lanterns.
Three days before and after the Cold Festival, the government will send city guards and martial arts students to patrol the night, trying to ensure the safety of Lin'an City at night.
Under the lanterns as bright as the sea of stars, the residents in the city dared to go out boldly at night, enjoy the lanterns, watch the flower boats, and visit the lantern festival. It was very lively.
All major courtyards and museums are full of variety. Every year, the Cold Festival is also a good time for courtyards and museums to compete for beauty from afar.
Whoever wins well can guarantee the popularity of the courtyard in the second year.
As the first-class Beijing city, the three courtyard halls: Cuiqinglou, Yanzhitang and Yixiangyuan, are working hard to compete for the best.
People fight for a breath, and Buddha fights for a stick of incense.
The ranking of Beijing Yipin in the second year depends on these three days. Although the competition was held across the air, it was also a competition.
Cuiqinglou just made a fairy scattered flowers upstairs.
Yanzhitang then made a fairy money in front of the door.
The next day, the Cuiqing Building was made with another lantern to find beauty.
Yixiangyuan followed the wind and immediately created a thousand-lantern lantern lit flower courtesan.
Cai Linglong, the madam in the Cuiqinglou, was furious and furious. He also did whatever he did, Yixiangyuan and Yanzhitang, and the scene was even bigger.
This is clearly a sign that we should work together to step down our own green brothel.
Cai Linglong gritted her teeth and stomped her feet. At Wei Wu's suggestion, she created a: Feng Wu Jiutian - the courtesan paraded the streets!
The courtesans of the green brothel boarded a float and paraded the whole city.
What a sensation, that was a city-wide sensation.
On weekdays, if you are a first-class courtesan in Beijing, let alone look at it, buying a portrait of a courtesan has to be a big price.
The courtesan paraded the streets, so close.
Take a look and smell it, it's all about saving money.
In order to prevent being imitated and surpassed, Cai Linglong even used her hidden killer weapon.
At the front of the float, the newcomer leads the way.
Huan Qingwu was wearing a tulle, looming, covering her face, even if she just stood, she was still charming all living beings and became the focus of the entire float team.
Wei Wu was wearing a gorgeous brocade dress, and he stood on the side with difficulty in distinguishing between male and female, with a little stiff smile on his face.
He had the idea to find an opportunity to go out, and at the very least he could transfer Cui Linglong and the guards. Unexpectedly, Cai Linglong actually asked him to go up too.
Applying makeup and powder, the old face lost all its essence.
He didn't dare not laugh because Cai Linglong was also on the float. Next to the float, the thugs of Cuiqinglou guards were almost all out.
In the slightly cold wind, Wei Wuxin had ten thousand words of "Your family is healthy" swept the screen.
...
“Haha~”
“Haha!”
On the other side of Lincheng City, Qin He, who was bored on the street, sneezed twice and sniffed.
For him, there were no firecrackers and fireworks, and there were no activities in major courtyards and museums, so the New Year atmosphere was somewhat weak and there was no place to go.
"Master, why not go to the lantern festival, it will definitely be lively there." Ma Feimo suggested with a hopeful face.
Qin He glanced at it and said nothing.
This unreliable guy almost burned the house last night.
Thinking about how this happened when Wang Tiezhu was there.
It's time to throw away the goods~
Seeing that Qin He didn't speak, Ma Fei shrank his neck and did not dare to speak.
Six corpses burned the beams of the house, one corpse was exploded, and a corpse burner collapsed due to overheating.
Now it feels very guilty.
However, Qin He didn't say anything, but his steps were still towards the other side.
Since we are here, we will be lanterns, and we will follow the customs of the countryside.
After a while, Qin He led Ma Fei to the bank of Qushui River.
The canal water is directed from the Bing River and passes through the city. It is the moat main canal of the two cities inside and outside Lin'an City.
Although it is necessary to mobilize the city, its water surface is extremely wide, no worse than that of a large river.
Countless pleasure boats with lanterns float on the water, shining with the lights on both sides, as brilliant as stars.
However, at this moment, a gust of cold wind suddenly blew from the river, rolling up a burst of dust, swaying many nearby lights.
Many vendors who display lamps hurriedly protected the lamps, fearing that they would catch fire.
Fortunately, the gust of cold wind came and went quickly, and it calmed down quickly.
But... Qin He not only didn't feel the cold passing through the border, but his hair stood up and the chicken skin was undulating.
A glimmer of light flashed in his eyes and he looked into the distance.
I saw countless blood-red lanterns rising above the sea of stars, and the originally brilliant "Sea of Stars" instantly became weird.
"Master, what's wrong?" Ma Fei asked in confusion when he saw Qin He suddenly stood still.
Qin He glanced at him and slowly spit out two words: "Tonight, haunted."
Chapter completed!