New Year’s Eve!

"Hang lanterns!"

Xiaoqi rode Pei Min's shoulders, holding a big red lantern in his hand with difficulty, and hung a lantern as big as half her body in front of the house with a tense face.

"Hang it, hang it!" Xiaoqi clapped his hands happily, and his originally struggling expression was filled with joy.

"One side, Xiao Ba, do you want to try it too?" Pei Min looked at his beloved son, his eyes full of encouragement.

"Yes, Xiaoba wants it too!" Xiaoba was eager to try and plucked up the courage to speak loudly.

"This is my good son!" Pei Min laughed, went down the stairs, put Xiaoqi down, took the big red lantern from Jiao Chen's hand, and handed it to Xiaoba.

As a boy, Xiaoba is better than Xiaoqi in terms of strength, and seems to be more capable.

Pei Min carried Xiao Ba on his shoulder and helped him climb up the ladder.

Stop at the right seat and let Xiao Ba hang the big red lantern according to his preference.

New Year’s Eve is a festival to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

In the 21st century, most of the family gathered together to play cards and chat and watch the Spring Festival Gala. Although the Spring Festival Gala is getting worse every year, out of habits and nostalgia, the Spring Festival Gala is always the only program in their family.

But now that he is in the Tang Dynasty, he has no chance to watch the Spring Festival Gala again. Pei Min follows the local customs and lives a unique life with the etiquette of the Tang Dynasty.

The Tang Dynasty was far less important to New Year's Eve than later generations. According to customs, every household would clean up the courtyard houses on this day, welcome their ancestors to go home for the New Year, and worship them with rice cakes and three animals.

Staying up the New Year, setting off firecrackers, sticking door gods, and hanging lanterns are four must-do programs for every household.

In order to cultivate Xiaoqi and Xiaoba's hands-on ability, Pei Min gave Xiaoqi the work of hanging lanterns in the mansion to Xiaoqi, and Xiaoba came to do it.

After the two little guys were wise, it was the first time that they celebrated New Year's Eve, and they seemed very excited and motivated.

The door gods of this era were not Qin Qiong and Yuchi Gong, these two bigwigs in the early Tang Dynasty, who became door gods because of the birth of two novels, "Journey to the West" and "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties".

The door god of the Tang Dynasty was called Shentu and Yulei, who specialized in controlling ghosts and evil things, and could drive away evil spirits and avoid evil spirits, so he was respected by the world.

The so-called door god is not like the portrait of the door god in later generations, but a human figure carved from a template, placing the template on the door. The template is also made of peach wood, which is regarded as an evil-exorcist plant. The two are matched and have a strong power.

Regarding the sayings of ghosts and gods, Pei Min, who traveled through time, also had a sense of awe and did not dare to neglect this custom.

After doing all this, worshiping our ancestors, the family gathered together to chat and stay up to the New Year.

Since there was no after-show program, the Tang Dynasty's staying up with the New Year was considered a torment.

Xiaoqi and Xiaoba couldn't stand it after playing with fireworks, so they leaned against Pei Min and Jiao Chen fell asleep.

Pei Min, Pei's mother, and Jiao Chen were talking together.

The three of them talked about Mengchun tomorrow, and Pei's mother said: "I will enter the palace for my mother tomorrow morning. The queen invites her wife to participate in the sacrifice together. I heard that this celebration is particularly grand, and all the envoys from other countries around are among the invitations. You are responsible for this grand event, so don't make any mistakes."

Jiao Chen smiled and said, "Don't worry, Mother, when did you make a mistake?"

"It's better that my wife understands me! Don't worry, mom. Tomorrow, you will definitely surprise your boss, just don't be scared."

The Spring Festival of the Tang Dynasty, the first month of spring.

The traditional name of the Spring Festival is New Year, New Year, and New Year. The Spring Festival in China has a history of four or five thousand years.

The Spring Festival in these dynasties has different times. The Xia Dynasty used the Chungchun, but the Shang Dynasty was the twelfth lunar month. After Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms, it was stipulated that October was the first month. The Tang Dynasty continued to use the first year of Emperor Wu of Han. Astronomers Luo Xiahong, Deng Ping and others formulated the "Taichu Calendar", headed by Mengchun.

After a long period of development, the Spring Festival of the Tang Dynasty was similar to the Spring Festival of later generations.

From New Year's Day to the Chinese New Year's Day, these fifteen days are New Year's carnival.

Especially on the Lantern Festival, the last three days after the New Year ends, the entire Chang'an and Luoyang will be lifted, allowing the people of the whole city and tourists coming from the surrounding area to have a carnival all night long.

The Lantern Festival is undoubtedly the most grand and celebratory festival of the year.

But it is said that it is important to New Year's Day. On this first day of the New Year, it is the best time to worship heaven and pray for the new year.

The ancients regarded the changes of the four seasons, wind, rain, and drought as instructions from heaven.

In order to get the mercy of God, sacrifice to heaven and pray for the new year is essential.

From Li Longji, the emperor, civil and military officials, to ordinary people, everyone sacrificed to heaven and begged for good weather.

This year's New Year's Day sacrifice is obviously even more grand!

The weather didn't seem to be very good. It started to snow last night, and it started to wind again this morning.

Snow and snow!

But in this time, the enthusiasm of the people will not be reduced.

Everyone in Chang'an knew that today is the day when all officials pay homage. It is actually the first grand occasion that has appeared after Emperor Taizong and Emperor Gaozong.

Everyone is proud of it!

Early this morning!

Li Longji walked up to Chengtian Gate in a luxurious robe.

The prince of the Great Food Kingdom, Justinian, the governor of Byzantine, the young master of Tukishi, Longlangchi, the deputy prime minister of Tubo, Ashinashiwei, the patriarch of Gelulu, Chengzong, the grand prime minister of the Uighurs, the king of Zhaowu nine kingdoms, and the envoys of Silla and Japan, were located near Li Longji. From the identity of the envoy, it can be seen how much the countries attached importance to this contact with the Tang Dynasty.

As for the royal family, princes, princes, Song Jing, Su Yan, Zhang Jiazhen, Zhang Shuo, Lu Huaishen, Pei Min and other prime ministers were located near the right place. All the civil and military officials in the state dynasty in Beijing, six ministers, ministers, ministers, officials from the three temples and nine ministers, and all the civil and military ministers of the capital were visited.

Finally, there were some special groups of people who were not among the royal family, civil officials, and military officials, but their status was so high that even Li Longji had to respect one or two. He was the descendant of Confucius, Kong Delun and Kong Huiyuan, the leader of the Shilin people in the world.

They were all waiting for the arrival of the army.

According to the initial convention, as long as civil and military officials gathered, Li Longji rushed to the Temple of Heaven to worship the sky under the leadership of the Ten Thousand Cavalry and Longwu Army.

Pei Min added a ceremony similar to a military parade here. Just like the opening ceremony, he rushed from the army to Chengtian Gate in the distance, met with Li Longji, and the three armies escorted Li Longji to the Temple of Heaven.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

Before people arrive, the earth shakes first!

The earth seemed to be trembling, shocking like never before.

Li Longji's eyes were filled with fanaticism, and Song Jing, Su Feng, and Zhang Jiazhen were shocked.

Mosremasa, Justinian, Vebiga, Longlangchi, Ashin Shiwei, Chengzong and others all stared at the faint shadows in the wind and snow, and their expressions gradually became heavy.

Especially Mosremasa and Justinian, they were both long-time generals in the army, and they saw the iron-blooded aura that seemed to be invisible in the distance. Only the powerful troops in the hundred battles had this kind of spirit.
Chapter completed!