June 6th is a customary book-drying festival. It originally originated from Song Zhenzong who was particularly fond of auspicious events during the Northern Song Dynasty.

Song Zhenzong said that God gave him a heavenly book on June 6th, so he designated this day as Tiankuang Festival. Civil servants across the country should have a day off as a statutory holiday, and the beheading business at the execution ground was suspended. And slaughtering was held on Tiankuang Festival.

All are prohibited.

Song Zhenzong is a professional when it comes to auspicious things!

Even the most vicious death row inmates will remember it!

Picking up a day off from scratch, the civil servants of the Song Dynasty naturally accepted this new holiday happily, and because of the auspiciousness of the "Book of Heaven", they began to dry up their book collections in the sunshine.

Over time, many scholars have become accustomed to treating June 6th as a book-drying day.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Cabinet and the Hanlin Academy also had the habit of drying books on June 6. On this day every year, the Imperial Palace Emperor Shichen would dig out the royal archives, including historical records, and dry them in the sun to prevent these precious historical materials from being eaten by insects.

There are also many scholars among the people who have followed the trend and developed the custom of posting books on June 6th.

The main reason is that the weather is really good these days, which is especially suitable for posting books.

The city of Guangzhou was very lively that day. Early in the morning, Zhang Bishu asked the juniors in his family to take out all the books in his collection and dry them in the sun.

This is one of the customs brought to them by Academician Xiao Wang. Every June 6th, as long as there was no sign of rain or wind, Academician Xiao Wang would lead the students in the government school to post books and be busy.

At that time, I casually chatted with the students about the exhibition of Wenyuan Pavilion in the capital and the collection of books by Huang Shicheng.

When each family heard their children talk about this custom when they came back, they immediately decided to remember the good day of June 6th and take out their books to bask in the sun every year.

Since both the imperial court and the royal family publish books on this day, of course they should publish them too!

Now that Bachelor Wang has become Xiao Wang’s first assistant, what he said will definitely not be wrong!

Zhang Bishu made arrangements for posting books and strolled out to have morning tea with Lao Liu.

You can smell the fragrance of books in the air along the way, and when you look into every house, there are people busy posting books.

Chief Assistant Xiao Wang is vigorously developing cultural and educational undertakings in their area, and everyone is fully supportive of it. Every time a new book printed by Guangzhou Prefecture comes on the market, they will buy a copy and take it home to collect, so now there are very few families without books at home.

The reason why every household can spend so much money on books is, firstly, because the prosperity of several coastal commercial ports has made them richer, and secondly, the rapid development of Guangdong's engraving industry has reduced book prices a lot!

Because life is getting better visibly, when everyone gathers in Yangwu Hall to drink morning tea, they always talk about Bachelor Wang, who is now the Chief Assistant, and feel that he is particularly honored: But Chief Assistant Wang is here

They have stayed in Guangdong for six years, and he has not stayed in his hometown of Zhejiang for this long. It is not an exaggeration to say that Guangdong is the second hometown of Xiao Wang's chief minister (the capital does not count)!

Zhang Bishu took a copy of the "Xinbao" specially ordered by Yangwutang for his diners to enjoy their morning tea while paying attention to national affairs, and began the daily newspaper reading time that they, old friends, must have.

Of course, the main thing they are concerned about is what big things their chief assistant Wang has done recently and how he appeared in the "Xinbao" this time.

If any of the children or grandchildren of any family can obtain a meritorious status and go to the capital to take the examination, they must go to visit Xiao Wang's first assistant in person, and then come back and tell them what Xiao Wang's first assistant looks like now!

At the same time, military households in the northwest were also posting books.

They also have their own books, because the breeding industry in the northwest is developing in full swing, and they also have some spare money and food on hand.

Some of the books at their home were bought by themselves, and some were donated by the Capital University. Not only did their children have books to read, but they themselves were taught many new words by their children, and they were no longer illiterate and reckless soldiers.

Every year after the busy farming season, the Capital University would come to select talents and take their children who were not eligible for the military household quota to study in the Capital.

This was a hard-won opportunity for military households like them, all because Xiao Wang Zhuangyuan recommended Li Yao, a disciple from a military household, to the position of president of the Capital University.

They also specifically asked the Capital University to recruit students at designated locations among their military households.

In the Ming Dynasty, not to mention ordinary military households, even ordinary military attachés had a very difficult life. In the past, there were cases where military attachés asked matchmakers to help marry their daughters, but the matchmaker sold the military attache's daughter to a concubine and became a lowly status. This is

Under such circumstances, it is really difficult for them to find a good way out for their children!

Therefore, they urge their children to take the selection examination for Beijing Normal University every year.

Watching their children and grandchildren go to the capital to study on the official ship, the military households were proud and happy. They felt that the future was full of hope, and even the hard work of guarding the border became insignificant.

Next time people from the Capital University come over, be sure to ask them to bring more delicious local products to the young champion.

After so many years, Xiao Wangyuan still has not forgotten them, and they must not forget Xiao Wangxuan.

On this day, many people in various places celebrated the book-sharing festival that Wang Shouwen brought to various places.

Northwest, Jiangnan, Guangdong, Yunnan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Huguang... Every land that Wang Shouwen has ever set foot on has people who smell the fragrance of sunlight and books and recall him. Some of them are counting the years.

Changes, some were bragging about how they chatted and laughed with Wang Shoufu, and some were just thinking about him like this: "I don't know how he is doing now."

At the same time in the capital, Wang Shouwen was celebrating the book-drying festival at the Qiu Library as usual.

If the weather is fine on this day every year, he will spend a whole day in the Qiu Library, which is closed for rest, and personally take Qiu Jun's books one by one to the sun for them to bask in.

Ever since it was discovered that he burst into tears one year when he was posting a piece of paper that he had never seen before, his friends were worried that he would be sad if he was left alone, so most of them would take leave and come over to accompany Wang Shouwen to post it.

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Zhu Houzhao, the most willful emperor, directly imitated Song Shenzong and declared June 6 as a legal holiday. From then on, everyone would celebrate the holiday together every year.

According to Zhu Houzhao, even though he was busy day and night, he did not see how powerful the Ming Dynasty became. It can be seen that many people were busy working indiscriminately, and taking an extra day off would not affect the operation of the court at all.

Facing this boss (emperor) who is so willful that he insists on giving everyone a holiday, what can all civil and military officials do? Of course... go home happily for the holidays!

With a wave of his hand, Zhu Houzhao added a legal holiday to Quan Daming, and he rushed to the Qiu Library to participate in a group book sharing activity.

This year Zhu Yunming was transferred back to the capital, so the people who came to spend the Book Sharing Festival with Wang Shouwen included the four great talents from Jiangnan: Zhu Yunming, Wen Zhengming, Tang Bohu, and Xu Zhenqing.

If Xu Zhenqing is brought to join the "top seven" in Ming Dynasty's literary circle, then Xu Zhenqing and Li Mengyang can also form a group to make their debut.

In addition to Yang Shen, Yan Song, Wang Shouren, Zhan Ruoshui and other casual talents or masters of the school, all the Ming talents that could be found during the Zhengde period were wiped out.

There was even a cat squatting on the eaves to watch them working.
Chapter completed!