Chapter 21 June Lantern Festival
1. Although cultivation is high and empty, it is not completely unrelated to the world. For example, the guardianship of the two cities by the Dharma, and the fairy Yun is in charge of Xichang. However, if an ordinary family is not of level and has a wealth, they are really not destined to be cultivation.
2. All major cities in the Northern Region are protected by the Immortal Sect, or can be said to be controlled by the Immortal Sect. For example, Qixia is in Xichang and Xinyue is in Shenfang. However, generally, those who are as small as Twin Cities only have Taoists to stay in, but there is no Taoist palace to accept people. However, Nanli Kingdom must also have the Immortal Sect protection, I don’t know which one it is.
Third, the method of "Supreme" once said that he was too old, but now it seems not an excuse. The best age for entering the world to practice Taoism is between 13 and 15, after three years of study, the best one will be selected to enter the blessed land to feel the energy and communicate with the spirit. In other words, before the age of 18, mortals can determine whether he can enter the Tao in this life. Li Ji was already 21 years old when he traveled through time. According to this pattern, he may have to have a chance to enter the blessed land to feel the energy. This difficulty is not very great.
Based on the above judgment, the opportunity given by the Pharaoh Taoist was to skip the three-year study stage of the Taoist Palace and directly enter the blessed land and feel the energy... Although he saved 100 taels of gold, compared with these Taoist children, he had less time to lay the foundation and lost at the starting line... But he could not refuse this opportunity, because he is not even qualified to lay the foundation now.
After figuring out the joints, Li Ji also knew more clearly where his path was. Going to Shenfang City and Xiaoyue Temple, whether to step into the Great Way of Eternal Life or fall into the mortal world, it will be decided by a bet.
As the heart knot opened, Li Ji was still wandering around. He found that Xichang City has become more and more lively these days. After a little inquiry, it turned out that the traditional June Lantern Festival in Zheng State was approaching. Li Ji's Lantern Festival in his previous life was in January and February. There was also Lantern Festival in this world, but it was in the midsummer of June.
The June Lantern Festival in Zheng State is a festival with women as the main body. It seems like the Three and Eight Women's Day in the previous life, but it is far more grand and grand than the Three and Eight Festivals. Perhaps it is the protection of the Qixia School with women as the main body for thousands of years. In Zheng State, women have a high status. The June Lantern Festival is also called the Hair Festival, which means adulthood. Every girl over fifteen years old can lay down her own lantern shed on the Lantern Festival, and look forward to the scholars and wanderers leaving behind poems that can be passed down.
Beauty and poetry are perfect matches no matter where time and space are in. Zheng State has a strong literary style, and it is really consistent with the June Lantern Festival and is famous far and wide. In June, countless scholars around will come together, comparing the color of the text and a hint of anticipated romance.
It is the dream of every girl to get a popular masterpiece at the June Lantern Festival. For this reason, in addition to their own beauty, they also try their best to make the lantern shed, and even give out precious gifts to attract talented scholars to recommend poetry and ink. After all, in a poem, good masterpieces are never available. Xichang is the richest city in Zheng State, with many noble women in the city, and the gifts are also rising year by year, attracting talented men from all over the world to flock to them. Even scholars from other cities have also come here, which can not only show their literary talent, but also be as affordable as possible, and maybe even return with beauty. Of course, such festivals are basically mainly rich families. For ordinary families, if they want to rent a lantern shed on the Jiangdi Lantern Street and then lay out exquisite lanterns, they cannot get enough money.
Li Ji has been to Xichang for three days, and the next day, June Lantern Festival will be held for three consecutive days. He will not miss this grand occasion that can understand foreign cultures. He will start again the day after tomorrow.
Time flies. On the sixth day of June, the Lantern Festival officially begins. Before the sky is completely dark, a large number of people begin to flow out of the city. The Qingcang River embankment outside the city is more than ten miles long. It is shaded by green willows along the embankment, wide and straight. The colorful shed has been built to welcome this annual grand event.
Li Ji had dinner at Laohu Yangfang before he slowly walked towards the embankment. It was already dark at this time, but under the reflection of the lanterns, the embankment was brighter than daytime, and the moon was also eclipsed under countless lanterns. There were more people than he thought, as if all the people in Xichang were crowded here, and the causeway as wide as ten feet wide could not hold people's enthusiasm. I thought that most of these tourists were literati men, but there were many young girls in the crowd who did not want to appreciate the lanterns, which opened his eyes.
The river embankment of more than ten miles is equipped with lantern sheds in a staggered manner. It seems that the organizers have experienced many years of holdings. Some lantern sheds are larger, luxurious, and some smaller, and the lanterns are not very expensive. Most of them are not lantern sheds, with only lantern sheds that are either gorgeous or plain, or flowers or beasts. Behind them are excited and shy girls, wealth and poverty. Even in this festival where the whole nation enjoys their lives, their differences are everywhere. However, the girls have a little bit of commonality, they all look handsome and charming. I think the ugly ones don’t have the courage to put lanterns here. If no one mentions poems and lyrics, they will lose face.
Walking past a headlight shed, a large group of people were surrounding him, and someone was writing a poem. Li Ji came over and saw that the lady here was probably a flower lover. The dozens of lanterns in the shed were all kinds of flowers, competing for beauty. The prize was even a night pearl the size of a walnut, which was worth nearly a thousand taels of silver.
Generally speaking, scholars will write poems based on the girl's hobbies, such as the one who is writing, "Caishou holds the jade bell with great care, but when he was fighting, he was drunk with red faces, danced low and hugged the moon in his heart, and sang the flowers and fan the shadows of the wind."
When scholars write poems, the lamp sheds are equipped with ink and ink. The exquisiteness is that there are spotlights under the table. If someone mentions poems, the poem will be projected by the lights onto a large deep cloth erected on the side, and can be seen clearly within ten feet of the surrounding area. Once this poem is finished, the crowds below are full of applause.
To be fair, this poem is written quite well, and it corresponds to the scenery. It is a high-end work. With the laughter of the onlookers and the expectant eyes of the scholars, the beauty in the sheds hesitates. Now it is the first day of the June Lantern Festival, and the grand event has just begun. Now it is the curtain. It is undoubtedly a sure thing that the famous poem has a master. Who will still recommend her poems in the future? Perhaps, there will be more outstanding poems waiting for her in the future? This little girl is a little greedy and unwilling to give up this obviously outstanding poem, so she is undecided.
Li Ji shook his head beside him. He was a human being in his two lives and had some experience in grasping people's hearts. When he saw this girl, he had just begun to live. He didn't know that a bird in his hand is better than a hundred birds in the forest. Poetry is a matter of fate, so he should take it down if he likes it, otherwise it may not be as good as he wants in the future.
When the people outside the shed saw that she was reluctant to express her opinion, they became even more excited. A woman vaguely shouted, "Throw bamboo, throw bamboo..." For a moment, the voice became louder and louder, and the crowd was excited. A group of onlookers shouted in unison, "Throw bamboo, throw bamboo..."
Li Ji was puzzled and pulled the scholar beside him and asked, "Brother, what is the meaning of throwing bamboo?"
The scholar was excitedly watching the women crowded and shouting, "At first glance, you were a foreigner, and you didn't even know that you threw bamboo. On the June Lantern Festival, there were countless poems, how could you enter the hands of the heroine in the shed? It would be fine if they took up the masterpiece, but others who looked down on me must be determined by the people in the field..."
Li Ji was about to ask how he decided to do this poem he looked down upon, but he saw that the noble girl in the shang was probably young and tender, with a noble face but could not bear it. In a state of irritation, she stuffed the poem into a bamboo tube and threw it into the crowd, and it was like boiling oil dripping. There were dozens of young ladies around him fighting for each other. Fortunately, the woman was weak and no one was injured. In the end, a girl in red snatched the bamboo tube and left happily. However, the men watching did not reach out and only cheered and cheered on the side.
Li Ji Dale, it turned out that he was wondering why many young girls in the crowd of watching the lanterns were all daughters of ordinary people. They could not afford to build a lantern shed, and they wanted to have a poem of their own adulthood, so they came together. The noble girl had a high vision and was not attracted by the best works. Many abandoned poems became their prey. For example, the little girl in red had no money to spend, but she got a good poem. This lantern festival was completely different from what Li Ji thought, but it became more and more interesting.
Chapter completed!