In a blink of an eye, it is the Lantern Festival.

To celebrate the tenth year of Emperor Wanli's ascension to the throne, the two empress dowagers issued an imperial edict last year to hold the massive Aoshan Lantern Festival in the Forbidden City.

Although all the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were strange, they were seriously despised by Mr. Jin, saying that their average level was far lower than that of the Emperors of the Qing Dynasty.

But relatively speaking, the Ming Dynasty has always been a dynasty with a high national happiness index.

Although it is not as good as the domineering Tang Dynasty and the rich Song Dynasty, the Zhuming Dynasty is still very rich overall.

On major festivals, there are lively scenes everywhere.

For the Ming Dynasty, the Spring Festival was the real number one festival.

The Lantern Festival followed.

Because the two festivals are too close, carnival activities will be held at the same time.

When Zhu Yuanzhang was founding the country, he seemed a little stingy. It would be fine if he was a workaholic, but he had to hold his subordinates to work together.

There are only five days off during the Spring Festival.

Basically, officials in the capital could not go back to their hometowns. There were no trains and planes at that time. How could they do it in five days?

Later, Zhu Di drove away his nephew and became emperor. In order to win people's hearts, he changed the Spring Festival holiday to ten days.

He also specially organized a special "gala" for Beijing officials and citizens to enjoy, which can be called the Spring Festival Gala six hundred years ago.

That is the Aoshan Lantern Festival.

The Aoshan Lantern Festival does not refer to a conference held on Aoshan, but a grand festival celebration.

As the saying goes, "the lanterns are on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month", Aoshan refers to the huge lanterns created by the government during the Lantern Festival.

Because the lanterns are huge and stacked together, they are similar in shape to Lao Ao, so they are called Aoshan Lantern Festival.

Starting from the Lantern Festival of the seventh year of Yongle, the first Aoshan Conference was held in the Ming Dynasty.

The location is right in front of the Meridian Gate.

The emperor came to the scene and brought civil and military officials to celebrate with the people. Within three days, the lights were bright and the singing and dancing were peaceful, making people linger.

This is a huge overhead.

Because the entire Aoshan is made of tens of thousands of small colorful lanterns as the base, and above the small colorful lanterns are decorated with colorful palace lanterns. The colorful lanterns are clustered into the four words "Long Live the Emperor" at the top, shining brightly and dazzlingly.

Officials and citizens can travel around and experience the grand occasion at that time.

Guess riddles, chanting poems, writing essays, firecrackers, fireworks, rituals, music, singing and dancing, praying...

Anyway, it's just a bustle.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, in order to achieve better lantern festival effects, various styles of lanterns from the Western Regions and other places were specially introduced.

It costs a lot and costs more than 100,000 taels of silver at any time.

In short, the grand occasion of the Aoshan Lantern Festival is no less than that of the modern "Spring Festival Gala".

Like the modern Spring Festival Gala, the Aoshan Lantern Festival is also a common example in the Ming Dynasty.

However, the size of the scale is not customized, it depends entirely on the emperor's personal hobbies and the quality of the country's annual income.

In the late Jiajing period, because he believed in fasting and worship, he moved out of the Qianqing Palace to live in order to facilitate the furnace and refining alchemy. Not to mention ministers, even the queen and concubines were unwilling to see each other.

In this way, the Aoshan Lantern Festival, which should have been enjoyed with the people, was spared by him.

In the Longqing era, due to the empty treasury and insufficient financial resources, although Emperor Muzong was determined to organize the fun of lantern appreciation, he was unable to make extra money because of his tight payments. He was not very excited when he saw the scale at a small scale, and it was meaningless to do it and stop it all at once.

After the Shenzong ascended the throne, Empress Dowager Li intends to restore the Aoshan Lantern Festival.

However, Zhang Juzheng believed that the financial situation was tight, and the emperor should take the lead in being frugal and strongly advised him.

Empress Dowager Li naturally followed him.

It was not until the sixth year of Wanli that the court's lack of income improved, and the accumulation of silver in Taicang gradually increased. In addition, Emperor Wanli's wedding was approaching that the first lantern festival was held in the imperial city.

Since then, it has been suspended for several years.

It was not until the tenth year of Wanli that the Aoshan Lantern Festival, which highlighted the peaceful and prosperous era, was able to score twice.

The folk lantern festivals often start on the eighth day of the first lunar month and end in ten days.

However, the lantern festivals in the imperial city always start on time after turning over the Youshi card on the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. The rest days are the same as those on the folk lantern festivals, and they are both the 18th day of the first lunar month.

The Aoshan Lantern Festival lasted three days.

As a time traveler, Zhu Yiliu has long been looking forward to the arrival of this day.

I really want to see how much this Aoshan Lantern Festival, which is similar to the later "Spring Festival Gala", is so enchanting.

But when that night, around the end of Shen, the sky was not completely dark, but the tall and majestic Meridian Gate Tower and the Wufeng Tower on the Duanmen were already shining with bright lights.

From a distance, I saw the planet's lotus torch fire squirting pear blossoms, and the flying elixir flowing purple brocade surrounding the flowers.

The lamp pillars, lamp eaves, lamp beams, lamp curtains and walls, lamps and curtains and decorations... Just as Su Weidou wrote in "The Fifteenth Night of the First Month": "The fire trees and silver flowers are closed, and the iron locks are opened all over the bridge."

Especially the two city towers were towering in the air, like the crystal world of palaces in the sky.

The relatives of the Duke and Martial Family, the royal family and the royal family, the six ministries and nine ministers, as well as the Hanlin Academy and the Six-College Gang, who were of low rank but noble, were all allowed to climb to the morning gate tower to accompany Emperor Wanli to watch the lanterns.

Their wives and women could also be invited to Wufeng Tower in their imperial uniforms, and accompany the two empress dowagers and the queen Wang to enjoy the lights of Aoshan.

In addition, a long temporary stand was built next to the Meridian Gate wall, and officials of lower levels came to enjoy the lanterns.

This is the second Aoshan Lantern Festival in the Wanli Chronicle, and it is also the celebration of the tenth anniversary of Emperor Wanli's ascension to the throne. It is a grand event that has not been seen in many years.

Therefore, as soon as the officials and wives came here in a constant stream.

For a moment, there were crowds of fragrant cars and BMWs on East and West Chang'an Street, and the saddle cage shouted.

Except for officials above the Great Jiuqing who can take a sedan chair to enter the Meridian Gate Square, a place with a deep gate, the other officials all fall into the Jinshui Bridge and can only walk into the Duanmen.

Tonight, Zhu Yili must follow Emperor Wanli honestly.

This is discipline, there is no way.

So, he went to Qianqing Palace early.

Emperor Wanli was also ready to wear a new dragon robe. After all, it would be a great honor to accept the kneeling of civil and military officials tonight.

Several eunuchs in the palace, Feng Bao, Zhang Jing, Zhang Hong and Zhang Cheng, were all here, surrounded by Emperor Wanli.

When Zhang Jing saw Zhu Yiliu, his eyes dodged and did not dare to look.

Zhu Yili didn't have time to pay attention to him at this time. He attached himself to Emperor Wanli's ear and muttered softly: "Brother, tonight is a good day, and being honest with your mother is a great opportunity. Don't miss it, come on!"

Emperor Wanli forgot about that one for a moment and said in a daze: "What are you honest about?"

Alas! Man, man... Zhu Yijun had no choice but to remind: "The Queen of the Palace of Qianqing Palace."

Emperor Wanli's face turned slightly red.

"Have you not thought about it yet? This is a great joy! I am happy to my mother. Mr. Zhang fell ill recently and my mother's heart was fucked!" Zhu Yiliu tried his best to instigate her.

"It depends on the situation at that time." Emperor Wanli finally made a decision that was equivalent to saying nothing.

Zhu Yiliu no longer had any worries, and he had to rush to enjoy the lanterns.

Regarding Wang Shurong’s question, helping Brother Wanli can only help here! The cow doesn’t want to drink water, and pressing his head doesn’t work.

Zhu Yili followed Emperor Wanli, surrounded by Feng Bao and several eunuchs, and set out towards the Meridian Gate with a spring breeze on his face.

When I arrived at the Meridian Gate Tower, I suddenly heard nine cannons in the square, and then I heard a eunuch shouting:

"Emperor, go, go—"

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