Li Yundong punished the tenant woman, which actually made Su Chan get angry. However, the little girl still felt that it was a bit advantageous. This damn woman who kicked them out in the first place, with her temper, wouldn't be able to make a single move.
If you slap her on the face, it's all polite. ≥ ≦
After the tenant woman cursed Li Yundong and squatted in the toilet for two whole days, she finally got rid of the smelly toilet. In the past two days, she had lost a lot of weight, which was considered a weight loss.
Although she knew that Li Yundong was most likely teasing her, the housekeeper did not dare to say anything. What a joke. If something happened again, who knew whether what she drank next time would be real poison.
Tea?
But this incident is just a small episode, and life is like this. Sometimes the commotion becomes earth-shattering, and both parties want to mentally destroy each other together. But when the incident is over, looking back, they often feel like they are shaking their heads and laughing.
, just like how a person looks at his still young self after he matures and grows up.
This was the case for Li Yundong. He learned about the charterer's wife and completely announced that he was bidding farewell to his youthful days and that he, who had cultivated to the golden body in his twenties, would usher in his glorious years.
However, before that, what Li Yundong wanted most was to spend a good New Year with the people around him.
This is the first Spring Festival he has celebrated since he met Su Chan, Ziyuan and Zhou Qin.
Although there is still some time before the Spring Festival, it is now approaching the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, which is also the day of the "Little New Year".
Although the spiritual practice world has declined to the point of being almost invisible today, and contemporary society pays less and less attention to tradition, the spiritual practice world still maintains its traditional position under the impact of the reform and opening up.
Ziyuan is an out-and-out disciple of the inner chamber. Her ancestors, counting up to five generations, are all practitioners. This is a fairy who has been practicing since her mother's womb. She has been deeply imprinted on her mind and bones.
It reflects the elegance, dignity, gentleness, softness, and conservative and introverted characteristics of traditional Chinese women.
Shion's emphasis on tradition is deep in her bones. She clearly knows that she may be imprisoned, but in order to abide by the tradition of the Spirit Palace Sect's succession ceremony, she is willing to sacrifice herself and abide by the rules.
Similarly, Su Chan is also a girl who attaches great importance to tradition, but unlike Ziyuan, Ziyuan's observance of tradition is influenced by her childhood environment. Everyone tells her that she must abide by traditions and rules, so
She became a mechanical doll covered with strips and walking on a fixed track; Su Chan, on the other hand, had not been exposed to modern things since she was a child. All she had been exposed to was the traditional culture of the spiritual world. She had no other choice, so she
She has also become a very traditional person, but the longer she stays in the secular world, the more Su Chan becomes like a modern person, but the influence she has received since childhood is too deep, and tradition is a powerful inertial force for her.
That’s all.
In sharp contrast to them is Zhou Qin. After being instructed by Zhang Zhishun, this official daughter who had already left the customs practiced diligently day and night. He made rapid progress in the realm of practice and had already broken through to the intermediate level of the Golden Body. As long as he understood the "Heavenly Man"
"Unity, endless void", she will be able to cultivate to the ultimate state of golden height, and reach the same state of "perfect jade body" as Li Yundong.
Zhou Qin is not a very traditional person. She is very rebellious in her heart. But sometimes rebellion is an alternative tradition. Especially after she converted to Li Yundong's disciple, she became the most pious practitioner.
People strive to maintain everything in the spiritual world, and as for things like tradition, they are bound to maintain it.
In addition, this is their first Spring Festival with Li Yundong. Whether it is for justice or for personal reasons, they all want to have a prosperous and lively Spring Festival.
But according to traditional rules, the Spring Festival begins with the New Year, that is, on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month, sacrifices to the stove are held. The reason why there is a difference of two days is because of the so-called "officials, three people, four boatmen and five", which also means
That is to say, the official ceremony is held on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the common people hold it on the 24th day, and the boatmen who make a living on the water perform sacrifices to the stove on the 25th day.
China is a world of farming culture, and the people love the soil. Therefore, people who make a living on the water were considered a non-mainstream group at that time. Therefore, the idea of celebrating the New Year on the 25th is not widely used. Generally, it is celebrated on the 23rd and the 4th.
Celebrate the New Year in two days.
Most of the practitioners in the ancient spiritual world were officials. The Five Dou Rice Cult of the Han Dynasty was popular in Sichuan and Shu. The local ruler Zhang Lu was even the leader of the Five Dou Rice Cult and the grandson of Zhang Daoling, the founder of Taoism; during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties
Tianshi Taoism and Louguan Taoism in the Tang Dynasty were all major spiritual sects recognized by the emperor and the government, and their leaders or heads held extremely high official positions.
Among them, Luo Gongyuan, Ye Fashan and others, the founders of the "Lotus Picking Conference" in the Tang Dynasty, were all high-ranking officials and well-paid. Among them, Ye Fashan was named Hongluqing and Duke of Yue during the Ruizong period of the Tang Dynasty.
By the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, the spiritual world had entered the heyday of China's two-thousand-year feudal history. The leader of the Zhengyi sect was named "Da Zhenren" by the emperor of the Song Dynasty many times, and was given the title of "Heavenly Master".
Officials and Taoist temple managers have the power to propose to the emperor the funding and staffing of new Taoist temples, and even have the power to directly issue ultimatums. This power has only been available to the government since ancient times, which also means that
During this period, the spiritual world officially became a bureaucratic class.
In the Yuan Dynasty, with the support of Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan, the Quanzhen Sect rose. Qiu Chuji and his followers even held more power than the former Zhengyi Sect leader. This situation remained until the death of Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty and the succession of Emperor Wanli.
, and then slowly faded away.
Therefore, although the spiritual world has almost been forgotten now, they still follow the tradition of celebrating the Little New Year on the 23rd, that is, the day when the government celebrates the Little New Year.
There are two traditions in Xiaonian, one is to sweep the New Year, and the other is to offer sacrifices to the stove.
Cleaning the New Year, as the name suggests, is when the whole family is cleaning up at the end of the year. Sacrifice to the Stove is even more simple and easy to understand, it is an activity held to worship the Stove Lord.
The day before the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, Li Yundong also transferred back the last batch of little foxes who stayed at their posts in Di Sanxian. The next day, they got up early, starting from him to Su Chan, Ziyuan
, Zhou Qin, Lin Miao, Cao Yi, Liu Yuehong and the little foxes from the Fox Chan Sect all rolled up their sleeves and started busy at home.
Although each of them is a practitioner with a high or low level of cultivation, and it is reasonable to say that cleaning is just an ordinary thing, but each of them does it extremely seriously, without any sign of neglect, little fox
Each of them rolled up their sleeves, exposing their arms like snow lotus roots, and wiped the glass and floor seriously.
As the leader, Li Yundong naturally led by example. He lay on the floor with a broom and wiped the dust under the bed without using any magic or spells. Behind him was Su Chan, who looked like a small tail, holding a hand.
Dustpan, gesticulating behind him with a smile: "Here, I need to wipe it here, oh, there, there, there is dust there!"
Li Yundong heard her scolding Fang Qiu behind him, and her words were even more lively than what he was doing. He couldn't help but turned around and said with a smile: "Hey, where is the dust? Why didn't I see it?"
Su Chan pointed to the corner of the wall with a smile: "There, you can only see it from my angle."
Li Yundong smiled and handed the dusty broom to her nose: "Only you can see it? That's okay, you can sweep it!"
Su Chan immediately covered her nose with her hands and said with a smile: "It's so dirty, take it away! You obviously said you wouldn't let me sweep it, why do you regret it now?"
Li Yundong snorted: "I didn't let you idle around and give orders."
Su Chan chuckled and was about to speak when she heard a knock on the door behind her. The two of them looked back and saw Ziyuan wearing a purple silk scarf on her head, which was obviously used to cover the dust.
When one's cultivation has reached her level, once the true energy is stirred up, no drop of rain will come close to it and no dust will be stained. However, in the tradition of sweeping the New Year, one cannot work with the true energy, otherwise it will be considered disrespectful in the past.
fault.
Ziyuan knocked on the open door with her fingers, and gently pulled off the silk scarf on her head with her other hand. The black hair on her head also spread down like a waterfall. She shook her head slightly and shook it.
My own show seems to shake off the worldly dust standing on my head.
At this moment, the fairy who used to walk on the clouds seemed to have fallen into the mortal world and became a housewife. Li Yundong and Su Chan looked at each other and smiled.
Li Yundong smiled and asked: "What's wrong?"
Ziyuan smiled and said: "Everyone has almost finished cleaning and is preparing to sacrifice the stove. You can only do this by yourself, so we will hide away."
Ziyuan has a cautious and reserved temperament and rarely jokes with others. What she said was quite playful. Li Yundong immediately laughed and shook his head like a rattle. He knew that in ancient times, women were not allowed to participate in the traditional custom of worshiping stoves. As the saying goes,
: Men do not worship the moon, and women do not worship the stove.
Worshiping the moon refers to the Chinese Valentine's Day on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, which is the day when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet in the Milky Way. It is commonly known as Daughter's Day. On this night, in ancient times, women would meet each other on balconies and courtyards, displaying fruits.
Make cakes, light incense and candles, and pray to the moon until late at night. This is a women's festival, and men should certainly not participate in it.
The fact that women do not offer sacrifices to the stove reveals the strong custom of "men are superior to women, and men are superior to women" in the feudal era. "Youyang Miscellaneous Nuo Gao Ji 1" written by Duan Chengshi of the Tang Dynasty said: The name of the kitchen god is Wei , which looks like
Beauty. It means that the Kitchen God is a handsome guy who is as handsome as a beauty.
The man is afraid that after the woman worships the woman, he will be suspected of having an affair, so there is a saying that the woman does not worship the stove.
Ziyuan's adherence to traditions seems a bit archaic, even pedantic, and she will follow them regardless of whether they are good or bad, just like what her master Wang Yuanshan said to her, whether it is true or false, she will do it.
Li Yundong didn't care about this, he shook his head even more, and said: "What are you talking about? In what age, women still don't sacrifice to the stove? Don't be kidding, there are so many people here, I am the only man, you
You want me to sacrifice the stove alone? Isn’t this a joke?”
Ziyuan pursed her lips and smiled and said: "I don't care about that. The rules must not be broken. You can go and worship the stove yourself. We are going out to do the New Year shopping."
Li Yundong was anxious: "Stop, you leave me alone at home and go shopping? Isn't this outrageous?"
Ziyuan smiled and shook her head, her attitude was very determined.
Li Yundong had no choice but to turn his head and look at Su Chan, only to see Su Chan burst into laughter, jumped up to Ziyuan's side, and said with a smile: "I want to go shopping with Sister Ziyuan."
Li Yundong was so angry. He rolled his eyes and said angrily: "I just went out yesterday to do some New Year shopping, and today you are messing around again! Okay, you all can go out, leaving me alone to guard the house! Let's see how much money you have to waste!"
Ziyuan pursed her lips and smiled, turned around and went out. Su Chan also followed her out. After a while, the little foxes obviously got the news, and they cheered and rushed out of the door one after another.
The originally lively home suddenly became deserted. Li Yundong sat down on the bedside depressedly, muttering in his heart, should he stay and sacrifice the damn stove, or should he just go shopping with them?
Although it's just a young year, it's too desolate to be left alone at home, isn't it?
Li Yundong was hesitating, but suddenly he saw a pretty face leaning out of the door, both angry and happy. A pair of smiling eyes curved into an arc. Who could it be if it wasn't Su Chan?
Li Yundong was surprised and then overjoyed. He waved to Su Chan and said, "You're not going?"
Su Chan brought a gust of fragrance and threw herself into Li Yundong's arms. She smiled like a little fox who had done something bad and succeeded in her scheme: "Hee hee, they are all out, so the little girl can be intimate with her uncle!"
As she stood, the little girl looked at Li Yundong with resentment on her face: "Uncle, it's been a long time since we have been intimate! The little girl asked for it, please be intimate!"