Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Li Shimin's evaluation was slightly vulgar, but it did not mean much to everyone who had experienced the late Sui Dynasty in Ganlu Palace.

After all, whether the Song Dynasty can be considered a loser is still a matter of debate, but Zhenguan Civil and Military Affairs must be considered a winner.

The only one who had any objections was probably Empress Changsun. She looked at the Lord of the Tang Dynasty with a half-smile but not a smile, which made Li Shimin look away with a guilty conscience.

Oops, I forgot that the queen was here too...

The complex situation faced by the Northern Song Dynasty made him seem to have returned to the years when the heroes were divided, so he uttered the vulgar words he used to scold Wang Shichong and others in the camp at that time.

Fortunately, this is not a big problem. After taking a glance, Queen Changsun withdrew her gaze and said:

His Majesty has won a series of great victories. It is time for the palace to hold a grand celebration as he bids farewell to the old and welcomes the new.

These words made Li Shimin tug at his slightly curled beard and think deeply.

He could hear the meaning of Guanyin's words. She was talking about the palace, but actually she was talking about the world.

The red-yellow painted door can still show favor to the prince, but many regulations on the people may not be necessary.

Of course, there is no need to change the already painted black doors in Chang'an, but it seems that we can try to relax a little more in the decoration of the door leaves...

After all, compared to the light curtain that showed the city full of vermilion at the end of the year in later generations, last year when Yuan Zhengqian sneaked out of the palace and wandered around in the square, he saw a black door with water that was not festive enough.

But you shouldn’t blame yourself for this, right? Li Shimin excused himself in his heart:

It was all decided by the Supreme Emperor, and it had nothing to do with him.

And if it’s to celebrate the New Year, a little mess on the door shouldn’t have any impact, right? Li Shimin muttered in his heart.

[And when everything is ready, the New Year festival has reached its most critical position, which is now commonly known as New Year's Eve.

Regarding this festival etiquette, the records we have seen so far are almost the same as today's from the Western Jin Dynasty. Fengtu Ji records a complete and busy New Year's Eve process.

On New Year's Eve, friends will take advantage of the dawn to send gifts to each other, which is called giving gifts to the new year.

Close friends invite each other for wine and food, which is called Farewell.

After entertaining their friends, they go home respectively. The elders and the younger sit down to have a drink together, and complete the blessings, which is called separation of years.

After the banquet, they did not say goodbye, but stayed up all night waiting for dawn, which is called staying up late on the New Year's Eve.

After dawn, people who are in dire straits express their best wishes for the new year to each other in the morning light, saying New Year's Eve.

This whole process is New Year's Eve.

The most specific origin of New Year's Eve is unknown. However, due to the lack of understanding of the world, the ancients would worship the gods after a good harvest and drive away ghosts when disasters occurred. It is natural to repair the relationship with the good gods when bidding farewell to the old and welcome the new, so as to drive away evil ghosts and never come back again. of.

Historically, from the Zhou Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, more and more people participated in the New Year's Eve celebrations.

From the Shang and Zhou dynasties to the pre-Qin Dynasty, the emperors would perform Exorcism rituals in the palace to drive away ghosts. At this time, such celebrations were still the privilege of the ruling class.

After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty unified the Chinese New Year time, due to the fear of witchcraft, until the end of the Han Dynasty, Nuo opera gradually separated from the regulations and flowed into the people. As long as the Nuo opera did not exceed the regulations, there would be no trouble.

As for the quite complete New Year's Eve customs during the Jin and Jin Dynasties, on the one hand, it is related to the unprecedented improvement of the status of powerful people, who compete to show off their celebrity. On the one hand, it is also because the fear of witchcraft is gradually fading, and the dignitaries need a celebration ceremony that is relatively mild and can consolidate family cohesion.

However, until the Song Dynasty, this ritual became simpler. Go to the street to watch a Nuo performance, and then go home and put all the prepared food on the table.

After nightfall, they hold up oil lamps and illuminate every corner of their home to drive away ghosts. Finally, they stay up with their family until dawn.

This is the process of keeping up the year old for an ordinary person in the Song Dynasty, also known as zhaoxu wasting or staying up late.

However, in comparison, ordinary people in the Song Dynasty paid more attention to the attribute of reunion on New Year's Eve.

From the Pre-Qin Dynasty's inspection of the country to the Tang Dynasty's Die Wenqiao, the serf manor economy gradually declined, the shackles imposed by the landlords on the people gradually loosened, and it became relatively easier for ordinary people to travel far.

After the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Song Dynasty officially became a complete feudal tenancy economy. People were able to move freely. Objectively speaking, it did promote economic and cultural prosperity. In modern times, there is some truth in calling the Song Dynasty the dawn of modern times.

This situation made the people of the Song Dynasty have a land area far smaller than that of the Han and Tang Dynasties, but the scope of ordinary people's actions far exceeded that of the Han and Tang Dynasties. In the end, New Year's Eve also took on the meaning of reunion.

It is a pity that although the Ming and Qing dynasties continued the legal system of translation and division initiated by the Song Dynasty, they perfected the joint trial of the three divisions, the round trial of the Jiuqing, the court trial, the heat trial and the great trial on the basis of the separation of powers and duties. There was a system of equal review, but Zhu Yuanzhang came up with the road guide instead.

No one can leave the countryside to work and work, and the road guide system has once again tightly restricted the people to one-third of an acre of land.

Probably because it restricted the vitality of the common people, the New Year's Eve and New Year celebrations in the Ming and Qing Dynasties were just an extension of those in the Song Dynasty, with nothing particularly new.

When it comes to the most grand celebrations on the planet to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, the modern Chinese New Year should be the first. 】

Kong Ming, Pang Tong and others were refreshed.

Compared with others, they are more concerned about the changes in the system over the past thousand years.

There is no other way. The Song Dynasty could learn from the Han and Tang Dynasties, and the Tang Dynasty could also look at the corrections and omissions in Han history for four hundred years. But for the Han Dynasty for four hundred years, we were just crossing the river by feeling the stones.

When several people who held the rank of military advisor had free time before, the most they talked about was the rise and fall of powerful families and surnames.

Because from the changes in those hundreds of years, the evolution of the power structure, the deepening of central control over local governments, the more complete formulation of tax collection laws, etc., can all be glimpsed and attempted to complete the picture.

However, perhaps due to the inertia of their thinking, they had mostly talked about the affairs of princes, princes and ministers before. It was not until this criticism about Lu Yin that they once again looked at the Tang and Song Dynasties from a different perspective.

The manorial economy has changed into a tenancy economy... Pang Tong said to himself.

Living the people is a living country... Kong Ming is even more determined about the measures taken by Chang'an now.

Transfer investigation, Jiji branch, joint trial of the three departments?

Fazheng muttered to himself and repeated these words that were not easy to understand.

He was familiar with Han law and had studied it, but it was difficult to guess anything from just these few words. Therefore, he missed Zhang Song and Liu Ba a little at the first time. I believe that the two of them would have different opinions if they were here.

But... maybe we can have a chat with this Lu Zijing? Fazheng glanced at Lu Su, who was also thoughtful next to him.

Fazheng still remembered Lu Su's posthumous praise, saying that he was very kind, fair and selfless with clear rewards and punishments.

In this case, maybe he also has unique insights into the ways of power and law?