My surname is Wang, my neighbor Wu Dalang

Time flies, and the Shangyuan Festival, the third year of Dayan's revival, has arrived.

Shangyuan is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.Since Tang and Song Dynasties, in addition to eating Lantern Festival and setting off firecrackers, there have been various sports activities in Shangyuan Festival, among which dragon lantern dancing and lion playing are the most popular, followed by sumo wrestling, kicking, stepping and acrobatic performances, which are very lively.

Since the tenth day of the first lunar month, the inside and outside of Yanjing City has become a sea of ​​lights and flowers, the curfew has been lifted, singing and singing every night has become a city that never sleeps.

Palaces, streets, monasteries, and houses are decorated with lanterns and festoons, and lanterns, lantern wheels, lantern trees, and lanterns in the shape of dragons, phoenixes, tigers, and leopards are set up. Yanjing is decorated with fire trees, silver flowers, and resplendent gold. Temples in the city also display candles and religious stories. Lanterns, as bright as day and all night long.

In fact, since the winter solstice before the new year, Shuntian Mansion began to tie up the mountain sheds, and the standing trees were facing Xuande Tower.

Tourists visit Royal Street at night.

Under the two corridors of Zhuque Street, there are thaumaturgies, singing and dancing, all kinds of dramas, and the music is noisy for more than ten miles.

A viewing shed was set up on Xuandelou Street.There are hundreds of songs, dances and plays, and the sound of gongs and drums.

The performances include "hitting the ball, kicking the ball, stepping on the rope and climbing the pole... Zhang Jiuge swallows the iron sword, Li Waining plays the puppet... Su Shi, Meng Xuan builds the ball".

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, at dusk, the emperor led all the concubines in the harem and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty to the Xuande Gate tower in the imperial city, watching lanterns, having a banquet, and having fun with the people.

Standing on the city tower, Wang Lin looked at the grand scene in front of him, his mind was shocked.

To be honest, for him, in the current ancient society with no electricity and very underdeveloped lighting, the scene full of fire trees and silver flowers, bright as day, still has a great visual impact on him.

He immediately frowned.

He doesn't object to celebrating the festival, but it's fun to celebrate the festival like this, but how much does it cost?

In the future, Dayan will still have to fight against the Kingdom of Jin, and the temporary peace needs to accumulate the treasury as much as possible, and spend the money where it should be spent. It is really unnecessary to engage in such ostentation like today...

Li Gang led the important officials of the third rank and above to line up, intending to pay homage to the emperor and congratulate the emperor, empress and concubines on the Lantern Festival.

Seeing that the emperor frowned, he was slightly taken aback.

Guo Zhishun behind Li Gang woke up and reacted immediately.

Guo Zhishun immediately came out and bowed and said: "Your Majesty, although there is a lot of money spent on the Lantern Festival, most of the money is raised by the people and merchants themselves, and very little comes from the household department. And most of the money spent on decorations in the palace is from the Xixia Dynasty. Donated by the Li Family, a merchant. Please also let Your Majesty know."

The corner of Wang Lin's mouth twitched, but he knew in his heart that today's festival should not spoil the excitement of everyone, so he nodded with a slight smile. Even if this matter was exposed, he made up his mind that starting next year, he would never do it again. Make such an extravagance.

Even among the people, such a trend of extravagance cannot rise.

Li Gang led all the officials to bow down to the ground, performed three bows and nine kowtows, and then congratulated: "I wish Your Majesty and all the ladies a happy and peaceful Lantern Festival!"

Wang Lin smiled loudly, nodded his head and said: "Everyone is safe, and I am here to wish you and your family happiness, and I wish my Great Yan a peaceful country and a peaceful people!"

The monarchs and ministers congratulated each other, and the monarchs and ministers got each other, so they went to the banquet.

The emperor's Shangyuan Festival banquet tonight was intentionally held on the tower of Xuandemen, implying the meaning of sharing happiness with the people.

But today's imperial banquet, the dishes and drinks are quite simple.

There is only one meat, two vegetables, one snack, one fruit, and a pot of strong wine brewed by the emperor himself.

Wang Lin looked around at the ministers and said: "My dear friends, don't dislike the simple dishes. I and the concubines in the palace only have such a simple diet. I think that spending too much on these things is a burden on the people's livelihood. Yu Guochang Extravagance is inappropriate. But simple tea and light meals are enough, and you and my monarchs and ministers gather on the Xuande Gate tower to enjoy the people together, that is enough!"

Li Gang stood up and expressed his position on behalf of the officials: "Your Majesty is frugal and concerned about the country and the people. All the subjects in the world know it. The ministers should follow your majesty as an example and promote frugality in the court."

Wang Lin chuckled: "That's not necessary. You have a generous salary, so you can enjoy your life. You don't need to be frugal. As long as you don't waste and don't be excessively extravagant."

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The monarchs and ministers drank banquets and watched the lanterns, laughed and chatted, and after drinking for three rounds, Deng Pinzhong, the doctor of the censor, suddenly came out of class and bowed: "Your Majesty, how can there be no poems to cheer up the Lantern Festival? I have heard that Your Majesty and Li Zhu have a good relationship." The reputation of the dragon and the phoenix in the poem, the skill of poetry is the best in the world, why not ask your majesty to present a poem on the spot, to show the joy of your majesty and the imperial court with the people."

Li Gang, Wu Min, Zong Ze, Guo Zhishun, Huang Qishan and Zhang Jun, the head of the six ministries, all spoke in agreement.

Wang Lin smiled slightly, noncommittal.

He looked back at Li Qingzhao and Zhu Shuzhen behind him, and said with a smile: "Qingzhao, Shuzhen, your poems are famous all over the world, known as North Li Nanzhu, representing the highest level of my Dayan poetry, and now it is the Lantern Festival. If you have excellent works, you may wish to recite them in public, it can be regarded as our joy with the people and with the officials."

Li Qingzhao smiled slightly, she got up gracefully, and Luoluo said to the officials in a general way: "My lords, Qingzhao has no old works, but Qingzhao remembered that Qingzhao and His Majesty met for the first time in Qingzhou, which was also the night of the Shangyuan Festival. His Majesty's words were not widely circulated, but have always been treasured in Qingzhao's heart.

Tonight, Qingzhao recited this word and shared it with all the gentlemen. "

Wang Lin was slightly taken aback, and immediately understood that what Li Qingzhao was talking about should be the song Yuan Xi of the Sapphire Case.

He thought about it carefully. As far as he knew, Li Qingzhao had only one famous poem about the Shangyuan Festival.

The name is called Yongyule——

The setting sun melts gold, and the evening clouds merge, where is the person?Dye the willow smoke thick, blow the plum flute to complain, how much do you know about the spring?During the Lantern Festival, when the weather is harmonious, how can there be no wind and rain?Come to call, sweet car BMW, thank him for wine, friends and poets.On a prosperous day in Zhongzhou, there is a lot of leisure in the boudoir, so remember to put more emphasis on three or five.Spread emerald crowns, twist golden snow willows, and fight to help Chu.Now haggard, with wind and frost on her temples, afraid of going out at night.It's better to listen to people's laughter under the curtain.

This poem is one of the relatively high-level masterpieces in Li Qingzhao's works.

But this poem was written in Li Qingzhao's bleak old age.

At that time, after the Jingkang Incident, the Northern Song Dynasty perished and Bianjing was looted. After Kang Wang Zhaogou stabilized the Southern Song Dynasty regime, a large number of northern people flooded into Lin'an, and Li Qingzhao was one of them.

The death of her husband, the loss of property, and the misfortune of remarriage turned this originally extremely happy woman into a miserable old woman in her later years.

This song "Yong Yu Le" is describing a period of Li Qingzhao's life in Lin'an in his later years.

Song and Jin countries have been in a stable truce period. Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, is full of prosperous scenes of singing and dancing. It is even more lively when it comes to grand festivals like the Lantern Festival.

But the desolate Li Qingzhao saw her desolate experience in this prosperity, as well as the infinite sigh of the rise and fall of her family and country. She expressed it without any concealment in this poem.