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Chapter 715 Not Just a Traditional Festival

During the winter solstice festival in the eighth year of Yuanshuo, while Liu Yan held a banquet in Miyagi for the ministers, the crowds gathered from all sides were also included in the reception.

Before Liu Che changed the Yuan Dynasty, the Winter Solstice Festival was actually the New Year of Zhu Xia civilization, that is, every October was the beginning of the new year, and it was later changed to the first day of the first month of January every year as the New Year.

Every festival of the Zhuxia civilization has its own specialties. Generally, some major events happened, and then some great people did something particularly meaningful on that day, which formed the festival.

Nuo dance is a kind of dance that existed in the Xia and Shang Dynasties. It evolved into a trick to expel bad luck in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods. The Nuo dance in the palace means getting rid of the unsatisfactory one year and making the next year happier and healthier.

Nuo dance is a kind of trick art.And jiyi covers a lot of meanings, generally referring to artistic performances.It's just that for a long time, it was related to romance, such as training famous prostitutes.There is currently a trend in southern China to cultivate famous prostitutes, but they are just domestic beauties, actors and the like, but they don't show their faces to provide special services for the masses.

Every year during the Winter Solstice Festival, the officials of the Han Dynasty will also arrange Nuo dance. When Liu Yan entertains the officials and banquets, there will be dancers with masks and strange costumes performing dances.

Even in modern times, Nuo dance is still passed down, but the form and costume of the dance will vary from place to place, but the "function" is actually the same. From folk dances, but at present, the greatest use of Nuo dance is to show it in Nuo rituals, which is a necessary part of sacrifices.

"Why is it similar to our dance of asking God and praying?"

The speaker was from Frank, his name was Goodhouse, and he was talking about the Nuo dance being performed.

So it is very strange that many countries and nations on the earth are very far apart, and many behaviors have the same consistency without communication.What I'm talking about is not the behavior of eating and sleeping, but some aspects that can be summarized into culture and art, and quite a few appellations.

Frank, Burgundy, and Alemanni all belong to the line of Germanic people. When their priests hold religious ceremonies, they usually wear a very strange mask, and perform dances and dances. Almost the same dance, the same and chanting spells that no one can understand.

Nuo dance is really a part of primitive beliefs, and it is generally used by various ethnic groups on various religious occasions, but Germanic priests are very noble and special professions, and the number of priests is very rare. The profession of Wu Zhu on the side has long been broken, and those who dance the Nuo dance are just temporary guest appearances.

If you look at the Nuo dancers, you will see a burly and strong figure. The other dancers hold a flag in one hand and a wooden shield in the other.

The double-edged spear and the hooked halberd are Ran Min's special weapons, and the burly and strong man is really him.

In other words, why does Ran Min join in the fun by dancing the Nuo dance on the Winter Solstice Festival?It's not that he thinks that he has enough evil spirits to make a cameo appearance.

It seems that it can be related. Zhu Xia civilization believed that evil spirits can drive away evil spirits, and Nuo dance was originally intended to drive away evil spirits.So not only Ran Min, but also Li Tan, Huan Wen, Lu Tai and Xie An all made guest appearances, but these latter people didn't use their weapons.They are also the lead dancers of Nuo dance, which gives the Nuo dance a strong killing momentum when dancing.

It is because the exorcism dance they danced has a strong killing momentum, which makes the Germans feel that it is very similar to their own Nuo dance, which is that the Nuo dance of the Germans also has an obvious killing momentum.

"Is there any connection between the Cyrians and the Germans?"

"The two peoples are so far apart that there can be no connection."

Aulus Sextus Cicero just watched the Nuo dance of the Han people and the Nuo dance of the Germans, so he just asked casually.

In other words, the name Germanic was the name given by the Romans to a group of barbarians. In fact, the group of barbarians were not from the same nationality. It was the Romans who used the same name for them.

What the Romans did was an act of shooting themselves in the foot. Originally, various barbarian tribes would fight with each other. After the barbarians found out that they were all "insiders", it was difficult for the Romans to defeat the various tribes of the barbarians.

It wasn't just the Romans who did such stupid things, the civilizations of the Xia Dynasty also did such stupid things. Some tribes were not the same nation at all, but they were classified as the same nation by the Central Plains Dynasty.

There used to be more than one Xiongnu tribe in the grasslands. For example, the Aries King tribe, the Xiutu King tribe, and the Hunxie King tribe were not Huns, but they were recognized by the Western Han Dynasty as Huns. As a result, they really came together, and they were far more than just Huns. Among the above-mentioned tribes, many miscellaneous Hus were also forced into the camp belonging to the Huns.

Later, the Eastern Han Dynasty also did the same thing. The tribe of sheep herders in the northwest border was not a nation at all. The Han people first created the word "Qiang" to describe those tribes, and gradually regarded those tribes as the same nation. That is, those tribes really formed the same nation and united to harm the northwestern border of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The most stupid thing is not to pinch the original barbarian tribe into a nation, but to create a nation out of nothing.How to create it?For some reason, it may be for the sake of profit, or it may be that the officials gather a group of people and tell them: what race your ancestors were originally, and what race you will be in the future, and agreed to have a government 1 Subsidy and extra points, if you disagree, let alone no subsidy and extra points, I will deal with you!

"I heard that the Han people have been expelling and eliminating alien races that they don't agree with?"

"The ancestors of the Han people have long been doing the expulsion and elimination of alien races. Contemporary Han people tend to integrate and digest alien races."

Since the Romans were present on such an occasion, it made no sense for the Persians not to join in the fun, and people from all over the world were also curious about what the official banquet of the Han Kingdom would be like, and would do everything possible to come if they were not invited.

Kianoush Arta Ardasil said that after the Han army had completed the expulsion of the Hulu, they were still chasing and killing some escaped Hulu.He also heard that the Han army had traveled thousands of miles to extremely cold places in order to hunt down and kill foreigners, and he was a little apprehensive about the Han people's concept of revenge.

"A country is the most stable only if it has a single ethnicity. The more ethnic groups in a country, the greater the contradictions will be. When the main ethnic group is weak, the country will be doomed to split."

"That is to say, why don't you Romans let go of your slaves and continue to transport slaves from various places back to the mainland?"

The foreign missions were assigned to an area, and their positions belonged to the corners. Judging from the position arrangement, it was obvious that they still fell outside the cultural people who were invited.

"We're talking about peoples, not slaves!"

"Ha ha!"

Chianush Arta Ardashir and Olus Sextus Cicero, who were not far apart, looked at each other. If special effects could be added, it would definitely be a lightning bolt in their eyes.

The Romans are still pretty good. In the past, they dared to get 3000 to [-] million slaves with millions of people. Later, the ratio of Romans to slaves has been reduced again and again, but it has always remained at the ratio of five to one.Their excellent quality of life is based on the exploitation of foreign races. Once the outward exploitation is reduced or stopped, it is basically time for domestic troubles to start.

Quite a few of the intellectuals who gathered in Old Chang'an were unaware of the existence of foreign missions in advance.This is because Han officials didn't think there was anything to show off when foreign envoys came, and they really didn't regard this event as the beginning of the country's prosperity.

Cultural people are quite excited about the presence of foreign envoys. They admire the occurrence of all nations coming to the DPRK, and regard such things as national projects. Some cultural people do not pay attention to the Nuo dance. Those crooked nuts made all kinds of guesses.

"It's far enough, but the number of countries coming to pay tribute is a little smaller."

"As soon as the war is over in the Han Dynasty, foreign countries will come to Korea."

"It wasn't for the face project of the Sima family, two of the world's great powers came here."

"I heard that Rome and Persia are powerful countries with vast territories and large populations. They are all seeking alliances from the great man?"

"The great Han has already formed an alliance with Persia to deal with the Gupta Dynasty, and there are four other countries to form a five-nation coalition."

If you didn't know what was going on between Rome and Sasanian, you would gradually learn more about the two countries during the exchange.Some people also cited the Persian Sasanian, such as the parthia in the Western Han Dynasty used tens of thousands of troops to welcome the envoys of the Han Dynasty, but they did not find any records about Rome.

In fact, the Romans had been to the Central Plains Dynasty before. It was during the period of Emperor Han Yuan, and some people made a comprehensive adaptation of the events of that period into a movie. The army went outside Yanmen Pass to hunt down a certain group of people, and they didn’t even know whether it was a grassland or the Western Regions outside Yanmen Pass. The other nonsense was to portray Huo Qubing as a pacifist.

This is not over yet. In order to have a good box office in white-skinned countries, the Western Han Dynasty was completely blacked out. Don’t think about how the [-] Romans arrived in the so-called Western Regions. It must be said that the Han Empire ignored the Romans. One hundred thousand troops invaded, and it was the arrival of the Parthia Empire (Parthia) army that solved the Roman army.

The Nuo dance was over, and Ran Min took the lead towards Liu Yan's position. Everyone in the hall followed Ran Min's movements and stood up together, saluting.

Of course Liu Yan was sitting on the throne above the steps. He raised his right hand to beg, and Cui Zong called out the word "Pingshen" for Hong Liang.

Today's Liu Yan has to wear a full set of outfits, and some people have noticed the difference between the mian suit and the previous one.

Previously, Liu Yan wore the mianfu in the royal style, but today it is the full set of the emperor's mianfu. People who discovered this did not bluff, but they couldn't help being excited.

In the third year of Yuanshuo, Liu Yan worshiped the ancestors of the Xia Dynasty and the soldiers who died in battle on Mount Tai. At that time, he had already announced to the subjects and ancestors of the world, and the gods of the four directions, and completed the ceremony of ascension to the throne of the emperor.

The Son of Heaven is the patriarch of Zhu Xia, and ascending the throne of the Son of Heaven does not mean ascending the throne and proclaiming himself emperor.After becoming the Son of Heaven, it means being able to lead the descendants of Zhuxia Miao descendants from the legal system and jurisprudence. Therefore, the highest power change of Zhuxia civilization has always been to hold the sacrifice of ascension to the throne of the Son of Heaven first, and then hold the ceremony of proclaiming the emperor.If anyone proclaims himself emperor without being the son of Jin, or if he proclaims himself emperor first and then becomes emperor, making jokes is a trivial matter, and his rule will become unstable.

Of course, it doesn't mean that after becoming the emperor, the ruling position will be extremely strong. It depends on whether the country can be peaceful and peaceful, or whether the country can be strong and prosperous, but it is really important not to be the emperor, which represents a kind of " Zhengshuo" status.In the past dynasties of the Zhuxia civilization, the emperor and the emperor were always confused by people who did not know the situation, but the power of the head of the clan was greater than that of the head of state (emperor). The emperor could punish heaven, but the head of state had to follow the law.

Liu Yan seldom wears the emperor's mianfu. In the past, the winter solstice festival banquet basically wore the king's mianfu.He changed into the emperor's mianfu outfit this year, firstly because there were foreign envoys present, and secondly because he hinted that he would soon ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor.

"let's start."

Liu Yan's voice is not loud, but it can spread well.

People from the back of the palace who had prepared for a long time came out in a file. The first was Liu Yan's eldest son, Liu Shen, followed by his eldest son, Liu Ming, followed by some younger heirs of the Sangong and Jiuqing.

The children are dressed in costumes, and because of the etiquette teaching and rehearsals that have been carried out before, they are arranged in a decent way.

Liu Shen was already seven years old after the Chinese New Year. He was still young and his facial features were not obvious. He had a good outfit and decent clothes, which showed the grace that the eldest son of the royal family should have.While walking in the front, he held a plate with both hands, which contained some food seeds. First, he dedicated the plate to Liu Yan, implying a good harvest in the coming year.Later, he took a plate containing copper coins, silver, gold, jade, agate, and emerald from Liu Ming and presented it, implying the prosperity of the country.

"It looks so complicated." Chianush Alta Aldashir looked at the little adult-like child offering more than one plate: "What kind of special culture?"

No one answered Chianush Arta Ardashir's question. After the tribute session was over, a group of musicians appeared. They set up their instruments and waited quietly.

Ran Min and the others, who had changed into the royal uniforms, appeared and went to their positions. The sound of a chime bell appeared first, and then various musical instruments joined in.

"Yo Yo Luming, the apple of the wild food. I have a guest..."

Liu Shen took the lead in singing "The Crying of the Deer", and the children sang along sternly.

During the period when the Hulu ruled the Central Plains, not only did "The Cry of the Deer" disappear, but many long-standing traditions were never dared to be practiced again. Indispensable heritage.

Afterwards, all the Han people in the hall sang along, and everyone sang mesmerizingly...

(End of this chapter)