[Red Chamber] I am Lin Daiyu and her uncle

March [-]rd, Shangsi Festival.

Every March season, people will go to the water's edge to offer sacrifices, and the custom is spring bathing and outing.

The literati and refined scholars hold a banquet by the water, and they all sit by the winding water, put the wine glass on the flowing water, and let it float down the current, and whoever stops in front of it will drink the wine in the glass in one gulp , and compose a poem, otherwise three cups of wine will be fined.

This kind of game is called "Qushui Liushang", which is deeply sought after and loved by some scholars.

In order to show the peace and prosperity and have fun with the people, the emperor will also take a spring outing with all the civil and military officials on this day, and the people in the capital city will support the old and the young, and the whole family will go out.

Xinke Scholars will also go to Chunjiangtai to attend the dinner on this night, as usual.

Every time the palace examination ends, on the day of "March [-], the dragon raises its head", the Holy Master will visit Yingzhou Pagoda in Qionglin Garden in the evening.

Chunjiang Terrace is also located in Qionglin Garden, and faces Yingzhou Tower from south to north. Yingzhou faces south from north, and Chunjiang Terrace faces north from south.Although the locations are opposite to each other, the architectural style is equally magnificent.

Chunjiang Terrace is a cylindrical high platform, with white marble steps for ascending and descending in the four directions of east, west, north and south, and the surface of the high platform is also paved with white jade bricks.There is nothing special about it in the daytime. After all, there are so many royal buildings, and it is not very unusual to be just a white jade brick. However, at night, the surface of the round platform paved with white jade looks crystal clear under the moonlight, and the entire high platform glows. White and lustrous light.

Standing on a high platform, it feels like being in an ethereal fairyland...

Although the entire high platform is only decorated with white jade, it is because of this that it looks more pure and flawless.And the area of ​​the high platform is large enough, almost as large as the entire playground, but the playground is oval, and the high platform is a perfect circle.In addition, jade, especially white jade, is born with nobility and immortality, so the whole has a broad momentum with the bright moon in the bosom and the sky on the ground.

Yingzhou Pagoda is a tall tower with a nine-story tower body, towering and majestic, solemn and generous.The whole body of the tower is earth-like in color, simple and thick, and each floor is equipped with a circular corridor for people to walk around in the tower floor, especially the corridor on the third floor is hung with gauze as thin as a cicada's wing, and the breeze blows through it. Elegant and soft, looming.

Yingzhou Pagoda and Chunjiang Terrace are on a straight line running from north to south. There are long and straight streams on both sides, flowing from north to south. The stone steps on the east and west sides of Chunjiang Terrace are facing the two streams. On the north and south sides, a semi-circular stream following the arc of the circular platform was manually dug out.

It's just that the water flows from north to south, so how come there are two east-west arc-shaped streams in the north and south?

Weird, weird.

It can only be said that there are really many skilled craftsmen in the palace.

In the evening, the night is coming.

Under the leadership of the head of the civil and military ministers, the Xinke Jinshi entered the Qionglin Garden in two rows. In addition to the Wenxuan Jinshi, there were also Wuxuan Jinshi attending the banquet.

Originally Wu Jinshi could not participate in this kind of state banquet, usually only the banquet held by the Ministry of War to celebrate.Later, Empress Dowager Wen Huan called the system and attached great importance to Wu Xuan and Wu Jinshi, so she also graciously allowed Wu Jinshi and Wen Jinshi to participate in the Spring River Banquet.

Wen Jinshi sits in the east of Chunjiang Taidong, and Wu Jinshi sits in the west of Chunjiang Taixi.In ancient times, "East and West", the east has always been the first, and the west is the second, so even if the Wu Jinshi can participate in the banquet with the Wen Jinshi, they are still somewhat inferior.

Because it was Wen Jinshi who celebrated at Chunjiang Terrace earlier, the Spring River Banquet generally refers to the celebration banquet of Wen Jinshi, and later Wu Jinshi also joined it. The banquet for scholars is "Wu Hook Banquet".

Both have their own stories.

"Qingqian" comes from the allusion of "Qingqian Wanxuan", which is a metaphor for outstanding literary talent and repeated trials; "Wu hook" comes from "Why don't men wear Wu hook and collect fifty states in Guanshan", which is galloping on the battlefield and inspiring to serve the country. spiritual symbol.

Although they each have their own banquet names, they are called only when they are distinguished, and they are still collectively called "Spring River Banquet" in external and historical records.

But not all Jinshi who passed the exam can participate. Usually only the top 240 Wen Jinshi and the top 120 Wu Jinshi can participate.

These Jinshi had to arrive earlier than the emperor, and they were lined up neatly in the south of Chunjiang Terrace. After the emperor went to Yingzhou Pagoda and issued the order to start the banquet, these Jinshi could go to Chunjiang Terrace one after another to sit.

Overall, it can be said to be very troublesome, but at this moment, who would be bothered?Being able to stay here for an extra second can add capital to bragging in the future.

After the banquet, these new scholars can enter the Yingzhou Pagoda to leave their names, so which one among them will become the chief minister of the cabinet in the future, and they will have to change their names to write with a red pen!

Lin Qing stood at the front of the line, with his head slightly lowered, his hands hanging on his sides, his face was calm, but his heart was already turbulent.It's not that he's impatient, on the contrary, he enjoys this "strange" atmosphere to him.

Usually watching movies and TV dramas, when it comes to the palace examination, those students only answer questions in the Jinluan Hall, and immediately after answering, they will be directly appointed champions, candidates, and role models by the emperor. What's so exciting and nervous?As long as the mental quality is excellent and the strength is strong, it is not a problem at all.

However, the large-scale ceremony the day before yesterday allowed him, an ignorant and ignorant ordinary person, to fully understand what is meant by the real etiquette, royal demeanor, and majesty of the heavenly family!

The so-called "the world is shocked, and the princes and guests are convinced", it is absolutely true.

Lin Qing still remembers that day when he knelt down and heard his name being heard throughout the universe by the resounding voice of the ordering officer, his whole body was surging with energy and blood!

He clearly knew that his achievement was achieved by relying on the cheating of the system, which is not something to be proud of, but he was still hopelessly infected and moved by this solemn and solemn atmosphere.

At that moment, for the first time, he had a sense of belonging to this different world, because from now on, his name and deeds, Lin Qing, will be recorded in detail one by one, and everything will prove that he came and existed, and It is no longer a dispensable person who no one pays attention to after death.

Only in this way can he feel that he is being gradually accepted by this world system.In the future, Lin Qing will definitely have a place in Nanke Kingdom...

I don't know how long it has passed, the night is getting darker and darker, and the full moon in the sky is getting brighter and brighter. Under the strong moonlight, the Chunjiang Terrace in front of it exudes a soft and white light. Looking from a distance, it is really beautiful It looks like a huge white jade pillar, crystal clear and shining!

Finally, on the Spring River Terrace, the official announcer first read out the congratulatory speech in his loud and clear voice, and it took a long time before he finished reading out.

Immediately afterwards, there was another moment of silence in the arena.

Suddenly, the emperor sitting on the high tower issued an order, and the order was sung one by one by the heralds around him. The voice was almost inaudible at the beginning, and finally resounded throughout the universe.

"Open—feast—"

Spring River Banquet.

Start!