On the second day of February, the dragon raised its head.
In the blink of an eye, it is already the beginning of spring, and the legend is that it is the day when the dragon raises its head, also known as the spring ploughing festival.
At this time of the year, the Dragon Head Festival is celebrated to show respect to the dragon and pray for rain, so that God can bless the harvest.
Steward Zhang came over and talked to Zhang Chao about returning to the ba.
The land temple built by the Zhang family and the villagers has been completed, and the village is waiting for Zhang Chao to go back and ask the land god to be in the right place and congratulate the land god on his birthday.
Because on the second day of February, it is also said to be the birthday of the father-in-law of the land.
Bailu Township has the custom of holding a land meeting for the longevity of the land father.
Every year, every family in the township pools money to congratulate the birthday of the land god, burns incense and sacrifices to the land bank, beats gongs and drums, and sets off firecrackers.
This year, Zhangjiagou Village also has its own land temple, and the statue of the land father-in-law carved by the workers will be invited to enter the temple on the birthday of the land father.
"I have to go to the spring ploughing ceremony tomorrow morning, Thirteen Niang will go back in the morning, and I will go back in the afternoon."
The villagers are very superstitious about building temples to worship gods and praying for rain, and Zhang Chao also followed the customs.
The statues of the land temple are repaired, and most of them are from the Zhang family.
For tomorrow's ceremony, the Zhang family is also willing to pay a little more.
For the villagers of Zhangjiagou, this is a big deal.
February 2 is also an extremely important day for the emperor.
If it is unified today, Emperor Li Yuan also plans to hold a spring ploughing ceremony this year.
A piece of land has already been made in the southern suburbs, and tomorrow the emperor will lead hundreds of civil and military officials to personally plow and plow the fields.
This also shows that the emperor attaches great importance to farming, the son of heaven supports the plow, the prime minister takes the ox, and the book sows the seeds.
Originally, this ceremony was supported by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the Son of Heaven just took the stage to watch, but this year Li Yuan planned to personally plow a few ridges of land.
Zhang Chao is not the prime minister of the three provinces, nor is he the sixth book, not even Jiuqing, and he is not qualified to sow seeds.
However, because Zhang Chao is the inventor of the Quyuan plow, and this plow has long been proved to be extremely easy to use, and the efficiency has increased greatly, regardless of the north and south paddy fields and dry land.
Therefore, this year, Li Yuan specially sent a decree that Zhang Chao not only wanted to participate in this year's spring ploughing ceremony, but also asked him to go to the cow at that time.
Morning glory enjoys the treatment of the prime minister, and as soon as the will comes out, I don't know how many people are jealous.
Zhang San is a five-grade official, and he can actually lead the cow.
Because Zhang San only has five grades, he also conveyed the scarlet robe and goldfish bag specially given by the emperor according to his will.
The scarlet robe bounty fish bag is a bit similar to the bullfighting robe of the Ming Dynasty, and the yellow horse coat is full of dazzling eyes.
After Zhang Chao got the reward, he was urged by his father and Cui Yingying to try it on, with a purple robe and jade belt, and a goldfish bag around his waist, purple and gold, which is very conspicuous, especially with Zhang Chao's young man in his early twenties, which makes his figure more and more erect.
Although the gift of purple gold is only an honor, in fact, the grade has not been improved, but when Zhang Chao changed into a purple robe and wore a goldfish bag and appeared in the morning court, it still aroused the sideways eyes of countless officials.
In the past, Zhang Chao's official position did not need to go to the palace to go to the early court, or he did not have that qualification, unless it was a big court meeting for the New Year, he would join in the fun and line up outside the hall.
But today Zhang Chao got a special order to go to the palace, and he can also have a place at the entrance of the palace.
It was still very early, but the ministers of the palace were very energetic.
Zhang Chao was glad that he only got a temporary opportunity, otherwise it would be really painful to get up in the middle of the night every day to rush to the morning court.
On the Golden Palace, Li Yuan sat on the dragon chair, and under the Danqi jade steps was the crown prince.
Among the hundred officials, the first is Li Shimin.
What made him rank in this position was his official position of General Tiance, which was a position below the Third Division and above the Third Duke.
Among the 100 officials in Datang, this is the fourth-ranked official position, and it is also one of the only seven first-class positions in Datang.
The remaining three divisions and three dukes, the three divisions are currently vacant, the third duke Li Shimin has two both, and Li Yuanji has served as one.
Admiral Tiance is above the Prime Minister, so Li Shimin is the real third-in-command of the Tang Dynasty.
Then in second place is Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, who is also the third duke.
Then there is the left servant of Shangshu Province who shoots Pei Lian, the prime minister, but he is not the biggest official in Shangshu Province, and Li Shimin also serves as Shangshu Ling.
There are Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda, Feng Deyi, Yang Gongren and others in the back.
Further down are the six Shangshu and Jiuqing.
The status of the generals is obviously lower than that of civil officials, and some of the high-ranking subordinates of the East Palace also participated in the court meeting, such as the crown prince Zhan Shi, Shao Zhan Shi, and the left and right concubines.
The content of this morning pilgrimage is quite brief, and there is no specific major event to be discussed.
Zhang Chao was behind the courtiers and arrived at the gate of the palace.
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The queue here is a group of scarlet robes, most of whom are forty or fifty years old, Zhang Chao, a young man in his twenties, is sitting there wearing a purple robe and wearing a goldfish bag, which is indeed very conspicuous.
So much so that the surrounding officials turned their heads from time to time.
Zhang Chao sat there honestly, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty was still more conscientious, the officials still had a mat in the court, and the prime ministers such as Pei Lin even had a soft cushion, kneeling there was much more comfortable than standing.
At the end of the court meeting, the emperor led a hundred officials to the southern suburbs under the protection of a large group of government soldiers and guards.
The scene was quite big, very pompous, Zhang Chao rode a horse and followed the team, and he couldn't help but feel fluttering.
On the second day of February, it was actually a little cold.
But today is actually a ceremony, Li Yuan changed into a black dragon robe, wearing a black hat, holding a whip in one hand, and holding Zhang Quyuan's plow with the other, and the plow was tied with red silk.
Although they all use the Quyuan plow, today the plough is still pulled by two big bullocks, at least more than 1,000 catties of big bullocks are extremely majestic, carrying a wooden pole.
Ploughing the first ridge of soil, the crown prince Li Jiancheng and the Ministry of Civil Affairs Shangshu Zheng Shanguo led a cow and pulled it in front.
Li Yuan personally held the plow.
"Hi" The ox carried the plough forward, and the Quyuan plough turned up the frozen land, and the black mud churned, exuding the unique fragrance of the land.
A ridge of soil is not long, and it will soon walk back and forth.
Then he replaced it with Shangshu and ordered Li Shimin and Si Nongqing to support the plow and pull it.
"Shangshu Zuo Servant shoots Pei Lian, Hanlin Academy Bachelor Zhang Chao, Morning Glory" The officials of the Ministry of Rites sang loudly, and Zhang Chao and Pei Lin stepped forward.
Pei Lin took the cow rope from Li Shimin's hand, and Zhang Chao took the cow rope from the hand of Si Nongqing.
When Li Shimin passed by Zhang Chao, he glanced at him, and the two made eye contact, Li Shimin had a look of appreciation in his eyes, and a smile on the corner of his mouth.
"I still can't believe that this curved plough was actually invented by Wen Yuan."
Pei Lin smiled at Zhang Chao across the two cows.
"It's just an improvement on the basis of the predecessors."
Zhang Chao is modest.
Later, Li Yuan ploughed two ridges of land, and he was quite excited, "San Lang should not be humble, I personally helped the plow, but I really felt that this plow was much easier to use than the original straight long plow, and I helped the plow to plow twice, and I was not tired at all."
Good plow" The weather was fine, the sun rose, and the three ridges of land were ploughed.
Li Yuan wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with a smile that he was very happy today.
The officials greeted the emperor on the high platform that had been prepared a long time ago, and then the emperor just had to watch here. watched the officials plough the rest of the land, and then even if the ploughing was completed, the Ministry of Rites would have to sacrifice to the god of ceres of heaven and earth.
Hundreds of officials welcomed the Son of Heaven back to the palace.
Zhang Chao's pair of boots worth two times were stained with a lot of mud, and after rubbing on the grass for a while, there was still a lot of mud on them.
Relying on the drive, Zhang Chao rode back to Beijing on horseback.
After returning to Beijing, the emperor still has to ascend to the palace to discuss matters, but there is nothing Zhang Chao to do.
It is only a qualification to go to the palace to participate in the court, and after ploughing, he is still the Hanlin bachelor, the deputy master of the Chongwen Pavilion, and the prince washing the horse.
After returning to Beijing, changing his clothes and boots, Zhang Chao hit his horse and returned to Zhangjiagou.
Zhangjiagou is particularly lively today, the whole village has come out, and the workshop and the academy are also on holiday today, and everyone is here to join in the fun.
Twenty-four strong young men were selected in the village to carry the statue of the father-in-law into the temple.
Zhang Chao is also one of them, Ke Wu and Ke Shan, two officials from Zhangjiagou, also took off their shirts with Zhang Chao today, shirtless, and carried the statue of the god into the temple with red silk around their waists.
The idol is a clay fetus, with paint, painting, and lifelike on the outside.
It's not heavy when you lift it.
The gongs and drums are noisy, and the crowds are crowded.
There are also people who scatter copper coins in the front, leading countless children behind them to pick up money.
Carry the statue around the village, and pass in front of every house.
Every time he arrived at the door of a house, the head of the household would come out to set off firecrackers, incense, and take some copper coins out.
However, this copper coin is not for people, but when the statue is applied for a while, these copper coins will be put into the belly of the idol and sealed.
Practicing guns and archery every morning makes Zhang Chao's body very strong now, and he lifts the statue bare-chested in February, not cold at all, nor tired at all.
In addition, there is also a shift change, twenty-four people are in a shift of eight people, and they are rotated from time to time, which makes Zhang Chao feel quite relaxed.
When the idol was finally placed in the newly built land temple, the lively ceremony was not over.
The village has prepared a lot of tables of banquets, the whole village has a share, men, women and children eat together, the cost of this banquet is the money of the whole village, of which the Zhang family is naturally the most, but other villagers also have their own share.
The picture is a lively.
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After eating, he gave the three animal sacrifices prepared to the father-in-law of the land, praying for good weather and abundant crops this year.
"It's spring, get busy, plough the fields and dry the ground."
In the afternoon, the men of every family drove their oxen and ploughed into the field.
Although the weather is still cold, millet still has to be planted later, as the so-called, the spring equinox early valley rain late Qingming sowing is the right time.
But the field has to be ploughed now, the ground is ploughed, let him dry it, and then the soil has to be broken up, and the bottom fertilizer has to be applied.
This year, everyone has Zhang's cattle and a new plow, and the villagers are very excited.
Zhang Chao also changed into coarse linen clothes, playing barefoot, carrying a plow and a rake, Cui Yingying led the head of the big buffalo behind, and Zheng Hongxian drove the head of the small buffalo.
Even the two orchids and Du Shi Niang also changed into coarse cloth clothes, wore a handkerchief on their heads, and followed the basket to the ground together.
Daddy is also coarse cloth today, barefoot, and picks up a load of boulder to follow.
Qi Niang took the two sisters Lian'er and Lan'er, carrying a pot of boiling water.
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