Chapter 41: Duanyang Festival
Time always passes without realizing it. When the sunlight gradually becomes vicious, Luo Yongsheng ushered in his first important festival in this time and space.
Dragon Boat Festival.
To be precise, it should be called the Duanyang Festival, because the book "Fengtu Zhi" is not popular in Hongzhou. Jiangxi belongs to the old Chu area, and the people only recognize the Duanyang and not the Dragon Boat Festival.
There were suddenly many paper pieces in the shape of flying dragons on the street.
Chu worships the saying of witch and Zhu, and the Duanyang Festival is the hexagram of the ancestors who divine the flying dragon ascends to heaven. In order to pay tribute to the dragon god, every holiday, people buy some rice dumplings at their homes to worship the dragon god.
"Isn't it a commemoration for Qu Yuan?"
Hou San looked at Luo Yongsheng in surprise, not understanding why the latter didn't even understand this. When he thought that the latter was a beggar from a northern region, he explained: "He just happened to die on this day. Is there anything worth tribute to memorializing? There are many people in the world who died during festivals. Why? Will you north pay tribute to Qu Yuan on this day?"
Luo Yongsheng stopped talking, followed Hou San and took Yongjie and Chengwen and other children began to wander around the city of Hongzhou.
Oh, there are two more people who are worth mentioning, that is, Yongjie's daughter is about to pass by, that is, Huang Sitong's youngest daughter is also in the team of their group, and the other is Qingyan, a Qingpiao who Geng Baishun specially bought for Luo Yongsheng.
During the festival, there are many girls showing up on the streets, and Luo Yongsheng is not Zhu Zi, and he wishes he could confine all women at home and not leave.
In the era when men and women were not defending each other, the streets were also much more comfortable to watch.
"There are no worries around the streets, so the family members are not worried about being kidnapped by men?" Luo Yongsheng was still a little curious. After all, from Yangzhou to Huzhou, and from Huzhou to Hongzhou today, no matter which city it is, women are not as simple as his shallow historical accumulation. Instead, they look at people generously and play around. The men on the street are often used to seeing each other and are used to it.
"If the unmarried person has acted beyond the rules, it is adultery. The woman is too scattered or is an official prostitute. The man has a tattoo on his cheek and is sent to the frontier." Hou San briefly promoted the taboos between men and women at this time for Luo Yongsheng: "If the two are in love, they will go home to report to their parents and ask for marriage according to the courtesy.
If a woman has been divorced or a widow, it will be even more worry-free. If the two people are in love, they can get married directly, and the government cannot stop them."
So free? Luo Yongsheng blinked a few times, wouldn’t that mean that there was a little more pre-marriage restrictions than later generations?
"Not only that, if you want to marry a widow and her husband happens to die in a war, you will make a profit and you can still go to the government to get a compensation."
Hou San smiled and said, "You can understand it as the dowry money paid by the government for the woman. The court is kind and righteous. The widow of the soldiers can receive a pension every year, but if they remarry, the court will not have to continue to bear the subsequent pensions. So whoever marry such a soldier can receive a one-time money from the government.
There are not many or fewer. When the world is good, you can get two stale money. In the past few years, the imperial court fought in the northern expedition, and there were too many soldiers killed. It took a few years to stop and recover slowly. It was also a shortage of three departments, and only two or three hundred cents were given."
Sergeant's widow, annual pension?
Luo Yongsheng was really surprised. In this regard, the Zhao family was indeed benevolent and righteous in the dynasties of all dynasties.
Moreover, when the widow remarries, the court also gives a dowry money to supplement the husband's family. Anyone who sees it has to give a thumbs up and praise the court.
The deeper I understand, the more I feel the extraordinaryness of the Song Dynasty.
Why did you go off the wrong way?
After wandering around for a long time, Luo Yongsheng bought some simple handicrafts and some rice dumplings to fill his stomach. Seeing Hou San and others' eyes were surprised, he even said, "Eat together, see what I'm doing."
"This rice dumpling is a sacrificial product for sacrifice to the gods."
Hou San looked bitter: "Although there are many people eating rice dumplings in Bianjing and other places, in our Hongzhou area, no one will eat them."
“Not so much attention.”
Luo Yongsheng ate himself so he gave it to the children of Chengwen. Everyone was very happy to eat and said vaguely: "We cannot eat what gods can eat? You have to know that gods exist through word of mouth, so it is us who created the gods."
"Oh, Brother Luo, be careful."
This scared Hou San so much that he persuaded him repeatedly: "I dare not say that. There are gods who have three feet high up. If you blaspheme gods, you will be punished by God."
"Then you still follow me to cheat people and make money?"
Luo Yongsheng glared at Hou San with anger, and was a little unhappy because of the latter's curse: "You are so hypocritical and artificial, you are more likely to be punished by God. Haven't you ever heard of the saying that you pretend to be struck by lightning?"
Love pretending to be struck by lightning? Another fresh word.
Although he didn't understand, Hou Sanming did not marry too much on such topics. He would be punished by heaven and lightning at any time. If he talked too much, Hou Sanzhen was afraid that God would give him a note.
Since I was hungry, I just found a restaurant to have dinner. Hongzhou is rich, but there is no shortage of restaurants and restaurants, and every family's business is booming.
Going to the second floor, I found two tables facing the street and sat down, looked far away from the railing, and saw the beautiful scenery of Hongzhou in my eyes.
"The country is beautiful and the scenery is picturesque. Hongzhou is a city that is really a god-given."
Perhaps because he is rich in his pocket and has no burden on his shoulders, Luo Yongsheng is in a good mood and has also begun to feel arrogant, which makes Hou Sanfan beside him feel a little uncomfortable.
But Hou San still echoed: "Yes, since Taizu founded the country and established the tripod, Hongzhou has been free from chaos for 40 years, stable and peaceful, prosperous and prosperous, and has raised three generations."
The ancients gave birth early, and they often married and had children at the age of fourteen or five. It was not a mistake to say three generations in 40 years.
"Last year, the tax on the three departments of Hongzhou reached 518,000 guan, and the tax on land acres of 364,000 guan. The tax on land alone in Hongzhou alone contributed nearly one million guan to the court."
Hou Sannong said, "I counted hundreds of Songzhou Prefectures, and those who are richer than Hongzhou are only promoted to the state and Tokyo. Although the court has set up a Maritime Bureau, Fuquan Prefectures are just fishing villages and are almost in a climate."
"Have Brother Hou been to Bianjing?"
“Have been.”
"how?"
Hou San was slightly stunned and fell into deep thought. He spoke for a while and spoke in an amazing tone.
"Hou is vulgar and has no ink, so he can't describe it in words. He can only be amazed at the jade towers and jade palaces in the sky, and he can accept millions of people who are rich."
After sighing, he looked at Luo Yongsheng again: "Does Brother Luo want to go to Bianjing? If Brother Luo's current financial resources are available, he can still enjoy the rest of his life."
Luo Yongsheng smiled and looked at the north.
"I will definitely go there, but not now. If there is a chance in the future, we two brothers will be together."
Chapter completed!