The White Horse Raids the Three Kingdoms

According to the excitement of later generations, the traditional customs of the Lantern Festival include going out to admire the moon, lighting lanterns and setting off flames, guessing lantern riddles, eating Lantern Festival, playing dragon lanterns, playing lions, walking on stilts, rowing dry boats, playing Taiping drums and other traditional folk performances.

However, there were not so many rules in the Han Dynasty, and it was only necessary to light the lamps on that day.

It was night, just like the surrounding city of thousands of lights, the dim lights and the stars in the sky complement each other.

To be honest, it was also the first time for Gao Zhi to face the large-scale customs of ancient holidays.

Lighting...

With the passage of time, modern times will not have the glorious scene lit by special lights. Compared with modern neon lights, Gao Zhi thinks these handmade bamboo cage lights are more attractive.

Although with Lu Bu becoming king, and with the unremitting efforts of him and Lu Bu, the forces of Bingzhou continued to accumulate and expand outward.

The prestige of Gao Changgong, the white horse spear, is also spreading day by day, and the prosperity, wealth, and power are growing day by day.

In this era, he can also pat his chest and say that he is worthy of being a time traveler.

It's just that the joy is getting less and less...

Power, and freedom, perhaps, are really relative opposites, right?

"Why are you here? Mother and the others are all in the front yard, waiting to worship heaven and earth!"

Lu Lingqi's light voice came from behind her.

Gao Zhi regained his composure, turned his head to look at Lu Lingqi, and smiled.

"It's okay, I was just thinking about something."

"Let's go there now." Gao Zhi stepped forward to support Lu Lingqi, and the two walked to the front hall hand in hand.

The Lantern Festival, as an official, they also need to have a ceremony.

Just like the object of the emperor's sacrifice to heaven, he is offering sacrifices to the One God, and the sacrificial activities are carried out in spring and autumn, usually in the southeast countryside.

During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the sacrificial activities of Taiyi God were also officially set on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. (Taiyi: God who rules everything in the universe), so when Sima Qian created the "Taichu Calendar", he also deliberately listed the Lantern Festival as a major festival.

Although there are some suspicions of posturing, etiquette cannot be broken. This is also the "rule" of this era. Even the current Zhao Wang Lu Bu cannot avoid it.

Officials, big and small, carrying presents big and small, had already gathered in the front yard. After Gao Zhi arrived, everyone started the ceremony.

Today's highest official, Lv Bu, who was canonized as the King of Zhao, was the leader, who came forward to light incense and worship the heaven and the earth.

Then, the civil servants recited the speech with a concentrated expression, and after that, the officials came forward to give gifts one after another, worshiping the sky, and the oil lamps were ready.

Baskets of baskets of lanterns ready to be weaved were arranged in an orderly manner by servants and servants, like an assembly line.

Then there were guards who took two steps forward and lit the lights with torches. The smoke was lingering and the lights were brilliant!

...

"Hoo..." He let out a long breath, finally ended the "ceremony" that lasted for an hour, and Gao Zhi felt that he was about to peel off a layer of skin.

next time!

Next time he will never participate in such a cumbersome ceremony again!

After setting the flag, Gao Zhi's eyes moved, and his eyes fell on Lu Lingqi's pouting face, who was also depressed.

Looking at Lu Lingqi's aggrieved and depressed face, Gao Zhi let out a shameful smirk.

"Hey, Lingqi, come with me to the front hall later in the evening, and I'll make you something delicious." When Lu Lingqi glanced suspiciously over, Gao Zhi whispered, and while changing the subject, stepped forward He hugged Lu Lingqi's tender waist.

"What?" Lu Lingqi didn't resist, she leaned obediently on Gao Zhi's chest, she was slightly taken aback, her beautiful eyes turned, she stared at Gao Zhi from a close distance, seeing his mysterious expression, she suddenly became curious.

"Hey, it's a secret, I'll give you a surprise later." Gao Zhi didn't reveal it, kissed his wife, pulled away with a smile, and went far away.

"...Really, bad things always pretend to be mysterious!" Sticking out her tongue, Lu Lingqi looked at Gao Zhi's back and complained angrily.

The corner of the mouth is slightly raised.

The interest between husband and wife is always accumulated bit by bit.

...

In the middle of the night, Lu Lingqi tiptoed to the place that Gao Zhi had made an appointment with, pushed the door open, and closed the door carefully, her little nose twitched slightly.

"Smells so good! What is it?" Lu Lingqi looked in the direction of the fragrance.

On the stove, a bowl of soup, accompanied by a half-open cauldron, wafted with aroma.

In the Han Dynasty, earth stoves similar to those commonly used in rural areas appeared, and even ovens similar to today appeared. In some places, ceramic utensils appeared for people's daily use.

Today's Prince Zhao's Mansion will naturally not be short of it.

However, this is not what Lu Lingqi is concerned about now.

She looked curiously at the white and round food in the bowl. Although she didn't taste it, it was not difficult to guess that it was pasta.

Although the Han Dynasty generally still ate wheat and millet, and the spread rate of rice was still relatively small. At this time, wheat was still widely used, but in fact, the application of rice still existed.

Moreover, due to the communication with the Western Regions during the Han Dynasty, a lot of food culture from the Western Regions flowed into the Central Plains and was absorbed by the Han Dynasty.

For example, the existence of Hu Bing is very similar to the current Nang. Compared with the steamed noodles of the Qin Dynasty, the taste of the Hu Bing of the Han Dynasty is indeed much ahead. deep insight.

"Try it." Gao Zhi filled a bowl for Lu Lingqi and handed it over.

"Hmm...so sweet! Did you put caramel in it?" Lu Lingqi narrowed her beautiful eyes, feeling the sweetness blooming in her mouth, half enjoying, half curiously asking.

"Well, I made them specially for you, and I made them myself. I call them glutinous rice balls." Gao Zhi grinned and laughed.

The conditions are limited, and there are no fancy flavors of later generations, so the glutinous rice balls he made were indeed filled with caramel in Lu Lingqi's mouth.

The word "Yi" appeared in ancient Chinese books in the Han Dynasty, and maltose may be the earliest hard candy.

In "Seven Discriminations" written by Zhang Heng in the Eastern Han Dynasty, there is a sentence "sand, sugar, stone and honey".

The word "sandy" here means that the sugar produced has tiny crystals, which can be regarded as the embryonic form of granulated sugar.

"Is it delicious?" Gao Zhi asked.

"Hmm, delicious (ω?)?!" Lu Lingqi scooped up a glutinous rice ball with a ladle again, and handed it to Gao Zhi's mouth.

"You eat too."

"Okay! Let's eat together!"

"Ok!"