"Your Highness needs to offer his life..."

"Wait, what is a birthday present?"

"Please birthday means to celebrate birthdays, and to celebrate birthdays to Your Majesty, the Queen, the Supreme Emperor and others."

"What's the specific statement?"

"This...as usual, Your Highness needs to write a birthday speech by himself, then read it in public, and then..."

Listening to the endless talk of the Ministry of Rites, Li Chengqian felt his head "buzzing".

There is no way, it’s too troublesome. From the second day after visiting Fang Xuanling, this person came to the East Palace every day to teach him various etiquettes and various procedures that he needed to go on the Winter Solstice.

What is "Sacrificing the God of Haotian in the round hill, and matching Emperor Jing", what is "The God of Heaven and matching Emperor is set up in a flat seat, borrowing straw, and using pottery pots. The gods in the five directions, the sun and moon, internal officials, central officials, external officials and all stars, are all worshipped" and so on, and different gods have to say different words and perform different rituals when offering sacrifices!

Li Chengqian couldn't help but complain, no wonder these traditional festivals in later generations were beaten by foreigners' festivals and "retreat step by step". This is a bit troublesome!

Maybe you would say that this is just that royal sacrifices are more complicated and the people don’t need such trouble. Then you are wrong. Although the people are not as grand as the royal on the Winter Solstice, there will be no shortage of sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrific

What made Li Chengqian even more annoyed was that the Winter Solstice actually had to be off for seven days! That’s right, just like the Spring Festival holiday in later generations, the official will give all "civil servants" seven days off!

But when others are on holidays, they need to learn these messy etiquettes every day, which is even more busy than when they are not on holidays...

Time was in the torture of Li Chengqian, and finally arrived at the 2nd day of the November 2019, 4th year of Zhenguan... Of course, it must be the lunar calendar time, that is, the winter solstice day!

I have to say that the ancients were really amazing and were able to accurately determine the time of the winter solstice.

Early that morning, Li Chengqian was pulled up by Xia He and Qiuxiang, "dressing up" and putting on a whole dress he had never worn before... No, according to the official of the Ministry of Rites, this is called the guqin!

Wearing a nine-breasted white bead on the head, the set is as tassel, the color is like its ribbon, the green squid fills the ears, the rhinoceros hairpin guide. Wearing a mysterious garment, a sling dress, nine chapters. The white gauze is a mid-single, a squid, a green squid, a squid, and a hem. Wearing a leather belt, a golden hook, a large belt. Hanging a jade sword, a jade dart head, a squid pendant, a ruddy group of two large ribbons. The feet are pedaled, and the red squid...

After this trick, Li Chengqian felt that his entire weight had increased by no less than ten kilograms! And he walked "ding"... Why didn't people in later generations expect to wear such clothes for their children? Then they wouldn't be afraid of getting lost!

After dressing up, when I went out, I saw that my "guard of honor" was already standing outside in full costumes waiting for me, such as those who raised flags, those who resisted flags, those who held plaques, and so on, and so on, a large number of people were densely packed with people.

Among the crowd was a carriage... To be precise, it was Jinlu. The "Old Book of Tang" records: Jinlu, red, gold ornaments, and the heavy weights were compared. The box was painted with text, birds and beasts, yellow houses, deer Shi, dragons and phoenixes were placed in Shi, with jing dust in front, red covered yellow lining, wheel painted with red teeth, nine flags on the left, halberds on the right, gold dragon heads on the head, gold dragons on the head and shackles on the head and shackles on the head and shackles on the head and shackles on the bells. The driving of the red dragon four, eight lumbers on Heng, two bells on Shi, gold bells on the square meter, five jiao on the tail of Zhai, tin, and nine tassels on the head.

Don't you understand? It doesn't matter, just know that this car is luxurious!

He slowly got onto the carriage... he couldn't get fast, his clothes were too heavy... Li Chengqian sat in the car, straightening his upper body, looking serious.

With someone's slogan, the team began to move forward slowly. They needed to go to the palace first, gather His Majesty Li Er and his concubines before going out of the city to sacrifice.

Originally, Empress Changsun wanted to participate in this sacrificial activity, but she was about to give birth, so how could His Majesty Li Er and Li Chengqian allow it? Therefore, His Majesty Li Er could only take his other four concubines to participate in the sacrificial ceremony instead of Empress Changsun.

Of course, there is also a process in the palace. Li Chengqian was dealt with in a surprise and was like a puppet who had been learning from the past few days.

Then the huge team slowly left the Tai Chi Palace and headed out of Chang'an City.

Of course, in addition to the royal family members, civil and military officials are also indispensable. They all attended in full costumes, which looked quite grand... Li Chengqian really felt very important!

"Brother, it's crooked!"

Li Chengqian was sitting in the car pretending to behave when he suddenly heard Li Ke's voice.

He turned his head slightly to look at him, and asked in confusion: "What's wrong?"

Li Ke did not say anything, but pointed at his head. Li Chengqian immediately reacted and raised his hand to straighten the things on his head... and complained: "It's really troublesome. Why do you wear so many things on your head if you have nothing to do? It's really..."

After half an hour of "swaying", he finally arrived at the sacrificial site, and there were a lot of complicated rituals. After the entire process, Li Chengqian felt that he was almost exhausted. If it weren't for the repeated instructions of Queen Changsun before, he would never have any trouble. He would have wanted to give up the ball and quit!

At the same time, he admired the ministers. At least he came by the bus. They kept walking with two legs and couldn't rest when they arrived at the scene. They kept standing... until the end of the sacrifice, their expressions did not change at all, and they were still so serious and solemn.

There was another "swing" and the team returned to the palace. Next was the banquet for the ministers and the birthday celebration...

The first place should have been His Majesty Li Er, but unfortunately his father didn't give him face and didn't come to participate in this event at all... So, the first person to sacrifice his life fell on the prince Li Chengqian.

"The son Chengqian bowed his head to wish me... Aye promoted the 18th righteous soldiers, and the white throne and Huang Yue set up the two capitals. The capturing and killing Dou Dou, the four seas, and twenty-four achievements were accomplished. Twenty-nine ascended the throne, and thirty-four Turkic Qing. The success of the law is determined, and the quickness of the heart is placed in the heart. The remains of the dead soldiers are collected, and the hungry people sell their sons to share the gold and redeem the money... Only the mother and grandson, benevolent, filial, frugal, virtuous, and virtuous, and virtuous. In fact, the wise and wise queens, they are harmonious and straightforward, and reward loyal and kind... My father gave birth to me, mother and I bowed me, sucked me, fostered me, raised me, raised me, raised me, took me, returned me, went in and out of the belly, and wanted to repay the virtues of the sky. At night, the lonely lamp silhouette was gloomy, looking at my son like a dragon, looking at my son soaring into the sky. I was cold and frost on my temples, and the skirt was lowered in spring, and the eyebrows were on the autumn. Eighteen years of wind and rain, the rain cleared, the clouds disappeared, and my heart was like a tide..."

For half a stick of incense, Li Chengqian was talking about birthday poems... Don't think he had the ability to write these things. This was the article he "bribed" Kong Yingda and asked him to "moisturize" himself. As for what he originally wrote... there were only a few ancient poems without beginning or end, and this was the poem he wrote when he wrote novels in his previous life...

"Your Highness the Crown Prince is a good article!"

"I heard that the prince is reincarnated and filial for a long time. It turns out to be like this when I see it today. This article is really great..."

"No, not bad. Although His Highness the Crown Prince is not old, this article is indeed well written. He is also very sincere in his relationship with His Majesty and the Queen. He can be a role model for us!"

"Oh, look at His Highness the Crown Prince, think about the dog...it's nothing compared!"
Chapter completed!