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Volume One: Settling Down the Tang Dynasty Chapter 45: New Year¡¯s greetings (third update, please support)

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    It is said that people feel refreshed during happy events. Last night, Li Feng slept particularly soundly.  Although he went to bed relatively late last night, he was still on time when he got up in the morning.

    "Big brother, Yaya wishes you a happy new year."

    Just when Li Feng finished dressing up, Xiao Yaya had already opened the door and walked in.  Then, he bowed his hands to Li Feng and wished Li Feng New Year's greetings.

    "Ah, okay, okay, big brother also wishes Yaya a happy new year. I wish Yaya is safe and healthy, and will grow more and more beautiful. Come on, Yaya, big brother will give you the New Year's money, take it."

    Li Feng was stunned when he saw Yaya bowing to him and wishing her New Year greetings. However, he quickly followed her example and wished the little girl New Year's greetings. By the way, he also said a few blessings.  Immediately afterwards, he took out a handful of copper coins and gave them to Yaya as lucky money.

    However, Li Feng felt weird about giving the other party a handful of copper coins as lucky money.  You know, he used to pay in RMB.  However, there is no such thing now.

    ?????????????? Besides, this feels a bit weird, but it¡¯s still quite interesting, at least, it¡¯s quite substantial.  In addition, the copper coins Li Feng took out were all new, shiny, and very beautiful.

    "If everyone gives copper coins, I don't know if those children will be crushed by the copper coins after paying New Year's greetings. If they meet someone who is more generous, hey"

    Thinking of the little figures carrying a bag of money, Li Feng couldn't laugh or cry.

    "Ah Big brother, why do you also wish Yaya New Year's greetings? No, no, this can only be the younger generation's New Year's greetings to the elders, and the younger ones wish the older ones New Year greetings. How can the older ones bow to the younger ones? Also.  Oh, big brother, what are you giving me money for? What is lucky money? Hehe But what you said just now is very good. Yaya will definitely be healthy in the future.  Pretty¡±

    However, to Li Feng¡¯s expectation, this Yaya did not accept Li Feng¡¯s New Year¡¯s money. Instead, she had a strange look on her face and asked Li Feng a lot of questions, which made Li Feng confused.

    "Ah New Year's money is, hey, I won't be able to explain this to you for a while. Big brother wants to ask you, in the past, when you went to pay New Year's greetings, didn't adults give you New Year's money?"

    It is normal for Li Feng to pay New Year's greetings to the younger generation on the first day of the Lunar New Year.  However, when he heard Yaya's words, Li Feng felt a little strange.

    "Yes, big brother, how can anyone pay New Year's greetings? Well, actually, we all used to pay New Year's greetings, and it only started from the year before last. I don't want the money. What should I use the money for? I want to buy things, big brother.  I will buy it for Yaya. Big brother, look, this dress of mine is beautiful. It is made of the cloth you bought for me. My sister also has it. Big brother is the best"

    After Xiao Yaya finished speaking, she immediately stood in front of Li Feng and turned twice, letting her newly made clothes rotate along her, like a beautiful little butterfly.

    Listening to Xiao Yaya¡¯s words, it seems that even this New Year greeting only started two years ago, and the custom of giving New Year¡¯s money has not even started yet.

    Thinking of this, Li Feng suddenly remembered a story about the origin of the custom of New Year greetings.  This story took place during the Tang Dynasty and was related to Li Shimin.

    In other words, after Li Shimin ascended to the throne and his position was stable.  The heroes of the founding of the country all felt that they were indispensable, and they refused to obey anyone, which gave Li Shimin a headache.

    At the beginning of the new year and the first day of the Lunar New Year, it is customary for the court to gather and the monarch and his ministers to celebrate together.  This was supposed to be a day of great joy and celebration, but because of the overt and covert fighting among the courtiers, this festive day always became full of excitement.  This made Li Shimin even more embarrassed.

    Later, it was Wei Zheng who gave Li Shimin an idea.

    That time, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the monarchs and ministers gathered together. As soon as Li Shimin came up, he bowed to the ministers below, which shocked them.

    Then, Li Shimin said, this is to wish everyone a happy new year.  It is said that this is the first day of the year and a big day.  Everyone should be harmonious and happy on this day.

    Seeing the emperor's low profile and listening to the emperor's words, how could the ministers dare to say anything.

    It is said that the king of Chu loves a thin waist, and all the people starve to death.  Slowly, this rule became popular among officials, and soon after, it also became popular among the people.

    "Could it be that this story is true? Forget it, never mind it. However, New Year's money is not popular, which is just right, isn't it?"

    Li Feng felt very good when he thought that this new year's money had not become popular yet.  Think about it, the situation in later generations, the original intention of the New Year's money, has long since deteriorated.  What are adults doing?Si Si, let¡¯s not go into details. Even children, at such a young age, have no doubt in their hearts that they have been contaminated by this corrupted New Year¡¯s money.

    After Xiao Yaya finished helping Li Feng take care of things, he walked out of the room and saw that it was exactly what Xiao Yaya said.  Rou Niang has put on a beautiful new dress.

    "A man relies on his clothes, and a horse relies on its saddle," although this sentence is very tacky.  However, I have to say that it still makes sense.

    This girl was already very beautiful, but now that she has put on such a beautiful and well-fitting dress, she looks like a fresh and beautiful flower.  Although it is not stunningly beautiful, it is definitely pleasing to the eye.

    Perhaps remembering what happened last night made the young woman's face full of shyness. This made Li Feng's eyes almost straight.

    It wasn¡¯t until Rou Niang¡¯s sweet New Year¡¯s greetings came that Li Feng came back to his senses.  Of course, Li Feng did not hesitate to select the two most suitable ones from the numerous New Year greetings from later generations and give them to this beautiful and gentle little woman.  The smile on Rou Niang's face became even sweeter.

    After washing up, Li Feng did not stay at home longer.  Since New Year greetings are now popular, Li Feng decided to go door to door in the village to pay New Year greetings.

    ¡°For nothing else, just for the care that the folks have given to this family over the years.  Just because of what happened last time when Xiaohu entered the mountains, and what happened to Xiaohei two days ago, and for this rare and precious act of simplicity and kindness, Li Feng decided to go and wish everyone a happy New Year.

    Fortunately, this village is small, with only forty households in total.  Moreover, some villagers, although brothers have separated, still live together. Therefore, there are not many families that Li Feng really wants to run away from.

    However, even so, by the time he had finished celebrating the year, he had already spent most of the day.  Even for lunch, Li Feng ate at Uncle Zhuzhu's house, that is, Zhao Dazhu.  There was nothing I could do. When I went there, people were eating, and Li Feng wanted to leave, but they wouldn't let him go.

    "Haha, it seems that our character is really not bad, and we are so popular."

    Li Feng was very moved when he thought about the villagers' heartfelt enthusiasm for him during the New Year greetings.  Li Feng knew that this was not like the social-entertaining enthusiasm or the fawning-like enthusiasm in modern society.  But the pure passion that comes from the heart.

    In this era, although the people Li Feng came into contact with were basically the people in Jianghu Village.  However, Li Feng was deeply touched. Among them, what impressed him most was the unity and happy smiling faces of the villagers.  Li Feng also thought about this carefully and vaguely understood the mystery.

    First of all, this is an inevitable result of the environment.  Perennial wars have caused social unrest.  After all, individual power is weak, so everyone must unite. Only in this way can there be any resistance.  Moreover, this kind of unity is the kind of truly selfless unity. When one party is in trouble, the whole village supports it.

    As for where the heartfelt happy smiles on everyone¡¯s faces came from, Li Feng thought about it for a long time and couldn¡¯t figure it out.

    Maybe it¡¯s because their living conditions have improved, which makes them feel happy.  After all, in the past few years, there was war and chaos everywhere, but now the country is peaceful and the people are safe, clothed and fed.

    Living conditions are slowly improving, maybe.  This reminded Li Feng of that era. With the development of society, when did living conditions stop improving?

    He clearly remembers that when he was a teenager, the family could only eat one meal of meat a month, which was very good.  However, after only ten years, the meat became boring.  In his opinion, such a change is not a big one.

    However, it seems that people's happiness has not increased as life gets better and better.  Instead, it gradually weakened.  At least, Li Feng himself is like this.

    However, it is not because of the improvement of material life that makes people feel happy, then why.  Li Feng couldn't think of an answer to this question.

    "People's hearts are different"

    Li Feng, who couldn¡¯t figure it out, could only use this sentence to answer.
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