blenderwars Chapter 275 not doing business
Chapter 275 not doing business
Chapter 275 not doing business
When Lin Xuan was preparing for the opening of the college, time passed day by day, and before he knew it, the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching.
Mid-Autumn Festival was not very important in the Tang Dynasty, and it was not an official festival.
There is no special festive food to eat.The custom of eating moon cakes gradually appeared after Song and Yuan Dynasties.However, the people of the Tang Dynasty connected the Mid-Autumn Festival appreciation of the moon with legends such as Chang'e flying to the moon and the osmanthus tree in the moon, which added a lot of romantic feelings.
In the Tang Dynasty, it was very popular to enjoy the moon and play with the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Many poets wrote poems about the moon, and the Mid-Autumn Festival began to become a fixed festival. Mid-Autumn Festival".Legend has it that Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty dreamed of traveling in the Moon Palace and got the colorful clothes and feathers, so the custom of celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival began to prevail among the people.
Even so, Lin Xuan has special feelings for Mid-Autumn Festival.
Although the Tang Dynasty did not have the custom of eating moon cakes, it does not mean that there were no moon cakes.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is known as the Moon Festival, and offering sacrifices to the moon is a very ancient custom in our country.
Autumn is the harvest season. The interpretation of the word "Autumn" is: "Autumn is the day when the crops are ripe."During the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, the crops and various fruits mature one after another. In order to celebrate the harvest and express their joy, farmers use the "Mid-Autumn Festival" as a festival. "Mid-Autumn Festival" means the middle of autumn. The eighth month of the lunar calendar is a month in the middle of autumn, and the [-]th is a day in the middle of this month. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival may be a custom inherited from the ancient "autumn newspaper".
So the original Mid-Autumn Festival was used to sacrifice and celebrate the harvest.
According to legend, at the end of the Sui Dynasty, on August 13th, [-]th year of Daye, the Tang Army, Pei Ji of the Tang Army took the full moon as his idea, successfully invented mooncakes, and distributed them widely to the army as military pay, successfully solving the problem of military rations derived from absorbing a large number of anti-Sui rebels.
After all, this is a legend, no one knows if it is true or not, but it is true that there were moon cakes in the Tang Dynasty.
It's just that moon cakes were a tribute to the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival at that time.
It was not until the Northern Song Dynasty that August [-]th was officially designated as the Mid-Autumn Festival, and moon cakes were regarded as seasonal food.
At that time, moon cakes were not called moon cakes, but small cakes or moon cakes.
Su Dongpo wrote in a poem that "small cakes are like chewing the moon, with crisp and glutinous rice in them".
The word moon cake first appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty Wu Zimu's "Meng Liang Lu". At that time, it was only a snack food.
It was not until the Ming Dynasty that people gradually combined moon appreciation with moon cakes, implying family reunion and expressing thoughts.
Since then, moon cakes have also been an important gift between friends during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Lin Xuan doesn't care whether others eat moon cakes or not, but he feels that if they don't eat moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, something will happen.
In addition to being busy with college affairs, Lin Xuan took the time to direct the chef and cook at home to make a lot of moon cakes.
Tang Chao knew how to make moon cakes, Lin Xuan just asked them to add some candied fruit and other things to make moon cakes of various flavors, which is not too difficult.
Lin Dongyang and Zhang Qing were full of praise after eating, and Lin Duoduo liked it even more.
"Xuan'er, this mooncake is really good, let them make more, and send some to Su Guogong's mansion, Yi Guogong... and others, and ordinary people often send things to our family." Lin Dongyang said.
After Lin Dongyang heard what Lin Xuan told him about the meaning of moon cakes, he had already accepted the name of moon cakes.
Lin Xuan smiled and said, "Father, don't worry, I've thought of it a long time ago."
Cheng Yaojin and the others usually send someone to deliver some pastries to his house, and of course Lin Xuan will reciprocate.
"The palace will also send some!" Zhang Qing added.
"Understood mother." Lin Xuan nodded. With Li Shimin's stinginess, if he didn't give him a gift, I don't know how he would deal with himself.
Even if you don't give it to Li Shimin, Li Lizhi will always give it to you.
The day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Lin Xuan first sent mooncakes to several princes, and finally came to the palace.
During this period of time, there were no major events, and Li Shimin felt much more comfortable.
When Li Shimin was teasing Princess Jinyang in the Lizheng Hall, he heard Lin Xuan begging to see him.
Originally, Li Shimin didn't want to miss it, but when he thought of movable type printing, he asked the maid to take Princess Jinyang down, and someone brought Lin Xuan in.
Lin Xuan walked into the hall with the food box, put down the food box in his hand, and bowed to salute: "I pay homage to Your Majesty, Empress Empress!"
Li Shimin waved his hand and said, "Mianli, what are you bringing?"
Lin Xuan said with a smile: "Your Majesty, this is a snack made by the minister's family. I specially sent some to your majesty and the empress to taste."
Li Shimin frowned, and said, "You came to see me just for this little thing?"
He also ate the buns and glutinous rice balls that Lin Xuan made before.
But it feels so-so, and I don't like it very much.
He thought that Lin Xuan sent those things again this time.
In addition, Lin Xuan disturbed him to tease his daughter, so he was a little dissatisfied.
Empress Changsun cast a reproachful look at Li Shimin, and said with a smile, "Your Majesty, this is all Zichu's filial piety."
Li Shimin nodded and said, "Submit it."
Ruxue and the other serving maids hurried forward to open the food box and brought out the mooncakes.
When Li Shimin saw the moon cake, he said angrily, "Isn't this just a small cake!"
He thought that what Lin Xuan sent was a pastry he had never seen before.
What moon cake, isn't it just a small cake?
If he hadn't seen it, he would have been fooled by him.
"Your Majesty, although this is a small cake, I have made some improvements and added some other things, so I call it moon cake!" Lin Xuan explained.
Empress Changsun asked curiously, "Why is it called moon cake?"
Lin Xuan pointed to the mooncake and said, "Your Majesty, this cake is as round as the moon on the fifteenth day, so I changed its name to mooncake."
Li Shimin snorted coldly: "Not doing business properly!"
In his opinion, Lin Xuan is talented, but he doesn't want to serve the country, but messes with these messy things, it's not doing his job properly.
Empress Changsun covered her mouth and smiled lightly: "Your Majesty, my concubine thinks this name sounds much better than Xiaobing."
Women are always emotional, she thinks the name Mooncake is very nice.
Lin Xuan said with a smile: "Your Majesty still has vision. There is another name for this mooncake, which is called Reunion Cake."
Li Shimin's face was as black as carbon when he heard what Lin Xuan said in front of him.
Isn't this calling him blind?
Empress Changsun asked with some doubts: "Reunion cake? Is there any meaning?"
Lin Xuan explained: "Mother, the moon cakes are round and round. When the moon is admiring on August [-]th, the family eats it separately, which symbolizes reunion and harmony. That's why it's also called reunion cakes!"
Empress Changsun's eyes lit up, and she said, "That's right, the meaning is very good."
Li Shimin also thought it was good, but he was so angry with Lin Xuan just now, so he didn't speak.
"Your Majesty is going to invite all the ministers to enjoy the moon tomorrow. I think this mooncake is just right to share with everyone. Why don't you ask the Shangshan Bureau to prepare some." Empress Changsun suggested.
Li Shimin said noncommittally: "Let's try it first and then talk about it."
After speaking, Li Shimin took a piece and ate it.
Seeing this, Empress Changsun also took a piece and tasted it.
Although the things were brought by Lin Xuan, they must have been checked many times before they could be delivered to him.
Empress Changsun's eyes lit up. It's not that she has never eaten pancakes, but the taste of this mooncake is very different from the pancakes she ate before, and it is very delicious.
"What do you think, Your Majesty?" Queen Changsun asked.
Li Shimin nodded, glanced at Lin Xuan maliciously, and said, "The Queen's proposal is very good, but you don't need Shangshan Bureau to do it, isn't there a ready-made candidate!"
(End of this chapter)