There were not many people on this hill at this time, but the Cold Food Festival had just passed, and there were still many traces of being worshipped here.

Continuing some traditions in ancient times, there was a custom of changing fire in summer. The so-called fire from elm and willows in spring, fire from jujube and apricots in summer, fire from mulberry and jujube in summer, fire from oak and thorns in autumn, fire from locust and sandalwood in winter. During the year, fire drilling is different from wood, so it is called changing fire.

At the beginning of spring, the plants and trees were still dry, so the fire was banned to prevent fires.

This day almost coincides with the time when the vassal states ran away in spring. There was no habit of paying homage to our ancestors.

After the Mohist school won the world, it changed many customs, or because history has changed, many different festivals and customs have been caused.

For example, to commemorate the Battle of Moyue Yangtze River Estuary, on May 5, every year, Si Shang would wrap glutinous rice with bamboo leaves or jujube trees and throw it into the river, saying that it was to prevent the bodies of heroes who died for the benefit of the world from being eaten by fish and shrimp.

The food for the sacrifice was originally intended for living people to use and share food, so since then, eating rice dumplings began on May 5th.

It was also like on this hill in the past, the nobles of Qi exposed their right arm to the death charge to show that they were willing to bear the greatest punishment, that is, death, which led to Zhu Xia's official context since then, radical progress, conservative reaction.

Now, the custom of changing fire in spring has also changed. By this day, it is only a day for fire to be banned, and it has become a custom of sacrificing heroes or ancestors.

Now that spring has just passed, the monuments here are covered with white paper flowers.

Wei Yang knew that this was a custom of the Mohist school.

Mohist Festival funeral.

Mohist schools are equal.

Under the great custom of treating death as life, death is extremely unequal to the rich and poor or civilian nobles.

The nobles died, there were rich burial objects, and the gold, silver, porcelain, musical instruments, bronze, and other instruments used were all real.

When a poor person dies, he cannot afford to bury him or her rules, and he often cannot have enough burial objects to view life and death.

This kind of thing happened as Si Shang gradually became rich, and many deviations occurred.

After some of the original civilians gained wealth, they also began to learn the habits of some old nobles and began to have funerals.

Therefore, the Mohist school changed customs and customs. Since this kind of comparative mind and the traditional consciousness of ghosts and gods in the Xia Dynasty are difficult to change, it is better to change the method.

So paper money, paper flowers, paper horses, etc. replaced the original physical objects.

The three months of mourning in the past have become the three days of mourning in the present.

The real golden horse bones that used to be turned into the paper money and paper horses that are today.

This is equality in a sense, because it is too difficult to completely eliminate the habit of funeral burial objects. Instead of eliminating it, it is better to popularize it like the hundreds of marquises and thousands of Counts and Viscounts barons created by the Mohist family on Si. Anyway, paper is inexpensive after all, and most civilians can still afford it.

If there were twenty years of storms outside the Si Shang, the Song Dynasty had experienced fifty years of elimination and welcome to the new, which was already different, but there were some familiar traditions that Wei Yang was everywhere.

In front of this monument, there are only some white flowers made of paper, but no paper money, paper horses, etc., which makes it a little more solemn.

Next to the monument is a huge wooden cabinet with a layer of glass on it, and many printed newspapers are displayed.

Seeing Wei Yang looking at the newspaper in the wooden cabinet curiously, a Qin man who had been in charge of contact in the Central Plains for many years whispered: "Daliang Zao didn't know anything. The Han emperor said that those who sacrificed for the benefit of the world would be great benefits in the world. The best sacrifice was to tell them that the world had benefited, so the so-called "good news came to be paper money."

"So, monuments from all over the Central Plains do not sprinkle paper money, but only paper flowers. There are many display cabinets next to them, which contain the rewards of the victory of the war, the progress of the people, the prosperity of the world, and so on."

Wei Yang nodded, expressed his understanding, and said softly: "As the Mohist school said, if there is something to like, the lower level will be effective."

"In the past, Mo Di thought this was the case, and gave the example of the King of Chu who was so thin and starving to death in the palace; gave the story of Gou Jian being brave enough to be a warrior who dived; and also said that Jin Wen liked simplicity, so many scholars wore bad clothes."

"At that time, Mo Zhai wanted to do the best, and as long as the superiors were good, he would be good at this. As his disciple, the Emperor of Han changed a lot."

"There is no more than Mozi; the same person as the same person as Mozi."

"It's just that Shi Zi's good news is not necessarily the original intention, but the people below understood it as such."

Twenty years have passed, and before we knew it, few people have used the title of "Dazhishi", especially this time the Qin people came to the Central Plains again, so the title naturally changed.

In recent years, Wei Yang has always had the habit of reading newspapers. Qin State controlled newspapers in the Central Plains because there were many anti-monarchy and anti-power hereditary remarks on it.

But the upper layer is not in this list.

Although the newspapers I got were from a few years ago, at least it was also a window to understand the Central Plains.

However, the content in the newspaper will not say too much details. For example, the style of festivals or commemoratives will not be as detailed as the newspaper.

Wei Yang swept the content of the newspaper displayed in the cabinet in a rough manner. It should have been displayed twenty years ago. Every year, someone will organize it specifically, or read it here if there is any major news that is beneficial to the world.

When Qi surrendered, Han was defeated, and the troops were approaching Luoyi, Yan surrendered, Zhao surrendered, Qin people moved westward, Shu surrendered, and Ba surrendered, were displayed in one piece.

In addition, there are some very important contents.

For example, those very famous good news.

The first steam engine.

The first publicly operated iron smelting furnace with steam powered blowers.

The first new musket to strike mercury with a leaf spring flint rifle.

The first meeting on the National People's Law of the Jiuzhou Provinces of Xia was successfully held.

Wait, Wei Yang looked at the last newspaper of these contents. It was three years ago. The content on it was to celebrate the first steam-powered train that could travel twenty-four miles a day and night in one hour.

He has read this newspaper, but he doesn't know what the train is, but he can tell from the newspaper that it is a powerful tool to change the world.

He didn't even know the principle of that thing, nor how it worked, or even what it looked like. Although he had seen photos of the original photography discharge of egg whites and fixed photosensitive powder using fire cotton and ether solvents instead of egg whites, it was just a blurry black shadow after all.

But he could imagine that having this thing means that the countryside, cities, Qi, Lu, Qin and Chu will be integrated into one day in the future, and it will be difficult to separate.

In a twenty-four miles an hour, there may not be a horse running fast, but it can be kept day and night, and can also carry hundreds of people and tens of thousands of kilograms of goods, which is much better than horses.

Moreover, since he was a child, he experienced a fire door gun with a range accuracy that was not as accurate as that of a bow and arrow and gradually eliminated the chaotic times of bow and arrow. He knew very well that these things had some unlimited potential.

Looking at the last newspaper, Wei Yang sighed: "In the past, Mozi was questioned how to solve the problem of love for both sexes. Mozi used the truth to answer the question of loving people in Lu over loving people in Yue."

"Now, people in the Xia Dynasty have solved this problem by using these equipment, rather than using reason."

"Since then, it took only a few days to Qi and Lu to Lu, and only three days to Lu to Yue. Where can there be any Lu people and Yue people? Naturally, there is no problem that Lu people love Lu people more than Yue people."

"When I came to Sishang to study in the early years, my husband's body was still there, many years ago. I saw the coal-burning water lifting machine used in the Sishang Coal Mine, but I didn't expect that decades later, this kind of equipment that could only lift water at that time can now be used in all aspects."

"What will this world look like in the future? I dare not think about it now, and I dare not think about it no one."

"In the past, Shi Zi made "Perfect Land", and the words of prophecies and divination, and the rhyme of "July", he thought that such a paradise was no longer touchable. Fifty years later, such paradise was no longer worth mentioning."

"So I say that the scenery in the Central Plains is not comparable to that in the Western Regions."

He saw too many along the way. Although the so-called train was only experimental and had not seen it on the way from the west, he had seen many things he had never imagined before.

Those spinning machines that can produce steam that dozens of people originally worked for, the silk reeling workshops that replaced the smoke that originally home workshops... These things just hit and broke the last bit of confidence of the people who came to negotiate.

In just twelve years, not to mention the world, even when these people arrived at Guanzhong, the former Qin people, the Guanzhong elders had already begun to have no intimacy with them.

It seems that there are remnants of tradition everywhere, but everything looks completely different in the past.

The Qin diplomat who grew up in the Central Plains saw that Wei Yang was so moved, so he pointed to a group of people who were building somewhere in the distance and said, "The train that Daliangfa was already there was already on Si. During the test drive, tens of thousands of people went to see it. Although there was a problem after only twenty miles, and when he ran, he was afraid that anyone who ran faster could catch up. Now it is different."

"Those who are building are going to make a railroad."

When everyone heard the sound, they looked at it, but there were many people busy in the distance.

Shengchuo's great-grandson took out his telescope, looked at it, and said with a tsk: "The Central Plains is not very different from Qin. I only see many people who are punished. Using prisoners to build roads is no different from Qin Zheng."

"I have heard that the Mo sent people to guard the gate, the Shu ordered people to guard the gate, the Palace sent people to guard the inner side, the wall sent people to guard the gate, and the hair sent people to guard the accumulation."

"There are many rumors that Mo Di has been punished by Mo, so he is very proficient in defending the city and gate. Now Mo has ruled the world, but he has asked those who are punished by the same five punishments to build roads, which is interesting."

The Qin man who knew the situation in the Central Plains smiled and said, "Those hairy people were not tortured, but shaved on their own initiative."

Shengchuo's great-grandson was shocked and said, "Isn't this the custom of barbarians? I admire the Central Plains since I was a child. Could it be that the barbarians are everywhere now?"

The Qin man shook his head and said, "This is not the case. The main reason is that there are many workshops in Si now, which are steamed and stuffy and humid. It is very inconvenient to tie hair, and it is easy to develop lice. It is really uncomfortable to be in the stuffy and hot, so some people take the initiative to shave their hair."

"Another, some large iron smelting workshops use machinery so that once the hair is tied up, there are accidents of being sandwiched in the machinery. Those equipment can be as powerful as a ox and tiger. If the hair is sandwiched, it will most likely be dead. Therefore, some people working in the workshop will shave their hair short."

"This matter also involves some equality between rich and poor. Any worker has a lot of hair, while the workshop owner or landlord has a lot of hair tied hair, so it can be seen that it is rich and poor at a glance. Therefore, the Mohist family encouraged the Mohist family to wear hair on the grounds that Mozha had no hair in the past, so they also changed the customs. Although it was not prohibited to tie hair, they also expressed as much as possible that the Mohist family still hoped to establish a truly equal world."
Chapter completed!