Seen Nothing Like This Chapter 88

The fifth day of May is the Dragon Boat Festival.

This was the new capital of the Sui Dynasty. It had just been completed at the beginning of the year. Not only were the roads new, but many of the houses also had the air of having just been built. The ordinary people seemed to be glowing brand new as they moved into this Daxing city. The atmosphere is like a prosperous new dynasty with the rising sun.

If someone looks down from the Guanyin Tower or the city tower in the city, they can find that the Daxing City was expanded from the Chang'an City of the Han Dynasty. Its scale and style are completely different from those of the previous dynasties. Not only does it occupy a larger area, but the palace city has high walls. , the spirit is even more grand, and the city is dotted with dots, and the neighborhood markets are in order, just like the poem of later generations: hundreds of thousands of houses are like a chess board, and the twelve streets are like vegetable patches. From a distance, I can see the fire slightly entering the sky, and there is a star with five doors to the west.

Dusk is approaching sunset, but the city is still lively, and there are people on the road in a hurry. Although there are people rushing home from work for dinner, there are also tourists who put on light new clothes, wear five-color silk bags, and hold mugwort and calamus to watch the ferry, and horse-drawn carriages. Walking forward and backward on the main road, the wind blows the incense curtains, revealing the jade hairpins in the high bun of the brocade clothes and jade robes underneath, and they all go to the southeast.

To the southeast, there is the Qujiang River, which was built almost at the same time as the new city. With the meaning of winding lotuses in the winding water, pits were dug to divert water. Countless new lotuses were planted outside the city, and the terraces and pavilions in the garden were wrapped in lotus fragrance. among. It is said that the emperor thought that the word "qu" in Qujiang was unlucky, and Gao Ying, the minister Zuopushe, suggested that Qujiang be renamed Furong Garden. The emperor happily accepted it, and the place became a scene in the new capital. Even ordinary people who are not allowed to enter the garden can still have a glimpse of the nearby scenery and have an outing.