文◆Liu Zhongcai
The sun and the moon are like mill ants, everything is floating. In the blink of an eye, 2021 has quietly passed away, and 2022 is coming. As the Spring Festival is approaching, year-end awards have gradually become the talk of the working people after dinner. Is there a year-end bonus? If yes, what? At the end of the year, when the haze of the epidemic is lingering, it is really uneasy.
Year-end awards for different official positions in the Han Dynasty
Actually, year-end awards are not new creatures in modern society. As early as 2,000 years ago in the Han Dynasty, in order to motivate officials at all levels, official institutions would issue year-end awards to public officials according to their rank on the eve of the Spring Festival every year. Coincidentally, the feudal society's mode of issuing year-end bonuses is no different from today's, either in full gold currency or in tangible objects. The difference is that there are various types of objects, and each dynasties and dynasties have their own characteristics. Among them, the most innovative is the Tang Dynasty.
Celebration of Suichao Village
" Old Tang Book" records that in AD 757, the Tang Dynasty army and the Uyghur army successively recaptured Chang'an and Luoyang Two cities, Tang Suzong Overjoyed for it. When the end of the year was approaching, he decided to reward the soldiers of the three armies. At that time, because Anshi Rebellion avoided Sanchuan Du Fu also came to Fengxiang to visit Suzong, Suzong was very happy, so he named him as Zuo Sui. On the first day of the 12th month, Emperor Suzong of Tang gave a banquet Zichen Hall . At the banquet, the civil servants and military generals drank freely to celebrate the victory of the war. Later, Tang Suzong issued year-end awards to officials at all levels. Although Du Fu did not fight in the battlefield, as a member of the emperor's think tank, he was also among the recipients.
The mouth fat of the Tang Dynasty
Du Fu, who won the year-end award, was filled with emotion, and he couldn't help composing a poem and said: "It's still a long way from the warmth of the year.This year's Lasun freezes are all gone. The color of the snow that invades the mausoleum also Hemerocallis , leaking spring light with wicker. Indulge in drinking to seek a good night and get drunk, and return to the family to disperse the Zichen Dynasty. The mouth-fat and facial medicine follow the grace, and the green tuber silver poppy goes down to Jiuxiao. "This seven-character rhythm poem called "La Ri" not only expresses Du Fu's gratitude, but also tells us that the year-end award that Tang Suzong gave to the courtiers was mouth-fat noodle medicine.
Tang Dynasty noodles Medicine
Lipstick, also known as Lipstick, is a lip balm used in ancient times to prevent lips from cracking in the cold winter. Duan Chengshi, a legendary novelist in the Tang Dynasty, recorded in his book "Youyang Zazu·Zhongzhi": " On the La Ri, the Beimen bachelors were given mouth fat and wax fat, which were filled with blue-cut fangs. " Liu Yuxi said in the "Metabolic Calendar Day Face Fat Mouth Table": "Also give Chen Mo Zhao and Zhenyuan 17th year new calendar axis, wax sun fat, mouth fat, red snow, purple snow and gold Flower silver two. Shao Shuo, who used to be the secretary and junior supervisor, also said in the "Thanks for the New Calendar Day and Mouth Cream and Face Medicine": "Follow the Mo edict of a certain month, and give the minister a new calendar day, together with mouth fat, face medicine, red snow, It can be seen that mouth grease is the standard of the year-end award in the Tang Dynasty.
All kinds of mouth grease
face medicine is a fat-soluble solid mixture for cleansing and skin care. It is fragrant and rich in oil. In the Tang Dynasty Sun Simiao said in " Qianjin Yifang", "Apply the medicine to the surface, the thickness is as thin as usual, and then rub it carefully with your fingers, so that the medicine and the flesh are intertwined and lie down. Its color and light are pure, a hundred times as bright as when it was not washed. " Shennong's Materia Medica ", the earliest pharmacological work, said that it "longs the skin, moisturizes, and can be used as a facial oil." "This also shows that the status of noodle medicine in the minds of the nobles of the Tang Dynasty is extraordinary.
"Maoming Daily" published
Taking mouth fat and noodle medicine as the year-end award, in the long history of ancient and modern Tang Dynasty is regarded as Unique.If you think about it carefully, it is not difficult to find the good intentions of the king of a country. At the end of the year, the weather is cold and the cracked skin is still able to maintain its original color under the moisturization of mouth fat and facial medicine. This year-end bonus is more humane than simply paying a few taels of silver. Moreover, the mouth grease is packed in a thin tube made of jade, and the noodle medicine is placed in a silver box. Such a beautiful and heavy packaging adds a bit of luxury to the humble year-end award, and makes public officials who have worked hard for a year feel even more warmth.
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